The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1894-10-20
GRENADA, MISS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER

Democratic administration that was &
overwhelmingly elected by tho people
only about two years ago. The people
should be more consistent. Those out
rageOusly anti-democratic so-called
Democrats in the Senate are the mis-.
creants who need punching, and that
too, with red-hOt Democratic poker.
Mississippians certainly had no cause
for complaint, for there was no state
In the Union more ably represented in
the last Congress than Mississippi.
With her three distinguished Senators
and seven brave and loyal Representa-
tives, Mississippi occupied a position
attained by but few other States, North
or South.
You may say to the plain people in
our section that If they have any doubts
as to the Democratic party being the
best party for the poor man, they need
only to spend short time at the
National Capitol to have that doubt
dlspelled like the gauzy mist before
the bright rays Of the morning sun.
No reasonable person could view the
situation from the pilot house Of the
old ship Of government and fail to sec,
without even the aid OF a telescope,
that the Republican party is the natu-
raj and powerful enemy Of the poor
man. Its chief and only aim in life
being to foster and promote the inter.
ests Of capital and its adjuuets. And
the Populist party is but cats paw
for the Republican party, as the events
of every day demonstrate, which fact
can not be truthfully controverted. :
The man who can conscientiouslys
argue that the Democratic party is re-
sponsible for the crippled financial con-
d!tion Of the country, is indeed a fit
subject for the lunatic asylum, for even
the common every day dude, with his
gopher head, has brains enough to
know that this condition has been com
ing on through all these many years Of
Republican administration, and that the
crisis was reached more than a year
before the Democrats got control OF the
government; and besides, that the de-
preston is due to many causes, some Of
which have no political significance at
all. So If there is an honest poor man
in Mississippi who anticipates severing
his connection with the good old Dem
Ocratic party, expecting Or hoping to
receive benefits from the Republican or
Populist parties, he is indeed laborng
under miserable delusion, which he
will learn in IL comparatively short
time.
The Democratic party has not been
in power long enough for the good re-
suits of its labors in the interest OF the
people to be felt. Let the country be
not so impatient. 1t waited thirty
years for the Republican party to put
It in this precarious condition, and now
it ought to at least give the Democratic
party four years to get 1t out. The i'm
provement on the tariff law, the adop-
tion of the income tax system and the
repeal of the iniquitous Republican
sugar bounty law is OF itself 4 good
record, and with..no other legislation,
would in short lime give the country
much relief, to say nothing OF the nu-
merous other bentticent laws the Dem
ocratic party has constructed, and in
the course OF construction. Besides we
are told by the leaders that it is only a
question Of a very short time till the
country is to have ''free silver" which
many OF our best men seem to look on
as the panacea for all financial ills.
Tell our people to do their own think
ing and figuring, and they will not be
50 quick to desert the only party that
has ever raised voice in defense of
their rights.
Your humble scribe attended a lect-
ure at the Columbia Medical College
today--now hold on, don't be alarmed,
1t was not for the purpose of making Il
pill peddler Of himsclf-but TO hear DR..
J. F. Thompson, one OF Washingtons
celebrated surgeons, deliver Il lecture
on the subject Of surgery. The Doctor
seems to know his business, but has an
awful poor wav Of telling it. We did
wish so much that our own gifted fellow
countryman, that eminent surgeon and
able and polished orator, DR.. B. +.
Ward, of Winona, could have followed
Dr.. Thompson for IL few rounds, and
fairly set that intelligent body OF stu
dents ablaze with his eloquence and
power. By the way, that reminds us
that while up ut the college we drop
ped into the dissecting room a few
minutes-and we can assure you it was
q very few--and If We ever recover our
faithful old nose again we will promise
never to treat it that way again soon.
Holy horrors! Limberger cheese ''aint
in i'll" No wonder there are no buzz
yards in this country, for even some
things are too tough for the buzzards.