The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser. (Woodville, Miss.) 1853-18??, 1853-06-07
The Next Legislature. The selec-
ton of Candidates.

In A late issue we stated that there could
be no middle ground between the Wing and
Democratic parties in this State. There are
no other political organizations in existence
among US and it is utterly incompatible with
reason for one to be a friend Of the Admins
tration and at the same time affiliate in our
State political elections with its oppOseE. And
vet We would not be surprised If men claim
ing to be Democrats should, in some counties
cooperate with the Wings in the coming cleo
tons ofmembers to the Legislature. To in
lure the Democratic cause our willy ADVERSE
ries will make use of tools of this sort, where
ever they can be found. Our purpose is now
to warn the Democracy against men who pro-
fess to be Democrats, and yet consent to do
this low and despicable work for the enemies
of Democracy. Wherever you find aspirants
of this sort, make no compromise with them,
put the brand of Whigerry on them, and let
them go and herd with their kind. Expose
their conduct to the Democratic masses-tear
their masks from them-and, our word for it,
they will be crushed at the polls, if the coun-
ties in which they run are democratic-(and
it is only in such counties that the Wings will
touch them.) Let not the idle pretext, that
no question affecting the Wing and Demo-
cratic parties will require the action of the
next Legislature, suffice them. Through the
~disorganizing spirit of the Wings in the last
Legislature, the State was not distrieted, as
required by law. That duty will, therefore,
devolve upon the members to be elected this
Fall. The Wings will again bring forward
their favorite measure, known as the "Shack-
leford Bill !" and they will endeavor to pass it
by a coalition with fshy Democrats. If they
succeed the State will, in all probability, (for
such is the intention of its framers,) have from
two to three Wings members in Congress for
the eight years succeeding the approaching
term. This will embrace one of the most
eventful periods in the history Of the country f;
and it is vitality important that its councils
should be controlled by asafe, reliable Demo-
cratic majority. During this period, meas
ures affecting the expansion o.: our territorial
limits-probably the Cuban question itself
will require action. Upon such questions, it
is useless to say that the Wings cannot be
trusted. If the %counsels of that party had
have prevailed, in the days of Mr.. Sefetson,
the immense louisiana territory would have
been in the possession of a foreign power. In
like manner all the advances of Texas for a
union with the United States would have
been repealed in 1894. We all r~ecollect what
a firm resistance the Wings gave to the great
scheme annexation in that quarter. The
same deep-rooted hostility to every move
ment looking to the acquisition of Cnba now
marks their conduct. Hence the late Admin
is%tration, a fit representative of the principles
of Whiggerry, warmly sympathized with the
Spanish Government in all its attempts to ex-
tinguish the fires of liberty which were kin
died in that island. We mention the ques-
ton OF territorial expansion particularly, be-
cause that now seems first and foremost in the
public mind. Other questions involving the
intererest of the country will also come up
for disposal within that period. Whiggerry
has abandoned none ofits favoiite measures,
and it only seeks to hull the vigilance of the
Democracy by seeming to drop them, that
they may be more effectually put in force.
Who could find a Wing in 1910 that avowed
it as the object of his party to depart from the
principles of the compromise tariff Of 1888,
or to re-establish a National Bank? But the
triumph of Whiggery was the signal for the
passage of a high Protection Tariff law and a
bill to re-charter a Bank: the country was
saved from ~blighting effects Of the latter
scheme by the veto Of honest John Tyler
and the former was consigned to an early
grave by the popular verdict in 1914.
Shall Mississippi lend her aid in the Ma:
tionaI Councils to the perpetuation of Demo
cratic policy: or will she league with the en-
emies of progress If the Wings succeed, by
forming an unholy coalition with corrupt men
who wear the garb of Democracy merely to
practice deception upon the honest Demo
cratic voters, in obtaining control of the next
Legislature, there can be no difficulty in solv
ing the question. Men who owe their seat;
to Wing votes, when there are no other or
CARNATIONS but Wing and Democratic, acil
do tie cork Of Whiggerry-Mark this
Hence we say that all who, for the sake O
obtaining seats in the Legislature, consent tc
run on the same ticket with Wings, must BE-
degraded politically to the level Of Wings
and treated accordingly at the polls. The
lines must be drawn at once. We must know
who are the friends and who are the enemies
of Democracy. The standards will be fixed
and the tests will be made, when the regula
tickets are brought into the field.
[M~ississippian.
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