The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1899-05-19
FIRST BLOOD FOR ALLEN-IlIS
ELECTION ASSURED.
Vicksburg Herald.

ELECTION ASSURED.
vieksburg Herald.
Strictly speaking the claim OF the
action taken by mass meetings at tho
county sites OF Jackson and Wayne
counties as "flrst blood for Allen" i,
not altogether correct. For a week be
fore the county OF Sharkey registered
its choice for McLaurin. But in that
case the popular voice spoke through
an executive c0mmittec,and in coun.
ty fully conceded to the remarkable
Governor; in the other two the ex
preston was registered by mass meet.
ings OF hundreds Of voters, and in ter
ritory-southcast Mississippi-wllert
IL has been claimed that sentiment
was practically sold for him.
In Wayne county, especially, the sig
niticance Of such demonstration fol
the Private cannot be 0verestimated
1t is a blow to "our Anse" from which
he cannot recover until he does some.
thing Of the same sort in Aliens
stronghold; IN northeast Mississippi
How it happened is thus told in the
specials:
WaynestOro May 6.-(Special. AT
Il large and enthusiastic mass meeting
Of the Democracy Of Wayne county
to-day John Allen was endorsed foI
the long term for United States Sena'
tor by a great majority. Members OF
the legislature and Senate were in.
structcd to vote for him. and Govern,
or Lowry for the short term.
Mr.. Aliens supporters, it is re
peated, have not included Wayne il
their list; though it is fair to say tina
they counted Jackson, which tool
like action the day before the mas
meeting at Waynesboro. As TIL
skirmish has opened, the Herald vii
give the slate figured out for the Pr
vate. 1t is not based on "thcory,
like the vague and flimsy claim issue
few days since by the Commercial
Appeal and Times Democrat Jackson
bureaus for his excellcncy. 1t is dt
rived from close readings Of the loca
press, and actual advices which ar
confidently believed to be reliable.
In Il full Legislature ninety is a ma
jority. Allen will get Goat least
Of this desired number in north Mis-
sissippi; in the lSt, 2nd and 4th Con
gressional districts. He will get tn
support of the members from Wash
ington, Bolivar, Coah0ma, Sunflowe
and Leilore, in the 3rd district; thir
teen votes. In the sixth, or southern
district, he will carry Hancock ant
Jackson counties, on the sea coast
and Wilkinson, Amite, Pike anC
Adams in the southwest; fourteen
votes. AS matters stand in the fftt
and sixth districts, the States centre
he is safe for at least twenty vote,
morc-out Of Wayne, Yazoo, Holmes
Attala, Lauderdale, Madison, Kinds
COpial, Claiborne, Lincoln and Frank
lin. But as he needs only the three
more, it is enough at present to claim
Claiborne and Wayne.
Making no claim to infallibility tn,
Herald has no hesitancy in submitting
the above confidently, as Aliens basi
of claims of an assured victory. Ii
most Of the counties named, in
deed, only avowed anti ti-McLaurin mel
are running for the Legislature. Il
other words, and as the signs plainl
lforeshadow, McLaurin's overwhelm
ing defeat is certain-unless he Cal
mend his hold lie will not get exceed
ing seventy Of the one hundred AM
sixty-eight votes OF the Legislature
The newspaper business does no
seem to have changed in one rcspec