The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-07-30
A PARTING WORD.

A good friend at Clear Creek this
week asked me to write once more in
behalf of the coming primaries and
having been porn and raised in good
old Rankin, and having been support
ed by her liberal resources and pro-
tected by her loyal administration for
90 years claim to know something of
her people, and her present needs,
hence [ will say the following to the
christian voters of the county. / have
all along during the canvass took a
lively interest. [ have talked, written
and prayed for successful outcome;
[ have honestly and earnestly sought
Gods favor III giving us clean, up
right, christian hearted men to direct
our official interest, and feel that I
have not been alone in this earnest
petition. My articles in The News
have been pointed and faithful, but
not personal, and feel that my eff
orts have not been in vain. The
Brandon News has been very liberal
in giving space for all communications
not rejecting personally, and has been
a great help to fair discussion of the
moral status of our county and state.
[ have time and again appealed to
the christian manhood of our voting
constituency, and urged upon them
the great Importance of leaving out
any personal consideration, and voting
alone for men with clean hands, hearts
and records, and thereby get to them
selves credit and common respect and
give to our county men to lead who
will reflect credit on our voting honor
and judgment, as we'll as on the non
voting majority of our innocent citi-
zenship. Some have taken me to be
personal in my articles. I can say
that "the wicked feeth when no
man pursueth, but the righteous are
as bold as lions. - and there is no bet
ter proof that ''the stone has found
its mark" than for fellow to ''kick
before he is spurred," or, rather be-
cause he is spurred. OF the forty can
didates who are running for county
offices, the majority of them have
complimented me on the stand took
from the beginning, and if / know
anything about truth, my effort has
been all along for the Glory of God,
and the uplifting of our common
wealth, the protection of our COM
mon society, and the honor of our de-
pendent majorities. 1 appeal to the
better element to help do this.
l don't expect any help from the
drunkard, til base and LOWERED, but
I have every rightgto expect chris
tians to honor their profession. and
their God and country, and help lift
politics out of the filth and quagmire
of greed and selfishness aud place it on
higher planes of common decency. I
believe that christians of all demon
nations ought to come up to the
help of God and his people, and for
ever put down misrule and wickedness
in high places, and to do this, my
brother, we must examine mans re-
cord and not go by what he says alto
gether. Some will tell you that eff
you vote at all you will have to vote
for whisky men. /" That is one of
Satan's games he is playing on good
men, or, some fellow like sEsopFox, =
has lost his. tail in the trap of un-
expected detection, who, to hide his
deformity, is telling that all the can
didates are tailless political foxes, but
brother keep your eyes open, the sun
still shines and we can see and smell.
Now if it comes to pass that we get
the cold shoulder from some whom we
can't support, we can only say to them
that we are much better friends to
them than they are to themselves,