The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-10


has better sense than that; that when a her
sat on eggs until they were rotten, q fresh her
put on the neet would not purify the eggs, OF
make them hatch, and the fresh hen would
only be infected by the rottenness under her.
PRESIDENT HAYES.
In speaking OF President Hayes you said
HE will have rs little to do in guiding the
ship OF state rs a juck-staf that of q Missis
sippi steamer Grant win still be captain
Boss Sheppard will be mate. 'sylph' will be
chambermaid, Morton and Blaine will be
pilots dirty-worker Logan and the sycophantic
Conkling will be cubs learning to turn the
wsssl. old Simon Cameron and Tom Murphy
viii be engineers Belknap chief purser. Bah
cock will turn out crooked whisky at the
bar. wheeler will be the little fowl tied on
behind, and John X. Lynch will run the
Barber shop
when the cussed thing blows up"
HAYES AND WHEELER.
In q speech referring to the ratification OF
Hayes and Wheeler you said: "Babcook and
all the whisky ring have ratified hem. Ion
Murphy and Casey and all the custom house
thieves have ratified them. Boss Sheppard
and the District Ring have ratified them.
Blaine, Bclknap and Schenck and all who have
sold their positions for money have ratified
them
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
In speaklne of tho Republican party this
was after Lynch gave you notice of contest of
your seat in Congress,, you said: THE Repub-
ucan marty was horn of turmoil and strife.
and commenced its career with Sharpes rifles
an Kansas II is n marty of blood which
invaded old VIRGINIA under John BROWN and
there shed the first tlood in the fratricrial
strife 1t is the party Of envy and malice,
which refused IN receive M in full fellowship
An the Union when we laid down our arms.
for while the Northern Democrats would have
received ms with omen arms the Republicans
vould have driven MS ont TO eat .husks' with
.xine and s,arve Itis tho marty of hatred.
which DESTROYS ALL of our industrial prosperity
nv stout threats of reconstruction, and which
bestowed the right of suffrage on the negro
for the sole puroose of preyen:ing the rebels
from returning tn nlace and mower IL ia n
marty Of sectjonalism. II is party of malig.
nitv. which sought to stir nm race conflicts. II
the Republican party is entitled to the one
virtue ~ having saved the Tnion II has link ed
N this, virtue every crime of which n political
partv can he entity"
without Quoting further from your coarse
and insultin0 abuse of Republicans both
white and coIored. which poured in volumes
from vour tongue and pen for fifteen years
nr;or IN April 1882 when lynch ousted Won
from a seat in Congress- will and do point
Won 10 your own
Record and Character
Asthe cause wbv colored voters have not.
beretofore and never will. turn ont and vote
for Won. always except,np or course. those
m.Iionan, O." white man baters' who will SIM
mort anv man who will give them assistance to
suhorainate the whites ali of whom thev RI.
gard as Democrats deny that the absence
Of ALI OTHERS or anv Others ia in anv manner
~" force " Of anv kind MS charged nv Won.
Tina, NORTON of your spotted nautical his.
torv which has 40 Thoroughly dispusted The
whites. as we'll as the colored. and made the
whites a INIT against Won. and which sheds n
further bright light on the oauses which pro-
duced the result of the above figures. NAV IN.
told AZ follows.
From the dav Won obtained vour majority
until The Chicago convention in June. Isss. Tor
about that timel Won claimed to be a Dem
ocrat. You were. when A young man. elected
Distrc, Attornev "a n Democrat Won wero
elected in 1851 to the Mississinpi convention
which passed the Ordinance of Secession. ms a
.secessiop Democrat" and so jealous 8
hers favoring Secession were called unon n
afsr their signatures tn the enprossed ordin.
.nce nj, of them used n hne uo,d pen which
hod h.en nurcbased nv the So Rotary for this
p,rrpose with intent to ha ye IL placed AMONG
the archives of the State, except YOU. You
declined tn srn with this pen, hut signed the
name of James r. Chalmers to that historic
document with ONE nurcbased nv vourself 70,
this especial purpose. il being your intention
10 pass it. as YOU said. as memento of your
connection with this great historical event In
your posterity.
You were elected tn the Senate of Missis
sinni in 1873 as a Democrat. You were com.
rnissisned IN the Fortv-nfth Fortv-s,xth and
Forty.seyenth Congresses as a Democrat. You
were when in Congress- chairman Of tho
House Democratic Caucus And you were a
candidate for a seat in the United States
Senate against Mr.. Lamar, when he was
elected the last time. Having been oustcd
from Democratic seat in the Forty seventh
Congress, in April, 1882, on the contest of Jno.
X. Lynch. you found yourself out of public
life, with nothing to do but to mediate upon
"The mutability of Human Affairs"
And the possibilities of the future. There
was now, as demonstrated by Lynch g success.
no hope for you in your old District. There
was no chance for a Democratic nomination
In any other You had Just closed a canvass
of the State for United States Senator. but ii
90 happened that, in consequence of a "dire
confederation of calamitious circumstances. I"
Not one
OF your supporters got TO the Lepislature
Inside the Democratic party there were too
many in front OF YOU, and darkness cast a
baleful shadow over the prospect in that
direction.
You were politicaIly bankrupt.
! The Second District of Mississinni presented
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