The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-06-14
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suOULD REBuhE
rhinos have come to pretty pass
:, uinds and The Baptist and
:, men as Bishop Galloway are
..Sing . out against the iniquitous or
w. Of the Kinds county executive
ommittee, ~, which, in the face of the
..aar of the State Democratic Com
O,;ttes that none but electors, quail
s.d % 10 vote at the November election,
hs nermitted to participate in the
oountv primaries, propose to allow
S.roons who are disqualified to
r0,o for State officers, county officers,
,sa;slators and for United States Sena-
,op Under this order Bis men whose
names have been stricken from a whis-;
tv petition in Kinds county are allow
sd to vote. 1t has been published
that the appointees Of the governor,
and relative of his, when Judge Brame
asked that this order be changed to con-
form with the constitution and the
law and to the order of the State ex-
acutive committee, voted unanimous
" to turn the request of Judge Brame
down. We have heard that Governor
Mclaurin has pardoned many OF the
blind tigers who have been convicted
in Kinds county since he has been
governor 1t has been published that
in one ward in Jackson, the ward, by
the way, where there are said to be
the most blind tigers, that there are
sO6 men who are disfranchised, and
9O5 who are qualified electors. How
many of these men will the blind
tigers, pardoned by the governor,
and their friends, vote and work
for him for Senator? Col. w. A. Mont
gomery, the Kinds county candidate
for governor, has published a depreca-
ton of the order of the Kinds county
committee, and states that he hopes
to be able to get it to rescind its order,
for as matter now stand the delegation
from Kinds has very poor show Of
being seated in the convention when
it meets August %. Lincoln county
followed the law and the constitution.
No man can vote in the primary here
unless he is qualified elector. And
Lincoln will surely prostest against
the seating of the seven votes from
Kinds in the State convention. Kinds
ought to change her order. But will
she do it? 1t looks like the old whis-
ky ring is again in the saddle.
According to Editor Harper, of the
Raymond Gazette, and other credible
authorities, Col. Jones S. Hamilton,
who the Governor violated the Con-
stitution to appoint as his Adjutant
General last year, is the Governors
senatorial compaign manager in Kinds.
Hamilton will be remembered as the
old whisky leader of Kinds, and now
has at his beck and call pretty much
the same old immoral liquor element
that gave jackson and Kinds county
their exceedingly malodorous reputa-
ton dozen years ago.
The two-thirds of the qualified
electors in Kinds who refused to
sign the whisky petition ought
to demand by petition that the
inlquitous order of the committee be
changed, and if the Kinds county com
mlttee refuses to change it,thereby con-
hiring the charge that it is mixed up
with an official trust and whisky
ring, then the people of the rest of the
State ought to rebuke it in no uncer-
tam tones. The idea of such carry
inss on at the State Capital, especial
iy when the Governor proposed in a
speech at Natchez to "leave it to
Minds" (which holds the first primary,
Is simply scandalonS