The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1885-01-08
Tnursday, January s, 1885
rIftss Gt0be- peSiiGcrat and senator
A.alhiar.

Natchca Democrat
Some OF the newspapers Of the
State have attached undue impor-
tance to a dispatch sent the st. LOUIS
Globe Democrat from Washington,
commenting on the appointment by
Senator Lamar, Of Mr.. Edgar S
Wilson to act as lis clerk or private
secretary,
To those who have kept pace with
tic telegraplGc correspondence of
this radical St. louis DailE, very
small importance will be accorded to
fhs imperlnence of this telegraphic
asensatouulist. The Globe Democrat
HAS no hesitation IN giving place to
anything that will injure or distract
slie Democratic party, and the ap-
pearance Of the dispatch referred to
IN its columns gives it no additional
evidence of truth.
We have no hesitation in asserting
ahat the whole of this correspondents
deductions from the fact Of MIR.
Lamar giving Mr.. Wilson temporary
employment, is tissue of ialsehoods
from beginning to end. In the first
place he misrepresents Mr.. Wilson
who has, with the exception of some
local differences, been in full accord
With the conservative Democratic
party of Mississippi. Further than
this his attempt to place Senator
Lamar in antagonism with the de-
mocracy Of the State in which he is
50 much honored and loved, is too
palpable a peryersion of the truth TO
deserve the slightest attention from
he press Or people of the State. The
whole of the course, all the teachings
of this distinguished Senator have in
rulcated the union of the democracy
of Mississippi as protection of lis
property, OF its civilization, and even
its self-preservation. This he has
always looked upon as a necessity.
1t is too absurd for credence that
he should do anything that had the
slightest tendency to cause division
in the party,and we confess to a good
deal of establishment that the absurd
dispatch Of this Washington calum-
niator should have received any at
tention whatever from the press Of
Mississippi. Our own attention was
attracted to the dispatch, but we
were too well satisfied of its absurdi-
~ TO give it, even as an ingenious
Die, a place in OAR columns. This
method of eliminating the promi-
nent and most acceptable men in the
Democratic party has been too com
monly used by the lobe-Democrat
for it to deceive any one who has OBJ
served its course for years past. A
division of the party i'll the South is
what the unscrupulous radicals want,
and they will hesitate at nothing to
accomplish it.
Senator Lamar, in tie temporary
absence of Maj S. A. Jonas, who has
long acted as his secretary, employed
MIR, Wilson to do his writing, thereby
giving him as Mississippi editor, the
privileges Of the senate chamber, the
library, &c. This he has done for
other Mississippians in Washington.
The appointment has no political
significance whatever, and in no way
commits Mr.. Lamar to the support of
Mr.. Wilson for any presidential APP.
pointment whatever. Mr.. Lamar
never makes any promises of his sup
port to any applicant for office, but
after giving due consideration to
every application and consultation
with other members Of Congress, he
acts in pursuance of what he cousld-
ers the best interests of the people.
Further consideration in any man
ner of this sharp dodge of the Globe
Democrat or its INSCRIPTIONS cor
respondent would in our opinion be
unbecoming to the press of Missis-
sippi, and an indignity to one of the
purest and ablest men who has ever
represented Mississippi in the Senate
OF the United States.