The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1899-03-25
ALLEN and ANS MEET
AT WINONA AND THE "PRlVATE'
PoASTS THE GOVERNOR.
M'Laurin Says In Fifty Years it Will
be Known he Was Governor.-The
Primary Plan Was Endorsed Allen
Says the .Vicksburg Dispatch Is the
Governors Organ.

Below extracts are given from
the Vicksburg Herald's telegraph
ic account of the joint debate al
: WInona between Senator Allen
and Governor McLaurin.
This is McLaurin:
He said he was running on his
record. He was always free silver
+ Democrat and his record in this
respect was not to be assailed.
Mr.. Aliens record was chiefly
made, up of old anecdotes. His
(McLaurin's) record as Unit
ed States Senator and Governor
speak for itself. In fifty years it
will be known he was Governor of
Mississippi.
He first gave history Of the back
tax railroad eases. He did not
bring out anything new. His re-
marks on this question have al
ready been printed in these dis
patches. He said that he had
risen to distinction by beating his
present opponent for the United
States Senate five years ago. II
have made a record as Governor
and | am willing to go before the
people on il. | am one of those
who believe that every man should
be treated alike and that the man
who drives the spikes on the rail-
road Is entitled to as much consi-
deration at the hands of the Gov
ernor as the president of the road
who rides over it in his palace car
and that the man who says gee
and haw to a yoke of steers as the
man who counted his wealth by
the millions. | had not been in
the office two and a half months
before they began to abuse me, and
this abuse has been indulged in by
the Jackson Picayune correspon-
dent, the Vicksbu1ge Herald and
the jackson Evening News. If.
| an responsible for the utterance
of the Vicksburg Dispatch, Mr..
Allen is responsible for the utter
ances of these papers who have
abused me. Mr.. Aliens speech
is the same one of abuse that
Murray Smith delivered in Meri-
ian. He said that Governor Stone
has recommended the repeal of
the exemptions of the Valley road
and he was rugge6ly honest man
who never shirks or shifts duty.
If this, recommendation had be-
come a law the people would
have been saved a twenty per
! cent commission, which will now
go to the revenue agent. The
campaign was opened by Senator
Smith in a speech of villification
at Meridian. This man is the at
torney for this road and it was
fitting that they should have
chosen him to open the campaign
against me, but it is a question of
whether | shall be rebuked for
making this road pay what it JUS
tly owes. He then touched levee
matters and made at Meridian and
elsewhere, charging Hon. Chas.
J Scott and others with settling
their taxes with notes. eff | am
to be condemned let me be tried
by the people and not by polIti-
clans, for most of them are against
me because | am against them.
| am willing to join Mr.. Allen in
a request to the State executive
committee to leave the senatorial
question to primary and give the
| people chance to try me-" He
made the statement that he had
been attacked for his silver record
and charged that on the first of
the year there was a meeting in
Vicksburg TO devise ways and
means to defeat him, in which
Murry Smith and EmmeC Thomas
two gold bugs, were present. Then
and there they picked John Allen
to run against me on account of
his silver record, for within FIVE
days he was announced. | have
never tried to build up Il McLau-
rim party. | am personally indif-
ferent to the results. | am not
a candidate for office. | have
lived without it and can do so
again.
Il had intended when | entered
this term of office at the end of
of the term to retire voluntarily
from public life, and devote the
remainder of my days to my prl-
vate affairs, but the course pur-
sued by my enemies left bat one
course open to me, and this is the
solution of my candidacy for the
United States Senate for the
term beginning the 4th of March,
1901"
In regard to the George funeral
expenses he said that he could
not pay them out of the contin-
gent fund. He had no right to
pay the funeral expenses of
George any more than those of
the commonest man in the land.
He made a long explanation why
taxes had increased under his ad-
minlstration, attributing it to in
creased pensions and school ap-
preparations. He wound up his
speech by saying that Allen, like
the vulture, thought that the lion
was wounded and had come to
prey upon his vitals.
Mr.. Aliens reioinder was the
severest heard on the stump in
this State for years. Mr.. Allen 5
arraignment was the warmest
thing by far. He said that the