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THURSDAY, Oft. 2. 1800.
Catered at the tlrookhaven IVwtnftlce as second
class mall mutter.
OrrieE— Leader Bullilltiu. 23 thcrokee Street.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For (’ongross,
CHARLES E. HOOKER,
OK MINUS.
EDITORIAL, NOTES.
The press of the State is speaking
out against submission.
Last Friday was Prohibition day in
fiie Constitutional Convention.
We could fill the Lkahkk with press
compliments of Judge Chrisman and
endorsements of liis suffrage plan.
\V. I). Witherspoon, the eloquent
and brilliant young delegate from
Lauderdale, has a backbone as big as
Grover Cleveland's.
The proposition to extend the terms
of county officers until Jan. 1, 1SSIL
has been reconsidered by the Conven
tion and is not likely to pass.
If Prohibition wasn't an issue in the
eatnpaign, will somebody please ex
plain how came so many delegates in
the C. C. committed ngaiust it ’
The Prohibitionists in the Constitu
tional Convention a ho refused to give
their votes to blot out the saloon will
never regret it hut once and that will
be forever.
Prof. W. 15. Mixon, Superintendent
of Education of Pike county, lias re
signed because the office conflicts with
other duties and does not pay enough
itself for a support.
Prohibitionists can well afford to
forgive (.'apt. Fewcll for the left-hand
ed compliments lie paid their leaders
last Friday, if he will only continue
to diff the saloon in the short libs ns
be did on that occasion.
So it seems Editor Hanks was right
and our Correspondent Smith wrong,
after all, about the standing of the
Lowndes delegates on the liquor ques
tion. It's a sleety day in August
when the liquor men get left in poli
tics.
Mississippi has four Republican can
didates for Congress—Chalmers in the
second district, Jim Hill in the third,
Judge Frazee in the fourth and 1L C.
Griffin of Natchez in the sixth. Of
course none of them will come within
a mile of election.
Oili exchanges that are telling their
readers that the new anti-lottery law
authorizes the Postmaster General
and his subordinates to open and read
suspected letters, display an igno
rance' or mendacity that is truly ap
palling. The law doesn't do anything
of the sort.
Editor Burkitt saved liis consisten
cy on fly-blown section 5. Writing to
liis last, paper be said : “1 shall not
vote for Section 5, of the franchise
clause, because the first clause is in
tended as an educational qualification,
and the other two are to my mind
subterfuges.” He has since made
good his word by voting against it.
During the campaign for Constitu
tional delegates the cry of the liquor
men and politicians was every where
against agitation of the Prohibition
question. In the Convention last
Friday the cry was raised that the sa
loon must not be ldotted out because
tlie question had not been agitated and
made an issue in the canvass. See
any flies on that?
We may have abolished the shot
gun and ballot box stuffing methods,
but have we placed our system upon
the high plane and adopted the
straightforward and honorable plan
hoped for, beyond cavil and reproach?
We canuot believe that this has been
done or that the convention has se
cured the object for which it assem
bled, but on the contrary has fabri
cated a scheme which will bring due
disappoiutment.—Na tehee Democrat.
The New Farmer, the official organ
of the Farmers’ Alliance, is not pleas
ed with the namby-pamby way the
suffrage question was dealt with by
the Convention, and says editorially:
uWe are free to confess that the plan
is not wliat we had hoped would be
adopted. We do not think it goes
far enough; all measures adopted are
of a temporizing character. Even the
Dortoh method of votiug is an indi
rect educational qualification, when a
direct one would have been more
statesmanlike.”
It was a surprise to many last Fri
day to see C'apt. 11. I.. Bird of Law
rence, representing the oldest Prohi
bition eotinty in the State, and one
that is practically solid against the li
quor traffic, casting his vote to perpet
uate the saloon. He prefaced his vote
by saying he felt instructed by the ex
pressions he had heard from leading
meu of his county and all other sourc
es that they did not want anything
done by the Convention on the subject
«t liquor or Prohibition, and hence he
was coustrained to vote for the major
report, w hich was in effect a vot.
«be saloon, though he had intern!
to vote otherwise.
OUTGENERALED.
The Leader doesn't find it in its
heart to complain of any lamest, out
and-out w hisky man for the defeat of
theeffoit in the Constitutional Con -
vention last Friday to outlaw- the sa- !
loon in Mississippi. The Prohibition*
istsaiul piofessrd Prohibitionists them
selves are the ouly ones to blame for ,
that reverse. The Antis simply ontgen- ;
eialed the Prohis, and are really to lie ;
complimented on their cleverness. In |
short, if the Prohibitionist* hud not al
lowed themselves to In* thrown oft'their .
guard and divided by a well-executed
scheme of the liquor men, the legal
ized dramshop in this State would to
1 day be a thing of the past.
The State Prohibition Executive
Committee knew what this scheme
was when they issued their address
, last spring and warned Prohibition
! ists to l»e on their guard,
j It was, in brief, first to
get an anti-Prohibitionist nominated
: wherever possible, ami failing in this,
to pledge the Prohibition candidates
j to a policy of non-action, as regards
this paHi'etilar issue. In many in
! stances this was most adroitly done,
; often through zealous but unsuspect
ing Prohibitionists theniselves, who
Were abnormally afraid of doing
| something to disturb white unity or
injure the Democratic party. The
great overshadowing importance of
! the suffrage question favored the
scheme and made it all the easier to
work.
i Non-agitation during the campaign
and tion-acfion by the Con volition was
the watch-word and the shibboleth.
I The tip was given to the anti-Prolfi
bition press of the .State and they
took up and echoed and re-echoed the
same racket.
When a Prohibition candidate was
i too smal t to be thrown off his guard
by this sort of talk, suggestions of fu
ture promotion were made, and the
gilded pinnacle of political fame
pointed out in the distance, if he
would only forego his “cranky no
tions” on Prohibition.
By some means a powerful antidote
was administered to Bishop Galloway,
and lie spoke out against making Pro
hibition an issue in the campaign or
carrying it before tlie Convention,
and from that moment the division
among the Prohibitionists became
hopeless and the success of the whis
ky program assured.
We have never seen men more dis
concerted than some of those in the
Convention last Friday who had been j
tricked into making the auti-Probibi- i
tion pledge and felt constrained in !
consequence to vote against their hon
est convictions. “Keep this question
out of the campaign, don't let it be
made an issue,’' was the cry before
their election. Now they were coolly
told they could not vote to destroy
the saloon because it had not been j
made an issue. Condemned men have
stood lip to be shot and not felt any
more miserable than some of those
who were forced under this sort of
lash and their pledges to vote for the
saloon. Some of the poor fellows,
however, never discovered that they
had been duped to tlie last, and like
Saul of Tarsus when persecuting the
early Christians, conscientiously be
lieved they were doing God service
in voting to retain the dram shop,
i No man w as ever placed in a more
| embarrassing position than Bishop
j Galloway. He was in the ball and
j anxious forjudge Chrismau's resolu
i tion to be adopted, but speaker after
i speaker who bad come to the Conven
i tion pledged to non-action, quoted
j tlie Bishop’s interview in defence of
| liis position, and the Bishop was pow
j erless to undo the mischief lie had
wrought.
The Leader has some very decid
ed views as to the policy Prohibition
j ists should adopt for the future, of
which it will speak hereafter. For
one, we are tired of seeing this great
question traded oft' and side-tracked
by politicians for everything else, and
are not willing to longer tamely sub
mit to it.
THE CONVENTION'S ARTFUL (I)
DODGER.
The Leader has no inclination to
unreasonably pursue Senator George
with censure for his disappointing
and unstatesmaulike course in the
Constitutional Convention, but it will
be permitted to say that the justice of
its first criticism more fully appears
in the light of subsequent develop
ments.
The article from the Vicksburg
! Post in another column shows how
; the methods of the Senator were ex
| posed in open Convention by Col.
| Muldrow, Mr. Hudson and Judge
Chrisman, while trying to make a
j false impression on that body, in or
der to sustain the report of the Com
mittee on Franchise.
But if the Convention and people
were astonished and grieved at these
evidences of the Senator’s duplicity,
they were far more so by what was re
vealed last week. AVheu the Conven
tion got out of committee of the
whole to take the vote on the report
of the Committee on Franchise and
: Judge Chrisman renewed his motion
j to amend it by adding an alternative
educational or property qualification,
it was discovered on a call ot tue yeas
and nays that Senator George was
actually paired with Judge Wiley P.
Harris, on whose great reputation lie
( had tried to boom the Franchise re
i port through the committee of the
i whole (fraudulent section 5 aud all)
and was instructed by that great
statesman and jurist to cast his vote i
for Judge Chrismairs amendment.
! Such clap-trap aud trickery might j
be expected of a scabby little cross
roads demagogue, but it is submitted
that it is utterly unworthy of a Unit
ed State* Senator vjiom the people of
Mississippi have hitherto 60 implicit
ly trusted and so highly honored.
Artful llodgiug.
It’d the demagogue that dodges — Brook
hii m trader.
Keply ing to Senator George'* speech '
in the Convention, delegate McLean
of Grenada openly and directly char- ,
aeterized Gen. George as an artful I
dodger, or the exemplar of “artful
dodging."
During the course of his speech Sen- i
ator George referred to and defended \
the section of the report of the Fran
chise Committee which provides that
On and after the 1st day of January, A.
I>.. IK'.Si. • lie following qualifications are
added to the foregoing: Every qualified
eleetor shall lie able to reuil auy section
of the constitution of this Utate, or he
shall he able to understand the same
when read lo hliu, or give a reasonable
interpretation thereof.
Gen. George asked in substance,
“who could object to this section ?
What person upon the floor of Con
gress, or nnywhere could question
Mississippi's right to copy identically
a section from the Constitution of a
Northern State?" and then went on to
say that this section against which
so much objection had been urged
was copied from the Constitution of
Connecticut. Mr. Mnldrow rose in
liis scat, and asked Senator George if
lie was not mistaken about the section
having been copied from the Connec
ticut Constitution. The Senator re
plied that lie was not. Mr. Multi row
then asked Senator George if he was
j not mistaken about the portion of the
section: “or he shall be able to under
stand the same when read to him,”
etc., being copied from the Connec
ticut Constitution. The Senator could
dodge no longer, and acknowledged
that that part of the section was not
copied from Connecticut. He claim
ed, however, that it was an improve
ment upon Connecticut's straightfor
ward plan.
When Judge Chrisinan was making
one of the ablest, one of the most
powerful and eloquent speeches that
has yet been made in the Convention;
when attacking and severely criticis
ing this very section of the commit
tee's report (virtually characterizing
it as a dishonest scheme intended to
invite fraud) Senator George inter
rupted him in order to claim that the
scheme hail the sanction of that great
lawyer and reputed wise man, Wiley
P. Harris, and the committee was
guided by his advice in its adoption.
Judge Chrisinan replied that he would
not allow Senator George to quote
Wiley P. Harris against him (Cliris
inan), for Mr. Harris had directly and
unequivocally told him that he favor
ed his (Judge Clirismati’s) amendment
for a direct educational and alterna
tive property qualification. He cited
the fact that Judge Harris had refused
to accept the nomination as delegate
from Hinds county under instructions
to vote against these qualifications,
and only accepted the nomination
when the instructions were with
drawn.
Mr. Hudson of Yazoo then arose
and said lie was a member of the sub
committee of the Franchise Commit
tee of 33; that had under considera
tion the question of suffrage restric
tion or qualification; that the sub-com
mittee bad Wiley P. Harris w ith it,
and that it reported to the full com
mittee in favor of an educational and
property qualification, and that the
full committee substituted something
else. (The something else is the sec
tion providing that a voter shall un
derstand the Constitution when read,
etc., and understood to be the progeny
of George’s fertile mind.)
Senator George has been “knocked
down” (metaphorically) in the Con
vention by Mr. McLean, Col. Mul
diow, Judge Chrisman and others.
Referring to the Franchise Commit
tee’s report, Maj. Magruder said the
“trail of the serpent was over it all.”
The Franchise Committee were evi
dently guided aud led by Senator
George; the “apportionment” scheme
(or “pretext” or “political rascality,”
as it was termed by Maj. Magruder)
is his scheme; and the “understand
ing the Constitution when read”
clause is also atributed to the astute
Senator.
To show the outrageous character
of this clause (“shall be able to under
stand the Constitution when read to
him or give a reasonable interpreta
tion thereof’) we give the following
diagnosis of it from the pen of dele
gate Frank Burkitt:
Singularly enough the Franchise Com
mittee has inserted a provision that after
Jan. 1st, 18%, a man must be able to read
the Constitution or understand it when
read to him, or be able to give a fair in
terpretation thereof before be can vote.
This clause is more liberal, certainly, than
the Dortch law, which is to all intents
and purposes an educational qualittca
tiou, and why the rule should be modi
fied iu 18%, so that illiterate persons can
vote, who are to be excluded now is diffi
cult to explain n|ion any other theory
than that our Constitution tinkers, be
ing now seized wilt) a tit of sporadic vir
tue wbicb impels them to abandon bull
dozing and ballot stuffing, tbiuk it will
be necessary to OPEN THE DOORS FOR
fraud five years hence.
This provision can have no other effect
than to confer upon the registration or
election officers (all of whom are to be ap
pointed) the power to decide upon the
capacity of applicants lor suffrage, and to
determine whether or not they shall par
ticipate iu tlie affairs of government.
In my judgment, the result would not
be materially changed, if the law should
provide that the registrars, or the inspec
tors, should be empowered to determine
and declare the result of any political con
test without going through tiie form of
au election.
The Greenville Democrat declares
for ex-Gov. Lowry for the United
States Senate in 1982.—Clarion Ledger.
1982, did you say ? All right; that
will stilt us exactly.
i
THE SALOON STAYS.
BECAUSE PBOBIBITIOyiSrS
DECREED IT SQ.
' '
Wltli the Issue Squarely Prawn,
Saloon or no Saloon, They
Are Frightened or Hood
winked Into Voting tor
Soeiety’s tireutest
Kneiny.
The Yeas and Nays Ileeorded
and tin* lteeord Preserved.
How the Vote Stood.
—
There Will he Weeping and
Wailing and CJiinsliing of
Teeth, Hye-aiul-Bye.
Last Friday was Prohibition and
liquor traffic day in the Constitutional
Convention. It had been set apart by
special order for the consideration of
I this subject. The question was on the
adoption of majority or the minority
report of the Committee on Temper
ance and Liquor Traffic. The major
ity report was signed by Messrs.
Richards, llurkitt, Fontaine, Farish,
I Lee of Madison, Patty, George, Esk
i ridge, Campbell, Talbott and Harnett,
\ and was as follows :
I We have carefully considered the
matters laid before us and submit
that in our judgment it is impractica
ble and inopportune to bring the sub
ject of either liquor traffic or Prohibi
tion before the convention and, there
fore, ask to be discharged.
The minority report was signed by
Judge Chrisman and Mr. Hamilton of
Holmes and read as follows:
The report of the majority is a sug
gestion that the subject is not of suf
ficient importance to engage the at
tention of the convention, or that the
people of the State favor non-inter
ference with existing conditions as
applicable to the liquor traffic.
Against either of these suggestions we
note the fact that notwithstanding
the discouragements attending the en
forcement of prohibition laws, by
reason of their inadequacy and incom
petency to suppress the sale of liquor
within their limits, forty counties
have outlawed the traffic as far as it
was possible for them to do so.
The great religious bodies of the
State are practically unanimous for
its suppression, and the evils attend
ed upon it are not denied or disputed
by their advocates.
The undersigned believe that a ma
jority at of least the white people of
the State will favor a measure that
will lessen the acknowledged evils of
the sale of liquor as a beverage, if it
can be done without infringing upon
their inalienable rights, and that
that majority is quite as intelli
gent, respectable aud patriotic as the
minority, who either favor the sale or
the status quo of the subject. What
is wanted therefore, is now the oppor
tunity to meet the question on ground
upon which conservative men can
agree. If this can be found, surely
the report of the committee that to
consider the subject is impracticable
and inopportune is a mistake.
That existing laws are inadequate
for the protection of counties which
have prohibited the sale through the
instrumentality of local option iscer
tain. 1 hey are harrassed and annoy
ed by the saloons that exist or are
springing up on their borders. It has
been found that after exhaustive and
expensive campaigns to free them
selves from the influence of the traffic
in their midst they are in a measure
thwarted and defeated by the apathy
of adjoining counties until worn out
with the struggle and discouraged by
their aggressive and always ingenious
enemy, they will be forced to surren
der. In this condition of things the
adoption by this convention of the
majority report will have the appear
ance of placing us on the side of the
saloon.
The undersigned, out of deference
to a sentiment which prevails exten
sively that the people are not prepar
ed for constitutional prohibition,
yield that point, but propose and sub
mit for adoption, a compromise meas
ure, which they hope and believe will
commend itself to the judgment and
conscience of the convention. They
recommend that the following bo in
corporated in the constitution as a
separate and independent sections :
“All saloons and tippling-houses
where vinous and spirituous or other
intoxicatiugliquorsareke.pt for sale,
are hereby declared to be public nui
sances and may be suppressed or
abated by prosecution in the name of
the State, or upon the complaint of
any citizen.
“The Legislature shall enact such
laws as are necessary to enforce the
provisions of this section.”
It will be seen that the minority re
port was a direct blow at the saloon
and tippling house where intoxicating
liquors are sold and drank. It did
not go any farther or affect the sale
iu any other way. It did not inter
fere with total Prohibition in local
option counties, and it did not pro
hibit the sale in those counties where
the people vote to have it, any fur
ther than to prohibit the existence of
that hot-bed of vice and recruiting
station of all crimes known as the sa
loon. In short, wiping out this great
demoralizing institution of society, it
proposed to leave the regulation of
the liquor traffic in all other respects
in the hands of the Legislature and
people where it now is.
The motion was to substitute the
minority report for the majority, aud
thus the issue was clear-cut and
squarely joined for or against the sa
loon.
Judge (Jhnsmau led off for the mi
nority report in a persuasive and mas
terly urgiimeut, and was followed in
the same strain by Messrs. Fewell and
Dillard, both of whom declared them
selves auti-Prohibitiouists, but un
compromising enemies of the saloon,
and for a while it looked like i
be minority were going to have
llitiigs all their way ; bnt about this
time Mr. Richards of Lowndes got up,
mid, while professing the profound
rat spropathy for all that had been
said by the other speakers and his
earnest, desire to vote with them, nev
ertheless his people at home did not
wish to have the ttatnt quo disturbed
by the Convention, and he wns under
a solemn agreement to respect their
wishes—the question had not been
an issue iu the campaign in his coun
ty, etc., etc. Col. Mnldrow, Col.
Blair and others followed in the same |
key, saying this question had not,
been made an issue before the people j
in the. canvass, that it would l»e an
act of bad faith to abolish the saloon
without consulting them, and it soon
became apparent that the minority re
port was going to be defeated by the
votes of Prohibitionists influenced by
this sort of clap-trap.
During tin* day speeches were made
in favor of the minority report by
Messrs. Chrisman, Fewell, Dillard,
Witherspoon, Martin of Adams and
Lee of Oktibbeha, and Messrs. Itich
ards, Eskridge of Tallahatchie, Mul
drow, Blair, Kennedy, Bell, Feather
ston, l’owell of DeSoto, Ervin,
Boothe, Pack wood, Guyton, Alcorn,
McClurg, Siinrail, George, Dyer of
Panola, Bird of Lawrence, and Mont
gomery against it.
An amendment by Mr. Guyton to
submit to the question to the people
for ratification or rejection as a sepa
rate proposition from the rest of the
Constitution, was lost by a vote of 45
to 35. The vote on the adoption of
the minority report for the majority
was reached late Friday afternoon
and the yeas and nays called. As the
people will want to know in the fu
ture where each member of the Con
vention stood on this vital question,
we give the result of the roll call:
YEAS.
Bassett, Carter,
Chrisman, Coffee,
Dillard, Guynes,
Henderson of Clay,
Marett, McLain of Amite
Palmer, Potter,
Puryear, lteagan of Claib.
liobinson of Union,
Turner, Witherspoon,
Wyatt—17.
NAYS.
Abbay, Alcorn,
Bailey, Baird,
Barnett, Binford,
Bird, Blair,
Boothe, Boyd,
Burkitt, Campbell,
Calboon, Dean,
Denny, Donald,
Dyer, Edwards,
Ervin, Eskridge,
Parish, Ford,
Featherston, Ferguson,
George, Hannah,
Henderson of Harrison,
Henry, Holland,
Isom, Jamison,
Johnson, Jones,
Kennedy, Kittrell,
Lee of Yazoo,
Lester, Love,
Martin of Alcorn, Magruder,
MeClurg, McDonald,
McDonnell, McNeily,
McGehee of Wilkinson,
McLaurin of Sharkey,
McLaurin of Smith,
Mendenhall, Montgomery,
Murff, Noland,
Odom, l’ack wood,
Paxton, Powell,
Reynolds, Rhodes,
Robinson of Rankin,
Roteuberry, Simonton,
Simrall, Smith of Jasper,
Spence, Smith of Warren.
Sullivan, Talbot,
Ward, Watson,
Webb, Winchester,
Yerger—71.
The following pairs were an
nounced :
YEAS. NAYS.
Fewell, Richards,
Thompson, Muldrow,
Sexton, Morgan,
Hamilton, Bell,
Lee of Oktibbeha, Boone,
Martin of Adams, McLean of Gre.
Wilkinson. lveirn.
Total ayes, 24; total nays, 78.
Judge J. L. Morris of Wayne de
clined to vote either way.
MEMBERS ABSENT OR DODGING.
Arington, Allen,
Arnold, Bunch,
Cutrer, Dabney,
Finley, Fontaine,
Fearing, Gore,
Glass, Hudson,
Ilatliorne, Hooker,
Harris, Hart,
Hamblett, Lacey,
Lee of Madison,
Mayes, Melchoir,
McGehee of Franklin,
McLaurin of Rankin,
Miller, Patty,
Reagan of Newton,
Sykes, Street,
Taylor—29.
The majority report was then
adopted without division.
It looks like the irony of fate for j
Bishop Galloway to be condemned by I
the same crowd who grinned and ap- !
plauded, a few years ago, when he at- j
tempted to prove to the public that,
ex-President Davis didn’t know any- j
thing about constitutional government j
and the rights of the people.—Tupelo j
Journal.
And it looks still more like the irony
of fate that the Journal, Brandon Re
publican and other papers of their
class that have never had anything
but bate and detraction for Prohibi
tion and Prohibitionists, Bishop Gal
loway included, should in these latter
days become the Bishops most loyal
champions. Well may the Bishop ex
claim in the dramatic language of him
of old, “Save me from my [new]
frieuds!”
It is not too late yet for the Conven
tion to do the clean, honest, decent,
manly thing, and reconsider its action
on fly-blown section 5. For the hon
or of the Convention, for the good
name of Mississippi, let this be done.,
“Millsaps College Day.”
At the last meeting of the Board of
rrnstees it was agreed that a day be
lesignated for observance throughout
the State in the interest of Christian
education, and especially of Millsaps
College. In pursuance thereof, we
appoint Sunday, October 12, 1890, as
Millsaps College Day and respectfully
request that a sermon be preached on
Christain education in each pastoral
charge in the two Mississippi Confer
ences, and collections be taken for the
College endowment fund. \V o sug
gest also that appropriate exercises
be held in each Sunday School on that
day, and that offerings be solicited.
Let this be observed without refer
ence to past educational meetings, and
in addition to notes secured; give us a
cash collection in each congregation.
Hv this united and uniform effort the
endowment fund will be largely in
creased, and every Methodist in Mis
sissippi have an opportunity ot con
tributing thereto.
Ciias. B. Galloway,
Pres. Board of Trustees.
A. F. Watkins, Agent.
Sour Grapes.
Newspapers can no longer publish
lottery advertisements, the anti-lot
tery bill having become a law. The
Clarion-Ledger has no tears to shed.
The advertisements never paid much
anyway. The law is a good oue.—
Clarion-Ledger.
Good-bye lottery ads, good-bye.
We bid you adieu with great pleas-*
ure.—New Mississippia n.
Now that they are* compelled to do
so, wo are glad to see our Jackson
contemporaries adopting the Lead
ers advice with such great eclat
But by the way, wasn’t it the fox who
said the grapes lie couldn’t reach were
too sour to eat anyhow 1
The Memphis Appeal’s Jackson cor
respondent, under date of Sept. 24,
furnishes the following interesting in
formation.
“Capt. Fewell, after all the rest of
the franchise business has been dis
posed of, will offer his woman suf
frage idea in a new form. It is to em
power the Legislature, after Dec. 31,
1885, to grant suffrage to women own
ing a certain amount of property, or
with other restrictions. As Senator
George, the great balancing power of
the Convention, is favorable to this
idea, it is not improbable it will be
! adopted.”
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Be it said to Rev. George H. Tliomp
j son’s credit, lie is the only local pas
I tor who does not attend base ball
games on the Sabbath. God promised
Lot to save Sodom for the sake of ten
righteous persons, and upon that
! promise we build our hope for the sal
1 ration of Scranton.—Pascagoula l>em
I ocrat-Siar.
You have the idea, brother 1*. K.,
; but tliere arc nevertheless evidences
that your early Sunday school train
ing was neglected. It was Abraham,
not Lot, whom God promised to save
Sodom, if ten righteous persons could
be found in that wicked city.
Watch ’em. The fellows in and out
of the Convention who pose as the
especial champions of the poor white
man; particularly of those poor white
; men who can neither read nor write
j and are not worth a continental d—u
| cat generally. Those orators and
scribes—watch ’em.— 1 Voodrille Jie
\ publica n.
WOTICE.
WtCMOX, Miss., Sept. 2, 1890 ^
of onr customers, who do oot care to^
their cotton when the price i, tef,
can have the same etored tbroud,
the Mills free of storage and ln*llrall(^
In addition, the cotton will b. wej . ,
the day it is brought in, a„U beoce * ”
will lie tin loss by drying Wh<t|) "
cotton is stored, we nre prepare,l . ?
vance very liberally on the
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; {bum Tickets to Sioux tit;, Ion,
The tircjit Corn Palace.
The credit of conceiving and carrying out the
idea of a Corn Palace must lie accredited to the
generous, far-sighted, enterprising and p|Uckv
citizens of Sioux City, Iowa. With them no tie
vated railroad is too high, no cable line too long
no packing house too large, no opera Imnse to,',
grand, no business block too tine and no Corn
Palace too magnificent for them to build. Their
vim and business-like ways command the world s
admiration, and on the 15th of September they
will open the 4th Annual Corn Palace, larger and
more beautiful than any that have proceeded it
The mammoth array of exhibits will come from
every direction. The farms, the mines, the
manufactories, with all their diversified’ pro
ducts, will be largely represented. The most ar
tlstlc designs in corn will decorate the exterior
and interior of the great Palace. The parades
will eclipse anything of the kind ever seen in this
country, outside of New Orleans. The music
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wonderful exi»osition. To this gathering the 11 -
LINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD will make a
rate of ONE FARE for the round trip from all of
its Southern Division points. Tickets will be on
sale September 23rd to October loth Inclusive
Turther Information may lie obtained by ad
dressing Mr. K. O. BEAN, Traveling Passenger
Agent, Jackson, Miss.
J. W. COLEMAN, A. O. P. A.
A Little Journey to the Sioux City Corn
Palace,
Is the title of a beautiful little book, containing
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borhood planned to attend the Corn Palace. The
farm scene is true to life, and will be heartily ap
preciated by the occupants of every farm home
In Illinois and Iowa. The passenger department
of the ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD have
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. J. W. COLEMAN,
A. (i. 1*. A..
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Registrar's Notice.
In pursuance of an Act of the Legislature, ap
proved March 13, 1886, requiring me as Registrar
of the County of Lincoln to visit each of the vot
ing precincts in said county, and spend one day
at each of said precincts, in order to give all of
those who have failed heretofore to register an
opportunity to do so, 1 will therefore meet the
citizens of the county at the following times and
places, to-wit :
feast’s Mill,.Monday, October 6. ism'.
Casey ville.Tuesday, October?, Isini.
Vaughan's.Wednesday, October s. ltw.
Lard's Mill.Thursday. October i). tsao.
Sheep Shed.Friday, October 111. ltW.
Ilogue Cldtto.Saturday, October n, is'.«>.
McClendon's.Monday, October 13, lsao.
Fair River,.Tuesday, October 14. is:*'.
Rood Water..Wednesday, October !.". I*'."'.
Montgomery,.Thursday. October la, lsno.
Rroidiliaven.Friday, October 17, t v"'.
ISrookhaven.Saturday. October is. is*ni.
Ollice hours from ‘J o'clock i. m. to I o'clock c.
M. ,1. WAIlliFN.
scpl-Ow Registrar.
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