The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24
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CHALMERS.
What the Mississippi Delegation Have to
Say About His Departure.

N. Y. Herald, Washington Correspondence. ]
The announcement that ex-Congressman
James R. Chalmers, of Mississippi, recently
deprived of his seat by the contest of Mr..
| Lynch, would abandon the Shoestring dis
trict, forsake the democratic party and be-
come an Independent candidate for Con
gress in the second district, has caused some
little stir in the House. The card proclaim
ing his intention has been generally read by
his former political associates in the House.
who regret the course Mr Chalmers has
marked out for himself. On this subject
members of the Mississippi delegation have
expressed their views briefly as follows:
Mr. Muldrow (demoerat), from the First
district, said:
| | think that General Chalmers has made
mistake and one that he will regret. | be-
lieve his following will be only that which
any intelligent citizen of Mississippi Of good
repute would have in leaving the ranks of
the democratic party. Our people cannot
be induced to surrender the democratic or
ganization because of the disaffection of one
of its prominent members on account ofsup-
posed grievances personal to himself.
Mr.. Manning (democrat), from the Second
district, in which General Chalmers has re-
solved to run, said;
am very much surprised at his card.
However, am perfectly willing that he
should take his own course. / will not feel
that it is very difficult task to overcome
Chalmers on any ticket. The judgement of
good, fair-minded people in my district, re-
pubicans as well as democrats, will be
against him in the contest which he invites
as an independent reformer. If the plan is
to Mahoneize Mississippi it is an egregions
mistake. If the administration supp0ses
that such man as Chalmers can defeat the
Mississippi democracy it is very much mis-
taken. But the matter is really not worth
talking about, for it will not claim much
attention
Mr.. Money (democrat), from the Third
district, says.
/ don't think it will amount to anything.
Should General Chalmers get the support of
the administration he can spend their mon
ey and create some little political strife, but
it will amount to nothing. | must confess
that l had refused to believe the reports
about General Chalmers becoming an indie
pendent candidate, and did so until / saw
his card His card is not creditable to his
political sagacity. do not think he can get
up a political revolution. Mahones are
not found in every neighborhood in the
country.
Mr. Singleton democrat, from the fourth
district, said:
1 do not wish to say anything about the
matter whatever, for | know nothing about
it.
It will be remembered that in redistriet-
ing the State the Legislature transferred
Mr.. Singleton's county TMadison] into an
other district. This induced Mr.. Singleton
to remove to his farm in Scott county, SO
that he can be candidate from his present
district
Mr.. Hooker (democrat), from the Fifth
district, also declines to express an opinion,
because of his personal relationst to General
Chalmers.
Senator George refuses to say anything
on the subject.
n. Y. HERALD: The waters of hun
dred Southern rivers, whose banks might
be made the centres Of innumerable indus
tries as Furnishing as those of Lowell, run
idle to the sea. The South has within its
boundaries all the conditions of success.
It has the raw m aterial, cheap labor, q
genial climate, a productive soil, great nat
ural resources. Why are they not utilized !?
There is abundant room for new New
England below the old dividing line Of
Mason and Dixon.
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