The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-04-21
In Time of Peace Prepare For War
Editor Sea Coast Echo:

| Editor Sea Coast Echo:
/ Some one has said in time of peace
prepare for war" If there is any one
thing besides war to which this trite
saying is more applicable than to another
| it is certainly politics; that is TO say, If we
would be in a position TO meet an issue,
we must invite discussion and prepare the
public mind.
; Many massmeetings and conventions
fall short of the object for which they
are called because of the fact that a
large percentage of those in attendance
| have not a fair conception Of the proceed
! ings of the meeting. Ordinarily they
vote upon questions at issue simply be-
cause So-and-So made the motion, or in
trodueed the resolution; and the said So
i and-So is such nice fellow. or they being
under personal obligation TO him, the
motion must necessarily carry. Usually
! the average man discovers that at one
tine or another there is going to be a
meeting held as the Courthouse. There
ahe hies himself, never worrying his brains
with the issues to be decided. NeYerthe-
less he is foremost in voting fore against
anything, that is proposed-motions for
the most part that are prepared IN ad
vance by someone and ofwhich none but
those standing on the inside know any
thing about. Yet it is said we live III &
country where the Will of the people is
supreme. Well may it be said, "Consis-
teucy thou art a level" in connection
with tins we would like to call the atten-
ton OF the Democratic voters of Hancock
county that we are just entering upon
Congressional campaign. That in itself
is rot OF paramount Importance, as it
makes but little difference whether the
present able incumbent or somebody else
represents the Sixth Mississippi District.
we are going TO be allotted our pro rata
share of bogus garden seeds just the same.
But there is one thing i'll which all should
feel an interest. When the Executive
Committee Issues call for a meeting of
the Democratic voters to assemble at the
Courthouse for the purpose of selecting
delegates to attend the Congressional
Convention, there VIII also be chosen
new Executive Committee to serve for the
next four years. Now in order that there
be no cause for complaint after the meet
ing, as We'll as to give every Democrat an
equal chance and we hold that every mem
Der Of the party should have voice III the
matter of selecting the Executive Com
mittee-therefore we would suggest that
the call be made sufficiently early 50 that
each Beat may call a meeting OF its own
voters, to select delegates to attend the
County Conventions Al the same time
we would suggest also that the Beat meet
ing select its members to serve on the eN-
ecutivo COMMITTEES, and instruct tlere de-
legates accordingly. Leaving none but the
members of the Executive Committee from
le County y-at-larse to be selected by the
County Convention, and they to be placed
N n0muatlou and elected by ballot. The
.hrac uqmcs receiving the highest number
OF votes in the Convention TO be declared
elected. II our citizens would agitate
this scheme, and carry it into effect, we
venture the assertion that the eresult.would
prove far moro satisfactory than has been
the case under the old regime of leaving
it in the hands Of the few who usually at
tend everything, to dictate the terms for
the people to De governed by.