Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-06
MONEY AND MACuNE

Ever since the meeting Of the Ma
tional Alliance at Ocala, the old party
newspapers have exhausted the vocab-
ulary of the English language in de-
nouncing DIR. c. w. Macune, editor of
the National Economist, as a corrup-
ZIONIST and every thing that is vile.
The alleged proof and justification of
this is. that during the Georgia Sen
atorial contest in 1890. Macunc, who
had borrowed S2,OOO from Pat Calhoun,
the attorney of Georgia Railroad cor
poratiou. as a business transaction and
afterward paid back both principal and
interest. had used the Economist and
his personal influence to secure the
election of Calhoun to the Senate over
Gen. Gordon Calhoun favored the
Alliance demands and Gordon opposed
them. and besides it was shown that
the 5000 was borrowed to help the
National Alliance organ out in sCri-
Gus financial crisis.
The LEADER publishes to-day the rec
ord of a transaction in which the Hon.
II. ID. Money. while Democratic Con
gresham from Mississippi. and the
noted railroad magnate, C.P. Hunting
ton. figured aS borrower and lender.
The facts in brief are that Mr. Money
in 1871 introduced bill in Congress
which transferred to Huntington ii vast
amount of the public domain and Sc
cured him monopoly of Southern
transcontinental railroad traffic that
in 1882 Huntington loaned Mr.. Money
and his business partners $4,000, in
sufficiently secured by mortgage on
certain property. which mortgage re
mains to this day uncanccled and unsat
isficd and that in 1883. n year after he
borrowed the s50.oO0. Mr.. Money voted
for Huntington's consolidation railroad
scheme.
If the conduct of Macune was com
promising. how much more so does the
act of Mr. Money appear by compari-
son. Be it remembered Huntington was
not banker or professional money len
der.any more than Calhoun, but several
years ago did say he had found it great
" TO his advantage when he wanted to
secure legislation in his interest. to ac-
commodate legislators and congress
men with loans of money.
The Alliance committee on whose re
port Macune was acquitted of corrup-
ton. have been jeered at the country
over as 'white-washers." Only week
or two ago the Winona Times, one of
Mr. Moneys home papers and most ar
dent supporters. was haunting Frank
Burkitt as a "Macune white-washer for
the good of the order" The LEADER
invites the editor of the Times to peep
into his looking glass and h will see a
much greater "white-washer' for the
good p of the Democratic party. In
short. we make the point that if there
has been corruption. and if there has
been white washing" the evidences of
it are far greater and more damning in
Moneys case than in Macune's. And
We submit that the Clarion. the Merid
an Standard, the Vicksburg Herald,
5he Winona Times, Greenwood Enter
prise and lesser Democratic newspapers,
together with all Democratic stump
orators. ought, in the name of consist
cncy. do one or two things, either
cease denOuncing Macune as a cOrrup-
ZIONIST, or else open their batteries on
the Democratic nominee for Congress
iii the 9Th district, confess his nomina-
ton was mistake and demand his re
tirement.
\ closing word Frank Burkitt, Mr..
Moneys opponent for Congress, has
neither suggested nor inspired the
of any thing that appears
in to-day's LEADER on this subject, and
will know nothing OF it until it appears
in print. We have published it be-
cause we believe. as public journal
list, that man with Mr. Moneys rec
ord ought not to be sent to Congress
as the representative of. any party
whatever, and that the people are en-
titled to know his record before they
vote. If the Democratic party expects
to retain the confidence of the people,
it ought to put up men for office who,
measured by the standards erected by
its own leaders, are like Caesars wife
above suspicion.