The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1906-03-02

George r. Stewart writes Of f0rm-
er Jacksonite.
THE PROMINENT DELTA STATESMEN
WHO NAY BE THE NEXT GOVERNOR
OF THE STATE SPOKEN OF IN TERMS
OF WARM EULOGY.

minent citizen OF YazOO county,
concerning Hon. Charles Scott, will
be read with interest by the public
at this time:
Yazoo City, Miss, Feb. %, 1906.
Editor News:-HOw wonderfully
inconsistent a portion of humanity
is when it suits their purposes.
Two years ago when Maj. Varda-
man stood for governor of Missis-
sippi many gentlemen who opposed
his candidacy charged that he was
not qualified for the position because
he had been unsuccessful in business
and had not even paid his debts.
Now comes a man for this exalted
position who has succeeded in law,
in planting and in mercantile pur-
suits as well as in the management
of large affairs of almost every ma
ture. This man has not only a
chieved signal success in every way,
and has not only met all of his OBJ
legations, but absolutely broke all
records few years ago by making
good to all depositors of the Rosedale
Bank the full value of their deposits
with interest, although he was under
no personal or business obligation,
legal or moral, to do so. He as
sumed the debts and obligations of
the bank and pledged his faith to
redeem as speedily as possible; he
not only gave his own property to
raise the necessary funds, but gave
the profit of his individual labor
and gave with the consent of his
wife. her property holdings. While
there are numbers throughout the
state who are rejoicing that they
will have the privilege of supporting
such a candidate, there are a few
who say that he owns too much pro-
perty to be governor of the state and
that he has no sympathy with the
toiling masses. But these reckon
without their host and without
knowledge of the true character of
the man they gratuitously misrepre-
sent.
When Charles Scott of Rosedale
left his home in Jackson to enlist
in the grand army of Confederate
patriots he was only a lad of fifteen
years. He received his parole at
GAINESVILLE Ala, when Gene
Forrest bowed to the inevitable and
gave up his sword.
From GAINESVILLE he made his way
with the survivors of his command
back to his native state and began
life without a penny of his own, as
a clerk in a store in Washington
county. He taught school and the
hours he could snatch from work
he studied law. Too poor to buy
books he borrowed them from SYM
pathetic lawyer friends. Without
the means to go to college and at
tend law lectures he read and stu
died and mastered the difficult study
of law, and never saw the inside of a
school room after he entered the
army.
Having equipped himself for prac-
tice he was licensed and located at
Rosedale. Bolivar county, where he
has lived ever since. BY the hard
est kind OF work and upright, hon.
orable conduct. he built up large
practice avoiding the practice of
criminal law at all times unless
forced upon him.
He has been successful beyond
many Of those who began life with
him, but he has secured what he has
by the most honorable methods and
by dint of the most arduous toll that
would have worn out or discouraged
many another. and he has always
kept an open heart and an open hand
for the calls of true charity. For
fifteen years Mr.. Scott has never
left his Office before ten O'Clock at
night. and often later. Is not such
= man an ideal candidate for govern
orr In my humble opinion saints
and sinners, the high and the low.
rich and poor, politicians and all
viii be found side by side in sup
port Of this splendid man. have
never been . time-server and as a
rule have avoided politics. except
when / believe / was acting in the
public good.
1 am only an acquaintance of Mr..
Scott. but stand sponsor for all
have said about him. Mr.Scott il not
only . capable and honorable man,
but no knight of the middle ages
was ever moro chivalrous or true