The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-11-27
WASHINGTON, D. G., Noy. %, 1896.

shape the conduct of the Right Hon
,rable Marcus, for it is written that
she rules her ambitious, but girl
Decked' parent with a rod Of iron.
Shades of Washington. such a reyela-
ion is almost enough to cause the
Father of his Country to desert the
lall0wed tomb, take down the rusty
I'D sword from the walls Of the Mt.
home, call out to the patriotic
OF Lafayette, jefferson and
Jackson to go forth and once again
ing the long-silenced but faithful In
dependence bell as a sum mons to arms
Tor his countrymen to once more re-
deem our fair land from the greedy
grasp of is %traducers. Oh. patriot
ism, thy name is mud Oh. proud
eagle that scars aloft and percheth
upon every American dollar. thy pride
is dust. Oh. beautiful stars and
stripes, kissed by the gentle breezes of
ages, bathed in the pcrfumed dew,
drops of independence. and basked in
the glorious sunbcamS OF Heaven,
thou no longer waveth over the LAND
of the free and the home of the brave"
but wei the heads OF seventy millions
Of self-madc slaves, mostly Of the i'm
ported variety.
If the reports Of the Hanna organs
are true our country Is now in peril,
and our seventy millions of homespun
slaves stand in hourly danger Of suf-
location from the great volume OF
smoke which is rising in tremendous
black clouds and settling down upon
our land from the myriads OF factories
which have been started up since the
election by the syndicates and cor.
porations, the only and original poor
mans friend. According to these re-
ports there will be nc more cry Of
hard times" there will be no more
hunger, no more suffering for the want
of opportunity by the labOring man to
earn an honest living, for all who de-
sire employment can now secure it by
applying to the syndicates, provided
they are not overcome by the smoke
or crushed to death by the great army
of workingmen rushing to and from
their places of business. This is not
surprising, for did not Mark Hanna,
in the name of his queenly daughter,
tell the people that if Mckinley was
elected every idle factory would start
up, every old deserted railroad truck
would again be brought into use, adj
ditiOnal street cars would be put upon
the tracks, new railroads and new fac
tories would be built for their express
benefit and amusement? Did he not
tell the people, in the name OF his
daughter who wears divided pants
and rides divided, that if they would
vote for Mckinley that all these
things would come to pass? Then is
it not perfectly natural that it
should be thus, even if it is only so
in the im%aginatiOns OF the Hanna
organs?
IL our country survives the smoke
and the divided skirts for the next
four years, it is expected that the peo-
pleoWill grow tired of such unparal-
leled activity and prosperity"
brought on by the instantaneous gold
process Of twenty-seven years stand.
ing. and will revive the free silver
"heresy as the only means of over
throwing this wonderful prosperity"
born of the "sOund money and ma
tional honor doctrine, and the re-
nomination Of William j. Bryan, by
the dead, damned and delivered rem.
nant OF free silver Democrats is look
ed forward to as the most effective
method of accomplishing the oyer
throw.
The out Of employment army of
otlice-seckerS has already begun its
hopeful march on to Washington, via
Canton, Ohio, and it is truly amusing
to witness the various acr0batic per-
fOrmances of some Of the soldiers, in
their efforts to capture the best
places. There is a great civil wal 60
ing on in the ranks Of the captain
generals over the positions of great
honor and greater pay, while the rank
and file are roofing and showing each
other like a bed of pigs on a cold
night to see which can get the warm
est place, and a few Of the less hope.
full, standing on the suburbs of de-
spair, like a boy with redtop boots
looking wishfully up a tall muscadine
vine, waiting for something to drop.
THE old home is not what it used
to was" There was a time when the
faithful never got out at all. and then
there was another time, when, If they
did get out, they could, like the Prodi.
gal son, at the incoming Of their party,
return to the house OF their fathers,
have the golden ring placed without
and the fatted calf within, and all
would make merry together. But now
they return to find that an unwise
condition has permitted the building
OF a civil service wall around the vine.
yard of their fathers almost equal &c
the Chinese structure. That is the
thing that congresses their hearts
and pulverizes their hopes. Civil Ser.
vice is nothing more nor less than
national law which has been smeared
all over Uncle Sans statute books
like 'lasses on dc nigger's flapjacks.
IL is a law intended to keep the Gins
in and the "outs" out, aud under It's
operation the only way the ''ins" can
be gotten out and the ''outs" gotten
in, is for the administration to turn
criminal and violate the law. Mr..
Mckinley is said to be favorable tC
civil service reform, and chats
what's the matter with Hanna" OF
more particularly the Hannaites.
There is but little doubt among
prominent Republicans here that his
$ nibs will be promptly rendered d
gold-lined cabinet portfolio, which ii
is also believed he will accept with
equally as much promptness. The
other places will be given ont to the
best possible advantage, However,
Official patronage proves a boomerang
to an administration Oftener than it
does a blessing, hence the Democrats
may yet be the greater beneficiaries of
Mr.. Hanna's temporary success.
The recent surface suspicious of
trouble with Spain have developed
nothing more substantial within the
last few days than unauthentic ru-
mors; however, it Is a fact that for
some reas0n there has been unusual
activity in all OF Uncle Sans navy
yards, which added to the nervous.
sounding report OF Gen. Nelson A.