Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-07-03

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Us II I3oks nov ike the silent
Tote- Eil name lawyer Atkinson as
the Democratic nominee for Georgia's
next Governor. If he is elected. of
course the saloon will be taken care of.
That IS plain enough for any one to
see. isn't it! Yet many Prohibition
lists. preachers and other church mem
bers. will vote with 1.-THE silent vote"
and feel outraged when they fail to get
the saloons put under ban of law. The
same silent vote that makes Gov
ernor will. of course, make the Legis-
lature. On what ground; therefore,
Prohibitionists hope for prohibitory
legislation. | am utterly unable to di.
vine The State Prohibition Conven-
ton, held last month. decided to de-
mand of the next Legislature State
wide Prohibition statute, but man in
Mississippi would have as much infu-
ence over that body on the subject as
any number of the best citizens of
Georgia. The dye, on that question,
will have been cast by ''the silent vote"
and its Christian allies, in the election
that makes the Legislature. Isn't that
plain enough?
Last Sunday | was over near the
South Carolina line to deliver the
baccalanreate sermon before the
famous Hephzibah sshooi, ] had
a good time barring the heat.
| was in Tom Watson's district,
now represented by j. C. G. Black,
deacon in the first Baptist church of
Augusta. A good lady, wife of a Dem
olrat that is, q Democrat last election),
told me that negroes by the train=load
we're brought out from Augusta to
Hephzibah and voted for Black over
and over till many of them were so
drunk they could not stand up. SIS at
here on my gallery and saw that" she
said. Her husband, who sat near by,
said: "That is true. | was utterly dis
gusted with the whole disgraceful af
fair" 49," said, ''whisky played a
conspicuous part In the defeat of Tom
Watson, the Southern leader of the
Peoples party, and that party is cring-
ing before the hellish traffic" 1t is
said that Col. Black didn't know, at
the time, Oh the corruption practiced
to secure his election, and that he will
not stand for PREDICTION.
said three things during the last
Presidential campaign that | was sure
were true, and time continues to vim
dictate the truth of the statements:
a. The people will never secure the
free coinage Of silver through the Dem
ocratic party.
o. The Democratic party will never
settle the tariff question, because on
both of these questions the party is
split into factions and there will never
be any agreement among these factions
that will give the honest masses what
they voted for and ought to have. And
g., We will never have Prohibition
while the Democratic or Republican
party is in power, because the fist is
openly pledged to foster the liquor
traffic, and the latter is trucking to
and counting the vote of the liquor
men. A fourth thing 1 will now add:
The Peoples party will never accom-
plish the reforms it seeks to, while the
liquor power exists in and controls our
politics. The liquor combine is the
most powerful rad nnnscrupulous on
earth, and it Is the Trusted. ally and
helper of every other monopoly In the
union.
| sometimes wonder what will be-
! come of the morality of our great coun-
| try while the people are SO largely, and,
as it seems TO PIE, 30 blindly given over
to political idolatry, remember with
some considerable comfort, and hope
of better day, that it is written in the
Old Book .'The Lord preserveth the
simple" This is the only chance see