The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03
TIE BLACK AND TAN CONVENTION,
The White Republicans to do
the Fighting and the Ne
asrOes the Voting.


baggcry and scaluwagiSm. About 60 out
of the a counties we're represented hy
abOat $50 delegates, the negroes pre-
by about to- /. John X.
Lynch called the Convention to order,
d. X. Bruce was chosen chairman. and
w. II. Gibbs, the Jackson postmaster,
secretary. Brucc's speech, on taking
the chair was characterized by fairness
aud moderation. and he did the best
he could to hold the disorderly body
down, but with poor success.
Gen. J. Il. Chalmers, who was nom
mated for Governor, made a bitter
and incendiary speech before the Con-
ventior. He claimed that all districts
having n cOlOred majority were Repub-
lican, and that himself, Hill and Ker-
neghan would he seated by the Re-
publican majority in Congress. He
arraigned the Democratic State Ad-
ministratiOu, and claimed that Cover
nor Lowry was more guilty of conduct
rendering him liable to impeachment
than Amos was. lie criticised the
State Democratic platform, and ar
raigned and denounced the recent ut
terances of the State committee as be-
ing an effort to nullify the fifteenth
amendment.
Some of his anecdotes were very
coarse and calculated to arouse the
worst passions of the negro. He an
nOunced himself as in favor of federal
control of elections, and said that if in
the coming contest any fighting must
he done the white Republicans would
do it and that the negroes could stand
still. He said if in such conflict it
was necessary for any one to be killed
and 60 to hell that some of both sides
would go.
A. L. Wimberly, u. S. Internal Rev
enue Collector, also made a speech,
during which he detailed his political
experience on the King ticket eight
years ago, and said that the negroes
could not fight the white people, but
that there were white Republicans
enough to do the fighting, and if the
white men would do their duty that
"by the eternal God, the man nomi-
mated here tonight will be your Gov
ernor."
The platform indorses Harrison's
administration and the platform adopt
ed at Chicago. Iturges federal election
laws to conduct the registration and
election in the States. Favors and
argues for Il protective tariff; de-
nOunces trusts and communism and
charges that they tlourished under
Democratic rule; condemns contract
labor and denOunces the running otfOf
labor agents who seek to take labor
elsewhere; favors the Blair bill and
follows with a long arraignment of the
State administration.
jim Hill stoutly opposed the nomi-
nation of II State ticket. but the mo-
ton to nominate was finally carried
over his head by vote of 1875 to sc.
The widest confusion aud disorder
reigned during the nomination of can
didates, and after Chalmers had been
nominated Governor, which he accept
ell gladly, it was difficult to find can
didates willing to take the other
places on the ticket in the face of the
certain defeat that awaited them.
Jesse Taylor. of Lincoln county,
tried to address the convention amid
the pandemoninm that reigned and
was met by yells of ''put him ont !"
when he said: "You burned hirlings
who have got little Office think you
are some pumpkins, but your Republi-
eanism don't extend any further than
the federal office you hold. You can
hollow put the niggers out but what
you are doing is for the benefit of the
Democratic ticket" He afterward
left the hall in great disgust.
Pending the nomination for Auditor
the confusion had risen to such
height that the reading clerk, not be-
ing able to get responses to his calls,
announced that he would have to
wait till the barrOoms closed. The
whole thing seemed to be a union of
whiskyites, office sharks and dense
ignorance.
The federal officeh0l;iers were large
ly sepresentated. Among the dele
gates and actively participating in the
were A. L. Wimberly col
lectOr of internal revenue, and three
Of his deputies, postmaster GIBBS, of
jackson, Judge Hancock, postmaster
at Meridian, II. c. Niles, district at
torney for the northern district, j. S.
Burton,U. S. Marshal. Timber agents,
postal clerks, and Clarkson's fourth |
class pOstmasters were too thick to |
count; in fact, had the federal officers
been removed from the Convention |
there would have been very few white |
men left in it.
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