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ticular plan. Gen. Chalmers has his plan of
accomplishing the same results by different
methods, and his aflilationsaro with different
mon and his combinations with different ele'
ments. Gen. Chalmers and Mr.. Lynch dis
trust one another, and do not hesitate to say
so. A Mississippi gentleman who is not now
actively in politics. but who watches the drift
of events in that state, said in the course of
conversation last evening:
II do not know that anything will come of
this fusion scheme in the immediate future
probably not--but I am well satisfied that
good will eventually flow from it. Get tho
democratic party split up into factions and
each will struggle for all the support it can
get from the colored people, and each will SEQ
that his following has fair show and fair
count. When the colored people find out
that their ballots will be counted, and that
they can vote as they please without danger
of assassination or malign punishment they
will take an active interest in politics again,
and exercise an influence in state and ma
tional as we'll as local elections. Mississippi
politics will work out its own saliva
ton. The negroes are buying land
and cultivating it, and accumulating
property in increasing numbers, not only in
Mississippi, but in other states of the south,
and when they become property owners they
will insist on having voice in the election of
men who rule them locally as we'll as gen.
orally. There will always be rilIraff col
ored element as we'll rs an irresponsible
white element that must be considered, but
in both cases the management will be sub
stantally tho same. Ignorance and vice can
not succeed long at q time. A judicious
distribution of federal patronage may effect
results somewhat, but not much. That sort
of influence is always greatly over estimated,
and especially in the SOUTH The people
eventually find out what they want and get
it, whether the patronage goes to one quarter
or to another. just now they are try
ing to get on their feet, and outside
of professional office holders and Office seekers
they are taking very little interest in poll
tics. The office seekers naturally outnum-
ber tho Office holders about five to one, and
the four-ffths that are out are anxious to
form new combinations and alliances that
will lot them in. The one-fifth want to stay
in. This agitation is a good thing, but the
state is not on the eve of an immediate revo-
luton, as some persons pretend to think, any
more than it has been at any time since 1876
The revolution, when it comes, will occur so
quietly that no one will know it is in progress
until the work is done. 1t will not be a
spectacular performance"
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"What has the telegraphers' strike cost the
Washington operators, and what are the net
results ?" was asked ]. p. Wooten, one of the
men who was forced to the front in this city
during the "late unpleasantness."
I'VE were out just q month. The wages
paid those who struck would probably average
S55 a month. The net loss on account OF
wages sacrificed was not far from $4,000. 1t
might have been little more or little less
Then we spent about $500 in other ways
that is, our Washington organization did-and
beside that we helped other cities. We con-
tributed in aid of Baltimore. If other cities
had been in as good condition as Washing.
ton to stand q fight we would not have failed
We could have held out month oil
six weeks longer. in Washington. AS il
now stands, l do not know an operator who
is sorry for what has occurred. They admit
they were beaten, and say they would take
the same chances again. OF the strikers who
left their situations in this city, only
eighteen have failed to secure remunerative
employment, and these will soon drift into
places. The telegraph companies lost dollars
where the strikers lost cents, and they will
not care to go through another experience
like the last The result will be that they
will do better by their employees in the future
and thus give less cause for complaint For
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operators, but they will soon get over the
pinch and have smoother sailing. The strike
was good thing for the cause of labor"
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The presence of q half dozen prominent
southern republicans in the city has stimu
lated the enterprising correspondents to un
usual midsummer activity, and they have
been making the telegraph wires red hot fol
two or three nights with conjectures as tC
the significance of several alleged confer
ences. Whenever two southern gentlemen
meet casually in hotel lobby, or take
social cocktail together, it is advertised as
conference and telegraphed all over the coun
try
Ono of tho principal reasons why Gen
1 Chalmers is visiting Washington at thil
season is to clear himself of the charge which
had been circulated by his enemies in Mis-
sissippi that he had forged the following
telegraphic dispatch:
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 6. 1SS2-GEN. JAMES r
CHALMERS, CARE OF JUDGE CIALMERs-Lynch tolt
confidential friends here that second congressiona
district would be made overwhelmingly demo
cratic The Lamar legislature would make tw,
republican districts, one OF which Lynch woulC
represent. can prove this statement.
JAMES D. CEssoR
1t seems that Cessor, who is Postofiice de
partment attache, had informed Congress
man Lynch that he had not sent the dispatch
and his denial had been used as basis fo
the forgery charge. Gen. Chalmers yesterda,
made the following statement to CORE
spondent:
"Cessor was called up yesterday befor
Postmaster General Gresham at my request
! and in the presence of Judge Gresham ant
Mr.. Gorham stated that he had sent this dis
patch to the telegraph office by friend, ant
that there was prefixed to the dispatch tn
words, it is currently reported here : tina
he had learned that his friend had stricken
out these words, and that the dispatch rea
by me was an exact copy of the dispatc
which his friend had sent me-"
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