Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-12-18
Senator Georges Successor to
be Chosen in 1896.
Next Years Election Will In
yOlye q New Deal from
Senator Down.
The Heavy Crop of Candidates for the
Various Ofices to be Filled mt the
Next Election.

Jackson Correspondence n. o. Picayune.l
The question is frequently asked,
"Why must a successor to Senator
George be elected in January, 1896 !?
Was he not elected for a term of six
years in January, 1927" Yes, Senator
George, who was then serving his sec
ond term. was elected by the legisla-
ture in 1892, for third term of six
years beginning March 4, 1893, and end
ing March 8, 1892 The election of a
successor to Senator George is made
mandatory by the United States stat
ute, act of July 25, 1866, which reads as
| follows:
1.-THE legislature of each State which
| is chosen next preceding the expira-
ton of any term for which any Sena-
| tor was selected to represent such State
in Congress, shall, on the second Tues
day after the meeting and organiza-
ton thereof, proceed to elect a Sena-
tor in Congress"
A legislature in Mississippi under
the new constitution is elected for four
years. The next and only legislature
to be chosen before the expiration of
Senator Georges term will be elected
at the November election of 1895, and
will meet in jackson and organize
Tuesday after the first Monday in JAN
uary, 1896. Under the law as above
quoted, it must ballot for Senator as
successor to Senator George, whose
term will begin March 4, 1899, and end
March 3, 1905, ION the second Tuesday
after the meeting and organization
thereof" because Senator Georges
term expires on March 3, 1899, and this
legislature will be chosen next preced-
ing the expiration of the time for which
Senator George was elected.
Speaking of elections, the one next
year will be the first held from COVER
nor to constable under the new con-
| stitutien. In addition to State officers
and members of the legislature, all
county officers and district attorneys
for the several judicial districts are to
be elected. 1t will be remembered that
the new constitution heightened the
terms of all county officers to four
years in order to make the tenure the
same as that of state officers, and thus
doing away with the frequency and ex-
pense of elections. And it does not
| take prophet to foretell that it will
be one of the most heated, aggressive
campaigns, not only for the several
nominations, State, legislative, district
and county, but for the election, as it
is as certain as night follows day that
the Democracy will encounter acrimo-
unious opposition. 1t makes vast
difference when there are approximate
| ly three thousand offices to be con-
| tested for and when there are only sew
en- congressional seats to be filled.
Moreover, party ties are weaker when
the contest is narrowed locally than
when the race is between several aspi-
rants for congress, who may be person
ally unknown to large majority OF the
suffragans.
Again, it is well known fact that
the crop of candidates for the Demo
cratic nominations to fill these three
thousand positions will be large, being
yariouSly estimated from seven to fif-
teen thousand. AS the contest for
nominations wakes hot, party patriot
ism in many instances will cool. Each
candidate will have his eye fixed upon
the place of his ambition; no wheel
will be left unturned to compass a
nomination. Cabals, intrigue and
trickery will be charged and where
success crowns such effort and detec-
ton follows, heart burnings will result.
1t will be pointed out that this nominee
and that is less worthy, even if he had
procured his nomination fairly, than
this or that defeated rival. The friends
of defeated candidates, who will be ca
ger to believe that their choice for the
nomination has been tricked, will talk.
The Populites, who will probably pro-
crastinate the holding of their conven-
tons, State, legislative, judicial and
county, until the Democracy has spok-
en-. will fan the flames of discomfort
and sing love songs to those who imag-
inc they have a grievance. The politi-
cal pot will then boil and bubble; ban
ners will be flying; the bands playing
and the professions forming. 1t will
be such political struggle as Missis-
/ sippians have not witnessed since the
dawn of peace. 1t will be time when
DdUr1OUlSIn anu Sc1-ScohluS WILL SohlO
to the forking of roads, and there will
be parting of ways. The Democracy
will be on trial.
If the campaign in Alabama, where
the white people divided, may be tax.
en- as an index, the campaign in Mis-
sissippi will be fierce. White Missis-
} sippians will meet white Mississippians
on the stump. Newspapers, edited by
Mississippians, native here and to the
manor born, will support. respectively
the Democratic and Populite nominees
for the State and several county tick,
cts.
All this being true--and the mar
who shuts his eyes to the truth hereof
must be blind, indeed then it be-
hooves the Democracy, in its selection
of candidates, from senator to consta-
BILE, to make no mistake. The time has
gone by when nomination may prove
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