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

most exclusively producing people. They pro-
duce from the bosom Of mother earth the wealth
that is gambed with and utilized by the Wall Street
gang which dominated the st. Louis convention.
To use a vulgansm Of the present day, we d0n'e
believe the hOary handed producer Of Mississippi
will stand for any such delivery. In Jackson,
among the kid gloved white pantalOcned panama
hated dudes who live OF the taxes gathered
throughout the state, some little enthusiasm may
be engendered by the metropolitan press which
showers down all manner Of fake stories OF the sage
Of EsOpus. But out along the ripping creeks, ct
the cross roads, on the sand hills and throughout
the agricultural region, where it is scramble at
the end Of the year to scrape together sufficient funds
to pay the taxes to keep up these dudes, the old
farmer is not caring much about the recommends
tiOns of David B. Hill and August Belmont.
II wet blanket had been spread over the entire
state, it could not have had more dampening eff
feet than did the news which came announcing that
the people had been delivered into the hands Of
mammon by the st. Louis convention.
The boasts Of what the solid South would do In
the premises, and the assumption that this great
rich and fertile section OF the nation could be relied
upon to obey any command by the bosses, il New
York simply said the word, did not impress these
masses in Mississippi any more than did the tele-
gram from the Wall Street Tool at EsOpus and the
sOppy negro plank in the omnibussed platform i'm
press the gallant Governor Of Mississippi at the st.
Louis convention.
referring to the only issue in which the South is
united is weak, evaslve and meaningless, and that
to him it is very unsatisfactory.
Governor Vardaman is direct FROM the people; he
knows their wants aud their likes. He knows that
every man in the South wants to meet the negro.
question directly and squarely and that he protests
against the Republican Roosevelt attitude on the
question. Every man in the South also knows that
the meaningless plank in the st. Louis PLATFORM Of
which the Governor complains, is simply pushing
the question for another four years and prac-
tcslly playing the baby act It does not satisfy any
Democrat that lives in the South, and the fact is
that the Democratic party nationally has simply be-
come side show Of the Republican party, as It has
been ever since the Hill Belmont New York gang
has had control OF it. Why any Southern man
should stand for such insults as that St. Louis plank
on the negro question forces him to stand, s ques
ton no sane man will attempt to answer. Our Gov
ernOr denounces it. That Governor was the peO-
ple's choice against the political schemers last year.
He has not ceased to be acOmmOner and is still one
Of the people.
But what we started out to suggest is simly this;
The people Of Mississippi took a very advanced
stand last year. All the South hOnOred It for that
stand It can and should take one more advanced
step this fall. It should stand for a loyal, true,
patriotic Southern man for President instead Of
throwing away It's votes upon a tool Of Wall Street.
All the people Of all the other states in the South
would honor it for this advanced stand. They
would even follow it, aud free themselves from the
tyrany Of the political BOSSES