The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1921-07-09
DEMOCRATS ENDORSING RE
PIJBLICANS FOR OFFICE

The Yazoo News has a timely ar
ticle in reference to applicants Tor
office at the hands Of the Republ-
cans, asking Democrats to sign their
petition for appointment. Men who
vote the republican ticket cannot
claim to be democrats, nor can ap-
plicants for republican Office be true
to the democratic party and it does
not seem in accordance with the
eternal fitness of things" for good
democrats to sign petitions for re-
publican appointees to oust demo-
Gratis. A man can be republican
and be a good man, and one can be
a democrat and not good man. The
fact that one is a republican doesn't
mean that he is not good, for there
are good men in the republican par
ty who are republicans from princi-
Pile and not for office, but a man
cannot claim to be a democrat and
vote a republican ticket, or vice ver-
sa. The News says:
To the mind of The News it is
somewhat presumptious in Republl-
cans going to Democrats and asking
them to endorse them for an Office
that is being held by a good Demo-
crat Why should the Democrats be
requested to join in asking some of
their friends, political and personal,
to surrender offices in which they are
giving perfect satisfaction. If the
Republicans want these places let
them go out among their political
friends and get them to sign their
petitions; certainly there is no good
reason why Democrats should be
ased to do son. We are aware of the
fact that it has been the custom for
the Republicans, after one of their
kind has been elected President, to
begin at once circulating petitions
to oust the Democrats, especially has
this been true with reference to the
postoffices, and these office seekers
do not hesitate to present petitions
to Democrats, and unthough ghtedly
these good fellows signed without
hesitation, little thinking that in do
ing SO they were taking the bread
out of some good Democrats mouth
and handing it over to political
enemy.
That this custom has prevailed is
no reason why it should be contin-
ued indefiniteld and The News think
the time has come for the Democrats
to refuse to sign any petition that
has for its purpose the removal of
a Democrat and thus make room for
a republican. 1t is neither good poll
tics nor is treating a friend right.
Most of these office-seeking Re-
publicans in the South claim to be
in local and state politics, Democrats
but in national elections they vote
with the republicans-in other words
they want TO catch the plumbs both
going and coming. All voters have
a perfect right to choose which party
they will align themselves with; but
they have no right to play Democrats
in one election and Republicans in
another, and then when the Republi-
cans win in the national elections to
come to Democrats and ask them to
sign petitions to remove some Demo-
crat that the place may be filled in
by some fellow who claims that in
national elections he is republican,
but in State and local elections he is
Democrat. If the Republican party
is good enough for them in national
affairs, it should be considered by
them equally as good for local and
State affairs, and The News has very
little patience with these straddlers
in politics, and is not going to en-
dorse any Republican for any office.
We are just that kind of a Democrat
that believes that the domination of
the Rpublican party is bad for either
the State or Nation, and we certainly
are not going to endorse or sign any
petition that will assist in placing
them in power.
There were something like 1000
votes cast in the last election in the
State for Harding and Coolidge. Now
of this number about four-fifths are
hunting offices, and have the cheek
to go out among the 100000 Demo-
Gratis and request them to sign petit
tions to remove Democrats who are
holding these federal positions with
satisfaction in the State. What would
these fellows think of the Democrat
who would come to one of them with
petition that he (the Democrat)
be retained in office? They would
laugh at him and be justified in do
ing so. So what is sauce for the
goose should also be for the gander,
and if the Republicans want these
positions (about which there is not
h question of doubt) let them only
request their political allies to assist
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