The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1902-06-07
ouy choice for Congressman.
EATON j.. BOWERS,
Of Hancock County.
!. ,ooIscREer CORRESPONDENT.

Came friend of Mr.. Barber, who
:, ;Ies to the Biloxi Herald, is not
oals ;ndiscreet in his assertions,
Sot @ ieuorant, of the position and
stt;h,de of his chosen candidate.
ia seems to have a grudge against
thc @ Gulf & Ship l4lund Railroad
Comoony s about some charges on
crniu and on household goods and
5c suggests thatythe people of the
\ district execute that grudge for
him by voting against Captain
Hardy and Mr.. Bowers and by
voting for Mr.. Barber.
This forceful and logical CORES
Oondcpt SAYS that Captain Hardy
!, the father of the Gulf & Ship
Island Railroad, and Mr.. Bowers,
lbeing its attorney, is its adopted
sor; therefore the people. must
oot vote for them but must vote
for a man who has nothing what
aver to do with railroads, viz,
Mr. Barber. ;,
This would be anachronistic and
fraught with a vile logic if all
that The correspondent says was
true, hut unfortunately for him
and his candidate he is not post
ed concerning the matters about
which he writes.
Mr.. Barber is a railroad lawyer,
and one of the attorneys OF the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Company, corporation ten to
twenty times as large as the Gulf
& Ship Island Railroad Co., and
this correspondent ought to have
known 1t, if he didn't. His ignor-
ance on this subject may, howev-
e., be attributable to Mr.. Barber's
failure to give publicity to that
fact IN his speeches IN which he
insisted that the people ought not
10 vote for railroad lawyers, or
those connected with railroads,
for Congress. But since the
speaking at Augusta in Perry
county. we thought every one
knew Mr.. Barber was railroad
lawyer. because at that place he
was forced to admit, in reply to
questions from Mr.. Bowers, that
he was the attorney of the Louis
vile & Nashville Railroad ut BIZ
loxi.
The writer noticed that Mr..
Barber avoided any illusions to
railroad matters in his speech in
10 this city and we understand he
has avoided it ever since the ex-
pose at Augusta, and would sug-
gest that his indiscreet friend
would be wise If he followed his
example.
But this correspondent seems
not only to be ignorant of Mr..
Barber's connection with rail
roads, but he would have one be-
lleye that Mr.. Bowers is largely
interested pecuniarily in the Gulf
aud Ship Island. He says, in
speaking of Captain Hardy and
Mr.. Bowers, "they don't own the
road, but Bowers has stock in 1t"
IT possible that this correspon-
dent knew the facts when he wrote
70 the Herald. If so, would he
nave made so much fuss over the
ownership of q single share of
stock of the par value of One
hundred dollars (for that is the
exact amount of Mr.. Bowers
holdings either in the stock or
bonds of the Gulf & Ship Island,
Or any other railroad company.
II there is citizen in the dis
,rlct who proposes to vote against
MT, Bowers because he has at
tanned eminence and distinction
% his profession, and has, by his
ability and his attention to busi-
ness attracted the attention and
employment of great interests, or
because he is The owner of One
hundred dollars worth of stock in
great enterprise, we assume Mr..
bowers can afford to do without
alS vote, we should advise him as
. all such that, "Ephraim is join
ed TO his idols let him alone"
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