The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-11-21
County Politics.

late campaign in Lincoln county, We
wish to offer some thoughts to our
ow-Democrats which we hope will
bc of advantage as guide for future
party action. After years of factional
dessensions, decentralization and de-
fcats, we have won a signal and de-
cisive victcry-a victory so sweeping
and complete, in fact, as to surprise
even the most sanguine in our ranks
and utterly astound the faint-hcarted
and doubling; while dismay has been
carried to the very hearts of the
enemy.
1t is for the men who achieved this
great victory, and them only, to say
whether it's fruits shall I've lasting and
| Democratic supremacy in the county
permanently established. The editor
of the LEADER is not a candidate for
any office and doesn't expect to be;
neither has he any special favOrites
| he wishes to put forward for office i'll
the future. Therefore, in what we
say, we cannOt he justly accused of sim
lister motives, and ask that our sug-
gestiOns he weighed in that light. If
they are unsOund, reject them and
adopt something wiser; if they have
merit, reflect upon them, and when
! the proper time comes, be prepared to
act upon them.
Firstly, we wish to say that it has
been thoroughly demonstrated that
there is power i'll party organization
and the nomination of candidates
for all Offices to be filled, from Gov
ernor down to constable. The LEAD
Err has always been the advocate OF
such policy, aad it is peculiarly
gratifying to us that the first time OF
late years it has been given IL test, il
was crowned with such gratifying
results. Let it be the settled policy OF
the Democracy of the county here
after to nominate candidate fOl
every office to be filled. How these
nominations are to be made may very
we'll be the subject for difference OF
opinion, but we are strongly inclined
to favor the primary election system
restricted to knOWn Democrats.
Secondly, when the work of select
ing candidates and organizing for the
next campaign comes round, let us
beware of giving honor and prom
inence to men who were opposed ol
recreant to the Democracy in our late
campaign. No good Democrat would
be ready to say now let's make Capt
Hoskins, DR.. Watts or Mr.. Smylie the
Chairman of the next Democratic
County Convention, and give one OF
the Caseyville boilers prominent
place on the next Democratic ticket
and he would be right, but one oil
two mistakes quite as glaring were
made at the opening of the late can
vass, and they came near proving
fatal. In short, no party can appear
to place premium on treachery, dis
count its tried and loyal adhcrents
and long command the respect OF
either its enemies or its friends. The
party should always have a mourner's
bench and be ever ready to receive
back -sliders and penitents, but they
shouldn't be given the chief seats in
the sanctuary, to the exclusion of the
tried and faithful, as soon as they be
gin to show signs of repentance.
Finally, when we come to put Out
Il ticket in 1891, let us choose for oul
standard bearers the truest, strOnges
and most competent Democrats to b'
found, whether they be farmers
|, mechanics, lawyers, preachers, mer
chantS'or doctors. Such Il ticket viii
be invincible, and nomination vii
be equivalent to an election.