Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-07-06
HON. r1ONROE rlcCLURG.

The Enterprise takes pleasure in pre-
sketch of the man whom it hopes and
believes will be the next attorney-ge general
of Mississippi-the Hon. Monroe McClurg,
of Greenwood. Mr.. McClurg is man
whom it is Il delight and privilege to
support and serve. He is clean man, of
broad and liberal views, brilliant intellect,
and easily ranks with the most eloquent
orators in our great commonwealth. His
record, both public and private, is abso-
lutely without blemish. He is honored
and beloved by his neighbors- those
among whom he was reared and who
have watched with interest and gratifica-
ton his successful and exemplary career
from infancy to manhood He is I'M
questionably one of the purest and best
men in Mississippi politics, and would re-
fleet credit and honor on any position
within the gift of the people.
Mr.. McClurg is forty-two years old,
was born and raised in Carroll county, is
an alumnus of the State University, grad
uating from the law department in 1878.
HE began the practice of his profession
i'll partnership with Hon Geo. Anderson,
now of Vicksburg, and was the partner
of Hon. Thomas H Somerville for eigh-
teen years and until Mr. Somerville was
chosen law professor in the University,
when Mr.. McClurg came to Greenwood.
He was member of the constitutional
convention of 1890; although one of the
youngest, was on some of the most i'm
portant committees, and took a high
stand in that distinguished body; was
member of the legislature of 1896 and
chairman of the committee on public ed
ucation, on the judiciary and other COM
mittees. He was the trusted friend of
Sentaor j. z. George, and of Senator
Money, whom he placed in nomination in
the legislature that elected him to the
United States senate. He established
and edited for two years newspaper at
Walden, during which time he was a mem
Der of the State Press Association. He
belongs to none of the orders except the
Odd Fellows, which order he represented
four years in the Grand Lodge of the
World. In the great international Sun
day School Convention that assembled in
Chicago in 1888 he was delegate from
the State at large for Mississippi He de-
livered the annual address at the North
Mississippi Presbyterian College last
year and also the alumni address at our
State University, and has been invited to
speak at Monteage, Tenn. July 4th this
year.
ly while at the University, in the Consti-
tutonal Convention and in the Legisla-
ture-he has made host of warm per-
sonal friends, is especially loved in his
old home Carroll county, where he fought
every opposition to the Democratic party
sor twenty years and during two years
citizenship in Leflore county he has won
the esteem of her people and an extensive
popularity throughout the Delta.
His farm-life experience will be of ser
vice to him as member of the Board of
Penitentiary Control, and his experience
as chairman of the committee on public
education, while his services in help
making our new constitution will be
valuable in the construction of that in
strument and the laws and statutes of the
state.
Mississippi will honor herself most in
electing this man to the position to which
he aspires. That he will serve the state
and the people well goes without saying,
and every men in the state may rest as
sured that his rights under the constitu-
ton will be protected to the letter so long
as Monroe McClurg shall serve the state
in the capacity for which he is so well
we'll fitted.-Greenwoo Enterprise.