The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-21
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THE PEOPLE To THE FRONT! OFFICE
SEEKERS To THE REAR!

THE PEOPLE TO THE FRONT! OFFICE
SEEKERS To THE REAR.
A Card from the Voters OF Beat No. to
the People of Lowndes County.
A considerable portion OF the voters OF LOwndS
county feel that the people have been handicap
ped and inundated by the action Of certain cit
liens In their open defiance of the established
usage Of the Democratic party in the matter or
selection OF party nominees for delegates to the
Constitutional Convention. These citizens have
hitting the signers thereof in disregard Of the
regular Democratic Primary to the election Of
This action threatens the dissolution Of the
Democratic party, and We call upon the citizens
Of Lowndes county to rebuke said action at the
polls. The effect OF such secret and dangerous
combination within the Democratic party has
been to shut of all discussion and fair and legti
mate competition among candidates, and leaves
the people In entire ignorance of the views or
qualifications of any candidate for this high and
most important position.
To the front, Democrats of Lowndes! The
party OF Cleveland, Lamar, Stone, Walthall and
George Is in danger, and Its enemies in this
county boast that they will soon destroy Ii. God
save the mark! We present the names OF Dr.
w. Banks, true and tried Democrats Of the old
guard, as candidates for Delegates to the Con
stitutional Convention. They do not seek the
they will serve the people, and faithfully and
well, II elected.
Do them an honor and yourself service by
casting your ballots for DIR. j. w. Thomas Col
w. c. Richards and Capt. X. W. Banks
MANY DEMOCRATS OF BEAT No. 2.
The ring also attempted confusion
by complicating the election with that
for Congress, by announcing the name
of E. b. Kirksey to succeed Private
John Allen and sending to each box
the announcement and tickets.
But they were doomed to defeat.
Every box i'll the county except CO.
lumbus, voted almost solidly for our
ticket. You will observe that Col.
Richards name appears upon their
ticket. In justice to him l will state
that it was done without his knOwl-
edge or consent. AS shrewd farmer
expressed it, it was done to disarm
suspicion and SWeeten the balance of
the ticket for all who couldn't take
their phisky straight! At Caledonia,
DIR. Thomas own precinct, and the
largest in the county except Column
bus, the doctor received but six votes;
Capt. Banks not one, though person
ally both are clever and popular men.
But Notwithstanding their crushing
defeat in the primary, with a courage
and persistence worthy of better
cause, the ring continued to battle
against fate. The county convention
to ratify the work of the primary
cOnvenes. DR.. JnO. BrOwnrigg,
one of our wisest cOunsellors, this time
is made to grace the tail of the Co.
lumbus delegation. Him the conven.
ton made chairman. This was the
cut of all. An abortive effort
to confuse the Doctor was the last eff
fort of the expiring Ring, than which
none ever died harder.
Our county is now in the hands of
her people. | congratulate the State
of Mississippi in that Lowndes will
send to the Constitutional Conven-
ton three representatives able, wise
and patriotic to assist in framing her
organic law. | congratulate the tenn
perance people of the State in that
they will have from our county three
who, should it come to
q vote as to whisky or prohibition,
will he found upon the side of moral
ty and religion and against the per-
petuation of the liquor demon in the
State.
w. G.. SMITH.
In his letter requesting that the
above be published as an answer to
the Index, Mr.. Smith says:
81 want to make very clear the fol-
lowing points:
81. The editor of the Index, from
the time the convention bill passed
the Legislature, in common with all
other whisky editors in the State, la
bored i'll the interest of whisky and
against Prohibition, affecting his
readers with lengthy editorials.
"2. That the three delegates elected
from this county were agreed upon by
a committee appointed by the Column
bus Prohibitionists in conference with
leading Prohibitionists over the cOun-
ty. The names of more than 700
white voters were secured to papers
by said committee, and
while denying that the Lowndes dele
gates are PrOhibitionists, the editor of
the Index admits that they are all
three opposed to the saloon.
"3. That an abOrtive attempt was
made to get up contemplation by
leading whisky men, and some of
them claim that $50 names were Sc
cured. The object of this move was
to ignore the nominations of Query,
Richards and Erwin, call mass meet
ing at the court house and nominate
another ticket. 1t is due to Capt.
Banks, however, to state that he as
sured me that he opposed this move,
even when the most influential leaders
came and proposed to nominate q
ticket, pay him for the use of his
paper and write the editorials. 1t is
also due Capt. Banks that he be given
credit for opposing the use of the ne
gro at the polls. The surprising part
after all these things is, that he should
that Prohibition was not an
issue in the campaign. If it was not,
why is it the editor of the Index and
DIR. Thomas are not colleagues of Col.
They are both popular
classify l would remind the editor
Of the Index that it was necessary for
the lOng-eared animal once before to
rebuke a prominent functionary for
attempting to oppose good cause"
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