The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1892-08-20
CAMPAIGN ADDRESS.
WHITE PEOPLE OF MISSISSIPPI URGED
TO STAND TOGETHER.
Danger of the Force Bill Still stares us
in the Face.

The following campaign address
has been Issued by the State
Democratic Executive Committee,
of Mississippi;
To the Democracy of Mississippi:
Your Executive Committee deems
it right and timely TO addr IS YOU
touching the political conditions IN
the State, and your dnties in the
pending campaign. While the ma
tional election is in its practical
result but a.recurrence of the peri
0dical trial between the Demo
cratic aud Republican policies of
government, your course in the
contest is embarrassed by an oppo-
sition composed by former Demo-
Gratis. And il is with this opposi-
ton, formed upon personal disap-
pOintneuts, local factions and
vague discomfort for alleged fail
ures IN performance, that Demo.
Gratis in Mississippi have to direct
ly contead. Your committee does
not propose to discuss in detail
the causes of this detection from
our ranks. IL is enough to say
that its resentments are misapplied,
its AIMS imprdcticable aud that its
achievements cannot liSe above
mere obstruction. And that, how
ever real are the grievances enter
tanned, they are utterly unwarran-
ted and untenable as against the
Democratic party. Coniessedly
they own their origin to Republic
can legislation. The third party
organization, reason and persua-
sion having been vainly exertel
to check its spread, only demands
our consideration as constituting
an obstacle in the pathway al
Democratic dnty--in its combat
with RepublicanisE:. The succ IS
of Democracy in this combat offers
the only true and effective relief
fiom evils of government which
bear so heavily upon the producers
of the South. And opposition, in
whatever form or peIsonatlon, in
the way of this success, 1t Is our
undiminished duty to overcome or
remove. Cleare of obscuritles
and stripped Of false coverings the
pending struggle involves the same
issues and interests for which we
have so long striven. They are
the same for the Republican ptlUt
is the same. Its avowed poll Y ana
declarations have not chang d; to
hold power by all means, and to
exercise il without regard to the
welferc or the wishes of the masses
is its sole auimating principles
That it would in this greed for
rule, again, as in the pas., snbyert
popular government is proved in
the tenacity of It's adherence tn
what is commonly known as the
force bill. This bill is in lis true
intent carefully concerted scheme
of con rolling National elections
by National power, in defiance Of
the popular voice. It is idle to rOn-
tend that there is no longer dan.
ger of "A law having its end in
view. With the leaders of the R.
publican party lis miscarriage, the
repugnance it excited, have only
caused it to be less loudly pro
GAINED. There is every evidence
of the determination to press it
when the occasion serves. Most
indispntably the enactment of
such l.w as the Lodge bill, onl'
awaits on opportunity. And even
if. as some caniend, the dang of
such ail,aet be too remote for APP
prehension. if our home govern
ments are no longer menaced bv a
party whose unrestritte power
overhung the South like pall-it
is because the Democratic party
shielded our people and turnt d
aside the full severity of The IN
flictions designed. Ii his been
through the Democratic National
organization that the Southern
Deople were enab ed to hold at bay
elements which menaeed law aud
order, domestic peace and social
security. Can we afford to have
the efficiency, The forces Of tins
party which has done this great
and vital service, impaired so lolg
as its powerful and uns.rupul lus
antaEo sist existsi With the Drtno-
cratic party broken into fragments
where can the South look for re.
l,f2
In bearing their portion Of the
political burdens If The past the
Democrats Of Mississippi havss
shown spirit OF patriotism, a
character f manhood which Ii s
given them Nation lrenewu. There
mas been no higher exhibition by
any people OF the caraeiiy of self
government, of guarding thei
rights under great stress, than has
been displayed in Mississippi dor
ing the past quarter Of a century
To men with such a record for
cons,ancy, courage aud lhteili-
cence. We are ernfd,nt that We
do not vainly appeal in the pres
ent emergency. Tncre is not one
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