The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-02-02
EDrromAL CORRESPONDENTS.
JaoKsoS Jan. 2s lsss.

The capitol has been the scene
Of stirring events for the past week,
fraught with grave consequences
10 the people Of Mississippi. The
veto by the Governor Of the Con
stitutional Convention bin and the
discussion thereon at the boarding
houses, the hotels, on the streets
and in the Senate Chamber has at
iracted public interest to the abuse
Of power made possible under our
carpetbag constitution, and arous-
cd the honest representatives Of
the people for more determined
resistance TO the oligarchy. I'm a
government like ours, the theory
IS, that there are three separate co.
ordinate and independent depart
ments,-the Legislative, the Exc
cut:ve and the Judicial, each Of
which are said TO be equal and to
derive their respective powers
from the same great source-the
/ people. But is this true in Miss
issippi? Nay, verify. The re-
cent contest was waged between
/ The combined forces Of the Exccu-
tive and the Judicial against the
Representatives of the sovereign
will Of the people, and for the
time being tho advocates Of cen
tralized power have the victory,
Notwithstanding they are In The
minority. The truth is Mississip-
pi is, and has been for years, dom
mated by an oflce-holding oligar-
chy, exempted oorporation.and ex-
travagant State Institutions, and
although the large majority, 10
both houses of the Legislature, Is
composed OF trne aud faithful rep.
Teseutatives, Of the public veal, IL
seems that we are powerloss to eff
feet any substantial reforms. Ames
and his minions ruled and robbed
.Nissirrief With imrunitY igrmanv
/ years. Drunk with power, they
felt themselves secure in attempt
ing any measure, however iniQui-
tons, but the the organization Of
negro militia to intimidate the
white people into subiection to that
detestiblc alien government, arous-
ed the dormant manhood of the
Anglo-Saxon and organized a
whirlwind of indignation that re-
moved the bottom rail from the
top and drove the carpetbaggers
from the State. A dozen years
have elapsed and to-day we find
ourselves living under the same
constitution administered by an
Oligarchy unwilling to trust the
bona fde people of the State to
frame an organic law adopted to
their wants and wishes, or even to
determine for themselves, whether
or not, they wish TO do so. Both
branches of the Legislature, fresh
from the people in compliance
with their demands, pass, by an
overwhelming majority, a bill sub
mittiHg to the people the question
of calling a Constitutional Conyen-
tion. The Governor vetoes it and
is universally commended by his
appointed judiciary, their uncles,
cousins and aunts," and as univer-
sally condemned by the tax-pay-
ers who know there is no relief
from the thraldom that environs
them, until there is a enforcement
Of the Executive and judiciary,
and a total abolition of "the one
man power" Strange to say there
was found enough political truci-
ness in the Senate, when united
with the votes OF those who hon
estly believed it impolitio to call q
convention now, to sustain the We
to. But the people are not idle
spectators of the battle now waged
between their Representatives and
the combined Executive, Judicial
and Money powers in this State,
and they will see IL that this Gov
ernment shall not much longer re-
main a Government "of the ring,
for the ring and by the ring"
The assumption on the part OF