The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-08-13
The Democratic Party Has Redeemed
Its Pledges.

No State in the South after having
been reclaimed from Radical misrule
with all its evils, has returned to the
/ folds of that party, or has done what is
the equivalent, abandoned the Demo
cratic party, the agency by which the
people were restored to selfgovernment.
If the people of Mississippi were to
perpetrate such an act they would Of
all the Southern States stand alone IN
their madness and suicidal folly. No
reason has been advanced by the enc
mics of this party why 1t should be
overthrow and the State and county
administrations turned over to other
hands. They complain of wrongs in
the financial policy of the federal
government, but if they are so ignorant
as not to know that the Democratic
party is not responsible for that evil,
they ought not TO set themselves up as
political guides. The Democratic party
is not only not responsible for the
system Of measures enacted in the
interest Of the money barons at the
expense of the Iaboring masses, but it
opposed them with all the power and
influence it was capable Of welding.
In a minority in every department of
the government, the well-meant efforts
Of the Democrats were in vain but
nevertheless they did what they were
able to ward off the schemes that were
concocted in the interest Of the monop |
ers Of the party which has dominated
the government of the Union for the /
last eighteen years. To every rational
reform in the financial policy of the |
government for counteracting the evils
Of the Democratic party
is fully committed not only by its reso-
lutte opposition to them in the past, but
its pledges for the future.
In our State administration, every
pledge which was made by the Demo
sratic-Conservative party has been
fulfilled.
1t promised to reduce taxes for I
,arrying on the State government
And taxes for this purpose have been
reduced from 81 to 3! mills on the dol
ar-from nine and quarter dollars on '
he thousand under Republican rule to
hree and half dollars on the thousand
Inder Democratic rule
Il 3, =. u T.
he taxing power by Boards of Supervi- +
ors, who were abusing it shamefully t
II the counties where the colored ele- L
nent predominated, and was under
lien influence. In those counties taxes
anged anywhere between fifteen and
fly mills on the dollar This abuse ),
as been corrected by the passage of a
NV prohibiting Boards of Supervisors r
-om levying taxes for county purposes, ,
hich added to the State tax would ex- q
eed twelve mills on the dollar. 9 9
1t promised to curtail the expenses of "
lie State Government, and cut down e,
-laries. This has been done in every to
stance. The expenses of the State ~ ~
overnment are barely third of what tw
ey were under Republican rule. c cf
1t promised to elevate the standard pc
official capacity and integrity. The r..
edge has been redeemed. sa
1t promised pure, upright and incor-
ptibIe Judiciary so that justice would
administered without sale, denial DC
delay. The pledge has been faith Tn
.ly redeemed. Ou
1t promised to protect the lives, lib Co %
~ and property of the people without ol
gard to race, birthplace, or previous ag
addition, and the pledge has been hi
ictly maintained. trl
1t has brought order out of choas, peace 'h'
of strife, aud given the State new Pc
2 and hope. Why should the party ele
ich has accomplished these results be th'
Do the selfseekers who Tor
conspiring for its destruction pro- r
Sc to place the State under the con-
/ of better one?