The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-09-16

MFs mohAOry ana inc WOntSHBs
= We cannot think that any considerable
number of the voters of the First District
who have been heretofore aligned with
the democracy will renounce their allegi-
ance to the party by refusing to support
its nominee of the Brooksville Con vention.
The Indenendent movement in his
own county is rebuked by the noble con-
duct of Mr.. Mallory, the person most in
terested in the grievance which they as
sert, for he is actively in the field in sup
port of his gallant competitor for the NOM
ination. Literally the " favorite son" of
Escambia. wise, eloquent and patriotic, he
disdained to countenance the disaffection
which first springing from disappointment
at his defeat was seized upon by the enc
mics of the patty as the basis of move
ment antagonizing it in the interest of the
republicans. What a contrast this atti-
tude presents to that of a so-called :" DEM
ocrat who allows his name to be used as
the opponent of the nominee of a Conven-
ton in which himself acted under the
obligation to abide its issue! While the
conduct of Mr.. Mallory in sustaining the
nomination is only what all who knew
him well knew that it would be, the con-
duct of those who have acted otherwise
shows by contrast how immeasurably be-
low him they are in self-respect, in fixed
principle, and in sense of duty to their
fellow-ci,izens. If they fail to appreciate
the unfortunate position in which they
have placed themselves, it would seem
that they must come to realizing sense
of it when they reflect that it pleases
republicans and displeases democrats. In
this simple test there can be no evasion of
the stated conclusion by any democrat who
applies it to himself, and it is a case of
willful persistence in wrong doing if he
does not straightway get back from where
he is to where he was-in the ranks of
the organized democracy. Doubtless
some have gone wrong thoughtlessly,
carried away by the current of move
ment which they did not investigate as
to it's causes, and little thinking that they
were the victims of artful and unscrupu-
lous schemers who were steering them at
will for their own ends The lesson Of
two years ago was so recent that their
eyes should have been wide open to the
game in which independentism " plays
into the hands of radicalism; but they
did not need even that lesson, for COM
mon sense should have told them that
whoever does not work with the demo-
cratic party is necessarily working
against it and for the republican, though
he does nothing, does not even vote.
Diminishing the democratic vote is
relatively increasing the vote against
it, while if he votes "indepehdent "
he doubles both the injury done the
democratic party and the aid given the
republican party. There is nothing new
in this talk, but truths bear repeating, es-
pecially when it seems that men forget
them in the excitement of feeling or the
hurry of action. If democrats would keep
them in mind there would be no needless
boilers and kickers against the Brooks
vile nomination; as for the leading,
malice prepense boilers and kickers there
seems no use of appealing to their reason
or their consciences. They have deliber-
ately chosen their own road to political
destruction and, We suppose, will travel
to its bitter end-in the republican camp.