The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-09-18
WIMBERLY's STRATEGY.

Wiz has
n. overlooked the strategy of WimberIy.
DO what he will, he don't seem TO
strike the public nerve, nor to create n
ripple outside of the counties of Yollo-
busha, Grenada and Holmes. Beyond
the limits Of those counties the world
appears to be in blissful ignorance of
MS eXistance, and the amount of pen-
eralship which he throws into the
management of the Greenback cam
palgn seems to be in danger of being
: lost to the political tactics of this in
: teresting epoch. Even a complete
monopoly of the unpatented half of
The leading greenback organ of the
State, the Yallobusha Standard fails
to trouble the political waters out
side of the corporation of Coffeeville.
But Wimberly has 'strategy' for
all that. The man of the North or
South, still blindly believing in the
Democratic or Republican party, who
thinks that Wimberly has gone into
this race and got to be the Chairman
of the &. b. State executive committee,
without a stategy, fails to keep him
self properly posted in the politics of
Mississippi. Wimberly not only has
a strategy but very large sized one.
And if he don't prove himself a poiti-
cal general of wonderful fertility in re.
| will 1nf l,n q
readiness and emphasis in the express
sion of his able and comprehensive
views. He has inaugurated Il new
and shrewd and somewhat novel sys-
tenn of political fighting, and goes into
the war of politics with the dash and |
reckless vengeance of a daring guer-
rilla who expects everybody to be
taken by surprise and to run before
he has time to think how little
there is of the foe in pursuit.
He shoots fierce epithets right
and left. With hima thing is so and
so, and any man who ventures to
question'it is a liar and II coward, and
that, of course settles the question.
His curses are both loud and deep, and
oft repeated. He emphasizes the
dignity of his position by profuse hints
at the cowardice of his neighbOrs, the
unquenchable heroism of himself,
the grandeur and purity of his princi-
pies, the seething corruption OF those
whoditfer from him; and by free appli-
cation OF such elegant phrases as "it is
lie;;" "a lie willfully written;" "eyery
word lie;" "false as hell" "wOnder
if the editor of the South won't go to
hell for being id fool" &C., &c.
There is a page of it IN the Standard.
He came very near crowding the plat :
form out of the unpatented side of that ,
able organ with his strategy. He ap- ,
parently sought to cover the whole 9
ground of Greenbacksm, and to fill q
the paper with his statesmanly por- :
trayal of the horrors of democracy,
leaving the editor nothing to say and r
no room to say it in. =
Below we have taken the pains to T
selecta few of the choice bits of wisdom c.
which have eminated from this STRAIT q
egical Chairman of the G. B. State t,
Executive Committee, and we think h
all the world will agree with us, after p
reading them, that any party would tt
be fortunate in getting such chair tf
man to direct its affairs, that is, we D
mean, any party which felt tired of d,
living and wanted to get itself stabbed OF
o death by the hands of friend.
From the Yalobusha Standard. 81
"That portion of his article + y
is q lie, written maliciOusly, or
rom over-taxation of fear. And also
hat portion of the article where he ar
avs that "many of the Greenbackers 70
we're alarmed, +" is also false, and if he "
links that the Greenbackers were Id
Harmed then, now, or at any other hi
ime, let him and his friends call and wi
ee." H.,
ain that portion of it where W ".
le charges that The Greenbackers fled ltl
n all directions at the firing of the gr
irst gun, is a lie eOrittcn aOiJuiy, or ne
Trough fear" XII
These are facts as Mr.. Pearson stat ha
Il them to be, and know him SO well of
) for truth and bravery, that it would ov
Ot be healthy for any man TO go to
lis face and tell him to the contrary" la'
A sARKAsTIKAL PARAGRAPH. ha
II assure you that they are brave (; Oh
ut it is only when they are surround sci
d by all the so-called Democrats they ne
an raise here and in adjoining cOun- on,
leg, and only fifteen or twenty Green
ackers, and they unarmed." WI WI
GETTING READY TO DIE. oll
"On Monday, the 23d inst, the So th'
allied Democrats of this and adioin- tho
1g counties, assembled at this place of
1 mohs with their shot guns, bowie ,o,
nivcs and pistols, they said to keep co'
he peace but later i'm the day they o'''
hanged their programme, a commit sta
,e of one was appointed, consisting we
]. l.. Eskridge, and w. p. Hyde, n "a,
lend. to call upon me and demand u.l
lat cease advocating the National vii
reenback cause, or | would be of
dead man before midnight. My To
Tv reply was that / would when
cd called me away, and not until W.
len. about one hour later was called Ch
n by another committee, consisting of
FIR. w. Jones and w. L. Wynn, say M
70 the people demanded an n,conci- w ~.
01ai surrender Of D'y political pri'', ear
;Dles. My reply was that | hoped tina
hen / did that God would wither my hor
ght arm. or that death might come Gro
an r. ,
"Now, these are all facts, and stlll IL
of half told, and will, in few days trio
ave out my communication in full. mar
HAs above stated, these are facts, ,rit
nd he who denies it lies"
wIMBERLY's PRAYER. ."
"a God. let the Heavens fall, let the toes
,rtb sink, let the sun cease To shine orr,
1t for mercy's sake, and for the sake con
the rising generation, crush the So a..
,liaJ Democracy, is my honest and tina