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

, icle does not say that any one ex-
pected him to resign, but only states
1t as a matter of belief" Our in
formation is that Mr.. Bowers dis,
tinctly stated that he would not re.
sign his place as general counsel of
this road and SO stated on the stump,
and to every private person thaE
cared to have any statement from
him on this subject at all; and where
The Chronicle obtained its belief"
We are unable to say.
The Gulf & Ship Island Railroad
Company is a Mississippi corpora
ton, chartered under the laws of the
State of Mississippi, domiciled in this
State, and does not own mile of
track or dollars worth of property
beyond the borders of the State. 1t
is purely a State corporation, and
We are unable to see how the con-
gress of the United States could do
any more for the Gulf & Ship Island
Railroad Company than it could do
for any citizen of the State of Missis-
sippi; and for that reason we do not
see how the interest of the people
and the interests of the Gulf & Ship
Island Railroad Company could ever
conflict in the hall of the United
States congress. The Laurel Chron-
icle does not charge that they do
conflict, because it cannot do SO and
tell the truth. We defy the editor
of the Laurel Chronicle to point to
one single instance where the inter
ests of the people of this congression-
al district and the Gulf & Ship Island
Railroad Company ever confiicted in
the slightest degree. We will go fur
ther, and defy the editor of the Lau-
rel Chronicle to point to single act
of Mr.. Bowers public life while he
was a member of the Mississippi
the slightest degree indicated any
neglect of the peoples interests for
the railroad company. Mr.. Bowers
career as a member of the Mississip-
pi legislature is one of which he and
his friends may well feel proud. for
he made a reputation in that body
second to no man, and during his
whole term of service in the legisla-
ture he was the attorney of the Gulf
& Ship Island Railroad Company. ac-
lively in charge of its affairs. and
yet not one single act can be traced
TO his door which indicates that he
sserved in that body any one else than
the people of his State. If the Laurel
Chronicle has any fact or circum-
stance which would indicate that
Mr. Bowers, during his career in con-
gress, has done anything which in
the slightest degree should impair
the confidence of the people in him,
then let it speak out in the open, bold
and frank, and discontinue the cam
paign of insinuations contained in the
first Of these reasons why 1t is
against MT. Bowers.
The second reason offered by The
Chronicle for its opposition to Mr..
Rowers is that his record in congress
has been an utter and complete fail
ure. We venture the assertion that
The Chronicle can get no one to
agree with it on this proposition, and
we do not understand how such a
statement can be made by any news
paper except through ignorance Of
the facts or wilful misrepresenta-
ton. We now here assert that in
our Judgment no man ever went to
congress from Mississippi who, In
one term, did as much as Mr. Bowers
has done. Hon. John Sharp Will
liams, the minority leader of the
house of representatives in Washing
ton. addressed him letter, thanking
him in the. name Of the white people