The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-09-09
JUDGE CRITZ
ACCEPTS RESULTS.
ISSUES A PATRIOTIC ADDRESS TO THE
PEOPLE OF MISSISSIPPI.
Condemns the Extraordinary Campaign
Methods Resorted to Defeat Him and
Warmly Thanks His Supporters.

w cSO l. Olut, MISS, NSP1'
Judge Frank A. Critz yesterday
gave out the following:
"To the People of Mississippi:
The final action of the State Ex-
ecutive Committee, announcing
the result of the second primary
election, closes the most remark
able political fight our people have
ever witnessed or endured. Re
markable for its results and more
remarkable for the means and
methods by which those results
were accomplished, and still more
remarkable because more votes
we're counted In the second than
in the first primary 1t would be
improbable and unwise to open
up any of these matters. The
people have spoke in tile manner
provided by law, and the verdict
of the majority has been an
nounced as the law directs: Ma
ior James K. Vardaman is to be
our next Governor, and will have
the support of Critz and his fol-
lowers.
Il desire to express my deepest
gratitude to the 1929 voters
who, with such earnestness and
loyalty, fought for my election
and the triumph of the principles
| advocated, to the end of that
memorable political struggle.
A more splendid citizenship
| never followed any man or cause
to either victory or defeat, and a
more gallant fight for right and
truth was never made in Missis-
sippi politics. Their disappoint-
ment at our failure intensifies very
much my disappointment. We
have nothing to be ashamed of,
and nothing to regret, except the
result. am proud of the follow
ing | had and of the high plane OF
honorable politics occupied by
them in the midst of the exit emest
and the most unwarranted bitter
ness of the contest and during the
whole canvass. They know and
the world knows, that | made a
clean and honorable race from
start to finish; that | dealt fairly
and candidly with the people; that
I advocated nothing but the truth.
according to my convictions anc
Judgment, and their convictions
and judgment were in perfect ac.
cord with mine. My integrity as
a private citizen and the upright
ness of my canvass no intelligent
man doubts and no honest mar
has ever questioned.
THE cry of white supremacy
carried the day for the victor il
the extreme excitement that pre-
vailed at the election, but there
was no such issue between me anC
my opponent and could not hav'
been, and there was no such issue
between Democrats in Mississippi
and could not have been. Every
body knows that Democracy il
Mississippi means white suprem
lacy; and everybody knows tina
have been a white liner of thu
strictest sect for more than /;
quarter of century, and never
wavered OR bolted or scratched a
| Democratic ticket. / believe il
the divine right of the white mar
to rule, to do all the voting anc
to hold all the Offices, both State
and Federal, and have so an
nounced in every speech made by
me during the canvass. Here il
my letter to the Executive Com
mittee:
" West Point, Miss,
June %, 1903.
g To the State Democratic Elk
ecutive Committee of Mississippi;
After due consideration, l am sat.
isfed that there is 30 legal OBJ
lection to white primary cleo