The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1895-09-03
MIR. SESSIONS LETTER.

The LEADER very willingly gives
place to Mr.. j. G. Sessions letter pub
lished in another column. We do not
call in question a single statement Mr..
| Sessions makes in reference to his po
litical antecedents and sentiments;
and yet we submit, that the interpre-
tation we and others placed on the ar
ticle copied by us from the Peoples
party paper of Copiah was a perfect
ly legitimate one Moreover, said ar
ticle was manifestly intended as some
thing more than mere personal COM
pliment to "a just, an honest and
faithful man." as Mr.. Sessions is pleas
ed to construe it in his letter. The
best proof of this is the article itself.
Here it is:
We do truly hope that Bro. j. G..
! Sessions will yield to the many solicit
ations of his numerous warm personal
friends of Lincoln county and else
where, and become candidate for the
legislature of his county. We are I'M
alterably opposed to any kind of flu
sion in politics, but we can vouch for
him to the Peoples party and all the
friends of reform, that they will never
misplace their confidence and that
they will ever find him a just, an hon
est and faithful servant of his people.
If there is a man in Lincoln who can
harmonic factions, and if there is a
lack of harmony, that man is Bro. Joe
Sessions.
Commended in this way by Peo-
pies party paper "to the Peoples par
ty and all the friends of REFORM"
what more natural than the infer
ence that Mr.. Sessions was good and
trustworty Populist in all except the
name ? This construction was further
supported by the fact that under the
rules adopted by the Democratic ex-
ecutive committee, any registered vot-
er, regardless of his political creed,
could participate in the democratic"
primary, either as candidate Or voter,
by nominally agreeing to support the
party ticket.
Again, Mr.. Sessions is in error in as
Stunning that the Reform Advocates
article was designedly held back and
republished by The LEADER on the eve
of the primary, when too late for him
to correct it, in order to defeat his
nomination. The facts are, it was pub
lished first in the Reform Advocate
about the time Mr.. Sessions announ-
ced himself a candidate, and would
have been reproduced in The LEADER
soon afterward when our attention was
first called to it, if it had not been
filed with mass of other copy and in
advertently overlooked until the week
before the second primary. We pub
lished it as an item of current inter
est to our county readers, with no par
ticular design one way or the other.
Mr.. Sessions evidently believes this
publication caused his defeat. This
may or may not be SO. Personally we
esteem him as one of the purest and
best citizens of the county, but it is
more than doubtful whether he ever
will be honored with Office by the
Democratic party. Eight years ago he
received the Democratic nomination
for Representative in a perfectly fair
and honorable way, and then some Of
the very men who have since been
raising the biggest dust in the county
as Simon pure Democrats" helped to
defeat him at the regular election with
an independent Republican 1t is not
unlikely that the same crowd conclud
ed to save time and risk this year by
defeating his nomination.