The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-09-05

Auueeu, tue XOO0 peOpie tmFOugnOut IuSe
part of the State, who might, perhaps,
have begun to be Impressed with the ma
jestic bearing of the make-believe Lionel
reformer, and really had begun to think
it was a veritable lion, were greatly sur
prised at the. unmistakable bray that re-
sounds from beneath this independent
covering in the Spectator week or two
| ago and since echoed in a Jacksonville
paper. The irrepressible colored master,
in the Tallahassee Post-ofioe has opened
his mouth and given the fraud dead away,
and it will be next to impossible for the
would-be keepers OF that menagerie to
fool just one more white man with the old
hide. They have found out certainly
what is under it. The show is over, and
even those whose curiosity took them un-
der the canvas as spectatoes, want their
money back. McKinnon ought to have
kept that lifetime Radical !" quiet. If
he and his inexperienced CO. djutors in the
| Spectator expect to prove themselves lead
ers of political reform by such bungling
management as that, the sensible people
of this country will only laugh at them
If the flesh pots they set before the peo-
pie of Florida are to be filled with goose
served up by that STEWART of their
household, take our word for it, the
sauce with which it will be dressed will
surely prevent all manly stomachs from
gorging themselves with it. However
popular McKinnon might be personally
among the many or the few, he and his
coadjutors may rest assured that there are
assist him in climbing into little notori-
ETY. and little Office, will submit to be
overridden by his negro following. The
fact is he has bitten off rather more
than he can chaw." This is not an unu-
sual mistake for greedy people to make,
especially when young and inexperienced.
Wormy children often choke themselves
in fruitless endeavor to cram into their
little mouths tempting morsels in such
big pieces as to satisfy the abnormal era
wings of their little bellies; his aspira-
tions have blindly misled him in his un-
dertaking. The earnest wish has been
father to the very foolish thought that
he could, in the face of facts and figures,
persuade the people of Florida that they
were corrupt and needed reforming, and
that he is the special instrument who has
call to lead them into some new canaan.
There is such thing as egotism utterly
deranging a mans mind. The unre-
strained indulgence of mans selfish de-
sires oftentimes so warps his understand
ing and sense of decency, as to cause
him entirely to lose sight of the true re-
lation of things, and to imagine that all
else ought to be subservient to his lusts.
We fear he is "tetched with some such
moral and intellectual dstemper.
The very name given this weakened
disorder, " INSTRUMENTATION " is a fraud in
itself Indepen dent of what? OF who !?
If any meaning can be attached to the
word in the present state of our politics,
it must mean Independent of the meas
ures and support of either of the two ex-
listing political parties, Democratic and
Republican. These two parties, the first
under its ever good right name of De-
mocracy and the other under ever shifting
and changing names, have always been
the representatives Of the only two plans
or principles Of government known to
the genious of the American people. Be-
fore any man can be independent of either
he must propose some new dispensation
and offer to the members of either party
some doctrine superior to or at least to
them preferable to the tenets of either.
In Florida there have never existed the
social and Industrial relations and inter
est that could offer even pretext for the
entertainment by rational mind of the
principles of the Republican party. Elk
cept as emissaries of the National plum
derers in charge of the general govern
ment at Washington, as renegade co-ad-
tutors for hire of these emissaries, or as
great herd of ignorant dupes, directed
through wickedly inspired prejudices and
unrighteous promises of reward, there
have been no Republicans in Flor
ida. We take pride in rejecting that
this beautiful Southern land has pro-
duced among her sons only minds i'm
bued with the truth and justice of the
great principles of right, that direct and
govern the Democratic idea. Republi-
canism in Florida means now what it
has meant every hour since the war.
Success of the Republican party here
means nothing other that the surrender
of this country to the control of the col
ored people. 1t is true that these people
have only at any time controlled it in
directly, and the white emissaries from
other States have directly taken charge
of the government and plundered the
people. For the success of the hide
pendent movement, McKinnon must draw
supporters from either or both Of the ex-
listing parties. To what extent, let us
enquire, can he hope to accomplish that
end from the ranks of the Democratic