Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-08-03


AfE(S,Eal years many have been discouraged
5INsAR and disheartened, because the Peo'
Ez(7a9S& ple's Party, from which so much
was expected, has been practically idle. In sense
this DELAY was discouragiug, but it was natural
result, following mistaken judgment, as to what
was best to do. Some members Of the Peoples
Party believed the old Democratic Party could be
used as the champion of the masses Others took
the opposite belief Hot words followed and much
strife was engendered so much in fact that progress
was practically stayed. The late St. Louis conVen'
tion verified the claim Of the one wing ana con
vinced the other wing of the Peoples party, ana IL
has again cOne together wiser il not stronger than
it ever was hpfOre. 1t will also be much stronger
before the plesent national campaign comes to
close. The Peoples party has come to stay, and to
it the people must look for deliverence from the
classes.
The difference Of judgment as to the wisdom OF
fusion was not the only abuse the new party was
called upon to surmOnnt. There we're many others.
AS the child must pass through all the "kidt dis
cases. mumps, measles, whooping cough and kind
red Affections, SO was the Peoples party, in it's
earlier days compelled to suffer. Chief among all
these ills was the assumption on the part OF indi
viduals to boss the job.
Every politician who had been kicked out OF either
of the old parties, or turn down for Office by one
OF them, butted into the party with his aspira
tlOns and his determination to become great lead
er Usually his failurein his first alliance was due
to his unworthiness. II he was unworthy of trust
in an old party he certainly not worthy OF it in
the new. But be pushed to the front seat all the
same.
The experience of the past will safeguard the
Peoples party greatly in the iuture in this as we'll
as in other abuses.
The fact is the Peoples party needs no bosses
That is one OF the great abuses it attacks When
any man gets the idea that he any other mans
vote and can deliver it like 90 much hay potatoes
he is not q safe counsellor for the Peoples party
The demand Of the party is that the people shall
rule themselves and conduct their own business
Ne demand should be more rigidly enforced than
this one that when egotistical, hOggish, old SELF
appointed boss demands that he should be the whole
thing, and sulks when all do not bow down and
worship him, he should be kicked out into the gut
ter that the s0od work may progress. No man who
wants to pose as a great leader is worthy OF the
confidence or respect Of the tOiling millions in this
Republic BE certainly has no place in the Peoples
party in any state or section During the past eight
years the people have uncovered many Of this kind
OF fakirs Some who have been liOnized, have sim
ply been posing for the purpose Of taking advantage
OF the sorrows Of the struggling masses to gain per
sonal ends. 2ne scheme has Leen carried so fan In
some instances that these leaders have not cDly
promised but assumed to deliver the POpulist vote
to this or that candidate running on an old party
ticket.
We don't believe the people viii stand for this
sort Of knavery any more. The Peoples party will
SOON be the dominant party OF the nation, and every
care will be taken to save it from the same fate
which has destroyed both Of the old parties in this
particular.
There is no one connected with this newspaper
now who assumes to lead or to boss any populist
We are only too willing to work faithfully in the
ranks and we have confidence sufficient in the
masses to believe they able to boss and govern
themselves Tney must possess these qualities or
they will never succeed, nor do they deserve to
succeed
The demand OF the hour is for the masses to stand
forth in all their strength, in all their grandeur
al their rights ell their determined bravery, and
run things for themselves. By doing this they viii
Inspire not only confidence il themselves but in
each other.
Here xnd there may be found q former cOnapie-
uons ponnlist worker il Mississippi standing for