The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-01
AtHis Old Tricks Again.

wisdom. ihterlarding his productions
freely with the editorial eve" and
Singing long dictionary terms around
In fhc wrong place In manner that
would make third grade niger
school teacher turn pale with envy.
Ii is true the Colonel is not writing
over HE own name. lie delights to
revel in nom dc plumes assumed
names aliases rs Farmer
"Ncmo," "Voccs,' "Nimrod," "loda,"
Omega" "Beaver Creek" etc, etc,
endeavoring to create the impression
on the public that there are n great
many of him. But alas! his style-his
big words-his incoherent alterations
of learning wiH give him away, and
his identity sticks out from behind
a II his fictitious names like Sambo's
heel from the proverbial woodpile.
The bent of the Coloners mind just
now, is to have only a farmer for the
Constitutional Convention. No judge,
no lawyer, no preacher, no doctor, no
anything but u farmer, pure and sim
ple-not even farmer-doctor will do.
He has another regular ct of CAN'T
lAonopolistic oligarchy theory and
agricultural whatever that
may mean-.just as he had when he
wrote that famous letter to the Beaver
Creek boys three years ago.
Probably the Colonel comes forth
from his long retirement for the pur-
pose Of aspiring to the Constitutional
Convention himself He has all the
premonitory symptoms, and would no
doubt like to take a hand in "a
general revision of the classic laws
now on file" Three years ago
he wrote learnedly for several
months IN his then personal organ,
signing divers names to his divers
pieces, finally called himself cut Mt
the earnest solicitation of many vot-
ers, published a platform that became
historic for absurdity. went a-eandi-
dating over the county for many
weeks and talked nearly all the vot
ers to death who turned ous 70 hear
him, and got-52 votes for the Legisla-
ture-coming out the hindmost one of
five candidates.
If to become a candidate is his cls-
ject, the LEADER says, rush in, lem
Ons, and get squeezed again. Mean
time let the Colonel, who has had
some sort of connection with the big
at Wesson since his re-
tirement from the political arena, ex-
plain that in connection with his
"anti-monopolistic oligarCily theory"
talk.
Seriously, the LEADER wishes to
warn the people of this county against
such dcmagogues and communists ;rs
j. a. S. Henderson. His talk and
writings, while containing some
streaksof good sense and truth--some
lucid intervals, as it were-are in the
main the sheerest rot, suited to stir
up strife and unfOunded prejudces
and distrust between the farmers and
men of other callings. q
In the selection of delegates to the
Constitutional Convention, as the
LEADER has before said, and as Hon.
j. II. Beeman, member of the State
Alliance Executive Committee, has so
we'll said, the best, wisest and most
conservative men in every county
should be chosen for this great trust,
regardless of what may be their call
ing or profession. 1t would be as
just to assume that any farmer sent
to the Constitutional Convention
would abuse his position and discrim-
mate against every other calling and
profession, as that any lawyer, mer-
chant, physician or preacher, az the
ease might be, would do so.
We repeat, that none bNt the wlsest,.
most trustworthy and competent men
we have should be sent to this conven-
ton without regard to their vocatiop.
Only such men are qualified to carry
out the reforms desired by the far
mers or any other class. Any one
who witnessed the proceedings of the
last Legislature can fully appreciate
this. That body was composed of a
large majority of farmers and alliance
men, bat many of them evidently
were not chosen because Of their wis
dom aud special fitness for legisla-
tive duties. Jury reform and several
other measures which had been spe-
ciaNy favored by the Alliance, and on
which the Legislature had been me-
morialized by the State Alliance Com
mittee, were killed outright by the
votes of Alliance men because some
cunning demagogue of politician
jumped up and pretended that he had
discovered a Pandora's box of evils in
them. Men who were not farmers,
united with the more intelligent Al
lance members. and saved the far
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