The Grenada sentinel., 1903-07-11
MONEY AND LONGING
In Debate at Greenwood.
Hon. Monroe McCIurs's Masnifi-
cent lntrodution and En-
dorsement of Gov. Lon
QinO.
m WHICH HE DEALS IN PLAIN FACTS
In Reference to Our Governor, Who vii
Be Our Next Senator.
It i, an Introduction Well Worth Reading.

Fellow Democrats, ladies and gen.
tlemen: 1t is a great thing to be a
United States Senator. To represent
a sovereign State by the free choice Of
her people, expressed by a popular
election, in the most august deliberate
body in the world, is an honor worthy
of any man S ambition. 1t is an hon
or so great that none but the best
should be permitted to wear.
We all agree, my fellow citizens,
that every patriot loves his State bet-
ter than he loves any one man. We
all agree that every good citizen
is more deeply concerned about the
welfare of all the people Of the State
than he is to the success of any single
individual. Remembering the glorious
history of his State with all her sacred
traditions, intensely interested in her
burning present, and not forgetting
the years that are to come, the good
citizen votes for the good of today,
for the good OF his children, and for
the good OF his children's children
that are to follow him.
Happy for him who comes today to
his old home, full of hcnors, If not Of
years, to meet and greet those who
knew him best, here where the friends
of his family live and where some Of
his children were born, happy for him
and for you, he comes in the vigor Of
active life, a scion Of the old school,
the embodiment Of all that is best in
the past, OF all that is most perma-
nently progressive in the present and
of all that is most hopeful OF the
| future.
Having faithfully served the people
! of his native county in an important
office in his youngest manhood, hav-
! ing returned to the people Of the
! Southern portion Of the State an ex-
pired commission as State Senator,
and after returning an unexpired
Democratic commission as United
States district attorney to a Republi-
to Greenwood to live in the quiet en-
! joyment of his profession, with family
and friends at home.
Tribute to Stone
While living thus contentedly here,
John Marshall Stone, that governor
who loved Mississippi as he did his
own soul, called him to the service of
, the State again in a higher trust, and
placed upon his shoulders the spotless
ermine of chancellor of this district
| in which position he displayed the
highest order Of legal ability,
showing ready grasp Of the controll-
ing facts in every case and the sound
est i1ldpmant Of the law And he
was the orphans friend.
When his first we'll served term had
expired, another governor had been
elected, Gov. McLaurin. McLaurin,
the invincibie. recognizing his su-
preme fitness for the place. re-appoint-
ed him to the same eXaulted position
and not 4 stain SOiled the judicial
robe under either administration.
So faithfully had he held her trust,
and so worthy had he worn her honors,
that before his second term as chan
cellor had ended, indeed before it
hardly began, the people of the whole
State, as with one voice, demanded
that he should be their governor, and
they nominated him unanimously
over five of the very best men in the
State, and elected him by the largest
majority that any candidate for that
Office ever received. In that most
trying Office, all are agreed that he
has made Mississippi one of the very
best governors she ever had. II you
will ask the other State officers who
have been closest to him they will tell