The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-31
SENATORIAL RACE
 AROUSES NEGROES Many Take Sides in Contest in
 Mississippi LETTER STIRS UP BANGOR A Washington Negro Writes a Letter Urging Negroes to Stand By Will
 lams-supporters of Will Hams Indignant Over It.
LETTER STIRS UP BANGOR

Jackson. Mis-, July 30.-The negroes of the United States as well as those If Mississippi are taking great deal of in
 terest In the senatorial race, as is evil denced by the numerous letters of inquiry received by negroes here and by editorials in negro newspapers One of these negro papers has espoused the cause of Mir. Williams, another that of Governor Val daman, and campaign use is understood
 to have been made of both-tf e negro
 thereby being once more made a factor
 in Mississippi politics. It is not possible
 for the negro to cast a single vote in
 the primary of August l, that being for
 white men and democrats only, but it IS
 possible that their indorsement of one
 man or candidate will have the effect of
 losing that candidate good many demo-
 crat votes.
 The Vardaman campaign committee of
 this city has j-ist fallen heir to a letter
 written by a negro named Carter, who
 signs himself chairman of the negro re-
 publican campaign committee, with head
 quarters at Washington, and which urges
 the negroes of Mississippi to stand by
 
 son that MT. Williams does not bother
 himself while at Washington with the ne-
 gros affairs; he is not fooling around try
 ing to secure the passage of Jim Crow laws nor to prohibit white women marry ing negro men in the District of Columbia, like some other Mississippi congressman have been dong-referring, of course. to Hon. Adam Byrd's bill in the last Con-
 .lNa,. af "A Nardaman club that this letter will be printed by the thousand and scattered all over the state.
 The Williams men are indignant that | Vardaman clubs should make use of such | campaign thunder and denounce the letter
 as d forgery, declaring 1t originated in
 Jackson, was sent to Washington and mailed back to Jackson.
 There is no question but that millions
 of printed circulars have been distributed l by the various candidates during the past
 month to say nothing of those that have { gone before. The biggest job offices in the l state have been running night and day, l and the postoffices have been bought out | of stamps time and again. one candl-
 date for a state office paid S6o0 for 1 cent l stamps at one time here last week, and | on the same day another candidate | bought $200 worth. Both have made large
 additional purchases since then. | In the death of District Attorney | Graves at his home in this city yesterday
 the state of Mississippi has lost one Of l it's oldest and most competent prosecu- | tors He has served. this, the largest dis- | trict in the state, in point of business | before the courts about twelve years, be- l ing reelected twice without opposition, and would have been elected as long as he desired the office Six months or more ago MT. Graves broke down just after the Mrs Birdsong murder case at | Hazelhurst, and has not appeared In the 1 court room since that time. He went to | New Orleans two or three months ago and consulted specialists about his throat They told him that he had cancer of the throat, and that he might possibly live six months but hardly He returned home and began to prepare to meet his
 Maker, stating that he knew then for
 the first time the feelings and the sen- sations of men sentenced to death. He roically and patiently MT. Graves has awaited the coming of the grim reaper and met it like man who had made peace with God.
 MT Graves had announced long since that he would not be a candidate for reelection, and there are two candidates
 for hisold place viz: Hon. Allen Thomp-
 son of Hinds and M. A. McNeill of Co., piah.
 Attorney General Fletcher has begun his war on the cotton oil mill trust having already filed suit against the Mississippi
 Cotton oil company of this city, and
 which is one of several mills owned by the same concern in this state The at torney general is confident he has the evidence to convict and does not doubt the state will win out with ease when the issue comes on for trial. There is also some talk of putting the attorney general after the ice factories of the state,
 1t having been suspected for years that they have apportioned the territory among themselves and fixed prices to