Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-04-01
WOULD WIFI

Democratic party are MOTOR q nature
so close and confidential az to warrant
It In the assurance that its suggestions
are likely to be grabbed at" with
ungloved hands, and, without regard
to their merit, made q key note to the
party's action. In the years gone by
we have found fully IS much cause
for criticising the policies and acts OF
the Democratic party as for common
dalton for them-perhaps more. 1t Is
possible that in the years to come, we
shall not find II consistent to make
any radical changes in these criti'
cisms. Since, however, there is but
one political party Of potent force In
the South, and that party Is the Dem
ocratic party, as this paperi is and must
In all other things, ever be, in full
sympathy with this grand section Of
the greatest country on the face OF
the globe, we may be pardoned, II not
thanked, for any suggestion which, to
us seems, worthy of the most earnest
consideration in this part Of the ma
ton. And since action can only be
brought into effective force through
the Democratic party, we may even be
pardoned for assuming to suggest to
the Democratic party a course, which
we believe carries with 1t, If taken at
It's tide, success nationally for the
party, and far more than any party
success, for the entire Southland.
The suggestion is, in itself, a sample
one, no more than might easily be
evolved b. any humble follower of the
party ere d, could he take hold Of his
boot str ,ps and pull himself away
from ths petit strifes and too often
customary discussions born from blind
partisan scrambles for place. Yet it
is a suggestion that up to the present
hour, has scarcely found room for q
second thought to the average politi-
clan in or other member Of the Demo-
cratic party in the South.
The fact is that the South has been
too busy, or rather those who do the
political thinking for the Democratic
party in the South, have been too
much occupied in watching the ac-
tions of such former honored gentle
men at their hands, al William ].
Bryan, Grover Cleveland, and others
Of lesser Importance, training with
one or the other of the two wings Of
the party, the actions of which have
been directed by these two men, to
reflect for a moment upon the posi-
bility of the party finding, as a color
bearer, in the next Presidential cam
paign, a nan whose personality, state
manship, power and ability, would
shine throughout the Uuited States
brighter and stronger and clearer
than the combined lustre Of all the
men the party has honored in q third
of a century.
The suggestion is merely the men
tioning Of the name of a man, who II
nominated by the next Democratic
convention, a be elected President
of the United States. In our candid
Judgment this man stands alone as q
possibility. 1t is within the power of
the Democrats of the South to nomi-
nate W. R. Hearst, of New York.
He is the only man in the nation
today that can be named by the
Democratic convention and elected
President.
He is the only man in the nation
today who stands in a position to go
before the people of the close central
and western states with a record
which win command their support as
against all corners.
He Is the only man in the nation
today who can be nominated by the
Democratic party, the mention of
whose name will send q volt of cleo
trio enthusiasm into the heart and
soul Of every wage toiler throughout
the great labor sections Of the Mid
die States, the East and the West,
sufficient to inspire them to defy their
mandatory employers, and vote for
him practically to a man.
He is the only man In the nation
today who can be nominated by the
Democratic party, who holds the con-
fdence Of and is adored by the toiling
millions, and at the same time cannot
be held up to the conservative and
successful business men Of the nation
as q FIRE brand.
He is the only man in the nation
today who can be nominated by the
Democratic party, the fear Of whose
administration by the capitalistic in
terests would not solidify those inter-
ests against him.
He is the only man in the nation
today who can be nominated by the
Democratic party, who has, in his
" right, sufficient means to carry
forward a campaign Of victory with
out levying q single assessment to
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