The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-10-30
A TIMELY WARNING,


utive Committee of Lowndes will sui
other counties rs well as Lowndes, an,
in reproducing 1t, we commend it t.
Democrats as conveying importan
suggestions. 1t will never do to los
our position by sleeping upon imag
mary security. The enemy are II
work night and day, and they nee,
watching:
HEADQ'Rs DEMOCRATIC Elk. Com. /
LowNDEs COUNTY, Oct. 20, 1880.
Felton, DemOcrdtS-In obedience Il
Committee the undersigned, as briefly
as may be, calls your attention to the
following facts:
With due regard to the best in.
terests of the two races in our midst
and in n proper effort to promote the
material prosperity of every class OF
our citizens, your Executive committee
has, thus far, in giving direction to
the canvass in Lowndes, been govern
ed by love of order, peace and quiet
in keeping with the conservative ideas
characteristic of the party in power in
this county.
Ever mindful of the bitterness which
dsgraced the political campaigns of II
few years back and the ruinous conse-
quences to ensue to all parties from Il
renewal of the race issue, the olive
branch of peace heretofore held out
has at no time been withdrawn by us.
We have vainly hoped that your
proflers of friendship would be re-
civcd in the spirit in which they were
made. We find, however, under the
pernicious influence of certain evil
and designing men, who work alone for
selfish purposes, the spirit of hate and
intolerance that animated the OPPOSE
ton from 1872 TO 1875 is again being
revived and famed into life-a sys-
tematized and well organized effort
being once more made to arouse the
worst element of our society and array
it against the peace and dignity of our
good government.
Emboldened by the deceptive re-
suits of the recent elections in Ohio
and Indiana, aided and abetted, in
violation of every principle of civil
service reform, by Federal office
holders here and elsewhere in this
Congressional district, Republican
emissaries are at work in our midst
striving to align ignorance ard poverty
on the one hand, against the virtue
and intelligence of this people on the
other. Corrupting influences through
these Federa otfice-holdcrs and Office
seekers, are at work beneath your very
roofs. While you sleep, dreaming
only of security, vicious partisans,
stunning the light of day, stalk
beneath your windows, almost enter
ing your private apartments, to poison
the minds of the laboring class against
those who uphold and support the
righteous laws of the land. Midnight
meetings and secret caucuses in out
of-the-way places, are being he'd by
hired manipulators here and there
throughout the country, and at such
times and under such circumstances
Garfield tickets, with the name of j.
Morphis, United States Marshal, can
didate Tor Congress thereon, are being
distributed by his henchmen, Gleed,
Watson and Kennon, ct id canine
genus, who are again organizing that
they may remand us back to those
dark days when such rs they held
high carnival over our ruin, brought
about through power and place OBJ
tanned by fraud and corruption. Dem
ocrats of Lownes Are you prepared
for such condition? Can you once
more stand the expressions of the
past? Will you sit IN silence and see
the fruits of recent glowing victories
pass forever from your hands and
leave your children and your chill
dren's children political slaves? Are
you ready for that? No, not yet.
''Better the deluge, than the flood"
Better reck and ruin, than ignominy
and disgrace. Better the ship of
State go down in the storm of battle,
or amid the roar of breakers, sinking
out of sight with glory and with
honor, than survive the storm and
out-live the treacherous rocks, to fall
Il prey to a mutinOus crew under the
leadership of pirate hands from other
lands.
If you would avoid such wG non ' vo,
must be up and doing. Remember
that eternal vigilance is the price of
liberlyW Your Executive Commit
tee has all the while been upon the
alert, and now at the first approach of
danger sounds the signal of alarm.
There is no cause for panic, no cause
for doubt, no cause for violence, if you
do not sleep upon your liberties.
Only let every Democrat and friend to
good government be at his post and
do his duty on the second day of
next, and another glorious
victory will crown our efforts. We
captured the fort from the outside; let
rs hold it from within.
r. w. BANKS, Chairman.
N. B. Organize your Beat meetings
1T once and appoint your committees
or active work on the day OF election.