The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1881-10-29
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On mex, Tuesday week the pco-
pie Of Mississippi will elect State
officers 20 serve four years. and q
Legislature and county officers to
serve two tcxccpt the Senators
Who will serve four. As TO our
local election, we feel quite conf
dent OF the result. Reliable intel
ligencc from every portion Of the
county fully confirms u precon-
ceiyed faith, and justilies us in be-
licving that the candidates the
STAR has advocated will all be
triumphNndy elected. Nor are
the signs less encouraging with re-
gard to the State election. Every
indication points directly and
plainly to the triumph ofthe Dem
ocratic ticket. The canvfss has
closed and we have heard Of 10
disturbance or unplcasantneSs
anywhere. II was conducted in
a fair, gentlemanly and dignided
manner, and as far as We have
been able to learn no candidate
has any complaint to make against
his competitor, nor any right to
make any. "Peace reigns in
Warsaw" and will continue to
reign, but the thinking and re-
fleeing people Of the State have
not forgotten the enormous taxes
they paid while the State was un-
der Radical domination, nor have
they forgotten the scenes Of riot
and bloodshed which were too
often enacted. We are not an
apologist Of the participants in the
latter. On the contrary we have
always condemned them when
wrong, but we have known and
still know that such scenes were
aften the result Of the goadings
heaped upon an overburdened
people, struggling for political ii
not physical existence. All that
is happily passed, and the people
remember that while they were
thus crushed to the earth by 4
combination OF ignorance and
carpet-bagism, the taxes were SC
excessive as 10 exhaust not only
all the produce Of their labors, but
very often to make inroads upon
the little property on which they
and their families were dependent
for lvelihoods. How is il now
Radical misrule found its grave
fortunately before the State could
be heavily shackled with debt.
All the debt that was contracted,
however, has been paid on and
now the taxes r very little, il
any. morclhan one sixth of what
they were in those dark days.
And yet, our schools r upon q
more substantial basis and in q
better condition, and State war.
rants, which were then worth but
sixty cents ON the dollar, are at
par and are paid promptly. when
ever presented. The whole ma
ch;nery Of the State is in better
condition than it has been since
the war, and quiet and harmony
prevail everywhere. Intelligent
white and colored voters all see
and recognize in this changed and
improved state Of things the benc.
fits to be derived from the domin.
alton of intelligence over ignor.
ance-honesty rather than corrup.
tion-and as these are the people
who pay the taxes that support
the government and keep its ma.
chinery going. they are determin.
ed to continue this state Of affairs,
and the watch fires OF Democrat,
are blazing upon every hilltop and
in every valley to the end thai
light may shine over the Who'll,
State and darkness and corrup.
ton shall no more brood over us.
Let no man who properly est.
mates the welfare, happiness and
prosperity Of the people, and the
tdtuFe Of the rising generation,
hesitate or fail in the discharge Of
~ duty which will devolye on
IN next Tuesday week.