The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1888-06-23
WHAT DOES 1T MEAN?

NTO'' AeOoo' NCNA y oh-A his dQiuiIl
lsUration is unabated, and that W,
are proud of the heroic stand b,
has ever assumed in furtheranc,
OF the best interests of the peo.
pie and the known glory of the
State.
We would like to ask the ma.
chine bosses who sandwiched this
Lowry resolution IN between one
endorsing Congressman Hooker
and another endorsing Senator.
George and WalthalI and man.
aged to wire it through the late
Kinds County Convention by a
bare majority, alter hard fight
which came rear swamping the
entire batch, if they are ready to
stand by all that such an endorse.
ment means? Does it mean that
they endorse the extravaganza of
Lowryism which has raised taxa
tion and increased the State debt
in six years nearly one million
dollars, while the total assessed
valuation o! property has decreas-
eel mary millions and Il privilege
tax has been saddled upon almost
every avocation and profession
known. from running bank to
keeping private boarder? Does
it mean that they endorse the bar
barllles of the Peniteutiary leas-
ing system and the penitentlary
defalcations and jobbery with
which Lowry was culpably con-
nected and by which the State
was coolly swindled out Of $780,
900? Daes it mean that they en-
dorse the Governors shameless
abuse of the pardoning power,
and his well known sympathy for
noted criminal while under in
dlctment Tor murder, and the
prostitution of his official posi-
ton to secure bis acquittal? Does
IT mean that they endorse his ar
rogating to himself the power of
Il czar of the Russians and veto
ing bill passed by more than
two-thirds of both bianches Of
the Legislature, which Simply
gave to the people the right to say
for themselves whether they want
ed Il Constitutional Convention or
not, and with equal arrogance
sDubbcd and lnsulted a committee
of the great farmers organization
of the State who respectfully
waited upon him to ask that the
will of the legislature and the peo-
pie be regarded? Does it mean
that they endorse the veto Of the
Scientific Temperance instruction
bill and the amendment to the
Local option law and the pocket
veto of the Summit tlvo mile bill,
which was needless slap in the
face to all the temperance people
of the State? Does it mean that
they endorse the Governor and
his administration because they
have been so weak and corrupt as
to draw around them all of tie
worst leaders of Republicanism
left behind by the carpet-bag
regime, even as vul.ures are at
tracted by the smell of carrion?
ID es 1t mean that they endorse
his prostitution Of the election
machinery of the State to help out
boilers and Republicans in GER
thin counties and defeat good
Democrats who dared assert their
of the State House
machine? Does it mean that they
endorse his nun crous other abuses
OF the appointing power, the vir-
tual giving away of the public do
main to railroad corporations and
foreign syndicates instead of re-
serving it for actual settlers, the
Lowry Island steal, the East Mis-
sissippi Insane Asylum extrava-
eance and mlsappropriation of
public moneys, and his acceptance
of free railroad passes for mem
bers OF his family in violation Of
a law be signed himself and which
he was sworn TO support, and for
which and numerous other crook
Cd acts recited, Ames or any
other Republican Governor would
have been impeaehed by a Demo-
cratic Legislature in less than "a
hours? Finally, do these gushing
Hinds County rcsolutionists really
think the Governor has assumed
''a proud and heroic stand in re-
latIon to all these things aud that
such a black and disgracefui
record adds fnything to "the
known glory Of the Statc?y We
would like for them to answer
these questions. If they can en-
dorse such a Governor and such a
record, IN the name Of high
Heaven TO what extreme or in-7
fanny would Lowry and his ad-