The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-03-27


UNITED STATES SENATE,
WASHINGTON, ID. g., March l 1854
Hon. LEON JAsTREMKI,
Chairman Democratic State Central
Committee,
BATON RousE, LA.
DEAR SIR:-I see that the Execu>
tive Committee of our party have
arranged for thorough canvass of
the State, commencing at Franklin
on the 18th inst, and that they have
done me the honor to announce me
as one of the speakers.
greatly regret that my duties in
the Senate will prevent me from tax
ing part in The canvass, as it would
otherwise give me great pleasure to
do so.
For the next six weeks, questions of
the greatest importance to our peo-
pie will come up for action in Con-
gresS, and l cannot with safety DO
absent from my seat. Then, us
member of the committee charged
with the Investigation of $50 called
Copiah county outruges. | am bound
to watch the interest Of our Missis
sippi nelghbors and to defend them,
and the Democratic party from this
attempt to revive tue ''bloody shirt, !"
and to rekindle the issues OF section.
aism and hate.
| feel, however, that with the array
Of talent which you have called to
the front that l shall not be missed,
and that the claims of the Democratic
party, and of its chosen and honored
standard bealvr, will be fully set
| forth and indicated.
The result of our State election
will be an overwhelming victory. The
Republican ticket has been placed in
! the field without hope or desire for
success, but as it is the good fortune
Of the gallant Democracy of Louisi-
ana to be placed in front III the cams
paign of 1884, to have the privilege
of firing the first gun, and OF making
the first charge, they should see to
it that their vote shall be so large
and their majority SO great as to en-
able them to maintain the post of
honor, which has fallen to their lot,
and at the same time give eucour-
agement to the grand old Demo-
cratic army, which is organizing for
victory all over the land.
The claim which is made by the
Republican party in Louisiana, that
their national organization, in and
out of Congress, are more favorable
to Louisiana interests than the DEM
ocratic party, is wholly untrue. The
best friends of our sugar interest are
found in the Democratic party, and
its greatest danger lies in the fact
that the sugar tariff is revenue
tariff, and as such obnoxious to the
protectionists, who desire to reduce
revenue, and at the same time to
preserve the prohibitory and op.
pressiye duties upon their manufac-
lures, already fostered into monopo
lies,
So with the improvement of the
Mississippi river and rivers and har
bors. While these are not party
questions, and, happily, have con,
quered opposition, yet the records
will show a larger Democratic vote
in their favor, and larger Repub-
lican vote against them; and the peo-
pie will not soon forget that the last
river and Larbor bill Containing the
appropriation for the Mississippi
river was vetoed by Republican
President.
It is bad time for Democrats to
falter in their devotion and duty to
their party when a Presidential cam
paign is about opening, which, if the
Republican leaders can SO direct it,
is to be fought on no economic issue,
on no questions of tariff, taxation, or
civil reform, but on the bloody shirt,
investigation and SANDER of the
Southern people, and proposed in
reference with their elections and
State governments.
This is the plan of campaign which
is being arranged by Sherman and
Malone and Hoar and Chalmers and
others, at the inception of which
Democrats in Louisiana are invited
to forsake their party, and either
support the Republican ticket or
organize an Independent movement,
which will lead its followers into the
same camp.
The hope of the people Of Louisi-
ana, as of the people Of this country,
is in the Democratic party We
have tried the Republican party in
our State, and in the government of
the Nation. We have rid ourselves
CT its baneful influence at home. Let
us maintain our organization, and
continue the good fight until it is
driven from the high places of the
Nation.
In conclusion, I repeat that it
would be to mo a labor Of love, as
well as a matter of personal interest,
to take part in the proposed canvass,
but the people have assigned me to
other duties, which l cannot neglect,
aud in attending to which I can
serve them better than upon the
stump.
In the Presidential campaign I
hope and expect to take an active
part in the canvass of our State, and
must defer until then my visits to
the parishes.
Very respectfully,
B f. JONAS
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