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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1890
Page
1
A long miscellaneous note lists events from across the globe. It reports on political indictments, royal marriage discussions, stock and telegraph acquisitions, and tax funded pensions. It mentions gas shortages in Pittsburgh, a horse rendering business probe, Luxembourg succession talks, and U S legal and trade moves.
A wide range of items covers political shifts in Ireland and Britain, Turkish honors to Prof Koch, and Mesopotamian and Sudan conflicts. Desertion and Mahdist forces loom, while American politics see Rauma in pensions talks and Connemaras divorce. Notable incidents include a Cherokee Strip clash, a fatal England colliery explosion, and Yale vs Princeton football amid grandstand collapse.
A Birmingham meeting of the Coal Miners Union ordered a statewide strike starting December 1. Up to 8,000 miners may walk off, risking furnace shutdowns across Alabama dependent on workers’ obedience to the committee’s directive.
In a long manifesto Parnell attacks Liberal leadership over Ireland policy and land purchase, recounting talks with Gladstone Morley and Labouchere. He argues for Irish self rule local control and independence, and recalls a Cork 1880 pledge to Irish voters amid Liberal pressures. The piece also notes Alabama coal miners strike orders and Lucy Parsons riot trial acquittal.
The Postmaster General's annual report highlights rapid growth in postal business, savings bank proposals, and faster service aims. It notes added mileage, new offices, reduced dead letters, and a push for a postal telegraph and savings banks with regulated interest. It also covers lottery controls and a ruling on The Kreutzer Sonata, plus foreign mail profits and funding requests.
Long speech argues that the Democratic party serves the plain and frugal, while Republicans favor wealth and privilege. It rails at party realignments from Federalists to Whigs to Know Nothings, claims modern Republicans misrepresent labor, and asserts wealth should not trump equal rights for all.
A lengthy editorial discussion contrasts Republican tariff factions in the McKinley era, labeling one wing as crafty monopolists and the other as duped believers. It denounces protectionist deception, warns that repeal of the tariff is unlikely, and predicts a continued fight over tax policy and reciprocity. It cites Blaine, Haine, and Ingalls, with reactions from the Chicago Herald, New York World, Detroit Free Press, and New York Evening Post.
A fragment notes that voters resent manipulations and are turning against the party they belong to, signaling backlash in the wake of recent elections as reported by the Louisville Courier-Journal.
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