The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-07-23
NUMBER AZ.


Bowers. and | must decline to take
stock in your paper" The Repub-
| lican did not undertake TO dictate the
course of the paper, but simply de-
clined TO put his money into ven-
ture which proposed to assault his
friend or defeat his friends ambition,
especially when il cropped out that
the proposed editor of tho paper had
an alleged personal grievance against
Mr. Bowers. There was no politics
in the matter at all, and his deolina'
tion was put on purely personal
grounds. Any man with particle
of loyalty to his friends, would have
acted as he did. whether he was
| Republican or a Democrat.
The gentleman who declined to
take this stock. though a Republican,
is man of large business interests
In this State, where he has lived for
number of years. and has been, all
these years. a warm personal friend
of Mr.. Bowers, and though in the
past he may have been Republican,
we are informed by a reliable gem
tleman that not more than thres
weeks ago he remarked that though
he had been born and reared Re-
publican, and had always acted with
his party he could no longer follow
that party with such man as Rocse-
welt for leader, and he would sup
poft the nominee of the Democratic
Convention at St Louis. This much
for the Chronicles tenth reason.
His eleventh reason for opposing
Mr.. Bowers Is that Mr.. David Holt,
editor of the Biloxi Herald, at one
time started Republican newspaper.
Mr.. Holt answered The Chronicle in
n letter which, In our Judgment, COM
pletely obliterates that reason. Mr..
Holt Is now a Democrat; he Ia the
paid editor OF Democratic news
paper-one that has always been
Democratic. and such reasons as the
eleventh are purely puerile.
lie INtlliH IBdhOh hif'h " 49,
Chronicle Is that II does not beiievs
that a man who is a representative In
congress should engage In any other
business which would demand .
large portion of his time and labor;
thai the compensation OF a member
OF congress was sufficient to justify
him In giving all his attention to the
people's business. We venture the
prediction that. II Judge Deyours
should be elected 90 congress hd
would never obligate himself not to
engage In the practice of his profess
sion II he could get fees sufficient to
command his attention. There is no
more reason why lawyer should
abandon his practice when elected
to congress than there Is that TAR
mer should sell his plantation; that
| merchant should sell his store;
that minister should quit the pull
pit: that a blacksmith should ADAM
don his forge, or that any other trade
or calling should be abandoned. 1t
Is true. and The Chronicle will not
danv II that the members OF con-
gress from this State continue to pur-
sue their chosen professions. Senator
McLanrin does a large and lucrative
law practice; Mr. Hill. Judge Byrd,
Mr.. Gambler, Mr.. Spight and Mr..
Humphreys all do the same. We have
vet to hear of the first man who is
actively engaged in business giving
IN that business when he Is elected
| to seat in the congress OF the
| limited States. We do not believe
that The Chronicle ever heard OK any
ona doing so. We do not believe
that The Chronicle believes that a
man ought to do II, and more, we
venture the assertion that The Chron'
icle can not and will not assert on
the authority of Judge Devours tna'
he will never engage In business OF
his profession II he should be elected
to congress.
We venture the assertion that NJ
man ever stuck closer to his worl
in the American congress than di'
e. ]. Bowers during the last session
, of Congress. The records will dis
close the fact that he only missed
: few roll calls, and the records VIII
r further disclose the feet that in eacn
{ nj these instances he was always pro
t vided with a Give pair" and tnere
a fore did Just as effective service wnen
g n came to a vote on political ques'
tions as If he had been present ana
n in his seat No man could have oeen'
A or was. more faithful to the trust re-
a nosed in him by the people tnan MI
G Bowers has been, and his employ
. mont az an attorney of railroad cor
. noration. or his engagements In his
nrofession. has never, in the slightest
, degree interfered in the discharge OF
.bosa duties which he owes to the
neople of his district and the people
of the country at large.
The reasons given by the Laurel
Chronicle when analyzed, are abso-
lutely puerile, and show the desper-
ate straits into which the supporters
Col