The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-10-04
AN ADDRESS
TO THE
DEMOCRACY or MISSISSIPPI.

lnspirited by Presidential pa
tronage, dispensed without regarC
to fitness or capacity, in open con
tempt Of civil service reform
which was a leading promise in the
platform of both political parties.
and dispensed at the South as
would not be ventured upon at the
North encouraged by the hope of
further official spoils, banking on
the ignorance and the unfounded
race preiudices of the blacks, and
the cupidity Of unprincipled whites,
afew n%nscruplous demagogues who
assume to constitute the Republi-
can party in Mississippi give out
their purpose to inaugurate anoth-
err campaign.
Our people have Il keen remem-
brance of the ruin and desolation
which marked their long lease of
power in the State. Haunting ar
rogance, plumber and brazen spoil
alton we're their watch-words dur
ing their whole control of affairs.
which they then sought to main
tain, and now to seek to restore,
by the basest appeals to the color
of voters and the unenlightened
prejudices of the race, by secret
and incendiary leagues of ignor-
ance organized by corruption.
1t needs no argument to show
that Il own people who join this {
sOulless band of plunderers are the
enemies of our common civiliza- |
ton, the foes Of both races and .
traitors to their own, and that they t
deserve all the obloquy and scorn y
iue to conspirators in infamy. t
Practically, politics here is re-
iuced to The repression of ele- +,
nents of evil which, unchecked,
would involve hideous social and
'olitlcal ruin; and questions of J
.ational party differences are
warited before the dread of the
lanlfold evils, the bankruptcy, re-
isolation, the strife and ruin, h,
.hieh would inevitably follow the Il,
omlnatiOn of such antagonists. fir,
While we have no fears of defeat, or
e urge upon Democrats the nee #
'Slty for the maintenance of eff -
ctlve organization, watchtulness
ld as the occasion demands, of
lergetic action. 1t is only in the -
lgnant waters of apathy that
csc political vermin are observa-
at the surface, and so we warn u
'mocrats against the dangers of
'sension and division in the
NIL.
Democrats, if we are not trium- III
ant, considering the vast inter 81
$ at stake and the disreputable r
lracter of the opposition, and its low
motives, we will deserve the beef
tempt we will everywhere re- Tess
We. r.
We purpOsely refrain from any Dril
lslon to party questions, and re- tai Il
only to the vampire which how Ihgt
over us, awaiting opportunity ryi
such the Likelihood of the State, iSSs,
which, really leaves us no of NJ
of parties. We advise in IToi,
and thorough organization, an A
formation of clubs, frequent SIEE S
open assemblages, and public Chan
resses, and the arousing of all $50 =
enthusiasm which the occasion and
"'I Tt!
e must show the world that Jul
race, created TO govern, and -
n has governed all other races,
re thrown in contact, will, in DS.
isslppi, stand by the common Sssrs
lzation of the Union which cine |
race has constructed and a 1Rs Z,
ltained, and that it will never ,5.7 .
.nt to be ruled by any other ~
as a race, manipulated by IA
gades. 81
e flag of a Caucasian civiliza- 81
must float triumphantly at the ISB
4 as IN every other section of il y
proud land, and throughout rs,
.tendom. Ia y
r brethren at the North. of all il b
do not understand the sit ~ y
n here. We do, and we would IS r,
true to them, untrue to our 3Sy bI
;, and to all progress to be 49,
ned by constituencies dema- q ggic
S under false prentense that HsnI
represent a party. They rep
no party but only ignorance
he Fictitious passions of an so,,,
med race which they them -
have excited, and they will HnT
again control the State of
sippi If we are not recreant Hui
Dlainest demands of dutv