The Magnolia gazette., 1888-06-23
THE SENTINEL.

lnC 0CAlOCAdbiO Idithe AhC UAltNA
would respectfully assert that he
is not and never has been capable
of being an exponent of demo-
cratic doctrines and having sat
long at the feet of the Sentinallian
ganialiel, he has learned few
neS things. He always thought
democracy meant government
of the people, for the people
and by The people, but the new
position assumed by the Sentinel
in opposition to a petition of 900
and odd in opposltion to one of
262 looks as though 1t had indeed
retrogressed aud had gone in for
the support of the one man pocket
ed veto of the governor without one
70 deeming constitutional reason
for such undemocratic action.
The action of the Governor
was autocratic such as only a
Russian Gar would exercise and
this autocratIc action the Sentine'
endorses aud apologies for by
asserting that the County went
wet two years ago. What had
Pike county's old election oftwo
years ago to do with the Lea
College bill? Had the bill been
designed for the county then the
Kavanaugh bill were useless and
unmeaning. 1t was La College
it designed to protect and not
Pike county.
Instead of the wishes of the
majority being considered in the
qualification of the Lea College
bill, the wishes only of the whisky
ring were consulted and that true
democracy was TUNED away from
its legitimate meaning, and in
stead of the old principle being
affirmed of government for the
people, of the people and by the
people, a new one was Instituted
overriding an immense majority
petition, and the olear outspoken
voice of both branches of the
State Legislature and a COVER
;nent was instituted of the whisky
ring, by the whisky ring and for
the whisky ring. The Sentinel
stood full and firm for this foul
policy and still flaItars its i aders
that il teaches the sublimated
principles of democracy.
oh wad some pswer the gifie gle us
TS sec onrs';lvrs ~ olhers Bce ns.''
No wonder She good oil journal
is tortued and slacks up its mur
dcrous fire, though it still terms
woman the "Symbol of Prohibi-
ton" Yes and glorious symbol
too she is and she Is coming to the
front some day as a grand polil.
Cal factor aud will ornament the
political curriculum az she has the
domestic and religious ones. with
the flowers of modestv ana virtue.
No wonder the Sentinel thinKs
democracy has not progressed
when il imagines itself the critic
rion by which 1t is to be judged.
In the old slave day there was
once Il flatb'at descending the
gl'at river on the night bef ,rc
Christmas. There were humber
ofnegro cabins ON one of the banks
and just then there existed Il t.ro
mile eddy. Our flatboat was caught
in this eddy and made ,velal CIR
cults up and down rs the night
was dark and they thought the
whole river on both sides was on
q wild frolie as they passe the
same cabins sometimes on right
and sometimes on the left. I he
river Ike the democratic party
still rolled on but the boat was
like the Sentinel caught in the
Lowry eddy aud thought il was
lourneYing un. The river had
progressed but the flatboat though
moving had made no progress ;
and thus it is with the Sentinel,
it has worked on out beiag caught
IN the big Lowry eddy, ii has
made no prog ess.
Friend get out of the cldy, the
big Lowry eddy, aud foat off on
the great political current and
quit magnIfying Prohibition { as
you do not love it } by associaling
tie sacred name of woman with
It ms us symbol. Give us for
ever the glorious presence of
womeA for Il syn hol rather than
the hated whisky barrel.
Physician heal thyself, and
quit sitting in the same old tub
like Diogcncs. MEMO.
The term bandana applies to
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