Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-28

Chalmers, bobbed up serenely the other
dsy from the grave Of political Oblivion
to which a people he had betrayed and
traduced long ago consigned him, and
having found in " Dick Beck's Porous
plaster" otherwise called the Vicks-
burO Evening Post, a blister strong
enough to draw his g%angrened venom
against the Democracy to the surface,
proceeds to spread it out for public in
spection in the shape Of "a letter of
deelination and advice"
In the paper chosen Gen. Chalmers
vas happy in selecting a congenial
vehicle for airing his old ore In
the characteristic effusion which the
distinguished deceased" POLITICALLY
speaking) exposes to an unprepared
world, he starts out by informing a
thirsting public that he has received
letters from various parts of the State
asking that he SHOULD become a can
didate for Governor"
This offer, the immortal Jeems goes
on to say with his customary duplic-
ity of expression, he declined
because "there are many reasons why
| cannot afford to be a candidate
"Afford" is a proper word. If Chal-
mers could have been, as he was when
he ran against Van Manning, lubri-
Gated with a few hundred dollars from
a Republican corruption fund, he
might have been able to "afford" to
make the race for Governor against
Lowry. For, although Jeems is a
cheap-John politician, he is not so big
a fool as to run a race
where there is nc earthly chance
for his getting either lucre or office for
his labor.
He "intends to cast his own vote
and wants his friends to cast theirs
for Captain Put Darden, for Governor
Notwithstanding that gentleman pub
licly gave in his adhesion to the fat Of
the recent State convention, and de-
clared himself and friends were pledged
to the support of Robert Lowry.
When the redoutable General goes
to deposit his little ballot, he will
probably find himself in the segregated
condition Of the Irishman's gen
tleman COW Chalmers endorse
ment of the Democratic nom
inees, with the exception o
Governor" must fill those geutlemel
with a thrill Of seraphic satisfaction
coming as it does from a person VIII
declared in his letter, a few line
above the quoted words of approval, tina
"every leading Railroad Attorney i
the State is a leading Democrat" Its
we hope, no violent piece of presuml
ton to suppose all "the Democrat
nominees with the exception of Gov
Lowry "are leading railroad attorneys,
although the convention that nom
mated them thought that there wer
only two lawyers zone for Lieut.-Go7
ernor and the other for Attorney.Ge l
eral) among them, the Others being OF
! business man, two farmers and Of
!. school teacher.
4 The correctness of this last stat
. ment Of Chalmers is as nea right
L the majority of the positions he b
4 assumed since he took to making a fC
q of himself several years ago throu
the medium Of an ink bolt
Chalmers and his organ, the Post, ha
% been lamentably unsuccessful in or
talyzing an opposition to the Democr
ic party in this State, although tt
f. have different ways of solacing the
selves for their failure; Chalmers
ID claring that
y, If the opposition to the DemocI
lS ic machine rule in Mississippi '
Ii vote for Put Darden, and his gran
u, brethren will assist in giving him
fair count, he can, in my judgment,
{. elected Governor bya large majorit
IN While his sympathetic organ,
"a. Post, consoles itself with the sneer
tn reflection that,
Ue In Mississippi, the "land Of the !
IN and the home Of the brave" so
re uuently alluded to by Gov. Lowry
al his speech yesterday, 1t is not lii
any opposition to Democracy will
,ce ALLOWED.
On A Lucky Man.
~ "a lucky man is rarer than a W
az TuvopaI ond IVA thinl