The Brookhaven leader., 1890-03-06
Endorsed by the True Demo-
Gratis.


letter from prominent Democrats of
Brookhaven, endorsing our article of
the 9th inst, i'm reference to the iu-
famous dsfranching bill then be-
fore the legislature bill to take
the election of city officials out of the
hands of taxpayers, and give the
appointmcnt to the Governor. This
bill was gotten up by the narrow
minded, bigoted. puritanic, prOhibi-
ton hypocritcs of that once prosper
Gus town, to destroy the Democratic
party. because they could not control
it in their own selfish interest. Two
thirds of the white voters, represent
ing more than two-thiTds of the as
sessed property. petitioned against the
passage of the infamous bill, yet the
mutton-headS in the legislature
adopted it to the eternal disgrace of
the State. Here is their letter.
BRooKHAvEN, Miss, Feb. ~, 1890.
Col. A. J. FRANZ:
We write to thank yOu for your editO-
rial in the Republican of the 9th inst, on
the subject of the outrageous measure
DISTINGUISHING the people of this town.
This was done 10 please the sort of Dem
ocrats() like those whose names you give
men who wish to take the last vestige
of liberty from American citizens. The
trouble here is the rank caZy prohibition
people has now got the town, aud they,
especially Hobbs and Gdmbrell, think
freedom consists in drawing away liberty
We have great promise i'll the Lincoln
County Times, but we wish we
had an old and we'll established paper
| like yours here to expose the efforts to
destroy Democracy 10y taking it into
prohibition.
With great respect. Colonel, aud hop
ing TO serve you in the future, we are
Youis truly,
+. A. MOORE, A. ZoLIMSKI,
MAKX CARTHY, DAN'L LoUGHBY,
+. ZELLNER, ABE WENTHAL.
The above, caption and all, is cop
led from the last issue of the
Brandon Republican. There are
fanatics and fanatics. There are
Prohibition fanatics and there
are whisky fanatics, and TO
the latter class belongs Col. Ananias j.
Frantzy, the redoubtable editor of the
Republican. He regards it us his reli-
gious duty-and this is the only kind
of religion he has ever given any evil
dence of-to wage eternal wafare on
Prohibition and all its advocates. At
the bare mention of that Ito him)
wicked word-and particularly at the
mention OF Gambrell or Hobbs in
connection Herewith, his eyes turn
green, ,he frOths furiously at the mouth,
lowers his head and makes Il deadly
rush like mad bull mt red flag. In
this instance his blind fanaticism has
betrayed him into most absurd, if
not indefensible position.
Since reading the Colonel's editorial
and alleged letter from Brookhaven
Democrats endorsing him, we have
made diligent inquiry and can find
no one that knows any such persons
in this locality as Z. A. Moore. Marx
Carthy. Z. Zellner, Danl Loughby, A.
Zolimsky or Abe Wenthal. Neither
do any such names appear on either
the city or county registration books.
Some of the oldest citizens of the
town say they remember f. a.
Moore as the wife Of the old default
ing capet-bag Republican ex-Sheriff
of this county, in whose name her
husband once carried on a drug
store to avoid the claims of his
creditors.
Yc gods and this, with the out
landish foreign names that nobody
knows any thing about, is the crowd
that Col. Frantzy is holding up to
the country as the expOnents of "the
true democracy" of BrOokhaven and
his sypathizers and coadjutors in his
great struggle for personal liberty and
the elective franchise.
Tons one of two conclusions is il
restible. The Colonel either de-
liberately manufactured this endorse
ment of himself and signed these nm
knewn names to it, or else some mis-
chievous fellow, acquainted with his
fanatical weakness, wrote and sent
him the document as joke and the
poor old fellow, with the prohibition
ghost still haunting him, couldn't see
that he was being made the butt Of
ridicule.
Unreasoning prejudice against Pro-
hibitioH and"bug juice (not too much
learning) hath made Col. Ananias
mad.
In conclusion we wish to say good
humoredly that so far as Brookhaven
and BroOkhaven Democrats are CON
cerned, neither of them needs the
sympathy or championship of the
Republican or its cranky editor. At
no time i'll its history has the town
been so prosperous or its prospects
SO bright as right now. There is not
a vacant store house ora vacant resi-
dence in town, and others will be
constructed at an early day. The
evil results which whisky prophets
like Col. Frantzy predicted and some
even hoped would follow in the wake