The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-10


utterances of prominent Republicans
of the North like Gen. Sherman ana
the declared intention of the Republl-
can patty to pass at the next session
of Congress bill to supervise by
Federal authority the elections IN the
! South, and force on us again negro
supremacy-fo that is what it means
has stimulated the negroes, who
were fast losing interest i'll political
matters, to again look anxlously Tor
return to political power. As one OF
| the results of such talk, there have
already been more race conflicts since
| Harrison's election than there were
during the whole of Cleveland's adj
ministration. In this State, II Repub-
lican Convention, the first i'll years,
has been held, composed of about o
negroes to one white man, Il State
ticket put ont, and the word has gone
forth that if the negroes will do the
voting, the white Republicans will
do the fighting.
Coming now to Lincoln county, we
find two men straining every nerve
! to unite the negro vote against the
Democratic nominee for Representa-
tive. One of them proclaims i'll every
speech that he is a dyed in the wool
Republican and has never been any
thing else, and the other has
received the endorsement of the
County Republican Executive
Committee, composed chiefly Of ne
groes, and told a friend in confidence
las he adnits) that he wants to use his
election for Representative as step
ping stone to secure the Republican
nomination next year for Congress.
There is also an Independent OF Re
publican candidate for about every
other Office in the county except Sher-
iff, and every mothers son of them,
like the two candidates for Repre-
sentative, knows, if he is elected at
all, it must be mainly by the negro
Republican vote. A member of the
notorious Matthews family that was
the curse of Copial county politics
for years, encouraged 10y what he
thinks the propitious outlook for Re
publican and negro domination in this
county, has become chairman of the
Republican Executive Committee and
is announced as a candidate for one
of the most important offices in the
county. In short, it is boldly assumed
bv these place-hnnters and their fol-
lowers, that because the Democratic
party has been torn by factions i'll the
past and slack in its organization and
discipline, that its nominations
amount to naught, and that the party
may he overidden at pleasure by
them and their black allies. 1t is
tauntingly proclaimed from the stump
that the people of Lincoln county
haven't the political integrity and
honesty to elect II nominee where he
has opposition. In other words, they
assume that ticket nominated
by the white farmers of the
county, and supported by all true
Democrats, is thing to be re-
garded with contempt and spit upon
by them and their dusky followers.
1t doesn't matter so much from their
standpoint, which of the independ-
ents or Republicans wins-they will
have proved their prophecy and the
better element of the county will be
dominated and put down by the
worse.
This, in brief, is the situation, is
the issue, as it is presented to the
Democracy of Lincoln county to-day.
1t is no longer Il question of whether
the Alliance did right or not in put
ting out its own candidates in the
primary-it is no longer question
whether men were allowed to take
part III that primary who were not
! time honored DemOcrats--it is nc
longer question whether Boone, OF
Hart, or McNair or Smith or any OF
the rest of the ticket were the
very best men that could be found in
the Democratic party-it is no longer
a question ofpersonal likes or dislikes;
but the great and overshadowing
question is, whether the Democrats,
the farmers, the men whose interests
are chiefly at stake, will allow them
selves to be eternally at the mercy OF
such political agitators and dema-
gogues as Watts, Hoskins ct id genus
omne, backed up by the negroes and
few white men who have lost all
pride of race and party. 1t is II ques-
ton whether we will have any party
hereafter at all, or be kicked about at
will by such men like footballs for
the carrying out of their own selfish
ends and ambitions. 1t is whether the
white men of Lincoln county are
ready to be delivered over to the Re-
publican party, bound hand and foot,
To he dominated indefinitely under