The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-05

adopted:
Resolred, That it is the sense of
this meeting that we will know our
friends Ivy their voting an open ticket
in the ensuing city election, and that
the Chairman of this meeting appoint
three persons ~ challengers, to keep
tally at each box.
Nominations being declared in
order, Gen. Will Henry was unani-
mously nominated for Mayor, and f.
Watkins, w. :. Lemly, L. +. Chilcs,
II. NJ. Taylor, Geo. Lemon and John
w. Clingan for Aldermen. The Com
mittee of one hundred, with that ster-
ling young Democrat, J. b. Harris, as
chairman, was then appointed and the
organization was complete.
Meanwhile, the young white men of
the city had become thoroughly
aroused over the brutal murder of one
of their best loved companions and
the wounding of another, and they
effected separate secret organization
known as the Young White Mems
League and adopted and published in
red ink the following resolutions
which speak for themselves:
We, the Young white men of Jackson
having seen one of our number coldly,
crnelly and helliShly murdered i'll the dark
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man of this negro cursed city, do hereby
resolve in solemn and awful earnestness,
that the corrupt, Radical neglo govern
ment of our city should, mast and shall be
wiped out, cost what it may.
We have earnestly believed IN peace
and law and order, and we hope now that
this government of negro butchers may
peacefully yield to defeat, but we want
no peace bought at the price of our man
hood and of our companions blood.
Driven by no sndden passion or blind
impulse, but actuated by IA firm and DELHI
crate sense OF the duty We owe to our
selves and to our race, we hereby warn
the negroes that if any one Of their race
attempts to run for Offc &C in the approach
ing municipal election, he does so at his
supremest peril, aud we further warn any
and all negroes of this city against attempt
ing, at their utmost hazard, by vote or
influence TO fOiSt on us again this black
and damnable machine mIscalled a govern
ment of our city.
And we call upon all the Young men of
orr city and surrounding country who do
not sanction the fendsb murder of a
Nxh tn hnN 1,Xr hnlI all
who io@e the white race better than they
love negro assas>ins-upon all who have
courage in their hearts or manhood in their
souls TO bitterly remember the blood of the
murdered Melville Mitchell from now
uutil the election day, aud sweep away
this infamy of government with its black
aud british hands stained and wet with
blood of brave and noble boy.
This manifesto was published on
Wednesday evening and the colored
men ofthe city held ameetinga pru-
whatever in the campaign or election,
but McGill and his white Republican
henchmen were still 10th to give up,
and proposition came from them to
ignore all party lines, and submit
his and Gen. Henry's candidacy to a
decision of the white registered
voters alone at Il primary election on
Saturday. The proposition was sum
marily declined, however, by all ex-
cept il few Democrats who thought
more of McGill than they did of party
success, and it was determined to
draw tight party lines and carry the
campaign through as originally de-
cided.
Large meetings continued to be
held every night by the Democrats,
which were addressed by prominent
leaders like Major Barksdale, Con-
gresham John Allen, Judge Wharton,
Col. Nugent, Capt. Frank Johnston,
Col. Power, John Martin, Major Ma
gruder, of Vicksburg, DR.. Rowan, of
Copiah, and Hon. Wash Gibbs, of
Yazoo, and others, and nothing but
politics has been talked or thought
of on the streets since.
In spite of the rain, which came
down in torrents, large and en-
thusiastic meeting was held last
Saturday night, and at it's close, the
committee of one hundred held
another meeting and then adjourned
to meet again this (MOnday) morning
at 6 o'clock in the Seuate Chamber
for final counsel before the polls
opened. Before the gray dawn
streaked the eastern horizon the Demo
cratic cannon, "LIttle Noses" began
to thunder, and by little past six
o'clock more than one hundred Demo-
Gratis, mostly young men, cool and
good humOred, but terribly in ear
nest, had gathered in the Senate
chamber and were ready for business.
subcommittee made their final re-
ports, Hon Wash Gibbs, one of
Yazoo's most orthodox cOlOr-liners,
was called on and made a rOusing
speech, and the committee of one
hundred and their friends adjourned
with yell that fairly shook the Capt.
toll walls. Such a thing as a large and
enthusiastic political meeting at day
LIGHT on a cold January morning. was