The Brookhaven leader., 1890-10-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.


fhe Constitutional Convention.
We could fill the LEADER with press
compliments of Judge Chrisman and
endorsements of his suffrage plan.
w. ID. Witherspoon, the eloquent
and brilliant young delegate from
Lauderdale, has Il backbone rs big as
Grover Clevcland's.
The proposition to extend the terms
of county officers until Jan. l, 1891,
has been reconsidcrci by the Conven
fioa and is not likely to pass.
If Prohibitions wasn't an issue in the
campaign, will somebody please ex-
plain how came so many delegates in
the c. c. committed against it
The ProhibitiOnSts in the Constitu-
tional Convention Who refused to give
their votes to blot out the saloon will
never regret it but once and that will
be forever.
Prof. w. Il. Nixon, Superintendent
of Education % Pike county, has re-
signed because the office conflicts with
other duties and does not pay enough
itself for Il support.
POhihitionistS can we'll afford to
forgive Capt. Jewell for the left hand
ed compliments he paid their leaders
last Friday, if he will only continue
to diff the saloon in the short ribs as
he did on that occasion.
So it seems Editor Banks was right
and our Correspondent Smith wrong,
after all, about the standing of the
Lowndes delegates on the liquor ques
ton. It's slecty day in August
when the liquor men get left i'll poll
tics.
Mississippi has four Republican can
didates for CongrcsS-Chalmers III the
second district, Jim Hill in the third,
Judge Frazee in the fourth and II. {.
Griffin of Natchez in the sixth. Of
course none of them will come within
a mile of election.
Oul exchanges that are telling their
readers that the new anti-lottery law
authorizes the Postmaster General
and his sub0rdinates to open and read
suspected letters, display an igno-
rance or mcndacity that is truly ap-
palling. The law doesn't do anything
of the sort.
Editor Burkitt saved his consisten-
cy on fly blown section 3. Writing to
his last paper he said: 81 shall not
vote for Section 5, of the franchise
clause, because the first clause is in
tended as an educational qualification,
and the other two are to my mind
subterfuges." He has since made
good his word by voting against it.
During the campaign for Constitu-
tional delegates the cry of the liquor
men and politicians was every where
against agitation of the Prohibition
question. In the Convention last
Friday the cry was raised that the sa-
loon must not be botted out because
the question had not been agitated and
made an issue in the canvass. See
any flies on that9
We may have abolished the shot
gun and ballot box shifting methods,
but have we placed our system upon
the high plane and adopted the
straightforward and honorable plan
hoped for, beyond cavil and reproach?
We cannot believe that this has been
done or that the convention has Sc
cured the object for which it assem-
bled, but on the contrary has fabri-
Gated scheme which will bring due
disappointment Democrat.
The New Farmer, the official organ
of the Farmers Alliance, is not pleas
ed with the namby PANTY way the
suffrage question was dealt with by
the Convention, and says editorially:
I'VE are free to confess that the plan
is not what we had hoped would be
adopted. We do not think it goes
far enough; all measures adopted are
of a temporizing character. Even the
Dortoh method of voting is an indi-
rect educational qualification, when a
direct one would have been more
statesmanlike."
1t was a surprise to many last Fri
day to see Capt. ii. l.. Bird of Law
renee, representing the oldest Prohi-
bition county in the State, and one
that is practically solid against the Ii
quor traffic, casting his vote to perpet-
nate the saloon. He prefaced his vote
by sayingh he felt instructed by the ex-
pressions he had heard from leading
men of his county and all other SQUIRE
es that they did not want anything
done by the Convention on the subject
OF liquor or Prohibition, and hence he
was constrained to vote for the major
u report, which was in effect vote
tue saloon, though he had intend.
TO vote otherwise.