The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-09-06
Shots from ShoCCoe.

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ID ,partment in the last issue of tn,
ZINES, was SO replete wiah wise sug
gestions and sound practical advice Il
It's readers, that feel constrained t
express my unqualified admiration
IT contained seven appropriate article,
from the facile pen of the Agricultural
Editor either one Of which was worth
more to any farmer than double the
price OF the paper, and any man on q
farm who fails to CLEAN from them
many hints and valuable lessons by
which he may better his condition is
either too lazy to work or too old to
learn. II not already so. we hope
every man in the county who lives on
the farm will soon be subscriber and
thus make the most profitable invest
ment OF "a dollar he ever made in his
life.
Yes. we are all indeed proud of the
TINES AND while reading that issue /
was congratulating my fellow citizens
until turned to the fourth page, but
then O LORDY! 1--WE TAKE OUR MEDI-
CINE BUT EAT NO CHOW" was just a little
more than good democrat could
stand and remain silent and posses
his soul in patience" you say, Doctor,
it is a bitter dose to you that, in Nov
ember, you will be required to vote for
| men who you believe would sell truth
for power. Now thatis pretty heavy
on us double standard fellows who
have sworn by the Eternal never to
vote for men who WE believe have
already sold truth for GOLD.
You say further that "by 1896 You
hope the people who have been led
astrav" & c. Now. Sir We don't admit
by a long sight that we have been led
any where, but contend that we are
standing flat-footed on that grand old
platform of democratic principles hand
ed down by our fore.fathers and which
has ever endorsed both metals for
money with no discrimination against
either. This is the rock on which we
stand, and you don't Now, let me
ask. WHO LED you AsTRAY? Your ans
wer must be, Grover Cleveland and
John sherman! and if they both are
good democrats, so too are you one.
PAR MOBILE FRATRUM. You advocate
measure which was originated and
snrreptitiously engineered through
congress by the Republican party and
approved by a Republican president AS
YOU CANNOT DENY, and because we re-
fuse to follow you of into the ranks of
our enemies, you see fit to damn us all
as political heretics and Populites, and
are paving the way to read us out of
the party! I'm the language of the
street gamin I'D LIKE TO SEE you DO
IT) you do this too when you know
these grave charges fall upon the
heads of nearly all the most prominent
men in the State of Mississippi, with
the proba BILE exception of Cow Stone,
Gen' Catchings, Judge Calhoun and
the little cock-eyed acrobat who &C
cdeptly misrepresents our district in
Congress. q forget his name).
You say "ultraism is always FESTIVE
of restraint and is liable to fly off at
Exactly SO, and MIR. Cleve-
land ard his Satrap Carlysle have al.
ready expressed their readiness to "fly"
whenever the democratic Convention !
shall adopt free coinage, and as their
policy is evidently to RULE OR RUIN the
sooner they take their fight the better
it will be for those they leave behind.
But Doctor, you are on the coming |
side though l am on the right one.
You bave the money and when you
fail to BEAT us you can BUY us. With
that unlimited CORRUPTION FUND con-
tributed by American and foreign
capitalists you will eventually succeed
10 fastening upon this free people the
BLACKLIST crime of the nineteenth GEN.
tury, and after that the deluge.
GRAPE SHOT