The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01
Mr.. Benjamin King.

The Republicans and Greenoack-
ers, like oil and water, have mixed,
by dint of being much beat to-
gether: like oil and water so mixed,
the compound is weak and worth
less. II can be beaten as well, and
as easily before as after union, and
will be in November next.
The head of this mongrel ticket
is Benjamin King, the candidate for
Governor. The Democracy OF the
State says to the "wheel horse OF
Copiah," in the language of Hamlet;
"Be thou a spirit of health or goblin
damned?
Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blast
from hellY
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou com'st in such a questionable shape
That | will speak to thee"
And the cold wheel horse" will
hear much before the canvass is
over, known now to everybody else,
and which he will never forget as
long as he lives. In his acceptanceI
of the nomination, Mr.. King plants
himself on his own platform in his
letter to Deason, Hull, Taylor, ct al.
He seems to think it is q taking
thing" like the Dutchman's sus-
penders-long enough for a man
and short enough for a boy.
In this remarkable production
King says he is a Conservative. If
it is true, it is we'll that it is SO, for
it hath been said that when q man
is rtqht he can't be too Republican,
and il he is wrOng. as King is, he
can't be too Conservative. The idea
Of putting Ben King into the Cub
ernatorial chair is suggestiye-a
square peg into a round hole.
True, he has been honored by the
Democracy of his county; but the
fact is, the Democratic party of CO.
piah, for the last four or five years,
has held King in party lines at too
great a cost. Outsiders have won
dered all along why he was
so esteemed, Claiborne gave him
no support in the Senatorial District
Convention four years ago.
Mr.. King, in his letter platform,
denies that he is a Republican. He
can't hide it. One of our Church
street neighbors getting HON. late
at night, too full of the ardent,
hoped to deceive his wife by getting
quietly to bed and turning his back
to the partner of his joys. About
the time he began to congratulate
himself that his plan was q success,
he heard, "You had as well turn
over, you old fool, for you are drunk
plumb through" King a deceive
no one; he expects to receive the full
Republican vote. Birds of 4 feath-
er flock together" SO said King in
1875, in response to a Republican
who claimed to be a decent man. If
it was true then, it is true now.
If our Republican friends do
manage to vote for King, how are
they going to get the taste out Of
their mouths? We commend them
to do what the dog did Immediately
after eatingth the Limberger cheese.
The Greenbackers, who are mem
bers of that party from principle,
are not going to vote for Mr.. King.
Uncle Joe Sutton, who is a National
Greenbacker, and not on the hunt
for plumber, and the most prominent
one in Lincoln county, sees nothing
but bad principles in the fuse. He
thinks his party is based on plat
form of solid planks, and it grieves
the old mans heart to see these
planks used as spring boards from
which to jump into the muddy va
tiers of Republicanism. Uncle Joe
won't jump; he will vote for Lowry.
Mr.. King favcrs an "honest bal
lot and a fair count" so he an
nounced to the Convention. Let's
look at this. Even if MI. King is
honest in the belief that ballot box
es have been stuffed and voters in
Inundated by the Democratic party,
this affords him no reason for de-
sorting the political organization he
has acted with, and been honored
by, for fifteen years. His long con
tinuance in and Identification with
the Democratic party is an admis-
sion by him that the principles of
the party are correct. In fact he
has not beensheard to object to the
principles of Democracy; he pre-
tends that he left the party on ac-
count of its practices. Admitting,
for the argument, that frauds have
been perpetrated, could he not have
done more to purify the ballot with
in the party than without it? If
elections are carried by false counts
it will be easy enough to count an
other vote to destroy the effect of
Mr.. Kings ballot, or even a cor to
counter balance the votes of his per-
sonal friends-the utmost limits of
his followers--for when any man in
this country goes to the Republi-
cans, nobody follows him. Mr..
King surely knew that the party
counsels are the places to elevate
H. -u~ NIL