The Brookhaven leader., 1890-07-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Kernaghan is kicking.

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The lotteryites of Louisiana glory
in their States shame.
Address your letters hereafter to
New Orleans, Lotteryana.
The metropolis of Raleigh, Smith
county, now has two papers.
The Legislative Department of the
Louisiana Lottery has adjourned.
Miss Winnie Davis has reached
home again from her European trip.
Kernaghan's presumption was too
much even for Republican Congress.
The Nicksburg Post favors placing
the suffrage on a basis of intelligence.
Sensible Post
The two Johns, Miller and Allen,
always come out on top in the politi-
cal contests of Lee county.
Gen. Clinton b. Fisk, Prohibition
candidate for the Presidency in 1888,
died in New York on the 9th.
The man in the Constitutional Con-
vention who doesn't know any thing
will be like little dog in high oats.
A good many Mississippi towns are
rearing because the census shows they
are not as big as they thought they
were.
Frank Burkitt, who on occasion,
can state the truth in the piainest En-
glsl, read the riot act to Joe jones in
his last paper.
ExState Treasurer Archer has plead
guilty to the charge of embezzling
State funds, and has been sentenced
to the penitentiary for five years
In her primary election Claiborne
county instructed for Hon. G.. +.
Hooker for Congress, giving him ma
jority of 70 out of 5SS votes rolled.
Mr.. L. NJ. NcLaurin, the father of
Hon, A. j. and the other McLaurin
brothers, so we'll known in Mississippi,
died at his home in Smith county last
week.
About this time every two years the
average Congressman spends more
time working for denomination than
he does in the service of his const-
tuents.
Four editors are billed for the Con-
stitutionai Convention to date-Bur-
kit of the Chickasaw Messenger, Me-
Nelly of the Greenville Times, bud
ley Of the Walthali Warden, and Hen
derson of the West Point Forum.
This is the Chicago Tribune's con
else history of Louisiana: Coded to
Spain in 1862, coded back to France
in 1903, sold to the United States in
1903, admitted to the Union in 1912,
and purchased by the Louisiana Lot
terry Company in 1890.
Gov. Nichols vetoed the bill
amending the Louisiana Sunday law,
which would have practically repealed
said law, as far as it affected the prin-
clpai cities and towns. He thinks the
law should stand, with few amend
ments adding to its efficiency.
1t was unanimously resolved by a
large citizens meeting in Copah coun-
~ the other day that they would
sheerfully abide by whatever plan the
constitutional Convention adopts for
the insuring of white supremacy in
Mississippi. That is the right spirit.
Fhe little side-show opposition to-
John Allen in Lee, Monroe, Lowndes
and Oktibbeha counties by a few four
penny editors and ambitious politi-
clans should hide itself hereafter in the
solitude of its own insignifcance.
The people are for Allen, and the peo-
pie are right.
Judge ii. +. Simrall, Hons. Murray
Z. Smith and Mayre Dabney were
nominated by the Democrats of War
rem. Judge Simrall, who is a consef-
vative Republican of acknowledged
ability, was nominated on the recon-
mendation of the Farmers Alliance,
of which he il member.
Every w. C. I. U. woman and Pro-
hibitlonist in Mississippi should take
lively interest in the erection of the
w. {. I. q. building at jackson
When completed and the Exchange
s-'abl.sLed, Il Will inrnieh delightful
headquarters Tor every friend Of Tenn
fssasse Nb" Sigiie The State Capital