The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1899-09-02
ntssIsSipprS NEXT GOVERNOR
Edgar S. Wilson, the n. 0. Pic

Edgar S. Wilson, the n. 0. Pic
ayune's Mississippi correspondent
at Jackson, gives the appended
sketch of Mississippi's Governor.
elect, Hon. A. H. Longino.
Hon. 4. II. Longlno, nominee of
the Democracy of Mississippi fol
the office of Governor, is one we'll
worthy of the high honor bestow-
ed, and his election will be a hap
py event in the history of the
State. Although as yet full of
youthful enterprise and vigor, he
has had a wide experience in pu-
bile affairs, having served the
State for years in both the legisla-
tive and judicial departments of
It's Government, and always with
distinguished usefulness and fde-
lity.
Irreproachable in his private life
he CARED into the public service
those fundamental rules of con-
duct that constitute the safe an
chorage of probity and honor.
Blessed by nature with a quick
and discerning intelligence,
through habits of application, his
powers have attained that deyel-
opment essential to the graver
tasks of craftsmanship, and he
will 90 into office thoroughly
e0uInnad mentally, morally and
physically for all the duties of his.
high station. Thoroughly famil-,
lar with the conditions and needs
of the State, and closely in touch
with the great body of its people,
much will be-indeed, already is
expected of his resourceful capa-
city and loyal devotion to its in
terests. 1t seems that destiny in
confding to him a great response
bility has also marked him for the
lofty privilege of leading the way
to that material prosperity on the
Threshold of which the State ha,
too long fingered. He stands up
on high plane; the canvass he
has Just concluded was a clean one
throughout. He refused to give
promises of place and pledges for
or against measures that might
call for his official action. NOtab-
ly, he withstood all efforts to Sc
cure an expression favorable to
the constitutional amendment for
an elective Judiciary. Indeed, his |
course has been in the highest de-
gree conmendable, from the first |
announcement of his candidacy |
to the hour of his nomination,
and the public rejoice IL 1t as an
of the efficacy of dig
nifed and straightforward meth
DDS. Although residing in the
delta, and interested in all that
concerns the prosperity of that
region, he was born
and reared in the pine hills of
Mississippi, and is bound to that
section by all the ties of early as
sociation. In becoming the choice
IF both the delta and the hills he
las covered the whole ground,
and is the choice of the State.
And he will be not merely the tit
lIar governor of the State, but
one who, discountenancing the
demands of factions and cliques,
will devote his heart, and mind,
md strength, to the good of the
whole body polite, a chief execut-
We in whom every good citizen
will feel that he has friend.
Hon. II. Longino is not yet A
,ears Of age. He was born IN
lawrence county, Mss, and was
educated at Mississippi College,
1T Clinton. He has served as
State senator, United States dis
-rict attorney for the southern
district of Mississippi and chan
,ellor of the Seventh district, of
which office be resigned when he
announced his candidacy for the
chief magistracy Of the common
wealth. He married Miss Marion
Buckley, eldest daughter of the |
Hon. j. NJ. Buckley, late of Lin
coin county and this city, and has
three sons and one daughter.