Show IN MISSISSIPPI The Tribune this morning as the organ of the Republicans says that President Cleveland cannot afford to ignore tho resolutions of their the Republicans of Mississippi convention If the President i Presi-dent wishes not to ignore the duties of his office he will have to ignore the resolutions resolu-tions of the various Republican conventions conven-tions which have been held recently In every Republican convention which has been held resolutions of very much the same character of this one from Mississippi Missis-sippi have been adopted only in the latter case the form of condemning the outrages at the polls in the South is new in that the Republicans at Jack 5r t t son decided to put no ticket in the field i i I because of the wellknown impossibility of securing at the polls an honest election elec-tion It is rather strange that all of a sudden the Republicans of Mississippi should have reached the conclusion not to put a State ticket in the field on account of the impossibility of securing an honest election at the polls Has any new danger dan-ger appeared in that State since last March This resolution the same sort It of political trickery that made the ignorant ignor-ant negroes of the South believe that were I a Democratic President to be elected the j negroes would be sent into slavery again The Tribune says that now there comes from the State of the Secretary of the Interior the solemn resolution I of a State executive committee I declaring that it is impossible to secure I at the polls an honest election that in the sense of the committee it is useless II to call a convention or to nominate a ticket Well what of it The probability I proba-bility is that the most solemn thing in the whole affair is the resolution itself I I The National Republican Convention in I its Platform solemnly denounced the fraud and violence practiced by Democracy Democ-racy in the Southern States by which the will of the voter is defeated as dangerous to the preservation of free institutions and we solemnly arraign the Democratic party as being the guilty recipient of the fruits of such fraud and violence It is to be presumed that President Cleveland I cannot afford to ignore the resolution of I the Chicago Convention Certain it is that no recent outrages have been reported re-ported from Mississippi The charge of the Mississippi Republican State Executive Committee is too general and too vague to i admit of its being proven The Tribune sarcasticly says we are told daily that this is an Administration of reform that the people reinstated the Democratic party to correct abuses That is just the kind of an Administration that is in office and it was put in office to correct abuses which had been brought about through long years of Republican misrule mis-rule and irresponsibility If the present Democratic Administration shall continue as faithful in the discharge of its duties in the future as it has been in the past all the solemn resolutions re-solutions in the world will not cause the people to withdraw from it their hearty approval and sympathy while the rule of the Democratic party will be as long if not longer than was that of the Republican Republi-can party In view of the solemn resolution reso-lution of the Mississippi Republicans we would suggest that the Tribune write an editorial defining what the duty of Democrats Demo-crats is in the premises |