The progress-advertiser. (Lexington, Miss.) 1902-1903, 1903-08-27

| the real choice Of this element, can
not definitely be decided at this time
My own opinion, from all l have seen
inclines strongly to belief in the lat.
ter proposition, for l cannot under.
stand how sane democrats or men
calling themselves democrats can
believe that the name Of Grover
Cleveland can again sway demo-
cratic national convention.
That is one side Of this picture.
Here is the other: l met men all
over that state who are as good dem
ocrats as ever walked in shoe leather.
They are sterling, true, patriotic,dem-
ocrats and men Of the people. They
are the Intellectual equals Of anv set
Of men ever met; they are hard
students Of political economy and can
give a reason for the faith that is in
them with any man in the country:
they are the bone and sinew Of the
party in that state and the men who
for years kept the state in the demo-
cratic column and who fought like
tigers for the ticket in 1896 and
1900. They are democrats from
principle and are not held to the
party by the cohesive power Of pub
lie plunder. These men were over.
whelmed by the avalanche Of COM
mercialism in the years Of 1896 and
1900 and had the immortal ichor
hammered out Of them by the fol-
lowers Of the Cleveland fetish. It
was enough to discourage any set Of
men on the face Of the earth who
were in politics for pelf and not for
principle. Nothing daunted, these
men are again on the firing line with
their faces to the foe they say they
will fight to q finish, and am certain
they will do so. 1t has cost these
men something to be democrats in
New Jersey and l take my hat off to
them. They are twanging a very
different string on the democratic
harp. They say they will have none
Of the reactionary, reorganizing, as
sistsnt republican crowd who threw
down the party in 1896 and 1900;
that rather than vote for Grover
Cleveland or any man who left the
party or who, even, was lukewarm in
those years when democratic workers
were at premium, they will 90 fish
ing on election day; that they do not
intend to swap a devil for witch or
barter their principles for a barren
victory. They say they have can
vassed the entire field Of democratic
possibilities and Of probabilities for
the year 1904, and Of the entire
number Of men mentioned in that
connection, the name Of William
Randolph Hearst, Of New York, is
the only one who was absolutely true
to the ticket when democrats were
needed, the only man who fought
savagely for the ticket, the only man
who is not in some way tied up to the
Wall street gang, the trusts or the
cormorant corporations Of the
country.
This then, makes the line Of dem
arcation in the state of perennial
politics.
I One side is lined up with Grover
Cleveland and the other with William
, Randolph Hearst. One side panderi
|, to the trusts and illegal corporations
Of the country in order to obtain the
wherewithal to fiji the campaign
/ Golfers, while the other stands pal
with the people and in q fight to ,
finish to crush the criminal trusts o.
the country.
: This, as nearly as can get II, is al
absolutely correct estimate Of tht
: conditions that exist in the state o
/ New Jersey to-day, state, by th,
9 way, that the democrats must carr,
in 1904 in order to win at the polls
! The democrats Of the country ar
I entitled to this information. II tn
I fight all over the country Is to b
9 along the lines as exemplifsd by tn
. conditions that obtain in New Jersey
9 they may draw their own conclusion
) and line up according to their desire
. and the predictions as democrats.