The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-04
EDITORIAL MATTER,
ON Tri.Weekly issues OF Friday L. Monday
Justice to Sam Randall.

A SPECIAL dispatch to the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, a Democratic paper
says that there is hardly a Demo.
cratic member of Congress, North OF
South, who is not under eternal OBJ
legation to Randall for pecuniary aid
How would it do for the Cincinnati
Enqssirers correspondent to come
forward with his proof relative to a
charge which conveys so much infamy
in the Democratic members?-Jack-
son Neao MissisSippian.
Either the correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer telegraphed q
palpable falsehood, or the types Of
that journal garbled the telegram.
Sam Randall is one of the poorest
members in Congress, and about the
last man members from North or
South would 60 to for "pecuniary
aid,' for whatever his will in the
Premises might be, a clean handed
politician from city District in
Pennsylvania, who is entirely depen.
dent upon his salary, has little to
lend or to give. Randall dwells in a
cheap, rented house, in Washington,
economically furnished and has the
reputation Of living fully up to his
income. If the Enquirer, which, by
the way, is seldom kind to any but
it's pets, had said that many members
we're indebted to Sam Randall for
political favors-and that is probably
what its correspondent wrote-it
would have been nearer the truth
though it was Sam Randall's misfor-
tune when in power to make two en-
emies for every friend he gained.
One of the greatest of tacticians
and parliamentary leaders on the
floor of the House, it was not in his
nature to surrender the tactics of the
leader when in the Chair; hence in
the appointment of every committee
and the recognition of every man to
whom he gave the floor, he exhibited
rather the tact of the partizan than
the: :impartiality expected of presid
ing officer, thus in effect taking part
in the framing of every bill, and
practically controlling it's discussion
when submitted. This great failing
made him numerous enemies among
those who disagreed with him upon
questions of tariff, river and harbor
improvements, etc, while at tie same
time it strengthened him with the
friends of the line Of policy he cham
pioned.
We are opposed to Randall for
Speaker and have been for years, but
at the same time we want to do him
Justice and to disabuse the minds of
some of our readers who have been
taught to hate him by the persistent
and we'll disseminated abuse of those
who were deeply interested in his
ruin. In the days that Immediately
succeeded the war, and all through
the stormy period of military rule
and mongrel reconstruction all
through those terrible years when
the bayonet gave whatever Of law we
had in Mississippi and her sister
States of the South, Sam Randall
fought for us and our rights and dis
enthrallment, in season and out of
season; danntlessly, fearlessly and
defantly; reckless Of personal con-
sequences and comfort, until every
Southern Commonwealth was releas-
ed from thrall and admitted to full
fellowship in the sisterhood of States.
1t was gratitude for those earnest,
persistent, generous efforts, that won
him the Southern votes that made
him the successor to his fellow work.
er in our behalf, the lamented Kerr
of Indiana, and however much we
may oppose him because of his views
upon certain measures that demand
the attention of Congress, we must
remember that Pennsylvania and
Mississippi look upon these matters
from vastly differing stand-points'
and that in the days when Missis.
sippi was helpless in her thralldom,
and only present on the floors of
Congress in the persons of enemies
and the carpet baggers she despised,
Sam Randall was her tireless cham
pion. and as valiant and gallant a
champion as ever gave succor to the
oppressed and helpless.
Fight him as earnestly as you
please on the Tariff issue or any
other measure of policy upon which
friends may honestly divide, but do
not abuse great-hearted leader who
gave the best years of his life to
cause that was essen TALLY our cause,
and who could have advanced his
own interests at any time by aban.
doning ours.
PRoF. James Adair Lyon, youngest
son of the late DR.. Jas. A Lyon, who
was born and raised in our neighbor
city, Columbus, is now an honored
member of the faculty of Washing
ton and Jefferson College, Pennsyl-
vania, the alma mater of Vallandig-
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