The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-06-02

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ebates and other secret subterfuges /.
re resorted to by the great rail
vay companies TO injure and cripple
very industry in the interests OF
owners OF the railways are Them
elves Interested when efforts, uponI
he part of public service corporal
ions OF our own State. are made tot
OBJ the State out of millions of dol
ars of taxes due by them and to pass
through our legislature by lobbying
and corrupt methods laws authoriz
ing. them to buy competitive lines
and strangle competition, in disre-
gard of the rights OF our citizenship
and the Constitution of our State
when high officials of public service
play hide and seek
around our own capitol with the off
GERS of our State who are trying to
summon before them the bar of the
house for lobbying and trying to in
fuence the passage of class legisla
ton against Our own people in dis
regard of our laws; when all these |
things are but part of the testimony
that the daily papers bring us of the |
great proportions and grave serious |
ness which control governments by |
aggregate wealth and corporate pow
er, presents for solution to this day
duu S6ICIdtlOIl, II DenOOV6S us IL
watch with jealous care the rights of
our people. and especially SO at time
like this, when there is an organized
effort being made to capture control
OF the machinery of our State gov
eminent, of every State government
IN the Union. and in fact of the Fed
eral Government itself. by electing
| to office people who are more inter
ested IN private business than III the
public welfare
| While ] appreciate the statement
am about TO make will be used
| against me, | believe it IS the truth
and right, and | make it advisedly-
not in spirit of hostility to any le-
gitimate interest. but deeply impress
ed with its profound significance to
republican institutions and its nit
mate influence upon all classes of our
citizenship assert that the graves,
| danger menacing republican institu-
| tons OF today is the overbalancing
control of State and National legis-
latures by the wealth and power OF
public service corporations.
/ In our State, where the executive
branch of the government carries
with 1T the appointment of the entire
Judiciary. it is especially important
has stood and will ever stand in
every controversy as an uncompro-
missing friend of the common people
Seeing how easy it would be by Sc
| curing control of the executive branch
of our government to secure control
| thereby of the appointment of the
entire judiciary of the State, | ear
nestly favor and advocate an elective
Judiciary
| l favor the passage of such laws
as will protect the servants and en-
ployes of public service corporations
against being blacklisted or otherwise
mistreated by corporate power and
greed; and such as will give to them
ample, speedy and convenient remedy
for recovery for all injuries received
by them on account of the negligence
OF their masters or fellow servants
or on account of defective machiner,
ways, means or appliances, and when
death results from such injury. then
to their wives and children, and il
they have neither wife nor child, then
to their heirs-at-law.
| In sharp contrast with the material
greed and avarice of the age in which
we live. | believe it to be the high
and solemn duty OF the State to look
well alter the few remaining heroes
Of the Lost Cause and their widows
| Only few more years and the last
one of them will have crossed over
the river to rest under the shade OF
/ the trees. | do not say any more on
| this subject. for I deprecate the effort
| OF time-serving politicians to make
| political capital or to foster their
| waning political fortunes by refer
ence TO the Lost Cause or the heroic
| n SIth, I
too sacred for discussion in political
campo gins.
/ | am in facor Of the passage OF such
childlabor laws and the enforcement
of them as will prevent the overwor.,-
ing and thus the dwarfing of little
children. and am in favor of raising
the age of consent from the disgrace
full and barbarlc age of ten years.
| cannot reasonably expect to re-
ceive the support OF seekers after spe-
cial privileges: grafters or law-break-
ers will not labor for my nomination
political bosses will not be able to
find anything in my past life or Off
cial conduct which will encourage
them to believe that | could be in
fluenced and nodded to their liking
those employed to demand from the
| State for their masters something
more than exact and even-handed JUS
tice will hardly work for my promo
ton. | hope to receive the support
and encouragement OF the men with
no political or financial ak to grind.
| The toilers in the field. the factory
and the office-the great mass OF I'M
bought and unpurchasable people
if | am elected, will elect me. Rec
Iognzing this to the people | submit
my views and of them | ask an en-
dorsement In pledge and pawn for
the support for the Democracy Of
Mississippi. | promise faithful and
efficient discharge of official duties
and an honest endeavor to give to
the people of the State a progressive
yet prudent. conservative, economical
business administration: and If eject
ed. to this end shall devote all the
energy of which my young manhood
is capable.
I $4,000 IN 1910