The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1891-08-14
Let it be "FIght" to the Finish.
ORANGE LAKE, FLA. Aug, 8, 1891

MAJ. Y. w. CAMPBELIs Ocala, Florida.
! My Dear Sir:-It Was with great salts
faction | read your very able article in
the BANNER, headed "a Note of Warn
ing" 1t is exceedingly gratifying to
find man these days, especially a
farmer, possessing the courage of his
convictions, and willing to stand out and
! publicly oppose the political fallacies
which are now being forced upon the
ignorant. Political corruption is not
done so much to the actual vices of the
| ignorant as to the political treason ofthe
intelligent who stand off and leave the
masses a prey to unprincipalled leaders.
These 'sAlliance-in-p politics" and "third-
party" leaders are either too ignorant to
comprehend the ultimate effect of their
work or too unprineipelled to care. 1t
is only too evident that their sole object
| is for notoriety and to secure official po-
sition for the salaries. The proper thing
now, is for every true Democrat ito go
into the ring with gloves off as You
J have done, and let 1t be fight to the
/ inish."
Hoping to see the good work go on,
remain, most respectively yours,
D. H. IRVINE.
CAMPoBELuo PLANTATION Aug. 7, '9l.
Dixon H. IRVINE, Esq,
Orange Lake, Fla.
Dear Sir:-I am in receipt of your
complimentary letter of 3rd inst. with
thanks and beg to assure you fully ap-
preciate the motive which prompted its
writing.
am much grati6ed to learn you fully
appreciate the danger to which the
Democratic party is exposed, land We,
not only financially and politically, but
socially with it.
Our welfare everywhere depends. not
only upon the adherence of the Demo :
cratic party to its time honored funda-
ment al principles, but its aggressiveness
to preserve them.
Demagogues, time servers and place.
hunters, are being made the tools of the
promulgators of the finest piece of "dip-
loma.ic 'generalship" the world ever
saw. The best work of Talleyrand,
Metternich and James 6. Blaine pales
before it. Hoping, through the gulla-
bility of the farmers of the country,
under the guise of helping them, to sap
and undermine the foundations of the
citidel of our liberties.
We are too strongly entrenched and
they know it, for them to make direct
assault, with any assurance of success.
Give them power in addition to that
which they have already by placing in
their hands the patronage of the myri-
ads of managers, weighers, guagers and
appraisers of these proposed sub treas
uries, and the herd of employees of the
railroad and telegraph lines of the
country. and we, become vassals and
poems, degenerate sons of illustrious
sires.
Can it be, that the farmers of the land
can be 50 gulied as to turn their guns
upon the ranks of the party under whose
auspicies and protection their forefathers
were the princes of the land, and they
ought to and can be if true to them
selves?
Not with my consent and | don't be-
lieve with yours.
In your words, "let every Democrat
enter the ring with gloves off and barred
breast and let the fight be to the finish"
Let all true Democrats prepare to be
aggressive, more particularly against,
those in our midst who under the guise
of Jeffersonian Democracy, are seeking
TO build third party upon the ruins of
the Democratic party, that they may
have place and power.
Demagogueism and ignorance we
must not only defend our party against
but be aggressive enough to throttle.
Truly your friend,
G. w. CAMPBELL, SR.