The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-04-18

! pending Importance. If either goes to
| the United States Senate he will not
take his seat for nearly four years. He
will be there for six years afterwards.
| During this ten years the Federal own
ership of railroads is going to be mat.
ter to be dealt with by the Senate of
| the United States. Unlike the repeal
of the Fifteenth amendment, it will be a
real and not an academic issue during
the term of the successful candidate.
say right now that, in the interest of
Mississippi and of race peace in the
South and of the white races view there
and of sound economic principles, which
would guide me even if / were Yer.
monter, instead of Mississippian, that
| will note against this State-Socialistic
scheme, and that I am ready before the
people of the State of Mississippi in
| joint discussion with my friend, the Gov
ernor, to tell the people why / oppose it.
"What is the Governors position! As
understand it, he opposes the PROPOSE
tion of railroad ownership by the Federal
government for the present. or at this
time but says that ultimately he may
or may not, rather intimating that sulti-
mately' must come. l distrust this word
ultimately I am afraid of this adverb
ultimately What does this ultimate
ly' mean? How many months, or how
many years does it convey? / am ready
/ to pledge myself to Mississippi right
now never to vote for Federal owner
ship of railroads, no matter who wants
! it, but upon this proposition to repre-
! sent Mississippi and the South and the
sentiments of the white people there. Is
| the Governor ready?
cit seems to make the Governor per-
| fectly furious that should refer to the
question of common coaches for the two
races as a consequence of Federal own
ership of railroads. He seems to think
that he has monopoly upon niger
issues. While the Governor is discuss
ing the purely academic quetion Of the
repeal of the Fifteenth amendments
thing which he knows he cannot accom-
plish in six years, or twelve years, or
eighteen a thing which confess I can
not accomplish in the present state of
public opinion throughout the Union
let him not neglect to tell us where he
! stands upon real questions.
| I'm one respect, I did misrepresent the
Governor if he understood, as in his in
| terview he seems to have understood, a
sentence in my Walthall speech. He
seems to have understood me to say that
he had promised the people to separate
CARELESS of the will of the legislature,
and he tells me now that he always said
| provided he had the legislature to agree
with him. was aware of that fact
and did not intend to put myself or him
| in the foolish attitude of having the
| public think that either of us for mo-
ment thought that the Governor could
repeal law without the cooperation Of
the legislature. But that is not the
point. The point is this land surely
my friend, the Governor, did not fail
to catch the point. If the Governor
| could not, in dealing with Mississippi
legislature sharing his views ON the race
question, put q measure through for q
separate educational fund for the two
races; if he could not persuade Missis-
sippi legislators to do this; if he could
/ not possibly point out constitutional
way for them whereby it could be done
after having held out the hope to the
| people that he could and that he would
/ and after having procured office on that
| hope, then what show of reason has any
| body to believe that he can change the
entire habit of thought of Vermonters
| and men from New Hampshire, and the
far-of Dakotas two-t thirds Of them ii
both houses and threo-fourths Of them
/ ia the Statesin order to secure 3 re-
peal Of the Fifteenth amendment
"The second point about it is this:
| If, when Major yArdaman was running
/ for the Governors office. IL was true. "a