Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-06-02
Friendly Advice.

The Messenger, Keeping steadily IN
view the best interest of the masses of
the people, warns ITS readers that the
Hon. Jas. ID. Lynch, late candidate
for Lieut.. Governor on the Republican
ticket in this State. is not such u lead
er as sound conservatism would Sc
lect. To take his own political record
as an illustration, the prediction may
be safely made that the following of
his precepts would soon prove disas
trous to the party which he heads.
Personally the Messenger has no
preiudices against Capt. Lynch, but
the author Of "Kemper county vindi-
dicated" and the nominee of the Radi-
cal party in Mississippi for - State of
flee, If we would preserve the eternal
fitness of things, should not bo one
and the same individual. Anew party
headed by an OK Bourbon, ex-Repub-
lican and general extremist, is not
likely to inspire great enthusiasm, and
we shall be very much disappointed If
such Il movement should secure any
following among the Alliance eople
of Mississippi, who, now as heretofore,
constitute the great conservative
body of the Democratic party.-Chick-
osaw Messenger.
Emulating the disinterested con-
Germ for the welfare of the Peoples
party displayed by the Messenger, the
LEADER will also make n statement.
The Peoples party in Mississippi
has not yet been organized as II State
party, and its members and those who
favor it, are not responsible for the
appointment of Capt. Lynch to the
position he holds. When the party
was first organized at Cincinnati in
May, 1891, Mississippi had little or
no representation Mt the National Con
vention, and Capt. Lynch and two
others were appointed members of the
National Executive Committee of the
Peoples party for Mississippi, and
commissioned to organize the party in
this State. This commission he is
now endeavoring to discharge. When
the State Convention meets in Jack
son June %, representing the several
counties of the State, it will be one of
the duties of that Convention to elect
n State Executive Committee, and the
Committee will elect its own chair
man, unless otherwise decided by the
Convention.
In consideration of the manifest
intention of the enemies of the Peo-
pies party to load the movement
down, as far as possible, with what
ever of political odium there may he
attached to individuals, it might be
well for the party to act on the Mes
senger's friendly advice, and not elect
Capt. Lynch member of the State
Executive Committee. At any rate,
not make him chairman. That will
be question for the Convention to
decide.
AS to Capt. Lynch personally, while
the LEADER is no apologist or cham
pion of his, it does know that there
are great many people who do not
regard him as great an extremist as
they do the editor of the Messenger,
who himself is and aspires to be Il po
litical leader in Mississippi. The
worst that the West Point Leader. his
home paper and a stalwart Democratic
journal, has to say of him is i'll the form
of a lament "that so distin-
guished a literary man as is Capt.
Lynch man who has made
reputation as a literary genius, should
stoOp from the high position he
occupies as man of letters, to
mingle in the dirty cesspool of poll
tics'-made dirty, alas by the filth
and Shiny practices of the two old
parties.