Year: 1873

There are others still, who advise inactiv-
! ity as regards the canvass for State officers
who deprecate the policy of putting for
ward any ticket az all. We pronounce en-
phatically i'm favor of this policy. Because
we do not believe it is possible to select "A
ticket, at this time, that would not eugcn-
der chickering's and prejudices among the
very elements it would be intended to con-
ctiiate and unite.-Prentiss Recorder


For Governor, Gen. Charles Clark, of
Natchez.-TupelO Standard.


Now. if we can have convention Of all
opposed to Radical misrule and rascality-
Il convention composed of all shades of for
mer politics-and nominate ticket OF sober,
Intelligent, trustworthy and honorable men,
IN whom all can place confidence, we be-
lieye we can elect it.-Brandon Republican.


number Of the newspapers OF the State
have favored the candidacy of George w
Harper of Hin Is for Governor. Some ex-
press the wish that be may be brought out
not Dy the nomination OF convention. but,
as it were, by spontaneous action of the
press and people. Both or either sugges-
tiUn meets our hearty approval. Uncle
George would make a good Governor II
elected, whether nominated in convention
or as an independent candidate. In this
election we are in favor OF conservative men.
not conservative pdrty.-Liberty Herald.


our true policy is to recognize the cOlored
voters as power in the State, and to give
them every guaranty they can reasonably
ask, that we accept the inevitable situation,
and have no purpose 70 war upon their
rights. The interests of white and colOred
voters do not in the least conflict with each
other, and we should advocate line of
policy in accordance with this theory III
the aAti-Radtcals put out "A State Ticket this
fall, let it be composed of men to whom our
coiored citizens can take no reasonable eX-
ception, and for whom we can urge them to
vote without always finding ourselves
placed on the defensive. Ii we have no
state Ticket in the field, let US do what we
can towards encouraging the Republicans
TO place their best aud most capable men in
otfice.-Iudependent South.


In placing the name Of Gen. B. G. Hum
phries at the head Of the columns of the
Examiner as our first choice for Governor
we feel that il is hardly necessary TO say
more to our readers "A berdeen Examiner


Gen. Humphries and Judge Gholson are
both identified with the legislation of 1855.
which did so much towards estranging the
colored voters from the whites, and for
which the whites have ever since been
making explanations and apologies. This
legislation presents at this time, in our
judgment, an insuperable barrier to the
election OF any one 70 a state office who
can be fairly charged with having given il
countenance. Judge GhOlson was Speaker
of the House of Representatives which
passed these acts, and Gen. Hum phries was
the Governor whose signature made them
laws--Independent South.


Now it seems to US that the course of the
Democratic party is very plain. Let our
party be organized thoroughly. all over the
state, and delegates be appointed, and a
regular convention do the proper work Of
giving the people a list of good and true
men for every office TO be filled at the fall
observation-disclosures Times.


1t will be the sheerest folly for the Oppo-
nents of extreme Radicalism TO make any
nominations at all for the coming canvass,
providing there is a split in the party now
in power. Then let fhe outsiders choose
the best of the two or more candidates. and
vote solidly for them.-Woodville Sentinel


We are disposed to deprecate, rather than
feel jubilant over the occasional manifesto
tioDs which come from different quarters of
too tenacious clinging by the conserva-
tive political elements TO the Democratic
partisan ideas of State Rights. However
much we may have loved that doctrine in
the past, we have long since ceased to re-
gard il as a substantially which could
claim our energies. The time, and thought.
and effort now expended in trying to re-
vitalize the idea, or doctrine (whichever il
may be called) of State Rights Is worse than
wasted, and we do not regard him as
statesman who now so eXpends his force.
but rather him who grasps the present Op-
portunities and seeks TO prove himself equal
to the emergency of giving us instant re-
lease from the troubles which are weighing
like an incubus upon all our material inter-
eSts.-NatcheZ Democrat.