The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1907-06-20
BIG POLITICAL DAY.
Three Gubernatorial Candidates
Speak. A Big Crowd and
rIuch Enthusiasm.

Three of the gubernatorial can
|. didates spoke at the court hous
the opening day of court, Monda,
last. They were Charles Scott 0
Rosedale, E. F. Noel of Lexington
and Jeff Truly of Fayette. Cour
adjourned till 4 O'Clock in tn
evening for the benefit of the stat
candidates. Mr.. Scott spoke first
on being introduced by Chairman
French of the county executive
committee. He says he is seek
ing for the governorshjp of hi
state for the public good that the
salary is not for himself, but hi.
services for the people of the state
that his opponents have been can
didates for Office since they have
been 2I years of age, or they have
held Office. He thinks as much oi
the millionaire as the man that
makes his living by the honest
sweat of his brow that he is not
an aristocrat. Look at me do
look like one ?" said Mr.. Scott.
He attacked Clan McLaurin vigor-
ously, referring to the rnud-slinging
of Brewer every day to the Queen S
taste or to the McLaurin's taste.
He said that on the first of August
the people would send the Nc
Laurin torpedo boat and battleship
brewer and Truly to the political
junk shop or political dry docks.
Mr.. Scott is opposed to negro
education. He said the negro nev-
er worked except when being di-
rected by the white man. He fa-
vored good class of white labor to
take the place of the worthless ne
groes and those who were leaving
the farms for other vocations. He
believes in protecting the negro in
every way, and that they should
have the sympathy of the whites.
The speaker referred to the thirty
families of Italians brought by him
from Italy, also to those on other
plantations as law-abiding, hard
working people. He denounced as
untrue the statement that he want
ed to bring criminals to the state.
Then Mr.. Scott paid his respects
to Judge Truly in no uncertain
language. He characterized him
the most unfair man he had ever
known.
Mr.. Noel spoke in the after
noon. He is opposed to undesira-
bic immigration. The introduction
of foreign labor would. he believes,
prevent diversifcation of agricul-
tural industry, as foreign labor will |
not diversity. They would pro-
duce an over-production of labor.
He favors an elective judiciary, be-
lieving the appointive system a po-
litical asset for the governor. As
it now prevails, the governor is the
court of last resort. He can remit
a fine, delay an execution and par
don a criminal. He said he intro
duced the original bill to elect all
officers on one day in a primary
election over rs years ago. He
said he saved Mississippi $3.50, 600
by defeating the compromise of the
Y. & M. V. R. R. for back taxes.
He said he stood for home-home
life in ridding his town of liquor,
gambling and bucket-shops. He
fought the G. o. D. business for
the people. He wrote the bill that
shut up this business. Mr.. Noel
he claims, the many re-
forms that are on the statute books.
He discussed the school question
and the school fund distribution. |
He advocates 2-cent fare rates, and
freight rates according to service
rendered.
Mr.. Truly spoke last. He said
if be was elected governor of Mis-
sissippi he would be head of the
of the government and
no one else. He defended his de-
cisiou on the school question case.
II is the intention of the law, said
the speaker, to educate the white
children of the state, giving them
the bulk of the school money give
longer school terms and better paid
He claimed the negro
children go TO school twice as long
as the white children. He wants
4 uniform school term and change
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