The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-04

devotlng his talents IN the interest OF /
our party and people. The remarks of
Gen. Tucker were received with vocl- |
ferrous applause.
Mr.. Reynolds desired to ask the gen
tleman from Chickasaw question. 1.-The |
Constitution provides for separation |
of the Executive and Judiciary. Does
Gov. Lowry and those who support him
favor an election of judges by the peo-
ple| Gen. Tucker replied that the
subject involved in the query had been
referred to the Committee on Resolu-
tons, and when that Committee report
ed it would be the proper time to dis
cuss and answer the question propounded
by the gentleman from Monroe.
In our last issue we stated that Gen
eral TUCKER, in placing the name of
Governor LOWRY before the Con-
vention INDUCED in an expression of his
own views as to certain questions of
State policy" We think. that the record
sustains us, for while General TUCKER
assumed to speak for the nominee his
answer to Colonel REYNOLDS plainly
showed that he had not been authorized
to do so, save in a limited sense. But
even General TUCKER himself Endorsed
| General LOWRY, not as the representa-
| tive of the opposition to a second term,
as some have seemed to think, but as
the exponent of the opposition to a
third term; and this no one was heard
to question, all which is manifest from
his remarks above quoted.
"You are aware" says our friend !,
''that when the Convention was held
Gov. STONE was serving the first term
| to which he had been elected by the
people, and therefore, it is difficult to
conceive how the third term question
could properly have been discussed at
that Convention" We think that such
an expression involves either misunder-
standing of the reason to an objection to
third term or lack of information
as to the circumstances attending Cover
nor STONES incumbency. We will endea-
vor to make our meaning clear.
In the first place did no patronage
appertain to the office of Governor, there
could be no reasonable objection to his
election at the end of each term to a
succeeding term, an indefinite number of
times There is literally no force in the
objection that a candidate for reelection
has already had Office for one or more
terms unless the Office be one to which
more or less patronage belongs. So long
las the right of the people to choose
| their own officers, uninfuenced by APP
pointees to influential positions or by
these who hope for favors, remain there
can be no danger that harm will result
from a second, athird, or even fourth
term, i'm the case of Governor Stone while
he was, as stated, Serving the first term
to which he had been elected by the
people" he had served two years of a pre-
ceeding term made vacant by the
resignation of his predecessor, during
which he had appointed every judge in
the State, and had received the endorse
pent of a nomination for full term
from the political party of which he was
a member During the term for
which he was elected he again ap
pointed all tie Chancellors. So that
the question when the convention
met was not so much whether Gov
ernor STONE should be nominated for a
third term, because in our vi.w that
would have been an unimrortant mat
ter, but whether he should be given the
power to dispense the patronage of the
Office of Governor for third term.
This patronage he had dispensed so wise
| ly and with such a just sense of his OBJ
| legations to the public that many who
stood with the opposition in principle,
were willing to make an exception in
his behalf But small majority of the
Convention saw danger in such a prece-
dent and would not countenance it.
This same Convention refused to de-
clare against a second term. From the
proceedings we learn that Mr.. J. P.
HARRIS, of Scott, offered resolution
recommending a constitutional amend
ment restricting the tenn of the Office of
Governor to four years in any period of
eight" which was referred TO the COM
mittee on Resolutions, composed of
Messrs. r. H. ALLEN, w. F. TUCKER.
j. S. BAILEY, THos. SPIGHT, E. C.
WALTHALL, VIM. PRICE, G.. b. HUD-
DLEsToN, r. G. SMITH, F. A. MCLEAN,
S. II. TERRAL, T. NJ. MILLER, L. Nc
LAURIN, T. J. HUDSON, J. NJ. CAUsEY,
J. NJ. TRICE, A. ]. PAXTON, w. l..
KERN, who, having reported the plat
form in which no mention is made of
Mr.. HARRIS resolution, concluded their
report with the following language:
"The committee herewith return all
other resolutions referred to them with
the recommendation that they be laid
on the table," And this is all there was
of the one term resolution.
THE CLARION is not concerned about
the selection by the Democratic party
VI a lOA 1ONCiAOt. 4ASlC al
100 many good men from whom to make |
a selection. Nor does it fear that any
mistake will be made. 1t has trusted |
and will continue to trust the body of |
the Democracy of the State and nation. |
Unless it could be made to appear that |
the nomination of some unfit person for
a State office was imminent. The CLAIR
ION would not oppose him. When the
fitness of all the candidates is recognized,
as is the case with those whose names
have been mentioned in connection with /
the office of Governor, it can have no
choice. But THE CLARION is interested
in preventing the committal of the
party of the State to policy
which in its latest Convention i. repudi-
ated and win repudiate again should
opportunity offer.
The HoN. A. w. BRIEN, a member OF
he present House of Representatives,
lied Mt his residence in Warren county,