Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1915-06-17
PoLITIc Al OUTLOOK.

realized a few things in the past
few years. There was a time
WREN the corporations, the ring
sters and manipulators r this
government. They met in the
county conventions, in state con-
v%entions, and ran things and the
o binary citizen remained a.
home aid took little part in the
welfare Of the government. But
the primary election law made
all men equsl-the high and the
low were placed on the same
level. Even for some time after
that the average citizen did no,
study politics; he let the man
around town, in a large degree,
vote him .'but now he has learned
better; he sees that the imam
about town has an AK 10 grind ;
that this same man has very lit
tie sympathy with the man who
tolls and makes the wealth of the
world and so this once indiffer-
ent farmer and workman is wax
ing up and is doing some think
lug. He sees that the game of
the ringster and manipulation is
to abuse. vill:fy and charge some
body with something and there
by muddy up the waters 80 that
he can get in his own devilment.
The average man is wise, much
wiser than a few years ago. lie
studies his own men; he votes
according to the dictates of his
own conscience; he does not let
the brick-corner politician vote
him any more. That means u
new day in this state. The
"secret caucus" brought the
average man to himself; he saw
as never before the real forces
behind this government; he saw
the old ringster at the height of
his glory; he saw the rights Of
he plain honest citizen had been
rOdden under foot and he saw
hat now IS the time 70 wake up
the government into his !
hands. Since that time there :
a. been a new way of doing h
lings in this state. The people, !
ie great burden bearers of this I
OSerument. are having a say. 4
ONE of them may yet be fooled; Il
Iey will be told all sorts of false -
;ods; there will be yet many l.
can low down methods resorted !,
but this will not get many men u
know who their friends
re; they are going To use their L
wn Judgment in voting. '
This county is a sample Of the !,
entire state ~ W the manipola- /
tor. He stays around Oxford andt
from here the old secret caucus
sent out the dope. this
same old crowd stand Just as
against the rights OF the
people as they did in the
days Of the secret caucus. Some
few of them have reformed but,
as a rule. you will find in this
county the same old secret eau
Gus" crowd fighting BiIbo. Find
a man that is lighting BiIbo and
locate him-nine times out OF ten
ne is a man that voIed for Percy
or Alexander in 1911. There is
a reason for that. The reason is
simple. That old crowd is or
gsnized; they stay organized
they have no more sympathy
with the rights OF the average
citizen than has the average rich
man for the equal rights of the
poor. Not all this crowd is this
way. You always find a few feI-
lows that want to associate with
chat they think is the manipuia-
tor; they like to be noticed by
some folks. These men are to be
pi,ted. A man should not be led
around by the nose by some ma
nipulstor yet you see him now and
then and this same man that has
a ring in his nose despies him
he has no respect for him. This
same old crowd is as desperate as
they ever were; they are using
and will use every method known
to man TO defeat Bilbo and any
one else that stands for equal
rights" to all. Look at the lead
ers; see who they are. What
have these leaders done for the
peopie-aofhing but bunco them
every chance they got Is there
single one of these men cussing
Bilbo that has even half the
standing Bilbo has at his home?