The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-07
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Resolved, That ourconfldence in the
integrity aud patriotism of Gov. RObt.
Lowry and his administration. is un-
abated, and that we are proud of the
heroic stand he has ever assumed in
furtherance of the best interests of the
people and the known glory Of the
State.
We would like to ask the machine
bosses who sandwiched this Lowry
resolution in between one endorsing
Congressman Hooker and another en-
dorsing Senators George and Walthall
and managed to wire it through the
late Kinds County Convention by "
bare majority, after hard fight
which came near swapping the entire
batch, if they are ready to stand by
all that such an endorsement
meansf Does it mean that they
endorse the extravaganza of Low
ryism which has raised taxation
and increased the State debt
in six years nearly one million dollars,
while the total assessed valuation of
property has decreased many millions
and privilege tax has been saddled
upon almost every avOcation and
profession known, from running u
bank to keeping Il private boarder9
Does it mean that they endorse the
barbarities of the Penitentiary leas-
ing system and the Penitentiary de
falcations and jobbery with which
Lowry was culpably connected and
by which the State was coolly swind-
led out of 800, 00O2 Does it mean that
they endorse the Governors shame
less abuse of the pardoning power,
and his well known sympathy for a
noted criminal while under indictment
for murder, and the prostitution of
! his official position to secure his
acQuittalf Does it mean that they
endorse his arrogating to himself the
power of car of the Russias and
vetoing bill passed by more than
two-thirds of both branches of the
Legislature. which simply gave to the
( people the right to say for themselves
whether they wanted a Constitutional
Convention or not, and with equal
arrogance snubbed and insulted a
committee of the great farmers organ
ization of the State who respectfully
waited upon him to ask that the will
of the legislature and the people be
regarded? Does it mean that they
endorse the veto of the Scientific
Temperance Instruction bill and the
amendment to the Local option law
and the pocket veto of the Summit
FIVE mile bill, which was needless
slap in the face to all the Temperance
people of the State2 Does it mean
that they endorse the Governor and
his administration because they have
been so weak and corrupt as to draw
around them all of the worst leaders
of Republlcanism left behind by the
carpet-bag regime, even as vultures
are attracted by the smell of carrionI
Does it mean that they endorse his
prostitution of the election machinery
of the State to help out boilers and Re
publicans in certain counties and de-
feat good Democrats who dared assert
their independence of the State House
machine7 Does it mean that they en-
dOrse his numerous other abuses of
the appointing power, the virtual
giving away of the public domain to
railroad corporations and foreign
| syndicates instead of rcserving it for
actual settlers, the Lowry Island
steal, the East Mississippi Insane
Asylum extravaganza and misappro-
priation of public moneys, and his
acceptance of free railroad passes
for members of his family in violation
of law he signed himself and
which he was sworn to support,
and for which and numerous
other crooked acts recited, Ames
or any other Republican Gov
ernor would have been impeached by
a Democratic Legislature in less than
"a hours! Finally, do these gushing
Kinds County resolutionists really
think the Governor has assumed "a
proud and heroic stand" in relation to
all these things and that such black
and disgraceful record adds anything
to "the known glory of the State?
We would like for them to answer
these questions. If they can endorse
such Governor and such record,
in the name of high Heaven to what
extreme or infamy would Lowry and
his administration have to go to get
beyond the pale of their approval ?
What9
! J The Pascagoula Democrat Star says