The Brookhaven leader., 1890-08-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

back at Frank Burkitt.,
Jim Hill will go through the farce
Of running against Catchings again.
There will be one Zone darkey in the
Constitutional Convention - Mont
gomery of Bolivar.
There is world of appropriateness
in the fact that red run. speffed back
wards reads murder.
Col. Thos. II. Collins has with
drawn from the contest in the 3rd
district and left the field undisputed
to Catchings.
We are proud to see the true man
hood of Louisiana rising like a giant
in his might to put down the lot
terry combine.
The Commonwealth gets off this
nugget of truth: "To remove bad
man by assassination always leaves a
worse one behind"
A mOnster anti-lottery meeting was
held at Baton Rouge, La, last week
The Farmers Alliance and ALI the
best people of EoHfsfana are against
the lottery infamy.
Will Cowan, well known as hust-
ling young newspaper man, will edit
the Greenville Times during Capt. j.
S. McNeily's absence as member of
the Constitutional Convention.
The 10Th annual camp meeting at
the bennington Camp Ground near
Crystal Springs, will commence on
Thursday, August %, and continue
until the Wednesday following.
Lawrence county is again without a
lawyer, E. A. Weathersby, Esq, hav-
ing lately removed from Monticello
to Greenwood and formed partner
ship with Hon. A. H. Longino.
The Clarion Ledger says COahoma,
Harrison, LeflOre, Quitman, and Shar-
key were the only counties in the
State where there was no scratching
of tke delegates from the State-at-
large.
Is MeIchoir, the Republican in the
Constitutional Convention from Boil
war, II descendant of Melhizedec?
The similarity of name and the scare
ity of his kind in that body is sugges-
tive of such thing.
Hon. j. X. Vardaman, editor of the
Greenwood Enterprise, had a very
dignifed and appropriate reference in
his paper last week to the late TRACE
dy to which he was a party. 1t was
neither the boast of bulfy nor the
whine of y craven.
Referring to Judge Chrisman's adj
vOcacy of a ballot reform that will
''refOrm," the Greenwood Enterprise
says: Suffrage is the question, and
we predict that few men will return
from the convention with brighter
laurels or greater prestige than Judge
Ghrisman."
Gen. 7. S. Ford led the ticket for
delegates from the State at-large with
1924 votes. Hon. j. H. Jones, of
the same Congressional District came
next with 39,31S. Capt. JOHN w. Fe-
well of the 9Th district brought up the
rear with 1881.
Judge Chrisman is accorded the dis
tinction of being the only Judge in
the State elected to the COnstitu-
tionaI Convention. He was called
to serve by the people of his own
county because of his pre- eminent
ability and trustwOrthiness, and was
paid the additional compliment of
receiving the highest vote of any one
on the ticket.
1t is rather early TO be making pre-
aictiOns, but we venture the opinion
that if anything is done with the suf-
frage question it will be by the adOp-
ton of an educational qualification
and a ballot law modelled on the Aus
raw NOilh iCb iCdSlbS BY o.
fem should also come in for share of
attention. If the Convention is COM
posed Of the right sort of material it
will provide for the abolition of the
Ubiquitous system Vicksburg Post.
The State Alliance adopted mem
"rial to the Constitutional Convention
in which it opposed property or ed
ncational qualification for suffrage,
provided this be not construed as op-
position to the Australian ballot, and
declared against trusts and asked a
constitutional enactment against
them. II also asked that the terms of
me Governor, Auditor, Treasurer.
Shsrtns and County Treasurers be
limited to 4 years and the incumbent,
= ineligible to succeed themselves