The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-08-13
A REVOLUTION.

INDICATIONS POINT to an interesting indeed vital
N struggle in Mississippi between the powers of good and bad pol
~ In the approaching the opposing forces will he the high
thought progress education and political integrity of the people
~ he cohorts of the low and vicious demagogm whose grip Is
@ anon the throat the State The ruinous msale under which
~ is fast becoming byword for executive neompeteney and
- and ena and corruption in places public trust the
result of power bestowed by the people themselves They alone are
@ for the modification tyranny under which the State ia
onfna The mistake uwtngy made and 1t is they alone
who can redeem the disgrace and disaster winch they have
~ u3n it, Not is the necessity for general houseclean
ing evident the press and people Mississippi but beyond the
State die ~ and dsrepuabe condition of premises is exciting
pro est and remonstrunce,
In Il late issue the Commercial Appeal says:
The promises to be between the McIaurn and ano
factions and that will be fierce may reasonably be IN
ferred. Mississippi has furnished her quota of eminent
statesmen to the country: and while may allow that she has su
sghty political poapsus she has the material in abnd
which statesmen made, and can easily atone for temporary
alteration"
The Commercial Appeals anatomical metaphors while
voting the condition which it illustrates, inspiration The
disease from which the State suffering has thrust of place
and brought public individuals who for the health of
1pp would he far better employed in performing their humble
baanecassary natural functions in obscurity
once before similar condition confronted the State, in which
creed and ignorance worked together for its udomg and the
crebag and rule compelled the revolution
of $50 Under government of carpebag rapacty and
ignorance the political condition of the State became inoeabe 1t
was mo- longer enabe as ha5tation civilized white The
remedy before the people then now and bravey and
wisely they awaited themselves of it. The present situation is less
desperate the conditions much the In 1875 the shrewd
interruptions predatory element of carpet bggery represented by
neropes the ignorance by their tools Our pres
t parasites combine in themselves both qualities of hrewd rascaity
stupid gnoce and must be owned that our last state but
little than the first But these apparently realize that
their opportunity brief and they must make the most of it while
lasts The bodness their system its doom. Such cond
fails bring about its speedy and in the revusion
of public sentiment the people of the State will fly for relief to all
that is the antithesis of NcIaurinism.
the Commercial Appeal hardly does righteous cause just
ice in calling it facona fight Surely the effort of people to
themselves from shameful and CALLING yoke worthy of amore
dgnfed descriptive than the determination to get
rid political tyranny and mbuhing greed OF the Mclaun
family against the McIauns but also against Nc
Iarni,m which may understood representing all that
worthy yena and base political and social life. 1t is for
high principles sobrey education, enlightenment progress
mental political personal cleanliness effort to Mississippi
from the slough Of shameless vulgar ignorance and swnish oscen
INTO which McIaurnism would plunge it.