The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-28
THE MAN
MISSISSIPPI NEEDS FOR
HER NEXT GOVERNOR.

The Natchez Democrat has describ-
cd just the man Mississippi needs for
her next Governor. Hear it:
The question rs to who is to be our
next Governor is generally occupying
the attention of the Mississippi press
aud the many aspirants.
We have not included the people i'll
the list of the interested, for the reason
that they do not seem to be greatly ex-
ercised on the subject, although when
the time comes they will make the
choice.
An energetic. wide awake, intelli-
gent, able, firm and honest executive
Mississippi emphatically needs at the
present time, and it behooves the peo-
pie to be looking out for just such a
man.
The State is full of old soldiers who
have done their duty in the field most
chivalrOusly; she has in her borders
numbers of politicians Of respectable
records, who in way have done their
best for the State she has able and as
tute lawyers who can analyze the stat
utes creditably and learnedly; she
possesses numberless successful farmers
and scientific agriculturdlists, and in
fine she has all sorts of gubernatorial
timber, out of which she can select an
executive. Indeed the word Governor
acts like the sowing of dragons teeth,
until the earth bristles with candi-
dates,
Mississippi needs at the present juno
ture an executive specially renowned
III none of the above callings, neither
soldier, politician, lawyer or farmer,
but an active and progressive man,
who viii not be content to simply
maintain and enjoy the dignity of Of
flee, but one who is ambitious to adj
vance the State to the front rank in
every progressive movement which can
subserve her interest; one who by the
magnetism of his own progressive i'll
dividuality will infuse ambitious effort
throughout the whole State; one who
will not only follow the lead, but sup
port by every consistent and constitu-
tional means the onward methods.
Mississippi Git is painful acknowl-
cdgemenD is struggling in the march.
She is in the rear in the development
If manufactures and improvements of
Ill kinds; she is looking back too much,
lwelling on her past glories, too well
content with things as they are, too
apprehensive as to things as they may
De, and she now needs at the capital
not only a Governor but leader, who
can and will place the stamp of his
leadership upon the minds of the peo-
pie ; she needs man who will put in
motion the spirit of enterprise amongst
the people; who will encourage white
immigration to the State by suppress
ing outrages and disorder with all his
strength who will encourage the every
development of our resources; who is
looking ahead to the future prosperity |
of Mississippi, not backward through
her time worn records.
The day is past when the executive
chair should be the reward for soldierly
or political deeds or occupied by fossils
of memory, but the day has come when
the need is felt for brains, broad infor-
nation, strength of character and am
bilious regard for the State and her in
terests, not for self
1t is about time that Office should no
longer be the reward, but the avenue
to the accomplishment of great ends to
the State.