The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1903-05-02
cNATORIAL CAMPAIGN
BECOMING PERSONAL
c.,.roor LongIno. In a Speech At
4 s,,.uton, Replies to the Criticisms
! senator rIoney--The Governor
o.,.,s to the Senator's Fight with
street Car Conductor.

dleflce uoiC o~utsJ y pew
y fIIed the courthouse, many per-
.oas being compelled to stand in
,be aislcs and around the walls
,a,,,,g l,s uellvery, in which he
announced himself a candidate
ior United States Senator.
The Governor started his adj
dress by saying that he had hoped
ihat the campaign would be en-
i;reJy free from personalities aud
that each place whore he had spo-
Ian in the absence of Senator
Money, his opponent, he had al
ways made the kindest allusion to
HIM, and bad felt no little disap-
poIntlent at seeing in the public
priuts that the Senator had been
both personal an1 unkind in some
of his utterances about him. He
read from Meridian paper that
the Senator had recently deliver
I'd an address of three hours du-
iation in that city, which, accord
ipg to newspaper reports, was de-
voted to the race question and cri-
ticism of HIM. He said that the
Senator had charged that the Gov
ernor's campaign speech was a
practiced one and the same every
where except when it was necessa-
.yto apologize for things done in
his administration, one of which
Incidents the Senator said "was in
explanation of Confederate rot"
at which juncture in his speech,
the paper announced, the audience
roared with laughter.
The Governor stated that IN
this respect the Senator seemed to
have forgotten that he, too, had
been making apologies; that, ac-
cording to the synopsis of the
speeches of the Senator, each of
his audiences had been treated TO
about the same address, and at
Natchez and other places, accord
ing to press reports, the Senator
had himself felt called ON to ex-
plain and apologize for some of
his doings; that he had been nota-
bly, reported as thus apologizing
in his speech at Natchez for an ln-
cident occurring in Washington
between himself and a street Car
conductor, when the Senator was
elected from the car for refusal TO
pay the fare, ,anl when afterwards
as a result Of this fight, the Mis-
sissippi Senator presented per-
haps the only incident on record
where a United States Senator ap-
peared in the Police Court in
Washington for trial. Assuming
this matter was referred to in Me-
rldian by the Senator, the public
IS not advised whether tho people
received tho explanation with
great applause or hung their heads
IN shame. Again, the Senator had
explained at Natchez, according
70 newspaper reports, something
about trip he made to Cuba and
the sale of letters By him TO ccr-
tain papers. Again the public is
left to wonder whether this ex-
PLANTATION of the Senator provok-
ed tumultuous applause.
The Governor said that the Sem
ator appeared to have overspoken
himself when he criticised him for
his explanation about "Confeder-
ate rot" and suggested wisdom
OF the old adage, that People in
glass houses should not throw
stones" The Governor stated
that in his Meridian speech Sena-
tor Money had said that he was
claiming all the credit for Missis-
.sippi's prosperity. The Govern
or said, in this connection, that
the Senator is reported TO be one
OF the most learned men in the
country and it began to appear
that TOO much learning has made
him mad, " and that he had mere
ly stolen away his memory, for he
said that the Senator had ho war
rant for making any accusation Of
that kind against him.
The Governor further stated
that, as 4 Mississippian, lie had re-
ferred with great pride To the pros
gress being made ii this State, un-
der the influence Of Wholesome
laws, efficient and faithful Off
Gals aasl i progressive people, and
that lie WAS proud 10 believe that
he had been faithful coIaborer.
in this work, aud that If Senator
Money Would tell the people Of
something he had done TO contri-
butte 10 tue success Of the State
and the bettermens Of its citizen
ship, the newspaper reporters
would have found more to chron-
icle III his threc-hours' Meridian
speech than the mere attack up
on the negro and the criticism Of
his opponent.
He reiterated the statement that
there Was nd race issue In Missis-
sippi, politically or socially; that
since the adoption of the Consti-
fusion Ia 1896, the negro, as a po-
a 4 a a =.