The Brookhaven leader., 1891-08-13
a Visit to Madison,


last week of attending the Madison
County Alliance at its quarterly meet
ing at Pearl river school house, 3 miles
cast of Madison station.
Madison county has ever been cele-
brated for her splendid citizenship,
the intelligence, patriotism and chiv-
airy of her sons, and the beauty,
grace and refinement of her daugh-
tiers. Before the war the county was
a succession Of immense planta-
tiOns, with their ample fields and
princely dwellings, furnished with
every comfort and luxury, and the
lord and lady of every such home the
personitication of open-hearted hos
pitality and every noble social virtue.
Though as a result of the mutations
of war and time, most of these mag
nificent estates have passed away, the
old spirit and distinguishing virtues
of the people remain much the same,
and we doubt if it is saying too much
to assert that there is not aeOunty in
all Mississippi today where the aver
age standard of citizenship and intel
ligence among the agricultural class
is quite as high as in old Madison.
The Alliance in this county is in
healthy condition, and numbers i'll its
ranks many of the most loyal men,
bers to be found in the order. Hon.
John II. Cameron, that gallant and
typical representative of his county
who came SO near contrasting success
fully for the gOvernorship with Gov.
Stone, Hon. G.. l.. Gilmer, Messrs. S.
W. Lancaster, II. c. Luckett, r. {.
Lee, f. Fleming, ID. II. Hearne,
DR.. b. +. Passmore and Others
equally well and favOrably
known, are among the leading spirits
of the order in the county.
In Madison there has been no fair
expression from the people on the SEN
atorship, and steps were taken 10y the
Alliance to have the county Demo-
cratic Executive Committee sub
nit the question to primary called
hereafter especially for that purpose,
the members of the legislature already
nominated to consider themselves in
structed according to the result.
Barksdale and the Sub-Treasury
are very strong in the county, and it
is believed, on square issue, would
win.
Allegiance to the Ocala platform
was reaffirmed and Il strong delega-
ton of that way of thinking elected
to the State Alliance. The anti-Sub-
Treasury movement, which Assistant
State Lecturer McAllister of that
county is attempting to inaugurate,
meets with no favor, and if he has
any following in Madison county, we
did not hear of it.
We feel deeply grateful to the Mad
ison brethren for the marked courtesy
us. Though comparative
stranger, we did not long feel that
we were among strangers. We are
under special obligations to Hon. r. c.
Lee of Madison Station, whose guest
we were a portion of the time, for APP
preciated courtesies. Mr.. Lee owns
a magnificent estate of 2200 acres in
and around Madison Station, and is
one of the "strawberry kings of that
well-knOwn locality, honored and low
ed of all his countymen, without re-
spect to class. Mrs. Lee, who pre-
sides over their elegant home with
true queenly grace, was formerly Miss
Ella Bass, an alumna of WhitwOrth,
and is well known in "Brookhaven,
where she won many admirers
during her school girl days. Theirs
is an ideal country home, where the
very air is laden with that gracious
ante-bellum hospitality which distin-
guished the Old South, and which,
alas is too seldom met in the real,
practical struggles encountered by the
busy children of the New.