The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-10-03

sissippi, met his concurrence. The
author Of these letters with q full knowl-
edge by the people of his conservative
course, and his hearty cooperation with
me in the position which I maintained,
was elevated TO a still higher place BY
the people Of Mississippi as soon as
they obtained control Of their own
affairs.
Though our position in Mississippi
during these eyentful years was excep-
tional and anomalous, Democrats in
other States where self-government had
never been overthrow, and where there
was no great emergency to force them
to similar endeaYors, we're moved by
the same impulse, For example the
Hon. w. A. Payne, Of Ohio, who had
recently been elected to Congress and is
now prominently mentioned for the
Presidency, wrote as follows:
my solemn conviction is that he Demo.
cratic party alone Tithoat Ae assistance o.
teoefdt Appropriateness NVstt w f'N't."tss'
Senator Thurman on the 9th of No
vember, 1874, said to a ratification meet
ing:
The victory We are celebrating means
more than Dem ocrafie Uictorg. 1t means
that dead issues shall remain dead issues
and hat no party can succeed upon any
other but the living issues"
Hon. William S. Grosbeek who has
long held position second to no other
in the confidence of the Democratic
party in Ohio, (NIay 9th, 1879 said:
.The historical Democratic party is spoi-
| ed. Blundering constantly during the last
| ten years, and shattered by manv defeats Il
Surrendered faaly Ia the last Presidential
sbectioa. The new party should be differ
| ent from q recaste of the old one There
/ should be no excluSiveness about it. IL
should be made up of present Democrats
and all Republicans who are offended by
| the policy aud tendency of the present Ad
! ministraf on The new organization should
| be the Joint work OF Democrats and Repnb.
/ leans. and both should be equally a. home
neither the guests of the other II
/ should oppose all form of monopoly.
| Monopolies are an outrage and an offence
to the people"
| These extracts were all of similar
tenor to the editorials which wrote for
The CLARION of contemporaneous date,
They emanated from Democrats of
high standing in the States whose gov
ernments were controlled by their own
citizens and yet.they were not arraigned
for treason to the Democratic party, nor
its principles In the same year the
Democrats from most of the North
western States had practically retired
from the field as a separate organization
and had fought as Reformers with all
Others who sought the overthrow of the
Republican Administration. Mississip-
pi in the course she had pursued was
following their example, and that OF
Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas and other
Southern States that had already es-
tablished their Statehood. Catching
the inspiration of these movements and
looking solely to the re-establishment of
Citizens Rule in Mississippi, said in
THE CLARIo of February 18th, 1874:
e'To Mississippians the good Of me State
ought 10 be, and we are sure, will be para
mount to party consideration What is
wanted now, is the Punishment of strife
between the races An incompatible and
capable Judiciary. An honest an eeonomi
cal government. A reduction OF taxes"