The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1903-06-27
'a,oAy NIGHTS SPEAKING.

.a,no to announcement made in
ass saek,s Echo and notices posted
..sy and also through the efforts Of
T u our citizens, who are always
s''. ...ns to stranger. whether they
With his views or not, quite a
VA gathered at the courthouse that
- listen to a series Of speeches
sS. '..in Messrs. Doty, Of Biloxi; Shor-
'.,ourh, Of Jasper county, and Major
~ vardaman, OF Greenwood, Le-
u. county, we're the most interested
s,.s The first two-named gentlemen
.sn,rants for the office OF District
,,.,nev of this district, as well as
s..svs, - Tally, Of Poplaryille, and G. G..
,..ESn Of Columbia, who for some reason
=. not on hand. Both gentlemen were
'.,,oduced by Hon. w. 7. Mcdonald,
I'm also introduced Major vardaman J.
abort address they presented their
',.,ns for office without indulging in
4, Unfair personalities. Il is not for
4. ~ say which made the better impress
- Is the primary on August 9th viii
Sys the local verdict Of them. Mr.. j.
d watson, Of Seminary. Covington
.asntv. also made brief presentation
i d ms claims for the Office OF Rail-
IA Commissioner and made splendid
Impression.
Then came Major Vardaman, who, as
Nj. Mcdonald said, needed no intro
auction to our people as he had not only
ssAn before US previously but hada a
safe reputation. He began by citing
AZ fact that four years ago he had car
bed our county and had never forgotten
our loyalty to him He hoped for re-
petition Of it this yeari He dwelt upon
he fact that now the common people
we're in the saddle and from them he ex-
pected victory; that he was not the tool
Of leader OF rings, machine politics, or
the partisan or party of chques, con-
yentons, ETC., yet, if he had reflected or
admitted, it was a convention that four
years ago gave this county to him. He
dwelt upon the question of equal bur-
dens being borne in ratio by rich and
poor alike, which none will gainsay is
right, but this was no more original with
him than his speech, which, while an
Evolutionary treat" was replete with
quotations. from the poets and states
men from the beginning Of the world to
the present hour. He dwelt upon the
issue which is expected of him, the se-
peration Of the school fund between the
races and said that we need have no fear
that it could not be accomplished as the
people of Mississippi were able to cope
with any question and that when (notif)
Ne was elected Governor that If he had
8 representative Legislature he would
suggest the "way' and that if they didn' t
accomplish this end they would most(?)
He gave no possible chance for victory
tohis opponents. Hescored the press
Of which he is member-for their de-
sertion Of him, claiming that some had
been bought; that he, in the first place,
was poor man, unable to bribe or buy,
and too honorable TO were he able. He
paid his respects to the Hon. Teddy
Roosevelt, who he characterized as the
'coon- favored, nigger-loving, bear
eating, strenuous, rough-riding, Wild
eyed, etc., leader Of the Republican par
"; with whom Booker Washington had
disgraced himself by dining with. He
reviewed his life from boyhood to date,
said he had no apologies to offer, had
always offered his services in time OF
need to his city, county and State, and
that when President Roosevelt and 9TH
ers, Rough Riders and regulars had is
sued their Ground Robin that Mace
donian cry, 'Remove US to Montauk, or
We diel" it remained for he and his Mis-
sissippi Regiment Of immunes to go and
die for them. He scathed his opponents
and the public in general for what he
claimed was their malicious persecution
and calumny against him, and in conclu-
~.
sion paid brief, a very brief, tribute to
the ladies' who were equal in numbers to
he men.
lie OF course made some converts, but
i is q singular fact that those who four
years ago wore his most ardent cham
pions are today his strongest political
ioes. We do not think the situation
hanged in this county as far as the
iovernor's is concerned to that before
y came.