The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1889-03-16

upn "the negro supremacy racket
--''the Mississippi bloody shirt
for all it's worth, and that thous-
ands of good men, who are in sym
pathy with reform i'll our State !
affairs, would thus be ashed or |
frightened back into the regular |
party lines.
These machine politicians, who |
are secretlyin league with theliquor
power and against u majority of
the white people of the State on
that question, think it all right to
organize the negro and vote him
and have his vote counted too
when it comes to supporting the
saloon, bullet any movement that
squints of the negiO's being voted
to turn them out of Office, and the
color line cry they would raise,
would give Bill Chandler a fresh
spasm in, "a hours. Then they
have all the election machinery of
the State in their own hands, and
what they lacked in votes they
would make up on the final count.
No, the wheelof fortune could bring
no better luck to the machine poll
, tieians than for men who are dis
, gusted with the corruption and
NAL al-administrati0n under waic Ii
ever interest Of the State has suf-
fered so long, toundertaKe to RENE
dy these evils by going into a sep
arate organization. Nothing would
so certainly insure the perpetual
tion Of their now fast waning pow
er.
Again, suppose the Alliance, as
you say it will, should nominate a
fuh State ticket, and suppose it
should nominate GARNER" Barks.
dale for Governor, and he should
accept--what's the gainl Doesn't
every Alliance man in the State
know Major Barksdale is more of a
politician than a farmer orretormelf
Don't they know that it was his
influence that nominated Lowry for
his first term, and that though
there may be a ''coolnessr now be-
tween him and his creature grow
ing ont ofthc distribution Of Exe-
cutive patronage, that they have
the same supporters, and that the
same convention that indolsed
Major Barksdale for Governor, last
summer, endorsed Lowry and his
administration DON'T they know
that he was u beneficiary of the
State Printing under the Republi-
can Pilot, and that he has ever
J since, in all political aspirations,
had the friendship and 'smOral"
support OF the old Republican CON
tingent ab0ut Jacksont Don't they
know that the man who WAS his
partner in the Pilot printing coali,
4 tioIl is still enjoying the benefits of
the State printing, as u stalwart
supporter of the Lowry administra-
tion, and would, in all probability,
continue as State Printer and
official organof the administration,
! NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Governor What
, would be the profit in the Farmers
Alliance electing such % Governor
/ as thats Where would the ssrcfOrm'
/ come in fer which you and other
: members of the Alliance nov say
| you and they are ready to sccede
/ from the party to which you have
J heretofore ways given your al.
s legiancei
Nofriend, secession isn'ttheremc-
! dy for reform Democrats, but III
, tell you what | think is. Let the
reform Democratic press of tho
, State, and men like You who have
an influence, post the people and
arouse them as to the daDgerO Of the
| present crisis. Icannot, will moi
believe that the Democratic party
of Mississippi hasn't enough in.
heFent strength and virtue left to
, overcome the machine politicians
and corruptionists within its own
} ranks and purgA3itself of theiI
blightive power and baneflll infin-
ence. In the language of Mr.. Cleve.
land in his brave and memorable
letter to the New England Reform
Club, ITO lose faith in the intelli
gence of the people is a surrender
and abandonment of the struggle
To arouse their intelligence and
! free it from darkness and delusion
, gives assurance of speedy and
complete victory. In the track oi
} reforms are often found the dead
! hopes of pioneers and the despair
: of those who fall in the march. But
therewill be neither despair nordead
hopes in the path of this reform
nor shall the pioneers fail 4
reach the heights. Hold ing
, fast and rel &c TIM e every
alluring overture and every decep
: tive compromise which would be
Z tray their sacred trust, they them
selves shall regain and restore the
: patrimony of their conntrymcn
freed from the trespasses Of grasp
ing encroachment and safely Sc
/ cured by the genius of American
4 justice and equality
Z As have said, you and othel
e men like you, only haye TO admon
+ isli the people OF the impending
r danger of eiecting another suci
A Democratic administration, and
9 there will be no necessity foraneN
( party. II need be, let there b.