The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-06-20
AN ADDRESS.

County:
A primary election has been pro-
vidcd for on Tuesday, July 9th proN''
for the purpose of nominating Dem
ocratic ticket to he voted for at the
election in November next; and t"
elect delegates to County Conven-
ton, which sis called to meet in the
Court House in Brookhaven on Satur-
day, the 18th day of July 1889, and
for other purposes set forth IN the
call.
The Executive Committee in form
ulating plan for the organization OF
the Democratic party in Lincoln Coun-
ty, for the approaching canvass, has
been actuated by desire to promote
harmony in the party, and to thereby
secure that unity of action and loyal
ty to the party nominees, which will
secure success at the polls, III Novem-
Der next, to the entire Democratic
ticket which shall he nominated by
the primary election of the Democrat
ic party of Lincoln County. There
fore, it is important that Democratic
voters attend said primary election.
at their several voting precincts, each
voter vote for clean ticket, worthy
the support of all Democrats, and
when the result shall be announced,
acquiesce therein, prctcrmit personal
preferences and go to work to elect
the ticket nominated.
Whatever objections may he urged
against nominating by a delegate con-
vcntion. cannot apply to nominating
by primary election, for the primary
election is fair to all and gives eX-
preston to the will of the majority,
to which all true Democrats will sub
nit
Lincoln County has not at all times
been true to Democratic moorings in
the past, and ON account of disScn-
sions i'll the party organization, indie
pcudents. so called, and Republicans
have at times been the most potent
factors in determining the result of
her elections.
Are the Democrats of Lincoln
County willing that this condition of
things shall continue, and the county
be turned over prey to demagogues
who promote disscnsions to subserve
their own selfish purposes
Had the Democrats of other counties
in Mississippi been as recreant to
their duty as have the Democrats of
Lincoln County, the State would now
be hopelessly in the tolls of the Re-
publican party, with all the ills and
horrors of the Republican regime sue
ceeding the era of Reconstruction,
greatly increased and intensified.
1t is admitted that the present Re
publican administration desires to
build up a new Republican party i'll
the Southern States of the Union,
and to that end, all the aid possible
will be extended by the National
Governments; supervision of Federal
elections by officers of the National
Government is to be exercised, and
every means used which human inge-
nuity can invent, under the forms of
law, to again place the States of the
South at the mercy of the ignorant,
venal and corrupt of their voters. 1t
is greatly to be desired that the fore
going statement is Overdrawn; how
ever, External vigilance is the price
of liberty; then, let all Democrats of
Lincoln County, without regard to
the past, rise to the highest plane of
patriotic duty, subordinate personal
preferences and private gain to the
country's good, umitedly and with IL
will, see to it that Lincoln County is
placed in line with her sister counties
for home rule and Democratic su-
premacy.
X. X. APPLEwHITE.
Chairman of the Democratic EXecu-
tive Committee of Lincoln County.