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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1903
Page
1
The Leader will publish on Wednesdays and Saturdays starting this week and may become semi weekly for an indefinite period if advertising patronage and subscriber support justify it. Readers are asked to judge the paper as a home on paper and consider regular subscriptions. no price change is planned until a semi weekly schedule is decided.
In Jackson Mississippi July 23 Gov Longino deflects attacks from political rivals who favored Sen Money in the race. The week featured a Raymond explanation of black office appointments and a clemency pardon for a long-serving prisoner, plus a sharp reply to a Hattiesburg lawyer’s charge of Republican sympathy. A 1900 rurality primary showed Longino ahead of Money by 1,103 votes, indicating current strength as the contest narrows toward a winner.
The governor denounces a circulated pamphlet titled Longino’s Negro Record as a campaign lie. He cites recent appointments and flatly answers severest charges, defending his record and actions amid statewide circulation of the document.
In a reply to Senator Money, Governor A H Longino defends the selection of local officials including a Greenville notary and Wilkinson county election commissioner. He notes no objections were raised to appointments, details commutations and pardons for several cases, and recounts the background of pardoning a Yazoo County prisoner after years in prison. He rejects claims of duplicity and urges Money to focus on the Philippine question without political resentment.
A Mississippi governor replies to attorney G W Ellis of Hattiesburg, dated July 17, asserting a firm position on the Philippine question. The letter, published here with Ellis’s message, accuses political adversaries of miscasting Ellis and Longino as aligning with Roosevelt and Republicans for discord in selecting the United States Senator.
The Carthaginian letters critique Major Vardaman’s remarks urging a legislature sympathetic to his platform on distributing the school fund by race. They argue constitutional barriers would block any repeal and warn that the race issue must not be exploited to alter US or Mississippi law. A second letter urges Brookhaven action on typhoid by proposing sewerage improvements to curb spread.
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