The Grenada sentinel., 1889-01-12

Conkling will be cubs learning to turn the
wheel, old Simon Cameron and Tom Murphy
will be engineers, Belknap chief purser, Bah
cock will turn out crooked whisky at the
bar, Wheeler will be the little fowl tied on
behind, and John Il. Lynch will run the
Barber Shop
when the cussed thing blows up"
HAYES AND WHEELER.
In speech referring to the ratification or
Hayes and Wheeler you said: "Babcook and
all the whisky ring have ratified them. Tom
Murphy and Casey and nH the custom mouse
thieves have ratified them. Boss Sheppard
and the District Ring have ratified them.
Blaine, Belknap and Schenck and all who have
sold their positions for money have ratified
them"
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
In speaklng of the Republican party this
was after Lynch gave you notice of contest of
your seat in Congress), you said: "The Repub-
lican purity was born of turmoil and strife
and commenced its career with Sharpes rifles
in Kansas. 1t is party of blood, which
invaded old Virginia under John Brown, and
there shed the first blood in the fratricldal
strife. Il is the party of envy and malice,
which refused to receive us in full fellowship
in the Union when we laid down our arms,
for while the Northern Democrats would have
received us with open arms, the Republicans
would have driven us out to eat 'husks with
swine and starve. 1t is the party of hatred
which DESTROYS all of our industrial prosperity
by stout threttS of reconstruction, and which
bestowed the rIght of Suffrage on the negro
for the sole purpose OF preventing the rebels
from returning to place and power. 1t is a
party of sectiona!ism. 1t is party of malig-
nifty, which sought to stir up race conflicts. II
the Republican party is entitled to the one
virtue Of having saved the unioni has linked
to that virtue every crime of which political
party eau be guilty"
Without quoting further from your coarse
and insulting abuse Of Republicans, both
white and coored, which poured in volumes
from yo1r tongue and pen for fifteen years
prior to April. 1882, when Lynch ousted you
from a sfat in Congress, | will and do point
you to YOUR own
kecom and Character
AS the cause why eolored voters have not,
heretofore, and never will, turn out and vote
for you, tlways excepting, oil course, those
malignant "whte man haters" who will sup
port any man who will give them assistance to
subordinate the whites, all of whom they re-
gard MS Democrats deny that the absence
of all Others, or any others, is in any manner
attributable to intimidation" or frauds"
or fore of any kind, us charged by you.
That portion OF your spotted political his
tory which has SO thoroughly dsgusted the
whites, IS well as the coored, and made the
whites aunt against you, and which sheds
further bright light on the causes which pro-
duced tie result OF the above figures, may be
told AS bllows:
From he day you obtained your majority
until thdChicagO convention in June, 1883, (or
about thlt time, you claimed to be a Dem
ocrat You were, when a houng man, elected
District Attorney as Il DClrocrat You were
elected i'll ,Bl to the Mississippi convention
which passed. the Ordinance of Secession, US a
"Secession Democrat and SO Jealous a
SccessOnia were you, that when the mem
bers favorhg Secession we've called upon to
aiiiX their signatures to the cngroSScd Ordin-
ancc all of them use / Il fine gold pen, which
had been purchased by the Secretary for this
purpose, with intent to have it placed among
the archives of the state, except you. You
declined to sign with this pen, but signed the
name of James Il. Chalmers to that historic
document With one purchased by yourself for
this especial purpose, it being your intention
to pass it. as you said, as mcmCntO of your
connection with this great historical event, to
your postcriu'.
You were elected to the Senate Of Mssis
sippi in 1875 as 4 Demo rat. You were com
missiSned to the FCrty-flth FOrty-slXth and
Forty-sevcnth Congresses as Il Democrat. You
were, when in Congress, chairman OF the
House Democratic Caucus. And you were a
candidate for Il scat in the United States
Senate against Mr. Lamar, when he was
elected the last time. Having been oustcd
from Il Democratic seat IN the Forty seventh
Congress, in April, lS.!, on the contest of Ino.
II. Lynch. you found yourself out of public
life, with nothing to do but to mediate upon
'The mutaDilIty Of Human Affairs
And the possibilities of the future. There
was now, as demonstrated by Lynch's success,
no hope for YOU in your old District. There
was nD chance for Democratic nomination
in any other. You had just closed II canvass
of the State for United States Senator, but it
so happened that, in consequence of dire
concatelation of calumitCuS circumstances"
Not Cne
Of your supporters got to the Legislature.
Inside hdDemocrauc party there were too
many in font OF you, and darkness cast a
bacful shadow over the prospect in that
direction.
You wire politically bankrupt.
The Second District of Mississippi presented
the following temptations: There you had
spent the Earlier and happier days of your
youth and early manhood. Your parents
before you had lived and died and were buried
there; their honored names were fresh in the
minds Of the people and were held in high
esteem by thousands.
Bearing aoit the standard of good name,
which he had inherited as sacred legacy
from his father your distinguished brother,
Chief justice Chalmers, had carried it into
the household of thousands of loving friends
and families. and had by his intrinsic worth
and the pract &c of all the noble, social, moral
and maaly virtues invested the name of
Chalmers
with Il halo of htfcctionate regard. 1t was
in this District when an unknown young man,
your fathers rtOd name ana fair fame,
elected you District Attorney. 1t was Demo.
cratic District at this time, lS5? but with
strong, well organized Republican vote, and
some 300 DcmoclNtlc Greenbackers, who had
heen ercatly Offended hy Col Manning. The
situation to n broken, restless politician made
its own suggestion. If you, IL lifelong Demo-
crat, with the possibilities of the field above
pointed out open to you, could only secure
the active support and cooperation of the
Republican and Greenback parties. IN that
event. success, in your opinion, was easily
within your reach as "a Democratic candidate
against the regular noNnee of your own
party. Falling in this. your services would
probably commend you to the Republican
party for recognition in the distribution OF