The leader., 1899-06-28
HON. MONROE M'CLURG.
Sketch of a Very Popular Candidate fol
Attorney General.

sketch OF Very Popular Candidate foI
Attorney General.
The Enterprise takes pleasure in
presenting to its readers this week a
short sketch of the man whom it hopes
and believes will be the next Attorney
General of Mississippi-the Hon.
Monroe McClurg, of Greenwood. Mr..
McClurg is a man whom it is de-
light and a privilege to support and
serve. He is a clean man, Of broad
and liberal views, brilliant intellect,
and easily ranks with the most elo-
quent orators in our great common
wealth. His record, both public and
He is honored and beloved by his
reared and who have watched with
full and exemplary career from infancy
to manhood. He is unquestionably
one of the purest and best men in
Mississippi politics, and would reflect
credit and honor on any position
within the gift of the people.
Mr.. McClurg is forty-two years old,
is an alumnus of the State Univer-
ment in 1878, in Prof. Edward Mayes'
first class, along with Judge J. c.
Longstreet, of Grenada; Hon. w. A.
Henry, of Yazoo; Hon. Jim Stone and
Hon. John Hall Kimmon, of Lafay.
cite; Hon. E. N. Scudder, of Vicks-
burg; Hon. w. q. Bias, of Union; Hon.
John w. Cutrer, Hon. Sam G. Cook,
Hon. G. r. Page and Hon. Geo. F.
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of Choctaw; Hon. j. A. Tyson, of Nox-
ubee; Hon. A. s. Merharg, of De Soto;
Hon. T. s. Smith, of Lee (the present
Attorney General of Texas and others
who have since become prominent
men.
While at the University, he repre-
sented his fraternity, the Phi Delta
Theta, in the national convention at
Wooster, Ohio.
He began the practice of his profess
sion in partnership with Hon. Geo.
Anderson, now of Vicksburg, and
was the partner of Hon. Thomas H.
Somerville for eighteen years and un-
til Mr.. Somerville was chosen law
professor in the University, when Mr.
McClurg came to Greenwood.
He was president of a Democratic
Club at Walden twenty years, during
which time the club never lost its or
ganization nor failed to carry that
precinct for Democracy.
He was a member of the Constitu- |
tional Convention of 1890; although |
one of the youngest, was on some of
the most important committees, and |
took high stand in that distinguish
ed body, was member OF the Legisla-
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mittee on Public Education, on the
judiciary and other committees. He
was the trusted friend of Senator j. z.
George, and of Senator Money,
whom he placed in nomination in the
Legislature that elected him to the
United States Senate. He establish
ed and edited for two years a news,
paper at Walden, during which time
he was member 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 Sunday School
that assembled in Chicago
in 1888 he was delegate from the
State at large for Mississippi. He
delivered the annual address at the
North Mississippi Presbyterian Col
lege last year and also the alumni ad-
dress at our State University, and has
been invited to speak at Monteagle,
Tenn, July 4tb, this year.
This is very good record for one
who was raised between the pillow han
dies on red hill in Carroll, and |
helped his father to raise and edu-
cate seven younger children. He is a
el,x,ka 60 nd
children.
During the course of his life-espec
tally while at the University, in the
Constitutional Convention and in the
legislature-he has made host of
warm personal friends, is especially
loved in his old home county of Car
roll, where he fought every opposition
to the Democratic party for twenty
years, and during two years citizen
ship in Lefiore county he has won the
esteem of her people and an extensive
popularity throughout the Delta.
His farm-life experience will be of
service to him as member of the
Board of Penitentiary Control, and
his experience as chairman of the
member of the Board of Education,
while his services in help making our
new constitution will be valuable in
the construction of that instrument
and the laws aud 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 we'll goes
without saying, and every man in the
State may rest assured that his rights
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