The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-30
To ths 4abIie

In newspaper called 'The Mighty
East published on the Path inst, in
Meridian, notice the following Ian
guage:
sIater the court was called upon TO elect
4 clerk and Mr.. Clifton was elected. Mr..
Charley Campbell resigned position pay
ing 81 900 q year TO accept the deputy
cIerkship. not. however, until he had Sc
cured the latter position, and then insisted
on holding both Offices. Now, when it Is
remembered that the deputy elerkship paid
only six OF eight hundred dollars year,
it will be apparent at once that there was
something very rotten in the matter. II
was the general talk and many persons ex-
pressed themselves in terms By no means
complimentary 10 Judge Campbell. Il
was charged openly that Judge Campbell
had an understanding with Clifton that 4
he appointed his sen, his SON should have
one-half of the emoluments Of the Once
this in consideration of the vote tina
elected Mr.. Clifton.
This language forms part of a some
what lengthy article intended to damage
the character of Judge Campbell, which
article seems TO have been provoked BY
the appointment of Mr.. G. C. Campbell
to the position Of clerk of the Railroad
Commission.
have felt all along that my relations
with Judge Campbell, he being the pre-
siding Judge of the court of which an
clerk, would be taken into account IL
estimating the value of anything tha
THE CLARION might say in answer Il
the unjust, untrue and malicious charge
which have been published concerning
him and the Railroad Commission, ant
for that reason l have refrained from
charaeterizing such charges as my incl
nations prompted. But I feel that
would be doing myself as well as Judg
Campbell an injustice did not respon'
to the charges of the Mighty East.
therefore say as follows:
a. That so much of the article from
which have quoted as states that Their
was anything improper in the arrange
ment by which Mr.. C. c. Campbell
became deputy clerk of the SuPrem
Court, is false.
(2.) That so much of said article a
states that there was anything imprope
in my being appointed clerk of SAT-
court, or that there was anything i'm
proper in any matter preceding or fol
lowing said appointment, connected
Herewith or relating thereto, is false.
(3.) That so much of said article a
states that Judge Campbell had any un
derstanding of any kind or characte
whatever with me about the appoint
ment of his son as my deputy, is false
and that it was openly charged tina
there was such understanding is falls
also.
1t may be that some skulking fellow
as mean as he who inspired the Might!
East may have whispered it around, blu
that's the most of it.
Inasmuch as some of the public ma!
not be entirely satisfied with my denials
explicit though they be, l nov
challenge the Mighty East to produces
the names of three reputable citizens
of Kinds county who will subscribe t.
his statements concerning myself. | g
further and deny that the Mighty Eas
can furnish the name of a single reputa
BILE citizen of said county who will sub
scribe TO said statements, and / charge
that the Mighty East's informant is
lying informant, and that his informa'
ton is of contemplate sort.
If it be the judgment of the public
that the statements made with reference
to myself are false, l shall ask that the
doctrine stated in the maxim Fatsas IN
lao. falsus in omnibus, be extended to
the other statements made by the Mighty
East in its issue of the oath inst, relat-
ing to either Judge Campbell or myself.
OLIVER CLIFTON.