Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-15

party funeral in this country, and the
time is ripe now for another. Henry
Clay, the great Wing leader, would
have been President of the United
States, if he had never written his
Texas letter. and there is a man trying
to become President to-day, who has
written one letter too many.
If there was one in the audience who
felt that he had been benefited by
either of the old parties, he wanted
him to say so, but there was no re
spouse. The truth is, my friends, the
fight between the old parties has be
come a fight for the spoils of Office.
They are fighting for what Sullivan
and Corbett fought for in New Orleans
tho other day the stakes \ Con-
gresham these days gets $500 year.
IN my Sia;e. at present prices, ii
takes Tie products Of % farms to pay
one Con .rps.>iLau's salaiy. low match
does it take here in Mississippi ? \
Voice, About 2uO bale of cotton."l
The Peoples party has arisen to
right the Peoples wrongs, and it will
accomplish its object, or be here when
Gabriel toots his horn. am Baptist.
and the Baptists believe in the final
perseverance of the saints.
This ought to be one country one
in fact as we'll as in name, but it can
never be as long as the two old parties
survive to keep alive the sectional
spirit on both sides and transmit from
generation to generation sectional
prejudices and hates. You can never
get Northern Republicans to join the
old secession Democratic party that
tried to break up the Union, and you
can never get Southern men to join
the Republican party that whipped
them back into the Union, freed the
negroes aud has been 50 oppressive and
bitter since. am Democrat of Dem
ocrats, when it comes to that, and ]
would never unite with the RepGbli-
can party under any circumstances.
What is needed is new party in which
the men of both cid parties can meet,
and the Peoples party meets the de-
mand-a party that knows 10 North,
TO South, no Fast, no West. 1t sprang
into existence only this year, 1892, but
its growth has been like Jonas gourd,
and its base is firm and broad as the
pyramids of Egypt. It's motto is
Equal rights to all and special priv
ileges to none" It's success means the
restoration of the government to its
primal mission and glory, and, thank
God, the people are flocking to its
standard--they are coming like doves
to the windows. Let Democratic ora
tors take an elevated position and re-
view the procession.
The anecdote was told of the fellow
Who thought Noah a crank and that
the food wasn't going to be anything
but "a shower" and all old party men
admonished to look out for deluge.
Let's talk about the Force bill lit
tie. My Democratic friend Paul Ed
wards said in a recent interview in
Louisville that the Force bill is like
Banquo's ghpst-it will not down. Well,
did you ever think what Banquo's
ghost was. Banquo's ghost was sim
ply a creation Of VIM. Shakspeare's
brain. The reason it would not
down" was that Shakespeare, in his
imagination, would not let it down"
DID you ever hear Of a ghost hurting
any body? Banquo's ghost never
hurt anybody, and the ghost in Ham
let never hurt anybody. Now this
Force bill talk is just a ghost of the
Democrats imagination, and the rea-
son il, won't down is because the
Democrats won't let it "down." Peo-
pies party men have something more
important to think about than TO be
getting frightened at ghosts
Two attempts have been made to
pass Force bills since the war, and both
times they were defeated by the Re
publican party itself. The first was
introduced by Thaddeus Stevens, of
Pennsylvania, when. the Republicans
had the Presidency, Senate and
House, and it was defeated by Mr..
Blaine and other Republicans. The
other was introduced in the 51st Con
gress, when all the departments of the
government were in control of the Re
publicans. After getting through the
House by small majority. it was de-
feated in the Senate by Republican
votes. This talk of Force bill was
not a question of principle, but simply
an appeal to excite the fears of the
people. If you want to defeat the
Force bill sure enough, go to the polls
on Nov. eth and vote for Weaver and
Field, for the Peoples party is just as
strongly opposed to the Force bill as
the Democrats profess to be.
The Peoples party stands for "a free
ballot and fair count" It subscribes
to the declaration In the Democratic
platform Of 1880, that "a free ballot and
a fair count is the right preservative
of all rights" Every American citizen
must be secure In the exercise of this
great right. The colored people were
invited to como and go with the PEG
Dle'S Marty with the assurance that