The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-11-01
TO THE VOTERS OF THE sixth
DISTRICT.
Address from the Chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee
Sixth Congressional District.
SUMMIT, Mss, Oct. 28l, 1882.


Democratic party and the Republican part
Ito endorse the past history aud the iutur
promises of one or the other. That We n. !.
decide inteIligentiy, it is the duty of ever,
man to pause In his everyday busines
transactions and consider the questions na
tional, State and local, presented in I'll
canvass, and sustain that party which il
their calm and unbiased ju uigment-madt
| from their past history aud future promises
will best advance the interests Of oul
country The future we cannot read; the
past IS matter of history, aud from tl.i.
We can make our calculations, as astrono-
mers, with the earth as 4 basis, calculate
| the distance, grandeur and itamensity Of
the sun. the moon and the stars with eeE-
| tainity that is wonderful
The Republican party in the past has
been the organ Of the gigantic nonopolists
of the nation. 1t has tostered the schemes
of the monied powers of the land, and
every scheme that has increased the burden
of the government at the expense of the
people and to the aggrandizement Of a
favored few, has found its birth, tutelage
and final accomplishment in the Republican
party. The great debt that the nation to-
day owes, was contracted in the late war,
and while the soldiers who fought the bat
ties of the country, and risked their lives were
paid off in ereenbacks at a discount of from
ten TO twenty-five per cent.-and the money
Of the country was furnished by a monied
syndicate at the same discount; and bonds
were issued for these sums, payable in coin,
with interest on the same from date-thus
making to them a clear profit of the differ
ence between greenbacks and coin. Not
satisfied with this they demonetized silver,
which at the time constituted at least one
half the coin money of the land, and took
away from it the character Of beingone Of the
standards of value, and thus by taking away
one-half of the quantity of money-that of
silver-enhanced the purchasing power of
the other alf--gold--double what it
had been and thus by few acts of Re
publican administration enhanced the value
of the money in the hands of the monapo-
lists double what it should have been
made the bonded debt of the government
payable in gold, and exempted it from tax
alton. To this day one who owns million
of dollars invested in United States bonds
pays simply-a poll tax, while the horse,
few cows and the little farm of the widow
and children of the soldier who lost his
life in the service Of his country, pays
taxes according to the value of the property |
she owns.
You may take up the tariff question and |
trace it through the legislative halls, and |
you will find that the history Of the Repub- |
lcan party leads to the same conclusion.
This is merely mentioned to show the inter |
est to which the Republican party is
pledged and illustration after illustration
might be given, and the whole history of
that party might be taken, and every act,
and every measure will as surely point to
the same object and end, as the magnetic
needle to the pole-that the Republican
party is the party for the monopolist against
the people.
The Democratic party, On the other hand,
Is pledged to the opposite of the history of
the Republican party. 1t is true it has not
lad as much history for the last twenty
years in national affairs; but while it was
in power it remonetized silver,
against the combined money power and the
party; and to-day is furnish
ng the country with money sufficient to
transact the business, and make the COM
nercial world move on "the even tenor Of its
way, free from the cramp and stringency of ;
he market after silver had been demonetized,
md the Democratic party is pledged in the
aggregate and in its individual members,
o oppose the unjust legislation in the inter-
st of the favored few against the people.
t is pledged to the enforcement of the
prime object Of every government to make
every citizen bear equally its burden, ac-
,ording to the valuation of his property, no I,
natter in what way invested.
The Congress to be elected this year will
the President elected in 1854.
We are told that in days gone by-in the
,urer days of the Republic--it would not
lave been matter of much Importance {
Who performed that duty, for the behest of
he people would be obeyed, whatever might {
,e the predictions of the persons carrying ,
t into effect, but in later days we have been ,
aught by the Republican party that there
S great deal in knowing how to count,
nd for whom to count Only few years !
go we had an Electoral Commission COM
'osed of fifteen persons, ten of whom were {
AIKEN from the two branches of Congress,
nd the other five from the Supreme Bench
f the United States. 1t is we'll remember ]
d they stood according to the political party !
o which they belonged-eight Republicans
. seven Democrats. The Republicans I
howed their skill in the count, in having |
he commission to stand just so. A marked
is, that theiYe members of the i
upreme Bench, who hold their Office sub :
ect to no political connections or condi
ions, and who were selected on account of 7
heir freedom from political interest and
xcitement and influences should be divided
hree and two. 1t is not strange that q
le others should be divided accord '
lg to their politics, but it is strange @
nat the Supreme Judges should be so :
iyided on a cold question of law as to
g three Republicans on one side and
70 Democrats on the other, and for it to so
appen that the three Republicans were al !
avs on the Republican side and the two @
democrats always on the Democratic side L
+ every question. Whatever may have 0
cen the cause of this-whether the ignor- +
nee or corruption of the one or the other {
is not necessary to stop here to inquire,
ut certain it is that they have set the ex
mple that Republican commission counts
Republican Presidents 1t therefore v
ehooves US to be in a position to at least
e a fair count, and in future compel it to n
E honest. Ohio has wheeled into line and I
as given the Democrats large majority
the State, and instead of sixteen Repub-
cans and five Democrats as heretofore
.nds fifteen Democra} IS and six Republicans
the lower house of Congress. Let US not
} back on the Democratic party when help is Il
sight. Let us unite with Ohio and the i
her States soon to follow, and aid in see 4
Il
,unted. Let us now render our aid in that e
rection by electing a Democrat.
The most important part Of this election, b
id the one which effects the voters of this n
ction most in this canvass, is one of local o
1portance, that Of the revival Of the r1ce 3
sue. This is the first election held in
hich the Republican party has been organ :.
ed and made an effort to carry the election u
a square and straight fight since the over G
row of that party in 1875-'76. The his n
ry of that party while in power is fresh in @
le memory of every voter. The condition q
affairs here during those days of Repub- )
can rule viii long be remembered. The
ztraYagance of the administration of the
,vernment in all Of its branches, was never g
Iualed in a civilized land, and this was Z
nposed BY set of men who had no pro- b
.rtv interests IN the States subject to taxa 4
On. This Is the only way in which their q
.travaganee can Be accounted for. In the s
story of the world an instance cannot be {
und where there was a more complete =
parati0n of the power that imposed taxa Q
on and the people who paid il. This might u
ire been endured bY our people, but in or p
i TO maintain their supremacy, and in or O.
= t, blind their icr11frant fnnafi itunIats WIN &