The Brookhaven leader., 1888-05-03
JOHN II. MARTIN FOR CONGRESS.
what He Has Done and Is Doing In the
Interest of the People.

gressional honors in our district, but
there is one whom his friends are de-
termined to press as a candidate,
with most strenuous force and energy.
The country is sick of mere politi-
clans, men who stand dumb before
the most important questions, If the
people happen to divide upon them,
and their championship chance to in
volve the antagonism of any person
of influence and political power. The
country is sick of politicians, equivo-
cal fence striding, office seekers whose
only conviction is II firm and indOm-
liable belief in their own fitness for
public position and the necessity OF
doing nothing that may family
cndanger vote.
Our people need, and | believe, de-
sire n man who has not tarried to see
that the people are all agreed upon an
issue before he champions it, but who
has boldly and brilliantly striven for
every measure of interest and i'm
pOrtance to the masses of the people,
although in doing this he has embit-
tered and antagonized the most pow
erful influences in our State.
The man of all others, not only in
the district but i'll Mississippi, who
fills, in fullest measure, these eXac-
lions, is pointed to with particular
fondness and regard by the people of
Utica, for in this impregnable Quebec
of Democracy he first began to dis
play the brilliant powers and politi-
cal boldness that have since marked
his public course. AS the reader
must have conjectured, refer to John
II. Martin, the man most hated by
the professional politicians in Missis-
sippi, and loved by the people to
whose interest he has proved so true,
in the face of temptation that would
have turned, and opposition that
would have crushed Il character of a
less courageous cast.
The objection that he is young is
annihilated by the long record of his
continued success and the position of
acknowledged leader of the reform
element, the largest faction in Missis-
sippi. Not years, but talent and
achievements are the measures by
which an intelligent people judge
those who seek their suffrage.
Few, if any, of the men of Missis-
sippi have ever done more for the pu-
rity of politics, the supremacy of the
white race, the success of the Demo
cratic party and the uplifting of our
whole people to Il higher educational
and moral level. and for the agricult-
ural and commercial development of
the State.
John Martin has been first and
foremost in building up IL faction,
which, though snecringly referred to
as the reform party, comprises ma
.iority of white MisSissippians, and
numbers among its leaders the men
of our State whose brains are bright
est and whose records are purcst.
He was first and foremost in the
victory that stamped ont of our State
Capital the radicalism and rascality
that for Il quarter of ii century reeked
and rotted almost uncombatted.
He was first and foremost in the
strong and yet to be triumphant fight
that an oppressed people have made
during the last two years to throw off
the oligarchic Republican constitution,
that strangled their liberties.
He was first and foremost in
the great victory of August, 1886,
which the Democracy achieved over
the massed negroes and rabid radicals,
for to him was consigned the difficult
duty of maturing the plans and devils
ing the schemes of that most import
ant and toughly contested campaign.
A forcible master of English, at
once terse and beautiful, he is, with
one consent, acknowledged to be I'M
excelled among the editorial writers
of the State.
AS speaker, still more than as a
writer, has he displayed and won rep
utation. Lucid and convincing in
logic, strong and eloquent i'll the pas
sion of his appeals to the feelings OF
men, tender in his touches of deep
pathos, and strongest of all in that
grim sarcasm that brushes whatever
it opposes.
These Oratorical talents, linked
with tireless energy, would enable
him to win at once reputation for
himself and Mississippi on the floors
of Congress that would be the pride
of our citizens to claim.
DEMOCRAT.
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