The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-03-29
The Way n ManlOr the Rural Districts
Looks at Political signs.

tnaI commou uhnBer-d BredI anu III
pending public calamity, serves to unite a
our people in one grand, patriotic, effort
avoid the danger, and avert the calamity
As long as the danger threatens, or tn
calamity impends, our people forget mino
differences, personal aggrandisement an
preferment, the love of Office even, and th
greed of gain-they forget all these selfisl
and debasing considerations, and cling to
gether in one comented, sacred brotherhood
animated by one grand and patriotic pur
pose, until the battle is fought, the victor,
won, and the goal of peace and safety ii
reached in triumph. L need only refel
YOU to the ever memorable and glorious
campaign of the past, when our people
were unit from the Tennessee line to the
gulf, and from the Mississippi river on the
west to the eastern border of our down.
trodden and oppressed State-in one grand
and patriotic effort to throw off foreign,
and establish home rule. Who can forget
the dark and perilous days, and the univer-
sal gloom and apprehension that settled
down and brooded like the pail of despair
and death over all of our people2 The
patriotic, clear headed, COOL unselfsh and
gallant George was Chairman of the State
Executive Committee, and with almost con-
summate skill and faultless wisdom plan~
ned and conducted one of the most success
full political campaigns that ever graced the
annals of State. He had true and faith
full captains and lieutenants all along the
line, and rank and file of as noble aud
gallant people as ever fought for civil liber-
ty, and the God-given and inalienable right
of self>government and home rule. There
was a common danger and public calami-
ty impeding then, ,Sand our people saw and
realized the fact. Hence we we're united,
and high, patriotic and noble sentiments
held sway over the minds of men, and
guided their efforts.
We won glorious and deserved victory.
Since then, and now, we are enjoying
its peaceable fruits. When men from diff.
ferent parts of the State come to the Capitol
on business or pleasure, they go into the
different offices and departments, and ''feel
at home," because they see there, as their
conducting the public business of
of the State, the faces of their neighbors
and friends-men either to the "manner
born, or associated with it, and bound to
it by all the sacred ties of home and family
"a lifes residence-the memory of cons
mon struggles and common hardships for
he public veal, and a thorough and pei feet
IDENTIFY of interest in every respect. Go
% the State Treasurer's office, and there
you see the open, manly and honest facO of
hemingway, whose name. among Missis-
iippians, is the synonym of probity and
lonor. And, moreover, forcibly sug-
rested by his administration of that depart
nent of the State government is the grati-
ying fact that State warrants are at LAR.
f citizens now has claim on the State
Treasury, he knows that it is as good as
ne dollar is for another, and it is no longer
n the power of sharpers and spectators
o take advantage of the poor mans neces-
tues, and force him to sell his warrant at
ruinous sacrifice.
Go to the Executive office, and there you
re welcomed by as pure patriot, and as
lear headed, sound and conservative states
nan as ever presided over the destinies of
great commonwealth. The soldier-states-
IAN who neither fears frowns, nor courts [
avors, the gallant, chivalrous Stone, is [
he peer of any man. And SO, throughout
II the departments. If had time, and
ou space, to speak of Gwin, and Myers, y
le successor of the lamented Falconer, {
18th all the polite and efficient attaches of '
le different offices but 1 have not time 6
or is it my purpose. The allusion to
lem is OILY to point the moral, and bring I
at the contrast Not that the State has {
ot had some honest officials under the a
nted regime, now passed away, l hope t
,rever, for could name some whose offs q
al escutcheon is clear and bright; but our /
wn men are as good as the best from any +
nd, aud we prefer them, and especially, t
G prefer the home regime. d
But must bring out my thought briefly, s
nd close this letter, now too long. The a
,mmon dangfr being over for the present, C
Q begin TO see divisions and chickering's O
nong our people. The love of Office and Y
nbition for personal preferment, begins Z
seriously threaten our safety. 1t is as v
rted by some, that the mission of the n
eat Democratic Conservative party in Il
ississippi is accomplished, and heavy eff Il
,rts will be made TO disband the glorious r
d organization. b
Dear COMET, this is dangerous in the e1- d
eme. 1t will never do. Now, neither il
yself nor my neighbors that were talking "
ith me Saturday evening, are Office hold
s, or expect to he candidates, anS-;t is Ii
lt as a means of getting into Office that Il
g desire to see the old organization pre- Al
rved intact, but it is because Of its glori- n
Is record in the past, and the firm con- ri
otion we have, that in it lies the only "
fety for the future. We see no good b
nse in pulling down the bridge over which st
3 had passed in perfect safety, and some q