Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27
DOWN IN MISSISSIPPI.
Radicals More Radical
than Bryan.
Homer Bassford, formerly of
Mexico, Tells of Political
Conditions.

In spite of the very early hour
at which Mr.. Bryan reached Jack
son there was the usual crowd at
the station to greet him. On the
way over from Birmingham, as
early as 5 o'clock this morning, the
groups gathered around the Bryan
train and by their unseemly shout
ing for the next President of the
United States" they awakened not
only Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan, but ev-
eryone else on the train.
1t may be said in this connec-
ton, that most of the people of
Mississippi are for Mr. Bryan for
p resident in 1908 without regard
to platform. Judge Whitfield,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of Mississippi, is out in a three col
umn decl aratiOn, in which he says
that the party wants nothing but
Mr.. Bryan and what he is known
to stand fora short and simple
statement of '" Democratic posi-
ton on the tariff and the trusts
and the labor question, and per.
haps one or two matters, together
with the pronOuncement against
corruption, in official and bust
ness administration"
Justice Whitfield d continued in
the following vein; Il think we
may safely lay the fattering unc.
ton to our souls-that whatever
idiocies may have been committed
by some of us III 1896 in exhaust
ing vituperation against Mr.. Bry-
an as an anarchist, etc., we are,
one and all-that is, all those who
are simply honest-whether we be-
long to the silver wing or the gold
wing, more radical by far to-day
than Mr.. Bryan was in 1896
against such unspeakable frauds,
such nefarious villanies as have
marked the administration of the
Land Office, the Post Office De-
partment, the exploits of the War
Department in the Philippine Is
lands, killing all over ten,
of the Senate of the United States
in its utter devotion to the mon
eyed interests of the Union against
the rights of the land, and of the
great business interests, of which
we have heard so much vauntingly
said as exemplified in the iusur-
auce scandals which stand to-day
as the unapproachable climax in
business scounderlism.
WHO has anything to fear
from MIR. Bryan elected to the
Presidency? Any honest mani
No. Any pure public official?
No. Any patriot, who wishes the
laws to be framed in the interest
of all equally2 No. Simply and
only insurance thieves, the graft
ers in business all over this land,
Senators such as those who have
been named, public officials who
esteem public Office a private snap
lin short all whose conduct and
whose motives inspiring that con-
duct, stamp them as the enemies
of their country, seeking only and
ever their own ACKNOWLEDGMENT at
the expense of their fellow citi
zens.
God of our fathers, guide this
contest to the close. Unite all
good men genuine patriots of ev-
cry faction and from all quarters
under the banner OF sincere and
not pretended reform. and give to
the voice of the great people such
resistless power as shall sweep,
once for all, from public station,
and from the leadership of corpor-
ate interest. those who to-day dis
grace our country before the world
and restore once more to the lead
ership Of the land those who hold
honor above life, integrity above
station and the fear of God above
all the treasures of the world