The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1891-07-31

an onslaught upon the ranks of the
Democratic party to disrupt it, that the
third party may be built up upon its
ruins? Who are these people anyhow
who have recently become such great
friends of the farmers of the South?
Have they National repute to distin-
guish them above their fellows? Yes,
one; and he is principally known for go
ing without socks. Now, don't mind a
fellow going barefooted, and even roll
ing up his breeches legs if he wants to,
but to put oT1ehoes and go bare-legged,
faint comfortable, faint decent, there is
a something wanting about it which
lacks finish. All such things when done
for effect is demagogry of the worst
in Georgia? Because the legislature,
composed mostly of Democratic farmers,
is in session, and they hope to create
confusion Why the attack upon Jno.
B. Gordon last winter, why upon Sena-
tor George, why upon Roger Q. Mills,
why upon Jno. G. Carlisle? The sledge
hammer blows of these four men of all
others of our leaders would be most
fatal to their success.
Make your third party. pass your sub
treasury bills and railroad and tele-
graph government ownership bills and
eentralize your government aud elect of
the advocates of these fallacious and
pernicieus schemes your chief magistrate,
and this whole outfit would dance an at
tendance upon court pulled up by
command of an unlimited issue of ire
-deemable paper currency, not onlys in
socks, but some would want silk hose,
short breeches and knee buckles. Put
beggar upon horseback and then what?
Democrats of the South have you ever
been under the control of centralized
government? Have you ever had bayo-
nets at your polls and around and in
your halls of justice? Have you ever
had carpet baggers and negroes to occupy
your governors chair and your legislative
halls? Have you ever had bonded in
debtedness hung around your necks by
such people? You have enjoyed the
Injuries of all these-nice things to
have, amt they? Would you like to en-
Joy such things again? If so, just CEN
tralize this government by such legis-
Iatfon and You can have even more.
Third partyism is only a new name
under which wiley demagogues hope TO
insert a wedge, when driven home, that |
will split asunder the Democratic party |
of the South. Suffer them to do this,
and break the solid South, and the
Democrits of the North will be power
less to help. Noble fellows that they
are, they do not deserve TO be deserted.
Had they not stood by you in the hour
of your greatest peril and prevented the
passage of the force bill, the perpetua-
ton of the power of Ben. Harrison,
Tom Reed, Steve Elkins, Lodge, Clark
son, Hoar, Dudly, Quay, Johnnie Daven.
port and Foraker and all such bloody.
SHIRT fellows would have been assured,
and then you would never again have
held another free election in the South
or North either.
Stand by your principles, and down
with Capitalization, no matter under
what guise it comes.
Mr.. Editor, have you looked close
enough at this thing to know that these
men and women who are so strenuously
advocating this walk into my parlor
said the spider 10 the fly" scheme, that
they are not the originators of il? Put
on your glasses, and it wont take no
very powerful lense,.if you look close, to
see the footprints and finger marks all
around, of the Republican Central Com.
mittee. You heard no sound; you felt
no touch, but the cold Shiny fingers and
the velvet foot of these foes have felt
their prints.
Democrats, beware, especially farmer
democrats, beneath all this blandish-
ment, there are hidden claws more
terrible than a. tigers and fangs more
deadly than a yiper's.
Third partyism means destruction of
your liberties;it means perpetuation ofthe
Mckinley tariff; it means the enactment
of other laws to still strengthen the
whisky trust, which is to-day stronger
than the government for it owns the Re.
publicansparty. Not being able to cor
rupt your leaders and own you, they
seek to break your ranks.
The Republican management can
through the courts break up the sugar
trust and throw tub 10 the whale in
shape of bounties to Southern sugar
planters and sub-treasury schemes to
farmers, but who ever heard of their
ever trying to break the whisky trust?
You hear a great cry about monopolies |
and railroad combinations and National
Banks and ]. Gould and Vanderbilt and |
desire to break them all up, but when
did you ever hear of an effort or desire
to break up the whisky trust? Once
there was a seeming effort, when Genl
Grant said: "Let no guilty man escape
and Mcdonald said; "The whisky ring /
was greater than the government and
they proved it at st. Louis when Bah.
cock and all the guilty men escaped and
Mcdonald and other tools were left 10
hold the bag. The Mckinley tariff and
the whisky trust are Constructors"
whose coils are tightening around Won.
which will finally crush every bone in
your body. Your only hope is in solid
phalanx TO help the Northern portion of
the party and the conservative element
of the disintegrating Republican party
This element is not asking for any third
party but only waiting to take position
under the shadow OF your wing, when
they are assured you value your prin-
ciples saeredly enough to stand solid
and battle for them. Their political sal
Vation and yours, the perpetuation of
free institutions, that we NAV hand
hem down to our children as our
athers bequeathed them to US, depends