The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-07-22
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
HURRAH for Hooker,

and Hooker.
The two-thirds rule was masked
in the Convention.
THE Greenbackers are sick. They
are afraid of Hooker.
The combinations didn't work
worth a cent in the Convention.
HOOKER swept everything before
him in the Convention, as he will IN
the election.
HOOKER promises to canvass every
county in this district. He will make
it warm for all opponents.
Coz DEAsoN can have no hopes
of defeating Col. Hooker, the Demo-
cratic nominee for Congress.
Hon. C, Z. HOOKER, the silvery-
tongued orator of Mississippi, will
again represent this district in Con
gress. &c..
THE Democrats of Maine have
united with the Greenbackers and
together have appointed an electoral
ticket.
Mrs. DIR. GADBURRY in the Yazoo
Sentinel Of the Sth inst, pays a
beautiful tribute to the memory OF
Mrs. Amy Dixon.
UNANIMOUS, grand and eloquent
Hooker. G~reenbackers, lndepen-
dents and Radicals clear the tra2
OF you will be smashed.
HooKER's friends had their eyes
fully open in the Convention, and
very properly continued the malorl-
ity rule, which has heretofore pre-
vailed.
GREENBACKIsM is on the wane. All
the most sensible men of the new or
g~anization are enlisting under the
Hancock and English alag, Keep the
ball moving,
THE Greenbackers have an organ
ization only in three of the sixteen
counties of this District, yet they
a they will elect their candidate
to Congress. Stuff.
WE are asked why we call the
Greenbackers, "Green-crackers. !"
Because they are the tail ends of the
Democratic and Republican parties
and will soon be popped off.
Is Col. Col. Deason a Green-crack.
er, Independent, Republican on
what? He is too modest to state
what he is, except that he would like
to go to Congress. Hooker and the
people will object.
KINDS county didn't split. Oliver
Clifton and Price Porter were at the
helm, and managed things most
beautifully and entirely satistacto-
rilv to more than two-thirds of the
delegates present at the Congress.
iOnal Convention.
THIS is a day of unanimity. Mon
ey was renominated by reclamation
SO was Chalmers, Muldrow anG
Hooker, and so will be Manning
and Singleton. All the Mississippi
Congressman will be returned. They
are worthy ofthe honor.
HANCOCK and English have been
elected honorary members of the
Yazoo City Democratic Club, and
the Secretary has been requested to
notify them of the honor conferred,
When they hear the good news their
hearts will jump with joy.
How do old Confederate soldiers,
who fought four year for a cause
they believed to be right, endured
all manner of hardships, away from
home and families, like the idea of
being taxed to give to Federal sold
iers enough back pay to make their
salaries equal to gold? That is
what Weaver, the %lunatic candi-
date of the crazy Greenbackers, ad-
vOcates,
SOME of the papers of the State
have bitterly censured Gen. Stephen
d. Lee, President of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College, for going
North to employ two Professors for
his school. They think, as We do,
that he could have found the nee
essary talent at home. The insti-
81 tuition is for Mississipplans and
= should be taught by people of our
own State, if competent teachers
could be found within our borders,
YANKEE soldiers got $l3 per
month in greenbacks during the
war, and were satisfied with it, if it
did take two dollars of that money
to buy one of gold; but the wild
Greenbackers, who are now crazy
for ereenbacks for the dear people,
say that money was not good enough
for the poor soldiers, and insist that
they should be paid for evey months
service $13 more to make their sail
aries equal to gold. How do men of
the South like the picture?
THESE are the grand words that
Hancock uttered to Mrs. Surrat's
counsel q few moments before her
execution: II have been in many
a battle, and have seen death and
mixed with it in disaster and in
victory. | have been in a living
hell of fire and grapeshot, and, by
God! Ed sooner be there ten thou
sand times over than to give the or
der this day for the execution of that
poor woman; but | am a soldier
sworn to obey, and obey / must."