The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-01

Before another LEADER goes to
press the great National contest now
pending will have been decided for the
next four years. From the first, the
south has been considered solid for
the Democratic nominees, and little
has been done South VI MasOn'S and
Dixou's Line by the Republican party
tu change the result, but in the North,
especially in the doubtful States of
New Jersey, Connecticut, Indiana and
New York, the battle has ragged for
weeks and the fight for the mastery is
unto the death.
\ Il should not I've taken for granted,
however. by this, that Democrats in
this State have nothing to do. Ii is
all-important that they bestir them
selves and every man go To the polls on
election day and deposit his ballot for
the party nominees.
Briefly summed up, the issue is
about this: Mr.. Cleveland, the Dem
oCratic Standard. bearer, has made
one of the best Presidents this coun
try ever had. He has shown himself
to tie possessed of the wisdom and
craftsmanship of jefferson and the
dauutlrSs courage and iron Will OF
Andrew jackson. lie has given the
country a clean administration, free
from steals and all forms of iohbery,
and with his veto, single handed and
alone. has thwartcd more than one
well-aimcd raid upon the national
treasury. With the courage and ac-
umcn for which he is distinguished,
he has clearly defined the position Of
his party upon the tariff, the great
uvCrshadowing issue Of this campaign,
and declared that the surplus of $l20,-
600 900 collected every year from the
pockets of the people, must be reduced
to the necessities of the government
economically administered, and that
the tariff duties should be so read
juSted as to bear heaviest upon the
Injuries and lightest upon the neces-
stiles of life: ut the same time having
due regard for the fostering of Ameri-
can manufactures and the protection
of American labor Above all, Mr..
Cleveland has shown himself the
President of the entire country, and
that he regards the South as much
part of this great Union as the North
or West.
On the other hand, the Republican
party is headed by man of the most
ordinary abilities, selected because he
happened to live in doubtful State,
who has never distinguished himself
for either leadership or state-craft,
who is Overshadowed in his insi%niti
canoe by Mr.. Blaine and other Re
publican lights, and whose claim
to prefermcnt is based largely upon
the fact that he had distinguished
grandfather. The position of the Re
publican party on the tariff is conflict
ing, treachcrous and inSinccrc: De-
claring in their platform that they
would repeal the internal taxes ON
whisky and tobacco before they would
surrender one iota of their protective
system, a Republican Senate turns
right about and introduces a tariff
bill cutting down import duties $50
600, 600. Pretending in their plat
form to condemn trusts and mouOpo-
lies. in the next breath Mr.. Blaine,
their great patron saint, who carries
the party i'll his hreecheS pocket, de
clares that trusts are largely private
affairs, with which neither President
Cleveland nor the people have any
right to interfere. Declaring that
the first concern of all good govern
ment is the virtue and sohriety of the
people, and that it cordially sympa-
! thizes with all wise and ll-directed
efforts for the promotion of temper
ance and morality, it attempts to
carry the temperance people on one
shoulder and the saloon men on the
other. In short, the only thing the
Grand Old Pretender is consistent in,
is its hatred of the South, and its eff
fort to live upon the issues Of the war.
The only thing on which the party is
absolutely unanimous is, that they
want the offices, and want them bad,
to the end that they may fatten upon
the public plumber, and renew their
policy of Southern oppression.
Let every Democrat in Mississippi
who reads this article go to the polls
next Tuesday and emphasize his de
testation of such party by working
and voting for Democracy, remember
ing that the overthrow OF Republican,
/ ism in this election will he its death
knell, and every ballot that goes to
swell the majority against Ii, an adj
ditiOnal nail in its coffin.
That New Orleans Excursion.
Don't forget Col. II. H. Hogg's ex-