The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03
why Lincoln County Was Not Dem.
Ocratic Throughout.
Brookhaven Democrat

| BfOOkllhNeii i'thiofth
The election of Col. Byrd TO the Leg
islatu.e from this county and Amite
demonstrates that Lincoln county is
Democratic upon party. contest. He
carried the county by 500 majority
over the Republican nominee. The
majority of the people are thoroughly
Democratic in principle. 1t Is this,
with them that gives force TO the name
and not the name that makes the
principle. Our people think that the
Democracy ought to practice as well
as preach the Jeffersonian theory, and
the Convention that nominated the
Representative for the county did not
practice this, for the man that was
nominated was known and conceded
by all candid men to be incompetent to
fill the position, and many good DEM
ocrats believed that his nomination
was dictated to suhserve the interst Of
few individuals rithlr than for the
public good and hence many were
lukewarm who voted, and many
others remained away from the polls
altogether--Col. Byrd although nomi-
mated by the same Convention, but
being not only honest but being fully
competent was supported and trlum-
phantly elected.
II L. a base Islander upon the people
OF this county TO say that they are
.rotten,n either politically or other
wiae. They are Der iocrats In the true
sense Of the term but they are not the
slaves nor tools OF any ring or clique,
nor can they be made so. They will
never be made to sacrifice the princi-
~ n To-
name they will hold TO the substance
rather than the form. 1t Is not sur
prising that the county went for Col.
King. He was and is known persou-
ally to the people, he has been practi-
cally their neighbor for years, and has
made among them many warm per-
Republican but as a citizen, one of
the people, who had in the past rem
dered valuable services to the COM
monwealtb. He was open and pro-
nounced in his views rs to the right
Of the legislature to regulate the tariff
Of railroads, and our people were with
him on this question.
The ultimate results of the success
of the ticket which he headed, was
never properly placed before the peo-
pie Of this county. The County Ex-
ecutive Committee save an address is
sued by its Chairman at the inception
of the canvass, absolutely did mo-
thing that the public was able to
see. The county was not canvassed,
nor was any Of the able speakers of
which the county can boast invited
by the Executive Committee to do
so, but the party was left to run itself
without direction or suggestion from
those to whom the conduct Of the can
yass was committed by the proper
authority of the Democratic party.
Late in the can ASS when IL was
made manifest that nothing was being
done TO secure the election of the
for Representative, aud when
il was equally clear that defeat was
one of the young Democ-
racy came to the front as the leader of
the forlorn hope and sought by vig-
orous and earnest effort TO save the
party from defeat, and though late
In the canvass as it was, and fighting
the battle almost alone. without the
aid Of party machinery-ne came very
near sfiatching victory from the very
laws of defeat, and had he have had |
Lbe power of Joshua of old, to COM |
mand the sun to stand still, and had
il obeyed, until he completed the
battle, he surely would have won.
Lincoln county is not "rottonn In any |
sense, but she Is sound to the core,
and when her free and independent
voice can be heard untrammelled and
by inefficient party |
she will speak In thun-
Ger tones for the Democracy.