The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1902-01-24

| the House, and In a. nne auureSS Woi
and held the attention and the deeI
| interest of her hearers, thus opening
up the prohibition campaign--a new
thing for woman in the conservative
old State of Mississippi. After Miss
Kearney's speech several bills were
introduced in the house looking to the
establishment Of a State prohibition
law, and at this time the fight is well
on. Mrs. Kells-that devoted worker
in this great cause, and one OF the
most beloved women in Mississippi
has been in Jackson fortnight, busily
working and directing the work OF
others, that the forces might be ready
and waiting when the signal should
sound from the speakers stand in the
old Capitol In the rich musical voice
of one of their gifted women it was
sent forth last Wednesday, and its
echoes have ere this reached the re-
hottest confines of the State in which
and for which the labor is being so
we'll, so bravely and so lovingly kept
up by these bands of noble women.
Still other pleasures which last week
had in store for the members of the
House were the very able addresses
delivered by Gen. A. P. Stewart and
Gen. Stephen D. Lee of Confederate
fame. Gen. Stewart, 1t will be re-
called, was once Chancellor of the
University of Mississippi, and Gen. Lee
was more recently president of the
A. & M. College. Gen. Stewart made a
strong appeal to the representatives OF
the people of Mississippi for the cree
ton of monuments at Chickamauga to
commemorate the deeds of valor Of
the Mississippi soldiers who fell there
and at Chattanooga The battlefield
is now being transformed into a ma
tional military park, and our State is
one of the few Southern States that
has not honored her heroic dead who
sleep the long sleep there. All of the
Northern States have erected monu-
ments to their soldiers who fell on
those fields of battle; some of them
are splendid tributes in marble and
bronze. Gen. Lee was asked to speak
to the House and he complied in
manner that captivated his hearers,
SO full was it of the fire of those old
war times of which he was so con-
spicuous and so admirable a figure,
and, at the same time, breathing some
what of these genlier times of peace
and the good will that should prevail.
The sight of these two Confederate he
roes standing together in the fast
crumbling Capitol of the State they
have loved and served so well-the
splendid bearing that was such pride
to all who followed them through
days of blood" showing much of mil
itary erectness, despite the burden of
almost fourscore years; the noble
heads, wearing with kingly dignity the
"hoary corwn" of years-was a sight
that should live long in the memories
of those who saw them. erhaps no
one of all those present will ever look
upon the like again. At the close of
the war there were twenty-one Con-
federate generals living. Today there
are five, and two of these-Gen. Stew
art and Gen. Lee-stood together last
Wednesday to plead with men of this
glorious today to hold in generation
the heroes of glorious yesterday.
Shall we not do it? And shall we not,
while the Great Commander spares
them to us, love and honor these gen.
erals who are left to us and who are
OUR owN!-prove to them our love by
honoring the men who followed them
storm and stress and stood
with them on the fierce-fought field
with the sword of the great enemy
Death-struck them low and left them
afar from kindred, home and friends,
until the resurrection morning?
Their State should now prove her.
self both friend and kindred" and
carve in enduring marble the names
Of all these heroes and set apart as
sacred the spot on which they fell.
Isaiah T. Montgomery, Roosevelt's |
recent appointee as receiver of public |
moneys, is a Mississippi colored Re
publican, and has always stood well as |
| citizen. He was once slave of |
Jefferson Davis brother, and has
'isen from his low estate to a position
If honor and influence among the peo-
Die he once served. He enjoys the dis
inction of being the only colored man
Who can say that he was a member
If the constitutional convention of |
$50. AS member of this great con-
7ention he won the esteem and respect |
u all who watched his course. He
Toted on the suffrage question for the
franchise article as 1t now stands. In
Bolivar county he is prominently the