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Show RIGHT YOU ARE, MR. PAYNE. Postmaster General Payne explains the reason for refusing to name a Mississippi postoffice after the governor of that state, although petitions had been filed requesting that he do so. Governor Var-daman, Var-daman, it appears, is the publisher and editor of the Commonwealth, a newspaper printed at Jackson, Jack-son, Miss. On Jan. 10, 1D03, says Postmaster General Gen-eral Payne,, an article was published in the Commonwealth Com-monwealth "so vile and indecent in its statements concerning the mother of the president of the United Unit-ed States as to be unfit for reproduction. The postmaster general did not deem it proper to give a postoffice the name of any man who has used such language regarding any woman." Right you are, Postmaster General Payne. The writer of this comment is . a Democrat, with halcyon memories of the chivalrous Southern South-ern gentleman of slavery days. Therefore, he is convinced that the governor of Mis-sippi Mis-sippi is an exception to the old type of Southerner it ne penneu inai eauonai, ui um disclaim responsibility for its appearance in his paper' if written by some other attache of the Commonwealth. Com-monwealth. Xo proof of the latter being, in evidence, evi-dence, decent Democrats in and out of lississippi cannot bo too severe in condemnation of a person unfitted for either the editorial or gubernatorial chair in a Southern state. That assassination at Columbus,. S. C, should teach a lesson. And we may remark in passing that clean American people, Xorth and South, will no longer tolerato slander in politics, such as that which disgraced the presidential presi-dential campaign of 1884, when Grover Cleveland and James G. Blaine were the candidates of their respective parties. . . IIU : |