The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-30
JUDGE S. R. DAVIS,
A PROMINENT CITIZEN AND DEMO.
Graf OF IOWA,

| " ENA"sO%1-aNS ~sSA.A-AN fNANO O1VO-
Graf OF IOWA.
Discusses important Question. Of General
Interest Concerning the South.
He favors VIM. r. Hearst for President.
Among the notable visitors to Gre
NADIA last week was Hon. S. r. Davis,
of Des Moines, Iowa, who was a guest
OF the Hotel South several days.
Judge Davis is a native Of Illinois,
but has been citizen of Iowa for
nearly thirty years. He is prominent
as journalist and lawyer and has al
ways been a conspicuous figure at
Democratic state and national cOnven-
tions. At present he is travelling rep
resentative of the Lawyers Co-opera-
tive Publishing Company of Rochester.
n. Y.
mississippi is wonderfully rich
and fertile state" said Judge Davis
to a representative of the SENTINEL.
1T reminds me of my native state of
Illinois, he continued, and I never
met a finer lot of men than the Missis-
Sippi lawyers, with whom have bus
mess relations. They are chevaliers
OF courtesy, generous and kindly, and
I feel at home among them.''
by the way" said Judge Davis,
many people say look like typical
S0uthernor. ought to, for that mat
ter, when you consider my pedigree.
My father was born in the hills of
East Tennessee and my mother in the
Blue Grass region of Kentucky. Twen-
ty-one years ago visited an old ILL.,
inois school mate in Nashville and
this resulted in another tie to bind
me to the South. Next year I went
back and married a girl had met in
Nashville, who was native OF Maury
county, Tennessee.
When asked about the political out.
look, Judge Davis said that he was
very hopeful that there would be q
Democratic restoration next Novem-
Der, and that this feeling was strong
in the North and i'm the Southern
states he had visited.
Strange as it may seem to you"
said Judge Davis, President Roose-
velt's attitude on the negro question
is not popular in the North. His en-
tertainment of Booker Washington
would have excited little criticism.
Every man to his taste,' our practi-
cal Western people would nave said,
but his forcing Of negro off1ce-holders
upon communities against the protest
OF the white people, and his arbitrary
action in closing the Indianola post
Office, has created . deep feeling
against him in many Northern COM
munities in Illinois and
Indiana, where the race question is
becoming acute. II the negro vote
was eliminated from Illinois, Indiana
and New York the supremacy of the
Republican part; in those states would
be seriously threatened.
Judge Davis said that Mark Hanna
had not taken advantage Of that tide
in the affairs of men which leads on to
fortune - He will meet the same
fate as Blaine, who, in 1892, tried to
wrest the nomination of Harrison at
the eleventh hour. On being asked
his views on the subject of the Demo-
cratic nomination Judge Davis said:
''The Democracy has the opportu-
nifty to restore itself to power if the
prominent and active men in the or
sanization show courage and common
sense. It is not at all probable that
the money issue will be made promi-
nent, or that Mr.. Bryan and the vast
majority OF the Democratic party who
supported him on two campaigns, and
who still believe in bimetallism, will
urge that issue. 1t will be easy for
the party to unite on platform in
favor of public control of trusts, a
vigorous application Of the knife to
tariff schedules which shelter monop-
oily and protest against Imperialism
and territorial grand larceny" !
''As for candidates" said, Judge
Davis, lone thing is essentially i'm
portant. :. The National Convention
at St. Louis should nominate q Dem.
ocrat. The rank and file fsthe Dem