Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-15
LINCOLN COUNTY rorrr1cs.
The so-CalIed "simon-Pure Democracy"
Badly Tinctured Win Republication.
Peoples Party Mass Meeting Called for
21st-Hooker VIII Get Left.

Peoples Party Mass Meeting Called for
a1st-Hooker VIII Get Left.
Special Correspondence.
BRooKHAvEN, Miss, Sept. 10. Polite.
that is, Democratic politics-are bad.
" mixed in Lincoln county. Lincoln
Democracy has always been considered
of peculiar stripe, but it is more "pe-
culiar" this year than ever. The priu-
cipal men who are in the Democratic
saddle down hero now are the fellows
who have been noted as Republicans,
independents and boilers in times of
real danger to Democracy when negro
supremacy faced us sure enough. To
prove this | need only mention that
Capt J. A. Hoskins, ex-Mayor Brennan,
Craft Coon and DR.. V. Il. Watts are at
present shining lights in the so-called
Simon-pure Democratic camp. Think
of that quartette sitting on the front
seats of the Democratic band wagon
and yelling against the Force bin and
crying down with niger domination.
It's enough 10 make Jesse Faylor,
Staten Baker and Antony Brown turn
as white as Italian marble.
Ex- Mayor Brennan and &. Coon were
Tic NJlu vi lllG JNtDitGlitdH ildIlN T,
the one being until lately Chairman of
the County Republican Executive
Committee, and the other member
from the county at large. Il Golly1
Martin and Capt. Z. G. Milan have the
credit of being the Old Guard Of the
straight Democracy, and when Bren-
nan and Coon and Martin and Milan
became alarmed at the growing
cI. - L., Dna-ID.,,
Prohibitionists and shook hands across
the bloody chasm and pooled their is
sues, the scene would have made log
gerhead turtle weep. This joint stock
company has an organ, whose ostensi-
bic editor has always been on the bad
side of every moral issue in the county
and banks heavy on, the anti-sumptu-
airy plank in the Democratic platform,
both in theory and practice. The OK
Republican chairman is supposed to
forge most of it's heavy Democratic
editorials, which is no doubt correct.
At the Democratic primary, i'll this
county, the four Republicans mention
ed were Rockers most ardent support
ers, and thre& of them headed the
Hooker crowd at the BTUoxhaven box.
The greatest discourtesy that has been
ohONh u fAolOol etii PupItS oPChhCl III
Brookhaven, was shown by these fresh
converts to Democracy and their fol-
lowers to Hon. Geo. S. Dodds, just be-
fore the primary when he attempted
to speak here. This is a part of the
crowd also, that had the gall TO call on
Jack Hart and DR.. Newman to resign
their seats in the Legislature because,
as was alleged, they were about TO be-
tray their Democratic constituency.
Many true men who stood by the
Democratic party in its better days
during the times that tried mons souls
have left it in disgust. Others, like
Hon. r. II. Thompson, Judge Cassidy
and 4. G. McNair, feel like they can't
turn loose, but look awfully sick at
being led by the men they've fought so
long, and cannot conceal their disgust
The Peoples party is gaining strength
every day. About all the talk about
Democracy is kept up at Brookhaven
by the crowd l have mentioned. The
Peoples party executive committee
met Saturday and decided to have a
county mass meeting at the court
house in Brookhaven Wednesday,, Sept
2lst. Rev. j. II. GaIabrell and Dr. S.
w. Robinson, our candidate for Con
gress. have been invited to speak, and
a grand time is expected. When it
comes to the general election, Hooker
will hardly be in sight. He wasn't
popular to start with, and the treat
ment Of his Claiborne witnesses has
cooked his goose. IS. +