The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-08-10
STATE ELECTION RETURNS CANvAssED.

STATE ELECTION RETURNS CANVASSED.
John Sharp Williams Declared the Nominee for
United States Senator.
At exactly noon on Thursday, after
the State Democratic Executive Com
mittee at Jackson had been in session
and canvassed the returns from all the
counties in the contest for the nomina-
| tion to the United States Senate, the
finding of the Committee led to the pre-
sentation of the following resolution Of
fered by Hon. J. w. George, of Yazoo,
and its adoption by unanimous vote:
"It appearing from the official returns
submitted to this Committee that Hon.
John Sharp Williams has received 648
votes for the Office of United States Sen
ator, he is, therefore, hereby declared
the nominee of the Democratic party of
Mississippi, for the office OF United
States Senator for. the term beginning
March 4, 1911, and ending March 4, 1917"
In moving this resolution, Mr.. George
INDUCED in no superfluous words nor at
tempted any eulogistic flights of elo-
quence, simply submitting the motion
to the committee. The resolution was
seconded by r. W. Bailey, of Grenshaw,
who stated that, as a friend of Governor
Vardaman, he desired to do SO, saying
that the Governor recognizes the Com
mittee as the supreme court for the DEM
ocrats of Mississippi in this matter; that
it's rulings should be accepted as final,
and there should be no going behind the
| returns, as such procedure was foreign
to the views and wishes of Governor
| Vardaman.
This statement of Mr.. Bailey, simple
vet expressive of the real sentiments Of
those assembled in the Legislative hall
found an echo everywhere, judging from
he volume of applause, and the decla-
ration of the resolution was made unan-
imous. The fight was over, the battle
won, and the long strain and severe ten
| sion of the week dissipated and broken,
| the men breathed freer and could, so far
as this contest was concerned, shake
hands across the chasm of doubt and
claims and declared that they were sat-
isfied.
Governor Vardaman's Eloquent Note Conceding
| the Nomination.
AS the views of Governor Vardaman,
when the Committee had acted and clos
ed the accounting between himself and
his distinguished rival, he gave out the
following statement:
s'The Democratic party, through its
Executive Committee, has declared MIR.
| Williams the nominee, and I accept the
arbitrament of that tribunal without a
tinge of resentment or regret for any
thing done or said by my friends or me
during the campaign. am for the nom
inee, and hope that he will make for the
people of Mississippi great United
States Senator. | have made the cam
paign upon living, important and peril
nent principles, and, while | have lost
the nomination, / am thoroughly con-
vinced that the large majority of the
white Democrats of this State agree
/ with my views upon public questions
and | shall continue to fight for those
principles as earnestly in the future as
have contended for them in the past.
81 want to thank my friends for their
loyalty, their earnestness, their zeal in
behalf of the principles | represent, and
for my political interest. No man Was
ever blessed with more loyal and faith
full friends than those who favored my
| fortune in this contest. Iwant them to
feel as do, that we have not been de-
feated, but that the victory has only
been postponed for season. I have
been a candidate several times in my life
and lost the fight, but never haye felt
the sting of defeat, and | am not defeat
ed today. / am sure that | am stronger
with the people of Mississippi today than
ever before, and God being my helper,
hope to so live that that popularity
confidence and strength with the people
may grow.
"The only life worth living is a life
of service, and to serve Mississippi and
Mississippians is my chief ambition"
| Thus has been brought to close one
of the greatest and most intensely
thought absorbing political contests
which can be recalled in the history oi
Mississippi, and no doubt is felt that the
majority of the men Of Mississippi have
voted their honest convictions both as te
the men and the issues which they re-
present. The turbulent and troubled
sea Of doubt and uncertainty is nov