The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-12-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Bank of Greenville failed
Tuesday.
Send us $1.OO and get the LEADER
for II months.
Mills has been suffering with the
grip and disappointment.
The jefferson county Alliance meets
the first Friday in January.
Next year will be one of Prohibi-
ton revivals in State and Nation.
One day we hear that Crisp has the
grip and the next that he is hard at
work on his committees.
With the majority of the leaders of
the old parties politics has become a
profession and the fabrication of is
sues q fine art.
Mrs. Smell understands the editors
of Mississippi. He is an incorrigible
fellow who will not succumb to her
plan of campaign.
~ SOou utdl vi NdluduIc hiStoiS
is being made for the Prohibitionists
of this State over the Lottery ques-
ton in louisiana.
Mr.. Mills reply to Mr.. Crisp's offer
of second place on the Committee of
Ways and Means, instead of first, was
just what it ought to have been.
Every person who sends us new
yearly subscribers and So, or 10 six
month subscribers at so cents each,
with the cash, will get an extra copy
of the paper one year free.
Senator Plumb, of Kansas, died
suddenly at Washington, of apoplexy
last Sunday. This means another
Alliance Senator from that State, as
The Alliance has the Legislature.
1t is now settled that the Democrats
will have majority of five on joint
ballot in the New York legislature.
That will secure the election of an
other Democratic L. S. Senator to
succeed Hiscock.
The youngest member of. the Ma
tiOnal House of Representatives is
Joseph w. Bailey, the brilliant young
orator Mississippi furnished to one of
the Texas districts. 'Joe'' will be
heard from in Congress.
The Executive Committee of the
National Prohibition party met in
Chicago on the 18th and selected ST.
Louis as the place for holding the
Convention for nominating a nation
al ticket and June % as the date.
Gov. Stone certifies that he counted
the cash IN the treasury on the 18th and
found the balance on hand to cores
pond with the balance shown by the
books of the State Treasurer Evans.
the total amount being 1852 ,540.92.
The snubbing MI. Mills, the leading
tariff refOrmer in Congress, received
first from a majority of the Democrat
.ic Congressman and then at the hands
of his successful competitor, looks
like the Democratic party is not much
of tariff reform party after all.
The attention of all Sub Alliances
is called to a resolution which passed
the Supreme Council, requesting each
and every one of them to observe its
first meeting in January by reading
and discussing the National demands
of the order. The matter is given in
charge especially, to lecturers.
General Clarkson said III a speech at
Des Moines, Iowa, few days ago
that the next Republican campaign
would be made on the issue of pro-
lection to the negro in the South.
That is dead issue, but it would be
the delight of many politicians of
both old parties if it could be made
the dominant one in the next cam
paign.
We have failed to note before the
temperance, as an evening daily, of
the State Ledger, under the control of
its old editor, MFR. r. II. Henry. Mr..
Henry has long occupied position in
the foremost rank of Mississippi's sue
cessful newspaper men, and is pro-
verbal for publishing a fresh and
newsy paper. The paper he is now
sending out easily takes its place
among the best dailies of the State,
and. judged by the issues we have
seen, its popularity and success are
assured. 1t has an interesting Ali
ance department edited 10y Maj.
Barksdale.