The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-08
PHEY WILL SUPPORT LOWRY
they Want a Pair Election, Froe IRON
Kings Six arreled Codes.
A VERY UNSATISFACTORY TICKET.
mo RepubIicanisfn in 1t, There
fore 4 Can Not support IT."
wHO WILL, BOLL.O NEXT?

WHO Will. BOE4L.O NEXT
Jackson, August 81. 1881.
To the Editor of the Comet:
Igave II caption to this communica'
ton, and put it in quotation. becaus
it not only expresses my sentiments II
regard to the ticket which vas promul
gated here on the 25th inst, but it ais
reflects the sentiments. and defines thu
position of many other true and trlet
Republicans whom [ have met at the
Capital. We were invited here to wit
ness the resurrection of the party ant
nomination of a Republican ticket
The hour had como at last, Represen
tative Hall was filled with anxious ex
pectancy. The Chairman of the STATE
Executive Conmittee-a fragment o
the party which still remained on eartl
acted as Gabriel of the occasion, an(
announced through his trumpet from
the Speaker chair, that long contem
plated resurrection of the Republican
party of Mississippi was about to com
mence. O! what eloquent silence wa
there; and the suppressed shouts o
''welcome" beamed from every eye o
the Old Guard, as We peered through
the crowd and expected to see the sol
emu procession come forth headed b,
an Alcorn, a Simrall, a Lea. q Morpliis
a Gibbs, or a Mckee. Alas! for lu
man hope or fond desires. But bark
A conference Committee man reads
listen; what do we hear? For Governol
Ben. King. Und..) Of Copiah county
Lieut.. >Governor-J. b. Yellowiy. (G
b. of Madison county; Aplitor-A L
Wimberly, &C. B. of YaIlobnsha coun'
ty; Superintendent of Il lucation-W
d. Howe e.. 3D. Of DeSoto county
But said I to a friend at my e!'
bow. "where do the Republicans comt
in? Ia what oorner of this grand city o.
the political dead, are they expected t.
,isp?'
Wait" said he. and you'll be in
structed."
Well, l waited. And the same stem
torian voice which / had recognized as
belonging to an ex Attorney General
called ouS: For Treasurer. NJ. By
num-, (R4p.,) of Alcorn county; Secreta
nv of State--Sett!e, (afterward'
changed to j. j. SpeIman) (Rep. } o
Kinds county; Attorney General-W. L
Fitzgerald, Rep.,) of Warren county
There said my friend, didn't
tell your Yes, You told me, But
still I cant see how this is a resurrec'
ton Of the r publican party. Three
olt of seven on uhe ticket, especially
when 1t is expected that the Republl'
cans will furnish nineteen twentieths o
the votes to elect it, don't seem to mt
to be much of a rise" And as it is moi
my party that was resurrected the 9th
er day. but a %E4ougrel affair composed
of a political nothing as he has an
nounced himself, at the head, and thu
Greenbackers. for whose principles
have 10 regard, and perchance. a few
sore~head Democrats whose hankerine
for Office outweighs their devotion tt
principles, /, as a life-long Republican
am free to say, / want none of it. Il
has no claim on me, or on any othej
order loving, peace restoring Nationa
Republican for support.
But I am asked by old political asso'
ciates: What will you do. and wha'
can we do in this canvass. and in thi!
~crisis?" | will answer for myself with
frankness and candor. | shall supper
the ticket headed by General Rober
Lowry, (for short, Dear Bob,") and
shall do so as a Republican. Now fol
nv reason:
First. There being no Republican
ticket in the field, | am, as a Repubii.
can. absolved from local Or State party
allegiance. aud as a citizen, | am remit
ted in this State canvass, to my righ'
of choice between the tickets presented
for my support
Secondly. | am a man of peace; il
favor of law and order; of internal i'm
provements and the progressive devel
opment of our State on broad. high
liberal principles, to the end that he
moral and material interests shall be
advanced to the highest plane of civil
zation, aud the welfare, happiness, ant
prosperity of all her citizens secured
These high aims to which | have devo'
ted a lifetime of discussion, | have come
to realize, can only be secured ant
maintained by a combination of all in
tellectual, moral. and material force.
winch constitute modern civilized so,
ciety. | recognize with pleasure in the
personel oil the ticket headed by Gener.
al Lowry. gentleman of character and
thought who are now fully up to my
standard in the ideas | have presented,
aud behind them is a we'll organized
intelligent and powerful party publicly
committed to the same views. am rs,
sured that in this canvass there is tc
be no b~ulldozing, ballot box. stuffing
or false count, i%naugnratel or permit
ted by the party in power. "A full vote
a free ballot and a fair count" is the
motto of the campaign on their side.
| thank God for the assurance, backed
as If is by the men aud the party that
have the power to enforce their edlcts
It is the dawnings of q better day for
Mississippi. 1t is the beginning of the
end OF strife and turmoil and violence
at elections, and will draw the fangs of
the opponents of Mississippi as a State
to emigrate to. It is a grand card to
play: and if it be played in good faith
for all it is worth, the average voter of
the State will not fail to appreciate it.
1t is an appeal to his reason, his iudg-
ment. his manhood, when you approach
him and say-''come let us reasonn to-
gether" about these local matters OF
ours which concern us equally as cit;-
of the State. In that manner
YOU get his ear, and will gain his at
tention and confidence. And there be-
ing no national issues before the people,
or political nam like "R Republican" to
fetter his mind aud preoccnpy his
thoughts. you enlist his intert st aud
secure his vote, and "nobody's hurt"
That would be my plan of the cans
paign: aud I have been alone there.
But how about the opposition ticket?
What are they going to do in this mat
ter of violence and bulldozing in the
l am asked. Well, it is
probably too early to answer that qnes-
but if | may be allowed to infer
their policy in this regard from the
speech of 1.-THE head of the ticket the 9th
er night, in accepting the nomination,
l should say they mean violence, six
DarreieQ cOueS huu uouoitd ulITSieu
thunder. And I suppose the head
speaks for the whole ticket, except per-
haps the three Republicans on it. l
eau hardly believe that my best of
friends, Gen. Fitzgerald, whose senti.
I know very we'll. will allow him
self to be committed to the reinaugura-
tian of '.bulldozing" by his new p,liti
cal head. Aud ! would say to Gen. F.,
as his undying personal friend, remem>
Der General, when you we're q Republi-
can; that is, before You got into sucII
awfully bad political company. our
was ''toie fair" And although
you have allowed yourself to be placed
the tale end OF a ticket whose head
one of the chiefs OF the ''bulldoz-
ers" in 1875. aud you and | and u
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