Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-04-09

against the desperate effort of willy po-
Iitical demagogues and selfish office
seekers to once more rally and mass
them under the bedraggled and dis
honored banner of the Democratic
party. Divided for years on every liv-
ing issue and vital reform which affects
the people, the Democratic party is
worse divided today than ever, and the
party leaders who are trying to mis-
lead the people and calling upon them
to rally once more to the support of
this party which has basely betrayed
them into the clutches of the money
sharks. trusts and combines know it.
Here in Mississippi today, the Demo
cratic party is divided into two hostile
camps, one styling themselves silver
Democrats, and the other administra-
ton or single standard Democrats. As
it is in Mississippi, so it is with the
party all over the country, to greater
or less degree. The leaders of both
wings proclaim what the Populists
have been declaring for three years.
that the currency question is the great
est political issue of the day, but, who'll
ly unlike the Populists, they are not
agreed upon the remedy to be applied.
Now, if it be true that the financial is
sue is the most urgent and important
of all others, the silver Democrats, to
be consistent and practical, ought, with
all silver Republicans, go over bag and
baggage to the Peoples party, and all
gold-bug Democrats ought to formally
unite with the single-standard Repub-
licans and call themselves the Demo
Republican party. This would be the
practical result, if either one of the
Democratic factions elects the next
United States Senator from Mississip-
pi. If Gov. Lowry or Mr. Money should
be chosen, he would find his most trust
worthy allies on the silver question in
the Senate to be the Populist Senators.
On the other hand, if Gov Stone were
elected, he would have as his strongest
coadjutors in the Senate John Sher-
man, Senator Hoar and other we'll
known Republicans.
Here is pure and undefiled Democra-
cy for you with vengeance And yet
with just such damning facts and par
ty rot as this not half concealed be-
meath the surface, these politicians
and office seekers come before the peo-
pie and seek to again conjure with an
empty party name which has been
time and again unblushingly dishonor
ed. In this connection, the following
testimony from the Copiah Signal
Democratic authority-is exactly to
The point and emphasizes the truth of
The LEADERS argument
The old political hacks are against
economy of all kinds. They want pow
II and place; they care not for the peo
lie and the burdens they bear; they
7ant office and promise and pledge |
nything to secure it-these promises |
re but tracings upon the sand to be
faced by the incoming tide which
ands them in office. If there was as
luch virtue and sincerity in State pol
tics as there is profuseness of prom
Sc, how happy this great common
7ealth would be.
A week ago the writer sat and listen
d to ex-Gov. Lowry through a long
peech at Hazlehurst. He declared
he money question to be the great
political issue of the
and his speech was confined
llmost exclusively to discussion of
he silver question. He reviewed at
ength the demonetization of silver by
Republican Congress in 1878, and
old with much eclat what every finan
ial reformer and old Allianceman in
lis audience had known for years. The
party was denounced with
iery eloquence for this great ''crime
against the people," and condemned in
terms as the ally and
friend of Wall street, and his hearers
,xhorted to rally to the standard of
he grand old Democratic party for the
of silver and financial
Do you ask, gentle reader, if "Dear
Bob" told any where that, while the
Congress struck down sill
'er in 1873, and subsequent Republi-
AN Congress partially restored it, a.
Democratic Congress struck it down
gain in 1893, and that a Democratic
President, whom "Dear Bob and 9th
II leading Mississippi Democrats help
ID to mislead the people and elect, is
oday the most trusted and powerful
street and the English gold
Jugs have on American soil? No, sir;
nary time once!' Did "Dear Bob" in
innate that his party is irreeoncilably
livided on this very silver question
which he avowed the greatest present
'olitical issue), and that even if he
we're elected to the United States Sen
te, as Democrat, his party would
lever, because of this division, be able
o deliver the promised silver goods
Tot bit of it! The fact is, 'the truth,
he whole truth, and nothing but the
ruth" stands no more show of being
card out OF the mouth of a modern
,emocratic politician, in hot pursuit
{ an office, than light-wood knot has |