The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1888-03-10
B1OAD-GAUGED DEMOCRAT.
A RISING YOUNG MISSISSIPPI POLL
TICIAN AND HIS CAREER:
HON. ]. c. LoNGS7REET, OF GRENADA.
The Man who OF All Others is Most
Likely to Become Governor of That
state If There be q Change.
Young and Progressive.

JACKSON, MIss., March 3.-The session OF
the Mississippi Legislature is drawing to a
close, and its doings have been fully chroni.
cled in the Avalanche, which is great
favorite with not only the Mississippi
esolons," but with the people of the State.
The session has been the stormiest since the
impeachment of Ames, but out of all the dis
sens,on turmoil and strife, particular harm
has resulted, no really bad measure has, or is
likely to go into the law books while on the
other hand, several measures of great interest
to the State, as we'll as regards the
HARMONY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
have failed to pass, or been killed after pass
ing both houses by the veto club of the
Governor; that the major part of the Demo-
cratic voters of the State, representing the
agricultural element, is restive and chafing at
the defeat of measures repeating laws now on
the statue books, and which they regard as
bearing unjustly on the producers, and lean
lug to corporations, in their benfit, there can
be no doubt, Therefore attacks upon the
administration, in some instances, have been
exceedingly bitter, coming from members of
the same political household but there is no
danger to the party on such account. In
front of a common ioe, it will hereafter, as it
has always done, present an unbroken front
and this seeming internecine strife out en-
lightens the people. 1t has been well said,
"When restrained within due bounds is the
salubrious gale that ventlates the opinions OF
the people which might otherwise stagnate
into the most abject submission" 1t may be
said to purify the atmosphere of politics. to
dispel the gross vapors raised by the infuen-
ces of ministerial artifice until the Constitu.
tion, like mighty rock, stands full disclosed
to the view of every individual who dwelIs
within the shade of its protection; and so in
this instance the eyes of the people have been
opened by this family fight, the issues are
fully in view, and the voters will take hold
Of them and settle them at the polls next
year, when new Legislature and new
Governor are to be elected. One of the most
prominent and safest men in the House, and
who has done more to prevent intemperate
action on either side of this family fireside
(for the House is practically solidly Demo-
cratic), is one of its youngest members in
years. viz, James c. Longstreet of Grenada.
He belongs to no faction attaches himself to
no "isms," but stands as broa6-gauged,
square-shouldered Democrat having for his
purpose the welfare of not only his party but
of the whole people at heart. Standing on
this platform, and being possessed of one of
the biggest brains, cultivated in the highest
degree, which, added to his courage to do
right at all times and under I'll circumstan-
ceS, he has the address and uearing of the
true gentleman that nature riide him he is
always enabled to be heard when others are
scoffed at, and his wise words of prudence and
liberation are invariably productive of good
results. He recognizes that it is mot from
the breakers and bllows of the ocean, but
from the calm level of the sea that nights and
depths are measured" and stands rs a shield
and anchor of safety against the breakers
of party discord. While generally voting
against "the wool hat reform element" they
recognize that he does so from his convic-
tions in each particular instance, and that he
does not belong to the gang which sniff their
noses and utter disdainfu words because
their opponents are grangers. Often, as in
case Of the bill allowing the people TO vote on
the question of calling II constitutional con-
vention, he joins the majority side of the
House and records his vote with the "wool
hat boys" He possesses the respect of every
member Of the House, and enjoys the friend
ship of most of them, This is his second
term. He is chairman Of the Ways and
Means Committee and second on the Judi
ciary Committee; he was strongly urged to
stand for speaker, and would very probably
have been elected had he consented. Mr..
Longstreet is a native OF Georgia. and comes
from those two great families of the Empire
State ,yhirh make i'm M rtont n mart i'm her