American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-11-01

10 ring aSdll Win tue CnttrS tHht
gr.eltN him. Particularly was this
so when he was touching upon the
"YazOo affair." and applying the
actual cautery to the independent
party and the other pcstiferOus
political organizations in the State,
which in his opinion were so many
helps" 10 the great party which
the Democracy have TO meet IN
battle array in 1880. lie advised
disbandment of all such concerns.
as their presence in the field AT this
time was an unmiXed evil. and must
be so regarded by ali rejecting un-
pr, Indeed minds. There were
really but two parties III the coun>
try, tine Republican WAS one and
the Democratic party was the other,
and il was duty which every
Missis>ippian owed to himself, his
/ family aud his state, to ally hImsrlf
with the latter, and put forth bis
/ best efforts in the endeavOr to plant
its flag staff upon the ramparts OF
the opposing hosts. The only
friends that he South had at the
North ale the Democrats, the only
speakers who lit up their vocies IN
that section in vindicatiOn OF her
rights are Democratic speakers. and
the only press that has word to
saw in her behalf is the Democratic
Press, and considering these pres
misses, the speaker said it WAS
amazing to him to SEQ some of the
men who are now acting with the
Independent party in their PRESENT
company. They should be else
where, for instance in the ranks OF
tn, grand old Democratic party.
the only friend the South has in all
the land, or has had for over u
quarter OF a century. Come out
from among the Independents he
continued. your remaining there
must needs place you at a disadvan-
tage! you can not explain your
present attitude of hostility towards
the Democracy. and at the same
time leave the person you may wish
to convince, free from the suspicion
that you are not actuated by uu-
reasonable prejudices and spuIred
on by that spirit which cannot raise
mortals to the skies but would fain
drag an angel down.
We call attention to the foregoing
extract from the YazOo City Herald
of Oct. 18th. 1t Will be seen from
this that the charge made in the
last issue of the Democrat, that Col.
Singleton in his speech made in
Yazoo City did not interfere in any
way with the divisions in that
county, and that lie was moved, by
his desire of Mr.. T. T. Singleton's
election, to advise the people of this
county against voting the August
tickets without the slightest
foundation. He took more decided
ground in that county than in this,
against the Independents, and had
not his son been enc of the nominees
of the Democratic Conservative
party in this county he would have
dealt with the Independents less
gently. Why this charge should
have been made by the Chairman of
the Executive Committee of the
August Convention when he could
have so really learned its falseness
we cannot understand, unless there
was predetermined purpose to
misrepresent Col. Sins!eton's posi-
ion. After this expnse, we are
satisfied that the suspicious people
of whom he speaks will dwindle
down to himself, and no tongue
will give utierance to such unjust
charges save perhaps the gentle-
man's own.
Ii 10 have the peoples confidence
TO such an extent as to make them
trust him with off .:e and il to be SD
tue to them As to Cause them to
never lose that confidence, consti-
tutes n 'schromc office holder" then
may Col. S. with pride acknowledge
The justice of the charge preferred
against him by the hOnOra bles gen
tleman of being chronic office
holder. The insinuation. unjust as
it was ungeperouS, that Col. s. felt
compelled to bolster up his veraciiy
by stating that he was a church
member will fall SO stiil-bOrn on all
who know the character of the man
for christian integrity, We pass it
without further comment. Col, S.
as the imm rdiate representative OF
the Democratic Conservative party
of this Congressional district would
have been false to his people had
he not warned them against this
Independent party, whose success
will mean the utter ruin of that
grand old party which won the
glorious victories of 1875.
Col Singleton In common with
all true Democrats in the State is
bound to know that any divisions
in the Democratic party must be
hurtful he is bound as an honest
man whom his people have trusted
to tell them the truth, and this h-
has done everywhere. We do not
believe that there is man who was
present aud heard his speech at
Canton save the author of the at.
tack on him, who will say that any
thing that Col. Singleton said could
he tortured into such a thing as a
fling but when a man starts out TO
peddle in u newspaper article, what |
''peopIe say" and when every body
knows what ''peOple say means,
there in no telling where he may
end. The public will see the AMI