The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1895-09-24
vain things and getting deeper into the

vain things and getting deeper into the
mire with each successive effort.
As to our political inconsistency,
which seems to be troubling Summers
Bros" and the Peoples party paper
of Copiah, we will say that the editor
of The LEADER has never repudiated
nor renounced any reform principle
he has advocated 1t is true the Pro
hibition party of Lincoln county nom
mated three candidates on its ticket
who had been previously nominated by
the Democratic party, and three which
had been previously nominated by the
Peoples party, which we endorse; but
all these nominations we're for strictly
executive and not legislative offices,
and the primary consideration which
governed in the matter was that in
each instance they we're capable men
of good moral character and open and
avowed friends of Prohibition. If
Summers Bros" the Reform Advo-
cate, or any other reputable authority
will furnish the proof that this isn't
true, the editor of The LEADER hereby
pledges to use whatever influence he
has to get the Prohibition party men
in this county to repudiate every such
nomination. Said action of the Prohi-
bition party was in no sense intended
as an endorsement of the Democratic
party, or the attitude of the Peoples
party on the liquor question, but was
an endorsement of the men on their
personal merits and fitness.
To clinch their charge of inconsist-
ency, a paragraph is quoted from The
LEADER of July 23d. Now be it remem-
bered, that Bro. Chambers and not
BRO. Hobbs" was editor of The LEAD
er July 23d, and besides this, the para
graph in question was a"plate matter"
paragraph, slipped in to fill up the
form during rush of job printing, and
not an editorial at all. How like their
other ponderous blows
The editor of THE LEADER, like some
of the best and ablest men of all par
ties, believes in woman suffrage, if
properly qualified, and can see no suf-
ficient reason for changing his views,
but we regard the suppression of the
liquor traffic as vastly more important
than woman suffrage, and hence en-
phasize it accordingly. Why IS it Sum-
mers Bros, who express such prefer
ence for the Democratic platform,
don't emphasize the WHISKY PLANK in
that platform equally with the tariff,
financial and other planks? True
men," they say, 'stand by platforms
and creeds, whatever may be the pref
erence of individuals or exceptional in
cidents !"
Verify, "what is sauce for the goose
is sauce for the gander."
Woman suffrage is not likely to be a
prominent issue in Mississippi for
years Indeed, with our splendid suf-
frage laws and Mississippi so far ahead
of her sisters on this line, we may well
devote our time to more pressing is
sues, while other States are catching
up with us in this respect.
The assertion that Mr.. A. NJ. Sum
mers voted the Prohibition ticket in
1892 as ian act of contempt for Cleve-
land, and as an expression of prefer
ence between men," is truly news to us,
as it doubtless is to many others.
Certainly Mr.. Summers conveyed no
such idea in the letters referred to.
nor in the private interview mention
ed. We always understood it was be-
cause he objected to the whisky plat
form on which Mr.. Cleveland and the
Democratic party stood.
To many of Mr.. Summers best friends
he appears now in the light of a man
who put his hand to the Prohibition
party pillow and looked back to the
Democratic flesh pots-only to be dis
appointed.