Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-05-12
NO. 1S.
QueruIous Quirks.
Editor Mississippi Leader

stAieSiNHiIiA
1t is amusing to see one of those
politicians who has not one well de-
fined political idea above the selfish
ness of Office getting, blandly and
grandly square himself with an Ala
Clay -statue-pose before the people and
say, II am a Jeffersonian DemOcratl"
1t is also not only not amusing, but
spectacle to excite pity to see that
same politician hum and haw and
stutter and stammer in great fummer
with a ~ wish I-was- out-of- this
darned dilemma" air) in his vain en-
deavor to explain just exactly what
nova a-day JeffsoDian Democrat actu-
ally is.
Indeed, one wonders just how many
pOmpous posers who flutt~r with riot
Ous wistfulness as candidates for del
egates from the State at large before
the incoming Democratic Convention
would be able to say how far and in
what peculiar particular his Jeffsonian
democracy applied to the living issues
OF the hour; and just what pcrceptiblc
effect the same would have upon the
free coinage of silver; or just how far
it would stretch without breaking the
string towards allowing his ponderous
sentimentalities to vote for govern
mental control of all corporations de-
voted 10 the public service7
Don't let any corporation lawyer
answer this !!
Perhaps, however, the query may
not be put in vain as some egotisticai,
would-be delegate. from the Third p0-
tential (the Delta District) might de-
pose if he is in gracious and commu-
nicative mood with the sub-people of
this sub-lunary orb.
Yet some may think it were wiser to
leave him alone in the clouds, as the
descent would be precipitious, hence
dangerous the mist too might come
down with his parachute.
Be all these things as they may, |
venture the opinion modestly and with
a certain reserve, that this same indi-
vidual can discourse, if not learnedly,
yet with great vocabulary freedom
upon the uncanny Tyranny of protec-
ton and tariff. Mark, however, it
is lingering, FOSTERING doubt, that the
self-same individual would no more
be able to frame a tariff statute than
the anti Mckinley Democratic Con-
gress was in the premises.
would not appear supercilious nor
wanting in respect to name. But
the phantasy of rose nor it's waxen
sister can never obtain the sy mpathy
with me accorded the perfumed exotic
of the Vale of Cashmere.
For me there is something else in
party than its name or the laying of
flowers on the marble tomb stones, or
the waiting in mummy idolatry for
last trump to sound and bring up the
dead. Just what Messrs. Burkitt and
and Barksdale can expect of party
that straddles the tariff and the silver
free coinage measure, and which
ignores the cry of the people for an
enlarged circulation of money loaned
directly to them and not through the
National bond holders, while they
(the two B's.) sit at the feet of the
Wall street Gamaliel, is quite imper-
vious to the naturally obtuse.
Let not this curious inconsistency
OF the twain arouse u stray thought
that it has at heart an atom of selfish !.
ness, or suggest suspicion to eat like
canker in the core of budding inno-
cence, that perhaps fear of long
waiting and hard fighting with uncer-
tain success in the creation of the New
Party, is a mOdicum of one half of the
meat on which the Caesars feed their
ambition.
After all, maybe Charlie Wright is
right, when he advances the automatic
maxim, that you may be all things
sometime and something's all the time,
but you cannot be all things all the
time. And these three--let them
wrestle together.
JUNIUs, JUNIOR.