The Brookhaven leader., 1890-09-04
EDITORIAL NOTES.

ire RaSihg system VIII nave To de
camp.
The Convention should take plenty
OF time and do its work right.
There are only $50 negroes in Jones
county, as against 81 1884 in Kinds.
IN the Constitutional Convention
there are So members of the Alliance
Charley Humphreys always cast Tire
vote of Copiah so the Secretaries
could hear.
There arc three of the McLaurin
boys in the Constitutional Convention
and five got away.
The Greenwood Enterprise cndUrs-
es Mr.. McClurg's proposition to abol-
ish capital punishment.
Mr.. Thompson is doing some excel
lent work as member of the Eegisla-
tive Committee of the c. G.
The man who opposes intelligent
female suffrage, has great deal more
prejudice on his side than sound ar
gument.
Smallpox is spreading at IIatties-
burg. Rev. Mr.. Smith, wife and chill
dren, and their physician, Dr.. Wat
kins, are the last victims.
The Convention has lost n wise
counselor, the Alliance a faithful friend
and the State noble, useful citizen
by the death of Gen. n. ID. Query of
LOwndes.
The leading editorial in last weeks
Oxford Globe presented an umanswer-
able argument in favor of woman's
suffrage, and was production of
which Editor Showers should feel
proud.
The editor of the Boston Transcript
Is married man. He says boxes
govern the world-the cartridge box,
the ballot-box, the jury box, the thea
tire box, and last but not least, the
bonnet box.
If it could be ordained that no
member of the Constitutional COnven-
ton could hold any Office for 10 years,
the new Constitution would be alto
gether better instrument than it will
be otherwise.
A general conference of yellow pine
manufactures of the South has been
called to meet at St. Louis on Thurs
day, September II. The main object
is to consider the subject of rates and
classlficatiOns. 1t promises to be a
highly important meeting.
We most heartily agree with the
jackson Commonwealth when it SAYS
"White supremacy has been establish
ed and will be maintained in Missis-
sippi; but that is not sufficient What
the people demand is white suprema-
cy assured by legal methods"
Before reporting 70 the Convention
the Franchise Committee reconsidered
the part of its agreement recommend
ing that the ballot be given to all
women owning $4OO worth of proper
ty in their own right, and otherwise
greatly weakened it's former action.
Gen N. d. Query, one of the dele
gates to the Convention from
Lowndes, died last Sunday night. He
had been sick ever since before the
opening of the session and had never
taken his seat. The Convention adj
jOurned Monday out of respect to
his memory.
1t is said that with one prominent
delegate to the Constitutional Con-
vention no way out of the suffrage
difficulty is acceptable that does not
seem to lead through the hateful fog
and miazma of ignorance and preju-
dice to the United States Senate.
Shame on such demagoguery.
Delegate Yerger, believing that the
State should stand as surety for her
officials, and should share equally in
any loss suffered through them, and
that more efficient administration
would be obtained, wants it provided
that no official bonds shall hereafter
be required of State or county officers.
Rube Quin, colored, under arrest
OH some charge, was taken from the
officers and lynched a short time ago
near China Grove, Pike county.
We agree with the Summit Sentinel
in referring to this subject, that lynch
law will not do, and the sooner the
people let the law take its course the
better it will be.
The New Mississippian says the peo-
pie of the State, in their selection OF
delegates, have evideAtly been inf1u-
sneed by the old adage, '.Old men for
sonnSei, young men for war;" as it has
seven delegates over 70 years of age
w: Judges Wiley p. Harris, w. 8
featherston and H. f. Simrall, Col
Paxton of Washington, Governor Al
corn OF Coahoma, DIR. Isom Of I.afa~