Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-07-16
NAN ADDRESS
BY the PrOhibitionists to the
People of Lincoln County.
SOME CAMPAIGN ISSUES PLAIN.
LY OUTLINED.
Reasons Why All RcfOrmers
Should Keep Out of the DEM
Ocratic Primary.

W, nelu Oh July Ou, Lie uuucEoishCu
were appointed to prepare and publish
an address to our fellow-citizens set
ting forth some of the most important
considerations which should influence
and guide their political action in the
impending campaign. With a solemn
sense of our responsibility to the God
of men and nations, whose blessings
we invoke, and with patriotic desire
to serve our State and country, we en-
ter upon the discharge of the duty
which has been assigned US.
In the outset we deem it a matter
for special congratulation and thank
fulness that the time has come in our
county and State when every citizen,
who will, may freely discuss candi-
dates, measures and parties and decide
between them as his better judgment
dictates, without being confronted by
the menace of negro domination, and
without regard to the crack of the old
party bosses lash. Yea, we believe the
time has come when it is not only the
privilege of every intelligent voter to
do this, but that it is his bounden du-
ty to rise above all mere questions of
partisan prejudice and vote for God,
home and country.
So far as relates to Mississippi and
Lincoln county, our old common enc
my, the Republican party, has no vi
tally or cohesiveness, and scarcely a
nominal Observation-Disclosures is not to
be considered as a political factor in
the contest before us. The only old
party therefore which all citizens who
honestly seek reform must fight is the
Democratic organization.
The Prohibition party has become a
necessity-not something to be idoliz-
ed or deified-but a medium through
which to accomplish the suppression
of the beverage liquor traffic and to
secure financial and other much need
ed governmental reforms. AS Prohi-
bitionists, we started into this reform
to destroy the saloon in State and Ma
ton, not alone at our own doors. Local
option will never accomplish this. 1t
will not stop the United States from
selling government revenue licenses to
blind tigers in Prohibition States and
counties, and will not amend the inter
State commerce laws which authorize
them to import liquors, and over which
Congress alone has jurisdiction. 1t
has accomplished about all it can &C.
complish in Mississippi. We need q
prohibition law passed by the next
Legislature to cover the whole State
with provision for the sale, at cost
of pure liquors in one place in each
county for medicinal, sacramental and
mechanical purposes, under rigid State
regulations, and we want constitu
tional prohibition amendment submit
ted to vote of the people. The Dem
ocratic party has been tried and it viii
not give us what we ask. 1t is so com
pletely dominated by the liquor ele
ment in it's ranks in and out of Missis
,, sippi, it dares not do it; hence we must
look elsewhere.
And not only has the Democratic
party been untrue to the people on the
liquor question, but it has been false
to its solemn pledges along all lines Of
reform. At this time, swayed to ant
fro by vast army of hungry Office
seekers, whose one cardinal party
principle is "to the victor belongs the
spoils," they are irreconcilably divided
on every issue which they themselve:
proclaim to be of vital public concern
Fellow citizens of Lincoln, in the Ian
, guage of an eminent reformer of an
other State, we cannot longer afford Il
'trust party which does not know it.
own mind; which is rent into factions
which is controlled by the privileged
classes, which has sold us into bond
age to England and the Rothschilds
, which has made our debts and taxes
harder to pay, brought down your cot
ton to 5 cents, beggared our farmers
, pauperized our laborers, and bank
rupted our merchants-a party which
keeps no campaign contract, which
breaches Tom jefferson and practice.
, Tom Reed, to whose stump speeches in
/ favor of free silver an exhibit is attach
ed in the shape of brand-new silver
dollar stamped 1894, and to whose
, votes in Congress the smile of John
/ Sherman goes by way of chrome and
/ illustration: whose economy loads us
with bonds; whose tariff reform is sold
J at so much per yard to the trusts and
combines; whose state rights mean an
empty mailsack on a freight car, with
the United States army by the side OF
it, to pilot it through local riot; whose
free silver means no silver at all; whose
love of the people means unlimited
concessions to the privileged interests
and whose rabid appetite for doing
wrong things in the most offensive
way, was never so fully illustrated as
when Congress violated the Sabbath
in order to put the finishing touches
to their unholy schemes Of spoliation,
and of legaiized robbery of the help
less taxpayer"
Hare in Mississippi whare tha Tam