The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-10-30
DEMOCRATS OF LEON.

OuT TASK is growing HSHIcf. w . have
the enemy on the hip, and our next move
will throw them to the ground-defeated
The FLoRIDIAN has done all it can in this
campaign. Before you read another issue
the battle will be iought-and won We
don't suppose there is single candidate
on the Mongrel Ticket who has any par
ticular love for us now. We don't expect
it. We haven't been working for that
but for their defeat. We have Gone
only our duty. and we have done it gladly.
We have been fighting to hold together
those time-honored princi pies of Democ-
racy, and to defeat and forever wipe out
that vile and corrupt enemy which con-
fronts us. We are not through yet. IT'S
true that this issue Of the FLORIDIAN
winds up its campaign-and no doubt the
Mongrels are glad of it-but our work is
not yet completed. We will be with you
next Tuesday at the polls-the entire
FLoRIDIAN force-and we number several
voters. We propose continuing the fight
to the bitter end We will help to watch
and work the two precincts of Tallahas-
see, and if our country friends do the
same, as they have ever done, and WILL
DO, at their respective precincts, the
Democracy of Old Leon can proudly
lift up their heads, and proclaim
to the world =" LeOn-DemOcrati !"
Democrats, we have the enemy whipped.
All now needed is united and determined
work at the polls. Then will come vic
tory. Then the Republican party Of Leon
will be forever buried Then will the
spirit Of treason be taught lesson not
soon to be forgotten-and it must be so.
Republicanism mast be buried. Treason
acust be made odious, and so it will ere the
golden sun of another Tuesday sets.
The Mongrels say that the coorel vote
has majority IN Old Leon. SO they
have. We deny it not. But the colored
vote is no longer to be used as the cats
paw with which to pull the red hot chest
nut out of the Goals. No, the coiored
men have had excellent school facilities
under the past eleven years Of honest
Democratic government, and they are
now not SO ignorant as they were. They
have learned to think and act for them
selves. They see how to solve the race
problem, and this year they will begin to
solve it by voting with Democrats-hon-
est Democrats Hundreds of coored men
will vote the Democratic ticket in Leon
this year who never voted one before.
They are tired Of being the tools of de-
signing men, and now join with the party
which they know to be honorable. They
will vote with the men who are their
real friends; the men whom they must
90 to when in trouble, if they get relief.
The colored men know that their inter
ests will be better looked after in legisla-
tive halls if they help to elect Captain
Houstoun, Captain Frank Walker and
Dr. f. Christie, than they would be by
John Mitchell, William Green-McCaIl
and Bob Smith They know that the
county affairs will be better managed by
the Democratic nominees than it were
possible for them to be by men who de-
sert that party for no other reason than
that of seeking office, through the colored
men, which they have heretofore failed
to secure. They know all this, and they
will vote Democratic ballots
Yes, Democrats Of Old Leon, our Mon
grel foe already regrets the day when
they came out in opposition to Democ
racy--but they will be sadder still on
next Tuesday night.
Now, Democrats, colored men, all who
want to work for continuance of good
government, meet us at the polls next
Tuesday, and help us in this fight or, as
Captain r. w. Davis says, if you acon't
help US, don't help the other fellows, but
just stand off and look on, and if we don't
show you the worst whipped set of Mon
grels that ever you cast your optics on,
then we don't know what the Democracy
of Old Leon is made Of
That's all