The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-17
A CARD FROM JUDGE CASSIDY.


or Representative from this and JEFF
ferson county, in which he seeks to
vent his spleen against me because OF
his disappointment. When it Is
known by the public that | supported
this migrate las lie has proved
himself to- lie Ivy this communica-
tionl for the office for which he was
an aspirant at the primary election,
little attention will he paid to any
emanaticn from him. When he
saws that ! made an attack up
on his political record something
| did not know he had) he
simply states that which is false-a
thing to he expected from n disap-
poInted Office seeker. who seeks com
panionship with independents and
negroes as solace to his disappoint-
cd aspirations.
What | had occasion to say in refer
ence to this individual III the fOatOr-
ial convention, did not reflect npOn
him. as the delegates who cO-Operated
with me from this county will affirm,
but was said in the interest of har-
mony in the Democratic party
| said in substance that he had
been voted for in the prima-
nv election for the office he sought
and had carried i'm that election only
one election precinct, the one where
he resided, and it only by small ma
iOrity that the election was con-
Quoted under the auspices of the
Democratic Executive Committee OF
the county, and that each voter and
candidate was required to pledge him
self that lie would abide by the result,
and that after being voter and can
didate in that election, he could not
honestly resist the result by permit
ting his name to be used to defeat
his successful opponent. We al
suspected at the time, and from his
communication are now convinced,
that he was simply lending his name
and being made a tool of by the In
dependent and negro conspiracy
against the Democratic party of thl'
county, and the communication Is
additional evidence of this-that Is
that he is still the tool of some secre
enemy of the party, for he has neither
the sense nor information to indite the
epistle that appears over his sigma
ture. When he or the one who
wrote it for him, says that before thu
end of my term as Senator elected IL
1871, that | deserted the Democratic
party, he she or it states that which
is absolutely false. That / voted fol-
b. X. Bruce for L. S. Senator is true
and the reasons for this are given il
full in the letter of Hon. r. ii. Taylor
but recently Democratic candidate
for Governor, with whom | acted ant
co-operated at the time-and thai
whom no truer Democrat or patriot
treads Mississippi soil.
That l accepted the position vOlun-
tarily rendered me by Ames of th,
CHARACTERISTIC of this district, is {
historical fact, but this was done OI
the advice and after conference will
leading Democrats in the State.
When ! was nominated for District
Attorney by Republican convention
the Democratic Party, by the advice
of such leaders as Gov. Lowry, Judge
Calhoon and others-true and trieC
patriots-lad been disbanded anC
there was no Democratic party organ
iZatiOn in the State.
When the Democratic party was
recognized in 1876, entered it
ranks as a private and have battlcd fOl
its principles ever since, being en-
dorsed by both the State, District
and County Democracy--servin il
1877 as chairman of the County Dem
conducting successfully its campaign
against the opposition-a member
now of the Executive Committee o.
this Congressional District-and have
been delegated by the State COnven-
ton as an alternate delegate to the
National Democratic Convention ant
ElectOr for this Congressional District
Now after all these endorsements
by the highest Democratic authority
| am to be assailed by a disgruntlel
office-seeker who has never succeed
ed in securing the endorsement o
either the people or the Democratic
party of the county. But for all this
i have no resentment against him
for | know, or at least believe, he il
the tool of another with more sens,
and information than his most init
mate friends ever suspected he pos
sessed, and is being put forward as /;
eats paW to destroy the unity of thu
Democratic party of this county, sim
ply because the Democrats Of thu
county who have known me for 2
years, hOnOred me with their conf
dence by placing me, unsolicited, a
the head of the Democratic party o
the county. And I here now serv'
him and his instigators and al
other members of the "coOn party" il
this county with notice, that the tick
ct nominated by the honest yeoman
ry of this county will be elected, an'
no assaults upon me, its humble rep
rcsentative, will cause its flag to trai
in the dust. III. CASSIDY.
A Kicker Converted.