Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-02-10

FORE IN Ml4e14alppas anu WI
troll ofstate. Such = disgraOefuldebauch
&c followed this capture Of the stale
By the baser element Of political power
comes 10 few states Ia the South, and
It may be the prayer Of Mississipplans
that It win never be repeated.
And how stubbornly the forces that
ought to be depended upon to denOuce
such a debauoh struggled toperpetuate
the curse. The so-called strong
churches Of the state, the judiciary,
with few exceptions, the boosted great
banking and commercial interests OF
the state, also with here and there an
Is lated exception, rallied around the
standard Of that rotton administration
and resorted to every means faiF and
foul to succeed it with 3 singular one.
But there came from out the bull
rushes, q Moses, not in 3 basket, but
upon two manly legs, hale, daring,
defiant, honest, and he went among
the people and imploFed them to
turn from the error OF their ways. He
showed them the crooked walks their
servants were pursuing, denounced
the debauching of the Judiciary, the
bartering Of priestly robes and incense.
the danger Of trading q mans birth
right for q mess Of pottags, and APP
pealed to the manhood Of the State to
stand up and be counted against. the
unholy, hypocritical, thieving gang
combined to continue the high handed
work of the abuse called q State adj
ministratiOn, and the would be dicta-
tors Of their own successors. The
people listened. Appeals from the
" business" politicians to accept q
crown OF gold and vote for a contin-
uance of the rotten rule in Missis-
sippi, was spurned, aud the humble,
Commoner, the nan of the people and
from the peoples ranks, the Moses
standing erect on strong limbs and
with q clear head and manly breast
fully developed, was chosen as the
chief executive of the State to right
the wrongs under which the people
we're struggling. Never was such q
victory won by mortal man; eve
such odds confronted and shattered,
as though they were the dazzling bub-
bles from q soap pipe. Against him
was not only arrayed a subsidized
press, q State administration, APP
pointed judges, deluded Christian
workers, all reinforced by a Federal
executive and bis patronage, but even
in his own ranks were to be found
here and there the willy political hop
per looking for place, who at the last
moment contributed his smooth liter
ature to cause distrust and to dis
credit the honest, unheeded work
being done in the righteous cause.
But all this cruel, beastly, damnable
opposition went down before the
righteous indignation of the honest
manhood of the State, and Mississippi
may today be congratulated as step
ping on the threshold Of a lucid inter
val.
The progress of the world up to the
present day is doubtless due to an oc-
casional conspicuous character coming
along at ar importsnt epoch to cham
pion the cause Of the thoughtless peo-
pie and to startle them into g realiza-
tion of whittier they are drifting
Really It seems ct times as though the
public likes to be robbed, to be abused,
to be drained Of the last available dol
lar that q few may run riot and have
to waste.
It seems that the hour lie at hand for
the appearance Of 3 Moses for the
nation as it was important last sum-
that one arise in Mississippi. We be-
lieve also that such q man Is born, is
In the flesh, in health and in form to
do that for the nation which James K.
Vardamsn has and will do for Missis-
sippi, /. g. take the management of the
public business out Of the dishonest
hands of trIcksters and turn 1t back to
the people a. their inherent right.
It ought to be the irst thought Of
Mississippi. of the entire South in
fact, to discover that national Charac-
ter, If possible, and call him to the
post of duty. II 3 nation has ever
been cursed BY an imbicile, by It's chief
executive office passing into the hands
of the most glazing cad and incomps-
tent Individual, whose insect authority
is absolutely ~nauseating to every
American citizen, we r certainly
experiencing that disgrace ct the pres
emit moment. While the fellow is
willing to serve his party, no matter
how or when, 1t Is still appArent that
the rank and file Of bis party accept
him in trembling, because its safest
~counsellors neverknow when be Is go-
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