Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-11-16

theni Will not they be as desperate and unscrup-
ulOus in knitting their own ticket as they we're in
IS96i Every argument based upon human nature
says that they will Then even il Mr.. Bryan should
win the nomination Of his POpust platform in 1905
the plutOcratic element in his own party will bar
bis progress and compass his defeat just as they
did before. Again, suppose that the plutoeratic
element should triumph over Mr.. Bryan in 1908 as
they did in 1904, then Mr.. Bryan will have to sub
NIT just he did submit in 1904, after having de-
cIared publicly and positively that he would never
support gold standard nominee Of the Democratic
party.
Mr.. Bryan cOuld not bolt in 1905 The time to
have done that was 1904. That opportunity will
not return. he himself has set the example of sub
mitting to what wrong, because although it was
wrong, it was regular.
In short the Democratic party has this hopeless
situstiOn. The Bryhnites cannot drive out the plu
tocrstic element the plutocratic element cannot
drive out Mr.. Bryan. They exhaust their strength
with internal struggles leaving the party where its
enemies can defeat it at the polls There is this
further weakness in the programme OF Mr.. Bryan:
The PutOcaatc element has shown that it can safely
defy him and combat him although he is the nOmi-
nee, whereas, he submits to them when they put up
plutOeratic nominee. From party so hOpelessly
divided it is the rankest folly in my judgment, to
expect any reforms. From year to year it is a
merry gO-TOund and round Of one faction fighting
another faction each OF which alternately whips the
other and neither OF which whips the enemy.
should only be too glad to cooperate in parallel
lines and honorable terms with any Jeffersonian
Tov.
Fred Williams to accomplish purpose which is
cOmmtn for to us all, bat believe that the best
way to assure the final success Of the reform move
ment is for Us to build up party Of JefersOnian
Democracy on solid foundations where unity of SEN
timent goes hand in hand with unity Of purpose,
and where, therefore, some hope Of accomplishing
that which we wish to accomplish can be reasonably
entertained.
In the South, there are peculiar reasons Why the
present policy Of the Democratic leaders should be
de eleated and better line Of policy adopted. For
the last twenty-five or thirty years the Democratic
machine politicians have made that great section a
mere tool in the hands Of Wall Street aud handful
of Jlsstern Democrats who have no purpose in CON-
mon with and who use the electoral vote OF the
Solid sonth for their own selfish purposes In this
msuner our Southern country, which is an empire
in itself, has been made province for a few great
financial magnaes who exploit it for their private
gain without the slightest reference to the welfare
Of the Southern people, The situation is pitiabe.
The degradation of 1t finds expression in the phrase
'sThe Solid South would vote for yellow dog on
the Democratic ticket" AS a Southerd man I am
ashamed Of such state Of affairs and resent it pre-
fOundly. If can do anything toward accomplish
ing the political independence Of my own people
from this slayish servitude to a handful Of Wall
Street politicians, I consider it my duty to do So
If the Peoples party had no other mission than to
relax the grasp which the great railroad corpora
tions have upon the throat OF the Southern Sates
grasp which is maintained by the alliance between
Democratic bosses and Wall Street financial kings,
then it would have sufficient mission to warrant It's
continued existence.
Ny own State Of Georgia is as completely under
the thumb Of Morgan and Belmont one Of
whom controls the Southern Railroad combine
as the State Of Pennsylvania is under the control
Of the Pennsylvania Railroad, or the State Of Wis
consn Lafollette has won national fame in combat
ting. The situation is simply appalling and would
not be believed by anybody who was not cOnversant
with the facts. expect to return home and open a
campaign On the line Of Jeffersonian Democracy to
take our State Government out Of the control Of
Morgan and Belmont and to put it in the control Of
the Georgia people who're it belongs. In nearly
every Southern State there sa similar contest to be
waged against corporation tyranny. BY the time
the next Presidential election rolls around there Is
every reason TO believe that there viii be a sufi-
cient in favor 1.-THE reform principles embodied in
the national platform Of the Peoples party to win
success at the polls. It all depends upon the work