The Brookhaven leader., 1890-10-23
Editorial NOTES.

;tbuut Nov. LIST or 9Th.
The Summit Fair opened Tuesday
and will close Saturday.
The elective judiciary has been
buried. Requiescdt in pace.
The Greenwood Enterprise is
strongly orposcd to capital punish
ment.
Democrats, don't fail to turn out
and vote for the Democratic nominees
for Congress.
The new Constitution will not be
as good as it might he. but it will be
agreat Improvement on the old.
1t is Hooker and home rule or Mat
thews and the Force bill and other
Republican deriltry. Which will you
takef
The October term of the Supreme
Court began Monday. The docket
of the first district was taken up and
cases set.
The c. G. took up the committees
report OH corporations Tuesday an,l
will no doubt tusslc over that the rest
of the week.
New Orleans is stirred to the depths
by the cold-blooded assassination of
ID. c. Hennessy, her chief of police,
by vendetta of villainous Dagoes.
On Monday the Convention rescind-
ed the section adopted two weeks ago
providing for n State bankrupt law.
Now let it do the same for the fraud
clause of section 5.
The men in the Constitutional Con
vention who hearkcned to the crack of
the whisky mems whip and voted to
perpetuate the saloon, will hear the
crack of the peoples whip from this
time forth.
The thing that most reconcles us to
the extension of the terms of the
State officials for two years, is the fact
that brave, upright, manly John NJ.
Stone is Governor. He is one of the
few men in the State the people could
trust to hold the Office for life.
The frequency with which so many
members of the Constitutional Con-
vention are absent from their seats
during the con sideratiOn of some of
the most important work of that body
evidences the betrayal on their part
of great public trust as shocking as
it is inexcusable.
The breaking of the engagement
between Miss Winnie Davis and Mr..
Alfred Wilkinson of Syracuse, New
York, is automatically announced.
1t was the desire of Miss Davis that
it should be SO, and no outsider has
any reason to pry into the reasons
which prompted her action.
Beginning with the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in January,
1892, the Legislature will hold regular
sessions once every four years, and
special sessions, not to exceed 80 days
i'm length, will he held every four
years beginning on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday of January,
1894.
The Constitutional Convention adj
j,urned last Friday to attend Bar
NUNS menagerie. AS several of the
members haven't been in their seats
since, the presumption is that the old
Snowman, with that keen eye for bus
mess he has ever displayed, Gag
ed and carried them off with his
natural curiosities.
A copy of the Delta Advance,
Percy l.. Moore's new paper
published at Clarksdale, is. at hand
marked "X." We have not always
been able to agree with Bro. Moore's
views on public questions, but we es-
teen him as graceful, vigorous writ
er, with the courage of his convic-
tiOns, and place the Advance on our
exchange list with pleasure.
Let's see-was the extending of the
terms of the State officials by the
Constitutional Convention for two
years longer than the people elected
them for an ''issue" i'm the campaign
for delegates! 1t suits us very well,
but was it an "issue" in the selection
of delegatesf That is the question
some men in the Convention who vot-
ed for it and against Prohibition will
be called upon to answer.
F. On Saturday the Constitutional
convention adopted an article and
ordinance extending the terms of all
he present State officers until Janu-
AIRY, 1886, by vote of 40 to %, the
t'sst election under the new Constitu.
ton to be held on the FIRST Tuesda,
alter the first Monday in November O
asxt year, 1891, for the election o