Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1838-03-31
COLUMBUS, MISS.
SATURDAY. MARCH 80, 1898.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET-For Congres,.
JOHN F. H. CLAIBORNE, Of Madison.
JAMES DAVIS. Of Marshall.
Congressional. Judicial and military Election
on me 23d and 24h days Of .4priL

+ The lFork goes OTdrety on !-AccodhlS OF w
most cheering character reach Us from ever
quarter the State. Claiborne and Davis w
get the largest democratic vote that was ever pol
led in tn, State correspondent at Macol
writes Us, IL have just been on an excursion t
Starkeyie aud Louisville. We shall get over
whelming maioritios at both these places. Ou
maj lrity here, think will be greater than it eve
has been. | find our party every where on thC
alert, ard eyncing disposition TO fight the bat
| tie strong. We are most assuredy gaining
| strength. and our success will be certain, if the
proper exertions are used. | have it from the
! hes, authority. that, at Starkeyille, Mr.. Word
came out and declared himself against the Union
Bank" An Mr.. Word, it seems, is quite d
polite man, he has learnt some Of the trick and
finesse of bis federal compeer, Mr.. Premise. AT
StarkeyilIe. there IS real estate bank, and il is
thought the Union Bank is not very popular there
--ofcourse, something said against that instiiu-
ton might take at that place. But at Macon,
and wherever the Union bank is known to be
popular, Mr. Word does not utter roi against
it. The truth is both Prentiss and VOID know
that they have no claims to public confidence,
and they are attempting to ride into office by rais-
ing false issues and throwing dust into the eyes
of the people. But they will be mlserablY disap-
pointed. The people understand them well ;
they understand too the tue merits Of the pres.
ent political contest. They see Prentiss and
Word leagued with the Northern lederalists, that
party who have ever been inimcal to the rights
and institutions Of the South, and they will not,
canno! trust them. All our information goes to
prove this, and that more signal defeat awaits
the Bankites at the coming election than they
have ever met with in Mississippi. A cores
pondent Of the Natchez Free Trader, from Ma.
ron Co. says,
II shall leave here tomorrow, and proceed 70
Kemper county, where | will endcavor to arouse
the people to due consideration ofthe approach
Ing contest. In Newton, Lauderdale, Kemper,
Neshoba, and Octbbeha, our majority will be al
least one thousand votes If Prentlss and Word,
do not wish to be distanced in this contest, they
had better decline the canvass. Ia fact, am
told, on good authority, that the Yankee disor-
eani.er, has said he will never come before the
people again. If this be true consider II a Ju-
dcous move on his part, lorhe never can expect
to receive the sutffages Of an outraged people,
whose confidence he has abused. We will rally
around our own native Southerns, Claiborne and
Davis, in opposition TO the clnmorous denuncla'
tons Of the Northern PreteRder."
Another correspondent of the same paper re
| marks.
" Never, SIR, within my recollection, (and
am one of the oldes, citizens Of this State) hay,
| ever known the people to be more excited ant
more determined 10 assert the rights Of fteemen
Prentlsa, the Yaakes blue light JeaeraIist neye
canreceive the popular suffrage, while we have
native born Mississippian (Col. CLAIBeRNEJ t.
enter the field against hun. BE OF good cheer j
the West, and do your Duty the East. proud 0
her Democratic supremacy will come to the res
cue and proclaim in voice, not to be mlsundel
stood, her ardent attachment TO the principles G
Jefferson and venerable Hero Of New Oreans.-
Down with monopolies, and up with the BanEe
of the Constitution, will be the raying cry, an
under this flag will we fight the battle in Apr
and gloriousy conquer Federal ,rhiggcry
doomed 10 a San Jacinto defeat"
But we must not fold our arms in too confider
security. That we have majority and a larg
one too is unquestionablc, but we must go to III
polls to prove it. Ii is important not only TIT
federal whiggery shall be beaten, but that it sha
be beaten so bad as never to be able 10 raise i
head again.