The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-05-21
IT is INFAMOUS,

1t Is currently reported that
some of the close friends of Gov.
Mclaurin have proposed to the
friends Of Gen. Catchings that if
they will withdraw Catchings from
the race for congress and give Me-
Laurin the congressman and also
support McLaurm's candidate for
governor that as quid pro quo,
Hon. W. G. Yerger will be ap-
pointed United States senator to
succeed the lamented Walthall.
Is this true Did any of Gov.
McLaurin's influential friends,
speaking for him, make this propo-
sition Is it possible that the
functions of this great Office of
governor are to be thus prosti-
tuted, traded, bargained and sold
like Il little, shaggy named hog
back Texas gelding in the hands
Of a cow-pilfering, sheep-stealing
outlaw "Give us the congress
man and support our candidate
for governor, and we will appoint
w. q. Ierger United States sena-
tor. Great God Every self
respecting Mississippian will re-
gard that proposition as Infamous.
And if true, it does not indicate
half the damnable infamy which
the power that authorized it is
capable of. No objection to col.
Yerger; he is a high-toned, culti-
waited, elegant gentleman, and
would make a worthy successor to
WalthalI. He is too clean to take
the office under the terms pro-
posed-too decent to lend himself
to the consummation of any such
dirty, nasty, detestable schemes.
If that proposition has been made
with the approval of Gov. Nc
Laurin he deserves the condemna-
ton and contempt of every decent
white man, woman and child, and
nigger, dago, "yaller' dog and
Chinaman in the state. 1t is
shameful, outrageous, filthy We
cannot believe that the people of
Mississippi have had tneir polttl-
cal morals so corrupted-their
sensibilities SO obtunded by the
McLaurin regime, that they will
allow the perpetrators of such in
fanny to 90 unwhipped, much less
lend their sutfrages to a perpetua-
ton of the reign of such gang.
We, who came up and entered
politics in Mississippi after the
carpet-bagger and scalaway had
been dethroned, have been taught
that the climax of damned rascali-
ty, incompetency and general hell
ishness was reached during that
regime. But taking the written
history of Alcorn's S and Ames' adj
rlinistrations you will find very
little more in them calculated to
bring the blush of shame to the
cheek Of patriotic Mississippians
than has occurred during the reign
of our present pregnant and pa
triotic governor. Nepotism, drunk
the capitol mess, lgnor-
ance. errors, and all manner OF IL
regularities make up the history |
of this administration. Indeed, 1t
IS a concatenation of criminal
blunders and meretricious dema-
gogy-enough to break down the
of the devil himself |
and bankrupt the saving grace OF
infinite goodness. There is no use
wasting words abolt it; the peo-
ple of the state have had enough
Of McLaurin. -Four years will
satisfy the men who pay the taxes
and maintain the honor OF the
state, and regardless of the earn
estness and assiduity of the gov
ernor's friends" the people of this
district will not take "his congress-
man" or CHS governor. The
good name of Mississippi cannot
stand any more such leprous adj
ministrations, and it must close
with the four years reign of "de
gang. Commonwealth.