The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1883-03-24
MAHONIZING MISSISSIPPI.

The game of NIahonizing other States
of the South besides Virginia will ua-
doubleday be attempted by the admin
istration. The evidence of this is to be
found in the fact that Chalmers, who
in his earlier canvasses made himself
more odious TO those who constitute
the bulk of the republican party in the
State than any other democrat ever
did, has been taken to the bosom of
the republican leaders and furnished by
them with what they and Chalmers
believe to be the real sineWs ofpolitical
warfare, namely, money to corrupt the
Venal.
Another recent indication of the
same course has recently been found
in the appointment of John r. Hull as
receiver of public moneys at Jackson,
Miss, r'ce A. N. Kimbalt, removed.
Mr.. kimball has been a republican
ever since the earliest period of recon.
struction, ana has been one of the most
OF the faithful, a very. Hebrew of the
Hebrews, so far as the republican party
is concerned. His services to the party
have been of great value to it, and at
no time has his allegiance ever waver-
ed.
But Hull, originally a democrat, was
among the first to take up the heresy
of greenbackism: and with Gen. West.
Mr.. Wimberly and others, has placed
himself in opposition to the regular
democratic party in Mississippi. This
split in the democratic yarty, it is
determined, shall be widened and
deepened to the utmost extent within
tho Cf oxfv Se,f,
now being done at tho expense of the
faithful republicans, and against their
wishes.
Does any one suppose that John r..
Lynch, probably one OF the ablest re-
publicans in the State Of either race, can
view with complacency the considera-
ton which is being shown to his old
bulldozing antagonist, Chalmers, who
to this day he believes defrauded him
out of his seat in congress: Can he
quietly sec the men, whose records of
years before were so obnoxious to his
party and his race, taken up as the pets
OF the administration, whilst more
honest men who labOred with him for
advancement OF the republican party
arc laid on the shelf: If he can. he
will lose in great measure the respect
Of those who now consider him con.
scientious republican, and an honest
politician. So with others of those
who have borne the brunt of the repub-
lican fight in Mississippi. They will
not patiently submit to have their own
claims ignored, and have those who
| have fought them with the greatest
bitterness come in to gather the spoils
for which they have commended.
While therefore the administ ration
thinks it is strengthening the republi:
can party by buying accessions to it
from discontinued democrats, it will
find that it is really weakening it by
driving Off dissatisfied republicans,
The republican party has not offices
enough to pay fora sufficient lumber
of venaf democrats to give it major
lily in Mississippi. The deserters can
only carry with them an insignificant
number of personal followers, and the
very fact that they have sold out to the
enemy will make the opposition to
them all the stronger. They will 60
into the camp Of republicanism simp-
~ as traitors, and the fate of tho pollt-
zeal traitor will attend them. They
will be trusted again by mother party
and will drop into their political graves
unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Mississippi is not yet ready to un-
dergo the process of Mahonizing, and
it is to be hoped that the democratic
party by pursuing the prudent course
which has characterized it since it
gained control of the State government
will place such II contingency in the far
Observation-Disclosures Democrat.