Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-11
A PAIR OF PRIZE KICKERS.

Editor Pizarro Kossuth Mayors, for
"real pretty man" is one of the most
inveterate kickers in the State. He
kicked viciously and continuously
against the denomination of Governor
Lowry until the Convention kicked
the kicker so hard and high that he
needed constitutional amendment to
mend him after he got down to earth
again. But his kicking propensity
was not Jared out of him by his sud-
den elevation and fall. No sooner is
his shattered frame of mind braced
up by few days rest than he hoists
his hoof again, this time against what
he calls the "ungenerous greed" of the
western part IF the State.
In the Paseagoula Democrat
Star, of September 4th, an editorial
accompaniment is played to the dirge
of the Meridian Tribune which walls
aver the failure of the mighty East to
get representation on the State ticket.
This is the way the Tribune unwinds
its music-box:
How long will East Mississippi con
tinue to be the newer of wood and
drawer of water for the balance Of the
State? Forever, we suppose, unless
some man of courage and brains, with
the elements of leader in his COM
position, heads a revolt against one or
more of the nominees.
And this is the way in which Editor
P. K. chimes in:
There is better way, we think, to
bring about the desired result, if the
worst comes to the worst. Have the
State Convention controlled by re-
presentatiyes according to Democratic
population. 1t appears to US that such
course would take West, or rather
NorthW est Mississippi down at least
one button hole. Such ungenerous
greed under the circumstances, shown
by that section needs a check, and the
course proposed would come about as
near doing it as any we know of.
Both these tunes, as the distinguish
ed composers well know, are founded
on fairy tales. 1t was very easy for the
Eastern counties to have achieved a
representation on the ticket commen-
surate witch their Importance and
voting strength if they had gone up
to the convention solid for one candi-
date for each Of the offices they de-
sired. The real trouble with the
Mighty East was it suffered from an
over-production of distinguished office
seekers in the last convention. II
planted a bigger crop than it could
gather.
The western counties put up Their
best men, voted for them steadily, es-
chewed wrangling and trading, and
drew to their support votes from the
weaker eastern candidates. 1t was the
"Kilkenny-cats" tactics pursued by the
"men Of the Mighty East" which
caused them to feel so lonesome after
the nominations were over, and not
the "ungenerous greed" of the west
ern section of the State as editor May
ers would have people believe.
AS to his proposition to "have the
State convention controlled by
representation according to Demo
cratic population" that is "tht
merest rot" This section Of
the State has fewer white Re
publicans than the sea coast where tht
custom-house officials vegetated so lux
uriously in the sweet past-and-gone
| it has also an overwhelmingly larger
proportion of colored Democrats thar
the turpentine gardens among which
the Democrat-Star sheds it's exuberan
rays.
1t is to be earnestly hoped that thu
Meridian and Pascagoula editors viii
tie-up their complaining voices, throw
away their cracked bazoos, and qui
playing wild Wagnerian strains tt
split the rivets out of Democratic
Harmony. But if they will persist ii
kicking, let them not kick against tn
State ticket, but go out in their respec
tive back-yards and kick themselves.
Climatic Scare.
Boston Transcript.