The leader., 1900-01-17
GorERNoR.ELEcT LONGING.
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Governor-elect Longino does not give
us broad gauge, clean administration,
The situation is suspicious such an
administration is very desirable on the
part of true patriots, and Mr.. Longino
is recognized as a broad gauge, up-to.
date, heightened Christian gentleman
Surely he will show himself above any
narrow partisan tricks or cliques for
selfish ends, and administer the func.
tons of his high trust in the interest
of the States welfare.
We do not feel that we are in the
least transcending the Legitimate
bounds of religious journalism when
we undertake to advance the moral
and material interests of our land
even though in doing so we are com.
PEELED to antagonize certain men and
measures. A guberpatorial admins
tration on a high moral and Christian
plane is the hand maiden of religious
progress and prosperity. The citizen.
ship of the great State of Mississippi
have assumed an expectant attitude
toward Mr.. Longino. Not only is a
century looking down upon him, but
the eyes of more than a million and a
half of living citizens are turned
toward him.
The article below, from the facile pen
of our fellow townsman, Mr.. Edgar S
Wilson, bureau correspondent of the
y. o. Picayune, so clearly and forcibly
expresses our view of the situation
that we reproduce the article in its
entirety. We all the more gladly dc
so because we have always found Mr.
Wilson on the right side of every
moral question. We have nothing
whatever to say of his or any other
mans politics, but we do honor any
man regardless of his political com
plexion, who invariably takes his stand
on the right side of all moral issues
There is great wave of prosperity
sweeping over the land, and everything
indicates that the whole country is
now entering upon new era of pro
gress and material prosperity. This is
especially true of the north and east
and west. There the hum of industry
is heard on all sides. Every interest
and enterprise is feeling the impulse
of the present industrial and CONNER.
cial bouyancy.
Mississippi should, by reason of its
great and varied natural advantages
enjoy a full measure of this prosperity
All that is needed now to push the
State to the very front on the road tC
material and industrial advancement
is high-class, broad gauge State adj
ministration. One that will look tC
the highest good of the people; that
will consider the great industrial
agricultural and commercial interests
of the state: that will seek to elevate
the standard of official life, and that
will use the great functions of govern
ment, not for selfish and personal
ends, but exclusively for the welfare
and wellbeing of the State.
We want the investment of capital
in the State encouraged we want tC
build cotton mills and factories, rather
than to cultivate personal and partisan
politics we want more railroads and
better dirt roads we want a develop
ment of the great timber interests Of
the State; in word we want our ad
ministration of the affairs of the State
put on basis that will command the
respect and confidence of our OWL
people, as well as that of our fellow
citizens of the other States of the
American union.
The occasion is suspicious, and al
the conditions invite just this kind OF
State administration as the one thing
needed to put the State to the front
Fortunately, at this juncture, there is
a new governor and new legislature
that will take charge of the affairs O.
the State with the incoming of the new
year.
The governor elect has been nomi
mated and elected to the highest offic,
in the State in a manner and under
circumstances which could not fail tt
be gratifying in the highest degree tC
any man, He will enter upon the dis
charge of the responsible duties of the
office with the good will and gooc
wishes of the people of the entire
State. And the people already have
the assurance of the distinguished
gentleman himself that he is without
pledge or committal of any sort tha
can stand in the way of pure ant
Independent administration of the
great trust and responsibilities thai
are to be placed in his keeping.
The opportunity for advancing the
welfare of the State by broad gauge
legislation and a broad executive poll
cy, stand unequaled in any previous
epoch of the history of the common
wealth. Never before in the history Of
Mississippi have the people manifested
such deep concern thanks to {
magnificent and devoted press on the
subject of developing the .industria
and material interests of the State
The people of Mississippi are looking
to the incoming administration witt
confidence in the hope of the inaugu
ration of State policy that will place
Mississippi far above petty machine
politics, and in the line of progress
and prosperity, and abreast of the bes
thought and ideas of the times. Such
an administration will meet the ap
prevail and secure the support of the
very best and most patriotic men il
the State, and golden opportunity il
presented to the Governor elect tt
render the State conspicuous service
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