The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-06-28
The State SenatOrship.
FELLOW Democrats Of .Attalo CO.

for State Senator, | have made no
personal house-to-house canvass
throughout the county. This l
deemed unnecessary as | had no
opposition and there were many
candidates for other offices who
did have opposition, claiming your
attention.
had reasonable grounds to be-
liave That | would not have any
opposition within the party, be-
cause some time before | announc-
ed, many Democrats, representing
all portions of the county, told me
that my name had been freely DIS
cussed in connection with this po-
sltion, rendered me their support
and said that they believed ii |
would become candidate | would
have no opposition. did so, and
as time wore on, | began to feel
confident that their predictions
were coming true. On Yesterday
evening, however, Mr.. j. ). Smith
issued a circular in which he an
nounced himself as candidate for
the same position. AS it is now
too late, just on the eve Of the prl-
mary election, for me to make Il
personal canvass of the county, |
take this method of saying a few
words to you in regard to Mr.
Smiths circular and my candida
cy. Mr.. Smith says that his cir
cular is issued for the purpose of
announcing his candidacy and Civ
ing his views "on some of the
questions that will most likely
absorb the attention of the people
in the general election" Outside
of the national question of coinage,
to which | will recur before close,
he mentions but two matters. One
is the encouragement of manufa Ct
uring enterprises and advertising
the resources of the State in snch
way as to attract a desirable class
of immigrants. In this | heartily
agree with him. The other is, he
favors amending the state constitu-
ton and school laws so as to make
the school tax a county tax instead
of a state tax. The effect of this,
if done, would be to increase taxa.
ton in the hill counties of the
State, while there would DO a cor.
responding diminution of taxation
IN the rich swamp counties, for
this tax is levied and collected ac-
cording to the value OF. the land and
other property and distributed to
the various counties in proportion
to the number of educable children
| have neither read nor heard Of
any demaud for such change
FROM any other source, and if our
friend of the Delta are satisfiedwith
1t as it is, | can't see why any rep
reSentatiye of a hill county should
want to take a part of their bur-
den and place it on the shoulders
Of his own constituents. | give
my views on these two matters to
the exclusion of other questions OF
State policy simply because they are
only ones mentio -eo by Mr.. Smith.
There are various important mat
ters which will come up for the
consideration and action of the
next Legislature and | have in
mind a number upon which |
woujd'be pleased to give my views
but to do SO would make this ar
tlcle too lengthy unless there were
some grave state issues to be de-
cided, upon which. the people of the
party were divided in opinion
and would therefore make a dis
cusslon OF them pertinent.
| believe lmay say, without evinc-
ing spirit of boasting or a show
OF egotlsm to those VINO know me
well, that should / become their
representative in the State Senate
| Will be on the alert in their in
terest, will know what is eoing
on, and will act in every cmergen-
cy that may arise in such manner
as | shall conceive to be best for
their material welfare. ! win
now refer briefly to that subject
which is, and has been for some
time, uppermost in the minds of the
people, the ''silver question: NV
! views upon this subiec; have not
been suddenly formed. | have
not just recently jumped into a sill.
a yer boat simply because voyage
that l.InI rs =