The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-10-16
Aid Comfor. for lhe Nationals

OCTOBER ,, 1878.
EDITORS CLARION: IL Is win pleasure,
that | acknow ledge that the Beast Ben
Rutier1 il TOO much for me 70 digest; how
would YOU like to try him while since it
was tbs Democrats OF Massachusetts thar
nominated him? But, You may say stray
wing of the Democracy nominated him
Well. if the Nationals had any STRAY
wings" and they had have nominated aud
eyea elected him. could you say the stray
wing of the Nationals did it. No, 1t Is
high time all such prattle was hushed by
both Democrats and Nationals let TN
light be fought upon reasonable. sensible
and sound issues The Democratic party
has as bad men in it as the Nationals.
''rhose that live in glass houses should not
throw stone.
Then you say "so-ealled National
Democratic party = the very men that
compose the Nationa party to-day, welded
the sword that severed the binding aud gall
ing chains of Radicalism with as much effect
as those that compose the Democratic party
to-day. The Radical party is dead, and il
there are auy surviving members there
are more of them in the Democratic ranks
in Mississippi than there are In the ranks
of the Nationalist for no other reason, the
TACT that the Democratic party has been the
only party in the State since 1875 is suffi-
cient | think the National Green back
platform will compare favorabiv with the
Democratic platform. / think Ii decidedly
the best policy for the people TO rule the
party aud not the party rule the people.
The people made the Democratic party in
this State in 1875; now, | hold they, and
they only have the right TO say whether
they shall continue toe KEEP IL in existence
or whether they they shall build up another
upon its ruins. Undoubtedly, 1.-The creator
has the right TO destroy"
w. B. SoRsBY.
Certainly the people made the Demo-
cratic party. In fact the Democratic
party IS the people combined for a special
purpose under that name. And why
should they break up, and make war
upon themselves? Has this party not
redeemed all its pledges of reform in the
State administration, and is it not strug
Cling to accomplish reform in the Federal
administration? 1t has broken the rod
of the adventurer and the plunderer In
the Southern States; and now why should
it be discarded while it is in the very act
Of breaking the letters with which the
Repub lican party bound the industry and
property of the country to the privileged
classes? Our correspondent imagines a
vain thing when he supposes the Radi-
cal party dead, and thinks, therefore,
that Democrats and Conservatives can
dissolve and fight each other. IF he
thinks it is dead let him read the reports
of elections held last week, and remem-
Der that it was rallied by its leaders
under the banner of the bloody shirt,
and for the maintenance of the financial
system which has subordinated all the
labor, and all the property, except the
capital invested in United States bonds,
to the money power. If our correspond
ent is sound on these issues, he will
adhere to the Democratic party for
the reason that it offers the
only hope of deliverance. To think
of deserving such a party-compact,
powerful, militant, and resolved upon
victory-and taking up with a new I'm
tried organization without definite num-
bers or prestige, and led by desperate
adventures and soldiers of fortune like
Beast Butler, is moonstruck madness.
When our friend speaks of Butler as the
candidate of the Democrats of Massachu-
sets, he shows how badly informed he is.
He is the regular nominee of the So
called Nationals, and was subseq uently
accepted by a faction of malcontent
Democrats, who like our correspondent,
wants NEW leaders," and was ready to
take up the man who while in Congress
voted for every measure which the
meanest Radicals in that body could
conceive for insulting and harrassing the
South. The Democratic candidate for
Governor of Massachusetts, is Hon.
Josiah E. Abbott, pure and incorrupti-
BILE patriot.
Unless our correspondent can give a
reason for destroying the Democratic
Conservative organization, it cannot be
expected that he will receive the encoul-
agement of sensible people who are
aiming to promote the public good.