The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1903-03-13
Circuit Court and the Speeches.

Circuit Court convened Monday.
Hon. K. O. Sykes presiding, Dis
trict Attorney j. w. Barron. Sher-
if j. c. Crosby. Clerk l.. b. Harris
and other attaches of the court at
their respective posts of duty.
A large concourse of people was
in attendance, attracted hither by
the business of the court and the
announcement, previously given
out. that candidates for State Office
would discuss the issues of the
pending campaign. In Difference
to the visiting candidates, the
charge was not given until Tues
day morning. This charge was
characteristic of Judge Sykes,
able. forceful, eloquent, and i'm
pressed the jury with the majesty
and dignity of the law as we'll as
the responsibility resting on them
To vindicate and maintain it.
The grand jury a. drawn and
impaneIled was as follows: 5. a.
Dalton. Foreman; l. w. Lowe, j.
C.. Simpson. j. III. Sullivan, clerks;
Fair Posey, X NJ. Smith, +. NJ
Thompson. NJ. ID. Taylor. t. l..
Sykes. L. NJ. MurreIl, j. l.. Glenn,
l.. Is. Carter, W.P. Cox, g. G. Pope,
w. NJ. Digger. J. b. Pierce, L. b
/ Pickle. Il. J. Easter. w. W. NC
Dufiie: ID \. Beeks.
From III O'Clock to 1870. Mon
day. Hon. +. +. Noel, candidate for
Governor. in a forceful and lucid
speech, defined the three functions
Of government and explained that
restrictions of the Federal consti-
tuition set insurmountable barriers
TO legislation discriminating be-
tween the races and pointed out
i that division of the school fund in
proportion TO the taxes paid by
each would be in conflict with the
/ fourteenth amendment and hence
/ impracticable. He presented the
marvellous progress that Missis-
sippi has made in wealth, in fac
tories, in commerce, in education
in fact, along all industrial and
elevating lines under the opera
\ tions Of the constitution of 1880
and urged that continued prosper
ity, peace and progress would re-
suit without amendment to. or
change of its provisions. lie re
ferred TO his arduous labors to Sc
cure an elective judiciary, and re-
lated how uncompromisingly he
had advocated and secured the
passage of the present primary
election law, comforting on each
citizen the right of individual
choice of every officer from United
States senator to- constable. His
speech was listened to with marked
attention and won much favorable
comment.
At the afternoon session, Hons
G.. l.. Kincannon and W. q. Stov-
all. candidates for Railroad Com
missioner; Messrs. T. X. Maxwell
and Il NJ. Henry. candidates for
State Auditor, and Mr.. h. &.
Myers, candidate for Clerk Of the
Supreme Court, in brief and APP
propriate announcements, pre-
scented their claims.
Major j. X. Vardaman then
spoke for more than two hours and
held the large audience that heard
| him spellbound with his matchless
rhetoric and eloquence. In his
speech were presented the issues
that determine the grounds upon
which the gubernatorial contest Is
to be fought out. He champions
these issues of his own projection
on the one side, while all the other
candidates for Governor. with
slight difference, combat him on
the other. His position on the
educational question was not so
radically presented rs it has been
reported from other places and
impressed his hearers as being
neither illogical nor revolutionary
His tribute to the soldiers of the
Confederate army, the Confederate
veterans and the Daughters of the
Confederacy who are enlisted in
the establishment of a soldiers
home was a transcendent eulogy
nf sentiment nOptrV clOnuence