Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-08-04
A Correspondent Pays His Re
spects to Them,
And Exposes. Their Hypocrisy
and False Pretenses.
The Democrats Co mmitted to
the Mischievous State Bank
Policy.
Sympathy, Like Charity, Ought to Begin
mt Home Instead Of Crossing the
Ocean to ireland and Russia.
Editor Mississippi Leader:

ties have held their national conven-
tions, made their nominations and
enunciated platform of principles, it
requires no very astute political sagac-
ity to forecaste the policy of either
administration, should 1t succeed In
its retention or regaining of power.
The Republicans, indeed, start out
with the proud and insolent boast Of q
''most glorious chapter in their history"
and have the audacity to cite as proof
Of this assertion the prosperity in
our fields, workshops and mines"
Analysing this statement for what it Is
worth and then briefly summarizing
the facts in the case as furnished by
statistics, no one need be surprised
that the Devil could quote scripture
upon pinch, especially when it con-
duced to his interest and seemingly
initiated against the Divine law. For
downright hardihood In maintaining
the horse is 16 feet high and then swear
ing to it, commend us to the Republi-
can party. If in that plank where
they arraign the Democrats for their
'.peace meal" reformatory methods
could only mean something, every
good citizen might take heart upon
the theory that when ''thieves fall out
honest men get their dues"
The deliverance OF both parties upon
bi-metalism must certainly put Mum
chausen and Mulhatton to the blush
and detract from their fame as the
champions of mendacious statements,
as no Intelligent person would believe
for moment aught that they might
say in this line. Deception, fraud and
libel should be written across this hol-
low pretense of both the old parties
platforms. 1t is an unmitigated false
hood out of the whole cloth and de-
serves no credence except from fools
and knaves, The Republican scare
crow in the way of raw head and
bloody bones "Force bill" will furnish
no end of cheap thunder to Democrat
ic orators and the bowling dervishes
of a subsidized press; but such ammu-
milton is not worth the wadding and
will not receive much attention from
the honest yeomanry of a State like
this.
The remainder of the Minneapolis
platform sounds very much like reso-
lutions passed by "mutual admira-
ton society,"" except the people are to
be further burdened with an increase
of taxation to build the inter oceanic
canal and make the Columbian exposi-
ton a success.
10 Chsno1a y,Ioff0rpn arnhn6ipG the
Pauline sentiment of 'all things to all
men, that thereby it may make votes.
Like the Republicans, the Democrats
pervert the truth of history by reaf-
firming their devotion to the principles
of party as formulated by Jefferson
and exemplified by Madison and Cleve-
land. No one denies the democracy of
the first two named statesmen, but that
Cleveland should be placed In the line
of succession is past finding out. His
views of the Tenure of Office Act" Is
not only repugnant to Democratic doc
trine, pure and simple, but leads up to
what Col. Watterson aptly terms the
bureaucracy of monarchical govern
ment. His depositing the funds OF the
government in the national banks to
sustain their credit smacks of auto
cratic powers and was clear violation
of Constitutional law and has no pre-
cedent in Democratic history. His
single standard theory of our metallic
currency in entirely at variance with
every platform of his party that ever
spoke on the question and today his
opinions antagonize their plank on the
free coinage of silver, and yet the hur-
rah boys, the rabble and chief priests
of Democracy boldly assert there is
harmony all along the lines. Jackso-
nian Democracy opposed internal I'M
provements now read the present
Chicago abortion on this subject and
then decide how far we have drifted
from the teachings of the fathers and
the traditions of the elders of the land
on this once cardinal doctrine OF our
faith. His mngwumpery is proyerblal
and his nomination is q legitimate
sequence of the fact that the money
changers have at last taken complete
possession of the once grand old Dem
cratic temple and are today levying
tribute from an overburdened and
overtaxed people. To compare Cleve-
land to jefferson and Madison is libel
upon the name and fame of those two
| illustrious Virginians. All the endorse
menfs that all the Democratic conven-
tions on earth could possibly give this
present nominee would never make
any intelligent person believe that
| Cleveland is true exponent of the
faith Of the founders Of this grand old
organization. The "centralizing ten
dencyn of the government and the are-
served rights Of the States strikes the
average Mississippian as peculiarly rich
and absurd, when it Is an incontrovert-