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

election which American citizens have
ever been called upon to engage in. On
that day is to be decided most vital
question. We, the people of the Union,
are to say by our ballots, whether or no
the Monetary Kings of America--the
Monopolsts- Trusts-Bloated Bondhold-
ers-who hold the Republican party by
the ears, are to continue as now, under
the war tariff, protected and sustained by
the law of this great continent, i'll their
nefarious oppression of the poor. In their
greedy grinding into the dust of honest
American labor In absorbing all the
hard earned dollars of the farmers. In
fixing the price Of necessities at whatever
they will. In forcing down the pay of
honest American workingmen to foreign
pauper basis. In their robbery of The
PEoPLE-robbing us by law Are we
to vote to sustain and continue such as
this ? Oh, no. The people Of these
United States will no longer submit to
such vile robbery. The Republican
party, which is the tool of these Monopo-
listic robbers, will be forever relegated to
it's tomb, and with it must be buried all
Trusts, Combines and other oppressors of
honest labor
Democrats of Florida, the entire edi
torial force of the FLoRID1AN has labored
earnestly through this campaign to pre-
sent all the great issues involved-to
place them in such clear light that all
might comprehend. We have abored
day in and day out, and have repeatedly
burned the midnight oil. We have la,
bored thus tor your interests, for our own
interests, and for the grand old Demo
cratic party, which we are proud, as pub
lie servants, to represent. If our weekly
talks to you through this campaign have
enabled you to more clearly understand
the tariff question; if we have interested
or stimulated you; if any among you,
who were doubling, have been strength
ened; if any who were with the oppos;-
ton have been converted to Democratic
iples--then we are indeed repaid.
With this issue the FLoRID1AS finishes
the fight, SO far as it is concerned. for this
campaign, as our next publication dav
will come on the day of the great battle
between the two opposing parties. We
are certainly gratifed to see the Democ
racy of Florida so thoroughly aroused.
We have all confidence in you. We have
done our part. Now we shall look to
you to bring IN an overwhelming Demo
cratic majority as your part If you
want to crafty Us, do a grand DAYS
work for yourselves-for Florida-then
make the majority blythe larger the
better. We want to whoop: we want to
yell with Democratic enthuSiasm-but
if you should, by neglect in these latter
days OF the campaign, fail to bring in
that ma oritv, then We will have worked
for nothing, and the FLoRIDIAN will be
placed in the embarrassing position of
coming out after the election with "narv''
shout. But, unless you grow recklessly
careless, we don't think we will be kept
from ringing out those shouts For the
battle is already won. Republcanism
and Mongrelism see their defeat. They
are demoralized, depressed and sad. Yes,
dear readers, Florida is safe, unless you
throw her vote away, and you have too
much at stake to do that.
Now, in closing our campaign talk to
you, we wish to advise and caution you a
little further: That vile electoral vote
thief, Bill Chandler, has been called on
by the Republican party to save it again,
as he did in 1876. He has promised them
Florida, by 300 majority. He fondly
imagines that he will get part of this
through the refugees who have been
forced to leave those portions of our State
which are fever strcken-the other. he
thinks, his henchmen can steal. We will
not further elucidate his Bloody-Shirt-
ships schemes here we tell of them else
where. Now, the thing for you to do, is
traitors who have lately left our party.
Watch out for fraudulent voters. Have
your spoilers at the polls in every dis
trict and take down the name, age and
description Of every illegal voter; then
turn over YOUR lists to the GRAND iurv for