The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1878-07-26

of q convention, the demands maze upon
them by their friends not to submit, which
had been duly considered, and alter
such due consideration they. with great
reluctance, had consented to sacrifice
themselves to uphold the majesty and
vindicute the wrongs perpetrated on the
party by becoming independent candl-
dates. The people, however, have seen
through such spccious appeals, ana tpe
political existence of all such as have
public sentiment has long since
=,
When a man is weak within his owl
party but is anxious to serve his country
he comes ont as an independent candidate,
because, forsOOth, he is "unSkllled IN the
mysteries of conventions )" because he
knows that were he to submit his claims
to the suffragcs of the party with whom ne
claims to have affiliated his defeat would
be certain and inevitable. Such a mans
position is iudetensible. How Illuminating
1t must be to thus openly to acknowl
edge his own weakness. Such a man
however, recks of nothing but his proba
bility of success, and his calculations can
be summed up rs follows: II can't get tht
nomination. ] can get SO many Local con
sentative votes, it matters not VINO is the
nominee; then my family connections ART
extensive and those under personal obllga'
tions to myself are numerous, SO that can
rely on so many. Again, there VIII Dc
quite Il number within tile ranks 10 wnoil
the nominee will be personally objection,
able, and | shall secure that elemoit-"h
then | shall get the entire republican Noie,,
and thus YOU see my election is assured"
Such men are traitors to principle-they
,n,A..,pt1 liz. nfI EfIil There are
many such in this State who are seeking
to mislead the people by false p~rctensions
merely for the sake of filling office. There
are many such daily scattering seeds OF
discord in our midst, raising false issues
and agitating the public mind with false
hopes.
Bnt we cannot think that the people
will be misled we cannO believe that
they will he untrue to themselves; we
cannot believe they will recede from TIN"
position SO boldly taken in the past. On
the contrary, we shall see the independent
crushed in the coming contest by such
unanimity that hereafter he will hesitate
long before he appcals to the people. Call
himself by whatsoever name he VIII, he Is
the most dangerous enemy to II demo-
cratic party, State and National.-Mobttc
Register.
What is said of Virginia and
Alabama is true us regards this
State also. There are many men
who try 20 make the people believe
that there is no organized party III
DppOSitiOn to the democrats in Mis-
sissippi, and hat consequently
hero is no necessity Of having
nominating conventions in order to
candidates for office, but to
let each aspirant for Office run upon
his own merits without the for
mality of a nomination is the proper
and most expedient manner of Sc
Letting good men.
Whenever we hear a man begin
to talk thus we at once set him
down as one who would not be a
safe leader of politics in our State
Such n policy would be ruinous to
the best interests of our govern
ment, and would be the means OF
electing republicans, or i%ndepend.
ents, which is one and the sane
thing.
There are some men and some
papers in this State that have de
clared themselves to be independ
ents," and in all elections they sup
port the independent, so-called
candidate. In what does their III
dependence consist we would IKE
to know, unless it is independent /"
democrats, bnt dependent npon the
votes OF republicans for success
There are but two political parties
in Mississippi, and we might say ii
the South, we care not what tbe!
may call tbemsclvss-tbe repabli
can and the democratic parties, an,
a man who is not the one is neces
sarily the other, therefore Ire wh'
does not support the Democratic
party aids the radicals,
The only plan whereby the letno
cratic party is to succeed, il n
coming together in conventions ant
select the best men in orr ranks TO
office, and then work. togetbe
unitedly to secure the election 0
those nominated. A party IN col
yention assembled is as cofnpesen
to Judge of the qualifications Of
candidate as I the people at th
polls, and we might say, more com
petent ; for there the citizens con
suit together, talk the matter owe
and select the men best qualified
whereas at the polls the majority o
voters would not know the me1
they were casting their ballots tor
but would vote as some interested
party would dictate. Let us not d.
away with nominating conventions
but on the other hand let all tru'
democrats, men who have the wei
fare of the country at heart, conn
out at these conventions and Sc
that good men are nominated.