The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-08-15

ton would be checked that the common scnoo1
system would be destroyed, and that the rights
Of the colored man would not be respected But
the very opposite has been true. The financial
condition of the State has been greatly improved,
taxes have been reduced, State bonds have ap-
preciated In value and stand 40 well now In the
markets ~ those of any other commonwealth /;
the Internal improvement Fund has been olsen
numbered; county debts have been PAID on;
expenses, State and county, have been reduced
immigration has been stimulated; the sc hool
system has been improved, and the school terms
extended, and the rights of all citizens have
been respected and projected. There have been
no stealing of public funds; no robbing the pub
lie schools to supply the pockets of individuals;
no huge bond swindles; no crooked scrip trans
actions, but honesty and economy have been the
universal rule, and as q consequence prosperity
reigns throughout the State and the people are
satisfied If all this is attributable to Bourbon
ISM" then Bourbonism is a good thing and
we want more of it.
OF course the success of Democratic rule has
been a disappointment to those who predicted
the reverse, and who in the Democratic success
lost their hold upon the official places they were
so anxious to fill, and to which they yet look as
the Canaan of their hopes. Since their crush
ing defeat they have looked with longing eyes
back to the times when they held high carnival
in places of trust and power, and have earnestly
watched for an opportunity TO bring about re-
turn of those times. That opportunity, they
hope, has now presented itself through a combi-
nation with the Independents" The colored
voter can, they think, be depended on to vote
solid for the party as directed to do by the lead
ers, and if the Independents" so-called, can
seduce few thousand whites to vote for them
their success is considered certain. But this can
not be done. No man in the State can lead off
any considerable vote from regular party candi-
dates, because they have no real ground TO base
a revolt upon. On the contrary, the ranks of
the party are growing stronger every day. Ac-
tual results are arguments which cannot be re-
sisted, and the splendid record of accomplished
facts by the Democrats in this State has drawn,
aud will draw, to their support every property
holder whose only interest in politics is to
the wisest and best administration of public
affairs The time has gone by to talk of "car
pet baggers" Those who came as carpet bag
gers" just after the war, have by long residence
ceased to be carpet-baggers," and those who
have come more recently have come as perma-
nent settlers to build up-Outside of politics
their fortunes, and assist those of US who have
been here longer to develop the splendid re-
sources of the State. They are all alike inter
ested in the real progress and prosperity of the
State, and seeing that these have been so largely
promoted under Democratic rule. they will be
slow to believe that there is any good in chang
ing from it to mongrel crowd who are actuated
by no higher motive than to obtain Office, and
whose only platform and principles is "any
thing to beat Democrats"