The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

a day and mileage.
Winona viii have a new $10,00t
public school building.
Catchings was re-Rominated a
Greenville by reclamation.
When the deck is cleared of the suf
frage question, Prohibition will bC
heard from.
Hon. Frank Johnston of Kinds has
been accorded seat OH the floor o.
the Convention, compliment most
werthily bestowed.
The September term of the Law.
renee county Circuit Court has been
pretermitted. Our readers in that
county win take due notice.
The new census increases Copiah's
population but $500 in the last ten
years. We agree with the Signal that
mistake has certainly been made
somewhere.
"The question of suffrage should
be dealt with in a direct and manly
way, and not in a thimble-rig man
ncr," said Delegate holland last week,
and he is right.
Hon. j. w. Bailey, who is we'll and
favorably known to our people, was
nominated for Congress a few days
ago from Texas district. "Joe" will
make his mark in the House in short
while as one of its foremost orators.
a Constitutional Convention in
Mississippi never will again have such
an opportunity as the present one to
do the right thing; and as the oppor-
tunity is great, so will be the respon-
sibility for failure to make the most
of it.
The Australian ballot is all right as
far as it goes, but it is not sufficient in
itself. Let it he fortified by good
stiff educational qualification like that
proposed by Judge Chrisman and
Hon. r. II. Taylor, and two years
residence in the State.
Mr.. C. Il. Dale, of Monticello, has
become connected with the house of
Oliver, Son & Co. at Wesson. There
is not more popular man in Law
renee county than Nat. Dale, and in
securing his services the enterprising
Wesson firm has made ten strike.
The Vicksburg Post is right when
it says the suffrage plan adopted by
the Convention should have as its
foundation sound and lasting princi-
pies The Constitution adopted at
jackson this year will probably last n
long time, and "expedients" should
find no place in it.
Col. L. P. Edgington, an exCnion
soldier, demonstrates in the Memphis
Avalanche by the official record on
the subject, that in adopting the 18th
Amendment, Congress never intended
that it should confer upon the negro
the right to hold Office, but was sim
ply designed to secure him the privi-
lege of voting. 1t might simplify the
race problem some if our Constitu-
tiOnal Convention would draw the
fine where Congress did.
District Attorney J. NJ. Gibson OF
Warren county has announced him
self as an independent candidate for
Congress against Catchings. Repub-
fcan as he was, Gibson was taken up
two years ago by the whisky men OF
Warren as a Democrat, in order to
beat H. c. McCabe, a true aud tried
Prohibition Democrat, and now he is
SHOWING his raising" 1t would be a
good lesson to the Democrats of that
District if he would beat Catehings.
Professional and business men in
general in need of reliable and com
petent accountants, typewriter OPP
orators and short hand writer's, will
find it to their interest to correspond
with the Principals of the Capital
Commercial College of jackson, Miss.
who have established a Bureau OF
Employment in connection with theii
school. Hundreds of graduates from
this institution are filling positions Of
trust in the best business houses OF
this and adjoining States.
Hon. j. II. Beeman, chairman of the
state Alliance Executive Committee
received the nomination for Congress
IN the 9Th district on the S9Oth ballot
over Anderson, Wilson and Gibbs
Mr.. Beeman is an upright, intelligent
educated gentleman, modest, unpre
tentions and retiring, and worthy o
The honor conferred. He is fifty 81,
Years old, native of North Carolina
mas been ateaeher in high schools,
merchant and farmer, which latter yo
sauon he now pnrsues. He was
member of the Legislature of lss,
.ooo and 1890, serving on some of II
most important committees.