The Brookhaven leader., 1890-09-18
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

It's the struck hull-llozer and bal
'ot-box stuffcr that ilnitcrS,
Judge North was stricken with par
alysis at Faycttc Saturday and is ly-
ing in Il critical condition.
Chancellor McI.aurin, uf The NickS-
burg district will rcsign his position
aud move TO Dallas, Texas.
Stale Constitutions should not be
made for the party in power, but for
the inhabitants of the State.
Auditor Stone is being roasted for
sending out of the State to have the
Convention letter heads printed.
The last Oxford Globe addresses
some pointed remarks to the dcma-
gogues in the Constitutional Convcn-
ton.
The Republicans OF the 9th district
25th to nominate candidate for Con-
Gress.
speech in the Convention Tuesday in
support of the Franchise Committees
report.
Gen. Featlcrston cold Swet'O is
as patriototic and fearless in advocat
ing what he believes to be right in the
Convention as he was on the bloody
field of battle.
Judge Chrisman is being over
whelmed with letters of endorsement
and complimentary notices in the
press since his patriotic, manly speech
in the Convention last week.
When Judge Chrisman said it is not
so much the man that can't read that
objects to an educational qualification,
as the fellow that wants to mark his
ticket, he struck the nail sqnarely on
the head
Referring to the demagogues in the
Constitutional Convention, the Lex
ington Advertiser says that when the
Convention adjourns for good, sever
al who are now in high political feath
er, will roost considerably lower and
nearer to the earth. Right.
The Blue Mountain Female College
opened its 18th annual session on Sept.
10th with over 100 boarding pupils in
attendance. Students were in on the
first day from seven different States,
thus evidencing the extensive reputa
ton of this deservedly popular school.
Let the Convention fail to apply
something etfectual Oh the suffrage,
and the politician who tries to ride
into power hereafter by appealing for
white unity, will find that the cry of
negro domination, like the bloody
shirt and the old cry of wolf, has lost
its virtue.
Attorney General Miller has render
ed an opinion to the effect that where
the Assessor assessed only poll tax,
cents is the limit of his compensa-
ton; where he assessed property and
poll tax against the same person, 10
cents is what lie is entitled to under
the recent Act.
How the Hon. Frank Burkitt can
support the Franchise Committees re-
port without qualification, after say
ing what he did in his last weeks pa
per, can never be explained. We
thought Mr.. Burktt was too shrewd
politician to commit political suicide
in any such way.
The report of the Franchise Com
mittee, except that part relating to
the apportionment, is given in full on
first page. Numerous amendments
have been offered, the principal one
being Judge Chrisman's proposing an
alternate educational and property
qualification, and report and all
amendments are still under discussion
The LEADER is proud of the young
men in the Constitutional Convention.
Witherspoon, Sexton, Lee, Mclean,
Ward Campbell and nearly every
other young man in that body has
placed himself on record as opposed
TO continuing the questionable, de-
moralizing election methods of the
past and adopting suffrage reform
that will mean something.
Though there are many dema-
gogues, trimmers and time servers in
the Constitutional Convention, there
are some as trne, brave and unselfsh
patriots in that body as ever offered
themselves a willing sacrifice upon the
alter of their country and boldly
faced the carnage of battle. Among
these is ". ID. Witherspon, the gal
liant young Democrat from Lauder
dale For lofty patriotism, self-abne-
eating devotion to public duty and
sa"eFtness and purity of purpose,
his speech last Friday has never been
surpassed, and marks him as one o,
Alssihs1pia's purcsf hrich.a.+ -