The Greenville times., 1889-11-30
0yEPLlyK OPPOSITION.

The anti convention papers have
worked themselves up to an ecstatic
fervOr in their fight against an educa-
tiOnsl, or a property qualification of
the right to vote.
The Ants abandoned the fight
against the propriety Of having con-
vention to remodel q constitution out
Of date and out Of joint with the times,
and took up the question Of qualifying
the right Of good and honest Dem
oerats to vote, to hide the weakness of
their opposition TO a convention.
The News started out to hold the
Aatis TO their one-planked platform.
Evidently the Antis have found one
plank entirely too narrow to stand
upon. aud now they want the News to
issue pronunciamento, in the shape
of plan for them to get upon. The
News feels highly eomplimented, but
really it is demanding too much to ex-
pect the News to set itself up as a con-
stitutional convention.
A @plans for constitution is not
formed by any one newspaper, or by
any one man. The News has already
announced that the constitution ofthis
State would be remodeled to suit the
present era. II may here be mention
ed that there are numerous topics TO be
discussed at length and deliberately by
the members of the convention before
they can be put in shape.
Questions affecting the executive,
the legislative and the judiciary de-
partments will come up.
The News believes, in the first place,
that the people Of the State Of Missis-
sippi are capable of taking care OF
themselves.
1t believes that a constitution should
be modelled as a whole and not be
made patchwork by the so-called sys.
TENS of amendments.
II believes that the proper way to
model a convention is to elect men fol
that purpose.
II believes the Legislature sheuld
call convention, and when assembled
1t believes that the men chosen TO rep.
resent the State in that body will pre-,
sent the people constitution more IN
accord with present necessities than Il
the present one.
| What more do the Ants wantl Dc
they intend to ching to their one clap
trap idea about qualifying the right t
vote, as a pretext to save their opposl.
tionl If they do they will show botl
J a lack of comprehension aud of Ca
pacity.
Do not the Ants know that when q
convention assemblies that IL this ques
tion of suffrage qualification is throw
into the convention, that Il will be set
tied there, and oil the horrors of thei
midnight imagination be set a
naught.
DO they not know that the question
Of restricting the right to vote came
possibly be made an issue in this Stat
until candidates for the convention ar
pear and ask the suffrage Of those VIII
now have the right to vote?
I. Knowing this, what In the name {
common sense Is the use of laborin
with this issue now; except fo
the set purpose of ovcr-shadowing Ii
' simple question Of convention or "n
! convention
The Ants have surely gotten to the
wits end in their frantic fight. The
appear to have dropped the "expens,
racket because they have found this
be jingle Of nonsense. Having star
cd out with Grim Fear as their watc
word, they seem to have found II ne
cessary to their cause to rattle the dl
bones of disfranchizing "good an
honest" soldiers and Democrats
order to give Grim Fear a semblan'
of having full set of molars, inciso
and grinder.-Meridian News.