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MISSISSIPPI. 



pudiated Union and Planters' Bank bonds, a debt, 

 it may be called, contracted by looofoco Democracy, 

 and by them repudiated, and we pledge ourselves to 

 resist, by every lawful means in our power, the as- 

 sumption, by the State government, of any and all 

 such pretended debts. 



Kaolctd, That we are opposed to loaning to the 

 railroads, or other corporations, funds donated by 

 Congress to this State for educational purposes, and 

 we demand the prompt repeal, by the next Legis- 

 lature, of the law by which agricultural scrip and 

 Chicasaw school-funds have been diverted from the 

 sacred objects contemplated by the donors. 



K'tolceJ, That we favor biennial sessions of the 

 Legislature. 



Booked, That we recognize no distinctions as now 

 existing by luw in the rights of all children of the 

 State to equal privileges, and to accept such in all 

 public schools, colleges, or univ. r-iti. s, and should 

 any of said institutions of learning deny to any child, 

 on account of race or color, its equal rights, we pledge 

 ourselves to enforce said rights by appropriate legis- 

 lation, and we further pledge ourselves to the sup- 

 port of our present institutions of learning, and our 

 present educational system as above explain'" t. 



Resolved, That we have full faith in the integrity 

 of his Excellency R. C. Powers; and all rcspui. 

 positions in which he has been called upon to act, 

 whether as chairman of the Republican State Execu- 

 tive Committee, Lieutenant-Governor, or Chief Ex- 

 ecutive of the State, he has proved himself to be an 

 able, honest, and fearless advocate of Republican 

 principles, and a firm supporter of all those meas- 

 ures calculated to advance the prosperity of the 

 Stale. 



A resolution to indorse the Kellogg govern- 

 ment of Louisiana was received with such 

 demonstrations of hostility, that the mover 

 withdrew it. 



General Ames made a short speech, saying, 

 among other things that, if elected Governor, 

 and during his term, any hill, looking to the 

 payment of the repudiated debt, or reopening 

 the question in any way, should come up, ho 

 would most certainly veto it. 



On the 17th of September, the " Conserva- 

 tive-Democratic " party held a State Conven- 

 tion at Meridian, hut deemed it inexpedient 

 to nominate a State ticket. 



On the following day, in the same city, 

 another convention, of the " Republican party 

 of Mississippi," was convened, and nominated 

 the following State ticket : For Governor, James 

 L. Alcorn, of Coahorna ; for Lientenant-Gov- 

 ernor, II. Musgrove, of Clarke ; for Auditor of 

 1'ulilic Accounts, W. W. Bell, of Pontotoc; for 

 Secretary of State, J. W. Stringer, of \\'r- 

 ren ; for Treasurer, W. H. Vassor, of Monroe : 

 for Attorney-General, Beverly Matthews, of 

 Lowndes; for Superintendent of Public Edu- 

 cation, J. D. Webster, of Washington. 



The convention unanimously adopted the 

 following platform : 



Whertai, The convention which assembled at 

 Jackson, on the 27th day of August. 1878, was the 

 most remarkable in the history of Mississippi, for 

 the corrupt means used in its organization ; nnd 



Whtrent, Through the corrupt agency of a class of 

 Irresponsible non-residents of the State, who claim 

 to be the leaders of the Republican party, t' 

 convention was so prostituted and debauch' 

 open bribery and unquestioned corruption as to 

 make It the imperative duty of all honorable men 

 to dissolve all connection with that class of corrupt 



individuals whose object is tlie plunder of the E 

 and the working results of whose ueti 

 oessarilv disgrace our party, and bring ruin on us 

 all ; and 



WAertat, The sail convention, 1 . its 



candidates, has given alarming proof of tin 

 ruination of the class of men now ' at that 



organization, to place the government of our State in 

 the grasp of selfish non-residents, who have no bond 

 of interest with our people men who pay no taxes ; 

 who are strangers to our society, ana whose only 

 aim is self -aggrandizement and public plunder; 

 and 



IfAirwu, The said convention, in placing at the 

 head of its ticket an irresponsible non-resident, 

 without any qualification in the school of statesman- 

 ship, has oil'ered an insult to the masses of our 

 pie, and has prostituted, as far as it could, the Re- 

 publican name in Mississippi ; and 



Whereat, The said convention, in rejecting the 

 claims to public confidence of the men of our party 

 who have served the State with honor to themselves 

 and usefulness to the public in the respective offices 

 of the Auditor of Public Accounts ana State Treas- 

 urer, and selected instead thereof, for the first-named 

 office a man notoriously debauched ; and for the sec- 

 ond-named office, one so wholly incompetent, gave 

 the country the proof of the purpose of the con- 

 spirators to perpetrate, through the fraudulent 

 means at their disposal, the robbery and ruin of our 

 people; and 



Whereat, The said ticket presented by said con- 

 vention is notoriously incompetent and corrupt, and 

 unworthy of public trust : therefore, be it 



Rftolc'td, That the Republican party of Mississippi 

 is, as it should be, composed of the people of Mis- 

 sissippi: whose residence in the State gives a guar- 



of an interest in the welfare of the *- 

 whose identity with our society, white ami e- 

 is the moving principle in the organization of our part v 

 association and we now invite the support of all 

 men of our State, without regard to past political 

 affiliations; and 



Wkereat, The Republicans of the State, whose in- 

 terest is that of tho people ; whose aim is that of 

 good government and the resulting repnse of our 

 people ; who seek to bring all our people, white and 

 colored, into the brotherhood of political cm 

 who seek to establish a bond of perpetual confi- 

 dence and friendship between nil ! M who 

 hold a share in the politK. -nty of the 

 State, do in mass convention solemnly declare that 

 we stand to-day dissolve. 1 henceforth in all political 

 affiliation with the corrupt ring-masters of the late 

 convention, and that in seizing tho banner of nur 

 partv from unworthy hands, wo do so with the 

 resolve 



1. That the first and highest duty of the gov- 

 ernment under our a-lministration, should w. 

 ceod before the people, shall he to give protection 

 nnd security to the laboring classes, and equal rights 

 to all the people. Northern and > ! T>->\ 

 and white; we pledge the people of th. 



fixed and det. rininr.l purpose to pnl ration 



into practical operation. 



2. That we make no departure from our ancient 

 ere. ,1 of political faith ; that we support, with nil tho 

 means at our hnnils. th n party of the na- 

 tion, nn.l the Administration of Prtsldsni (Irani ; we 

 are for the preservation of the Union and the 

 peaceful government of our people ; for the strict 

 enforcement of the laws; for universal education, 

 with such revisions as will civc to the children of 

 the State. rather than the idle superintendents, the 

 full benefits of the money paid for :on of 

 the children of the State. We arc f r i \ 



and proji.T retrenchment in the State government, 

 as also in the city and county L- .\crnments within 

 our State. We arc opposed to fostering monopolies 

 at the expense of the masses of our people. We are 

 unalterably opposed to the payment of tho rcpudi- 



