Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-11-03
NO ALLIANcEMAN OR PROHIBITION
Isr SHOULD VOTE FOR HOOKER.

NO AILIANCEMAN OR PROHIBITION
Isr SHOULD VOTE FOR HOOKER.
No Allianceman or Prohibitionist
can consistently vote to return Col
Hooker to Congress from this district.
Why do we say this ?
It will be remembered that last year,
during the Senatorial contest in this
State between Senator George and
Major Barksdale that Col. Hooker
took it upon himself not only to can
vass this district in opposition to the
Alliance demands and Major Barksdale
wl.o represented them, but he went
over other portions of the State on the
same mission. The election OF Major
Barksdalc. had he been successful,
could not have effected the passage of
Sub Treasury bill. to which objection
was raised. and the wisdom of which
even many worthy Alliancemen doubt
ed. The most il could have done would
have been to emphasize the demands
of the farmers for redress OF their
wrongs by Congress wrongs that Col.
Hooker and Senator George admitted
on every stump exist and place an
able man like Major Barksdalc in a
position where he could impress upon
Congress the Importance ofrelief along
the Suh-Trcasury or some safer and
more desirable line. But Col. Hooker
was not even willing that demands of
the farmer should be heard and en-
phasized in Congress to this extent.
He said in effect, if you get hearing
in Congress, you must get it in the
way the Democratic party leaders in
council have dictated.
And he did not stop in Mississippi
with his opposition to the demands OF
the Alliance. About the time the U.
S. Senatorial canvass closed in Missis-
sippi, the battle was raging tiercely be-
tween the Lottery and Anti-Lottery
factions of Louisiana. On the side of
that corrupt and giant monopoly were
corrupt politicians and all the hood
lums and immoral elements of the
State. On the other side stood the
preachers, the good women, the real
patriots of Louisiana and last, but by
no means least, the Louisiana Alliance,
headed by that noble patriot, Capt T.
S. Adams, its President.
Though the life or death of the Lot
terry was the supreme and only issue,
the Lottery gang tried to shift the is
sue by waging an unrelenting war on
the Alliance and its platform, and just
at this juncture of the campaign, the
Hon. c. f. Hooker, who is now asking
the suffrage of Alliancemen and Chris |
tan citizens for reelection to Congress,
appeared on the scene in that State and |
used his ''silver tongue" and gave the
weight of his influence against the Ali
lnce and moral element of Louisiana |
IN furtherance of the corrupt Lottery |
and it's henchmen.
As to his record on the liquor ques-
ion, it has already been shown in these !
columns that he opposed in Congress
he passage of the Wilson bill, intend
ID to prevent the opening of the origi-
lal package saloons in Prohibition
States and counties; that he voted |
against the bill to appoint a commits
sion to investigate the liquor traffic in
its relations to crime, etc.-a traffic |
which Revs. H. F. Sproles and M. F. |
Harmon, chaplains of the Mississippi
Penitentiary, say brings nine-tenths of
the young white men in that institu-
ton to their disgrace; and that he has |
never even raised his voice against the
House and Senate gin mills in the Cap
ltol at Washington.
All these are facts which can neither |
be truthfully denied nor explained |
away. How then can any loyalAlliance |
man, whether he favors the Sub Treas |
ury or not, or any sincere Christian
and Prohibitionist, if he is not deaf to
reason and hopelessly blinded by par
tisanism, condone such a record by
voting for Col. Hooker again?
The LEADER leaves the question for
you to answer next Tuesday at the
polls.