The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-11-20
Al TO WESTERN CispiparE.

lUc OF. LpuIs heP"o'fc has iic-
quenlly. during The past three years
had much 10 say III favor Of giving
The next Democratic presidential
nomination IT, u Western Demo
crai. Now that The elections are
over, and the smoke of TIE battle
has cleared away, ii surveys the
Iield,and lis eye falls upon The gal.
liant and victorious Bnies, of Iowa.
This leads The Republic 10 say /:
Our friends in The East are as
usual so busily engaged in discuss
ing what has happened on their
side OF the mountain that they have
little lime lett TO devote Ia events
however remarkable on This side
in what sOine of them are only too
prone TO regard as the "oullying
provinces" Vel there is great
deal al country out here, with n
great many Americans in ii--siur,lv
fellows with large heads well bal
nnced on broad shoulders, and with
backbones strong enough 10 make
both head and shoulders count.
A great deal has bee happening
in tie West of late years, and
sooner or later il will he under
stood from The Atlantic TO the Pa
rlfic. Western Democracy has
heart Of grace and has assert.
Ell itself with srch vigor that,
winning surce alter succSSs, il
las realized its power and The com
force of its ideas. Ii is Tor
his cause, and not lhrouh any mir
lcie, that The West is wheeling, ,
Stale after Slate, into The Demo.
ratio line
Take Horace Boies, for instance, g.,
md the Case of Iowa. lie is no J
an accident than worker of
MIRACLES. He is a plain, everyday 4
Western man of the type Of Doug
rs, Palmer, and yet under his |
leadership a Republican Stale sup
'0sed TO be the most ''~sialwart"
nd Radical in the Central West, c
as been three times carried for II
Democracy IN successive cam ]
and each time u great il >
rease in The Democratic vote, until i
his year, with every reserve" re- S
ublican vote drummed TO the
oils, the Democratic plurality is (
,rger than ever. '
This may appear to he ''rainbow- :.
hasing" to our Eeasiern friends, '
ut the West at least is beeinnin. .
} zee The meaning of il, and Ia I
Understand that there's u strength
nd force in Democratic principle,
nl~linchingly held and firmly as,
,rled, that can make great and =,
.lccessful national leaders in the :, ~
lest-leaders who can move the G
OF the people IN NV York "
nd New Jersey TO stand mp like II
ZEN and vindicate their rights as {
,~urageously rs The Western I
asses do when they are moved by
e force Of principle. A.
The Western movement Is full
promise Tor the future Of the p;
The East abonnds in ~
,od Democrats. but they might in u
me become as provincial and as
clional as Eastern Republicans
the West did moi raise up Dem I
ratio leaders from lime TO time
eai enough aud strong enough 10
in the broadest sense national -
emocrats. Iowa has created such
in Horace BoIes. He has
deIusion lLat he is greater than :.
; party, but he has shown HIM "
If capable o. becoming as great
the truths 1t represents, AMI in
e power thus acquired he has
/ the party forward to success. ed
1r is he The only leader Western IN
'mocrscy has created for itself. hi
hen The ar'y meets in national of
invention il will not have 10 call to
the West in vain for a national III
,der if The interest Of Democrat
principle demand Western lead. wi