The semi-weekly messenger., 1901-07-12
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
THE DEATH WARRANT READ.

A close reading of newspapers in the
north, and in come southern states as
well, would perhaps fill democrats with
CONSERVATION il they believed the state
ment made. If you trust republican
tooters who favor high protective robber
tariff tax, and their children, the robust
carnivorous trusts, and are for expan-
sion and a strong governmental great
big Nation-roaming and revelling and
dcvouring, the democratic party is
hopelessly inane, corrupt, without prin-
ciples or patriotism. Think OF that.
This kind of slander and falsehood
comes from the organs of the most
wicked, corrupt. treacherous party the
world has seen-a party controlled by
the most venal. vicious bosses. and in
the interests OF nabobs, plutocrats and
sycophants. So reading what republi-
Gin editors and politicians say, it is
al. up with the democracy, and its
strength-the manufacturers and men
of that kidney-are leaving it forever.
Well, destroy the democratic party.
and what becomes of this country?
There have always been two parties in
a republic and they are absolutely ne
cessary, and for hundreds of years in
monarchical England there have been
two great parties, also. Put all power
into one party, destroy all opposition,
give full swing to the demagogues and
horn blowers, and where will the peo-
pie be? Under the great, grinding Jug
gernaut as It crushes and grinds and
destroys, with no opposing party to
I1eet the Insolent, ambitious, unprinci-
Lied republican party, that boxes the
compass at will on all public measures,
and to put restraint upon it, and true
liberty and personal safety and public
justice will have fled to british
beasts.H Fortunately the people in
the south as we'll as in the north, are
neither wholly ignorant nor blind. They
know OF the past. They have memo
ries. They know what the vengeful,
wicked republican party has stood for
through thirty-five years of ruthless
oppression and vicious legislation.
Strong words, but true! The history
of this country since the midsummer
of 1866, is one of corruption, folly, re-
venge, persecution. robbery, devilish-
ness and bitter sectionialism. That is
truth, or deeds done have no existence
and are merely myths, or phantasies
OF the brain.
The people of intelligence all over this
country know that the republican party
has been marvallously wasteful, extra
vG5lnt, reckless in expenditures that
it hGS made the taxes four or five times
greater than they should be; that it
has been hostile to the southern whites
from the start, depressing and robbing
them, forcing uI.on them the negro bal
lot, and almost thereby running four or
five states: that it has increased and
multiplied trusts that devour and de-
stroy all opposition and competition;
that it has created a system of vilest
taxation Ior the benefit of one great
rich class in one great rich section,
and so on, ad infinitum. And the DEM
ocratic party must die, and this most
corrupt and vicious of party organiza-
tions must run the machine and no
one to oppose. Such is the feast offer
ed by McLaurin & Co.
Henry Watterson, editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, deserted his
party and injured it no little because
of his ability and influence. He is no
oracle with us. He repented Of his
many political sins, it is said, ,retraced
his steps, and supported in 1900 the man
he opposed and fought against in 1896.
He does not believe in a dead demo-
cracy, and is not in love with the re-
publican party, while exaggerating its
good qualities He recently wrote this,
a part of a long editorial:
Admitting much of the thorough
going character of republicanism, its
undoubted patriotism and intelligence
ii many things, they are not blinded
to its moral deformities; and they see
only rocks ahead if it be given an un-
bridled hand There should be some
check. There should be some poise
and balance. These they find in the
democratic party, which, with all its
imperfections, yet remains true to the
genius Of free government under the
constitution.
'.All this may be Bourbonism. II
may- seem both foolish and obsolete.
But it is genuine and has no reference
to old sectional. issues. or battles
The south is an expansionist; but il
would expand On Jeffersonian, not on
Caesaristic, lines. 1t is a patriotic
American: and. because it is so, ii
would have the constitution and the
flag go hand in hand. carrying the mes
sage of good tidings to all lands. Ii
is a democrat, not a federaliSt OF
modern republican