Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-05-03
MR.. SISSON'S POSITION CON
SIDERED AND FOUND AT
VARIANCE WITH PAR
TVS PRACTICE.

tate candidates definition OF their
positions upon the various urgent
md developing subjects of public
interest. This has been done with
,ut antagonizing the Democratic
National and State platforms, for in
5he interums that come between the
state and national Democratic con-
ventions, local conditions arise in our
commonwealth that demand prompt
and wise political treatment. In the
hands of democracy repose the affairs
Of state in old rock ribbed Missls-
sippi. Consequently her sons who
are reared and born in the Demo
cratic fold have to take hold of these
problems and grapple with them.
A state legislature has the national
and state constitutions as a concrete
of fundamentals and
checks to guide them and keep them
within the bounds set by such a
center of legislative directions.
These legislatures endeavor to enact
laws that are in consonance with both
but that instead of being in the alb
stract are constructed to specifically
meet and take care of local con-
ditions. Just so out of these state
campaigns in Mississippi evolve spe-
cifc declarations for the party in
Mississippi to adopt into laws on its
statute books, for executive policy at
the statehOuse, and sometimes; just
as the national or state sentiment
expresses itself in addenta to the
pational or state constitutions in the
form of amendments, SO too some of
the new policies SO found take the
form of new planks to the Democratic
national and state platforms.
The candidate for state Office who
successfully represents the majority
of the thinkers in the rank and file,
gets his views endorsed in the demo
cratic primaries by nomination, just
as in the state convention certain
candidates may win posts of honor
by standing for certain new planks,
which prevail through a majority
vote of the caucus This was the
exact condition In the National Dem
ocratic Convention of 1896, when Mr..
Bryan was overwhelmingly nOmi-
mated after making his famous free
silver speech, as the presidential can
didate for Democracy, while the gold
bug possibilities were showed out OF
the way Bryan had openly stood
for and there uttered the sentiment
at that time held by the majority o.
his party and they sent him in the
field to win or lose on it. just as Miss
issippi Democracy will send Scott OF
Truly or Noel or some other into The
general election of this fall stamped
with their fulmi0ations to win Of
course as the stat&is owing to oul
franchise laws, overwhelmingly Dem
ocratic.
T., +bo ,...,.s ,,ou, On, oil tho ao,,di
dates for governor, except Mr..
Sisson, have wisely subscribed to
this useage of Democratic party econ
omy, and defined their positions, 50
that the masses of our party may
determine upon their fitness for the
Office sought, as much with reference
to them as a standard bearer of the
correct issues now appearing rs for
their special personal suitability Tor
the position. Not that it's thought
that all along the line as governor,
these men or the oae chosen of them
for bis particular platform as he
chooses to call it and for whlcia term
Mr.. Sisson would almost arraign
them for heresy to Democracy, but
for the salutatOry effect that their
selection upon such points OF issue
will have in governing all branches
Of the state government. 1t express
es in plain terms the thought and
the arraignment OF q majority OF
the Democrats of our state as to
these several points of issue, and
thus enables the legislatures aud
governors to set TO work to intelli-
gently construct and enforce legisla-
ton demanded by DemocFs@y. 1t
develops definite Democratic legisl-
ton. Sheds blazing rays of light for
the guidance of the lawmakers and
chief executive upon what would be
dark spots, had the people not so
spoken. What the use of Demo
cratic handling the reins of state
if she is not to be able
to govern the state not only from
Democratic principles but from def
mite and specific Democratic wishes.
All who subscribe to the Jeffersonian
fundamental the majority rules "
can certainly see the application in
this connection I. Democratic ma
jority too. It's the only correct way
to arrive at the sentiment of the ma
jorlty of our ranks.
The state candidates going up and
down the land speaking on these de-
veloping issues set the people to
and then when they repair
to the ballot box, they in sovereign
majority pin their endorsement to
the man who nearest comes to cor
rectly representing their opinions as
to these matters, This is their spoken