The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-06-15
COMES BACK AT NcLANRIN
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the appointive system, its gross pros
titution by McLaurin, the Governor
enlisted the Herald for the elective.
Equally false and paltry is the tol
lowing: "again I incurred the Her
AIDS hostility by my advocacy of
primary elections, instead of conven-
tons, to nominate candidates" We
never before heard of his advocat-
ing a primary election law. What
ever especial credit is due for the pri-
mary in Mississippi belong 20 Hon.
Frank Burkett and Senator Ed Noel
How Senator McLaurin has, in fact
incurred the Herald's hostility -
and aversion-was by his nepotism
and trafhcking in judgships; his re-
peated issues of veracity; some with
men who had supported him and
whom he had thrown down; the stor-
les of boodling that, like the trail OF
the serpent was over his whole adj
ministration; and last and worst, the
frequent bestial drunken orgies
pulled off in Vicksburg, in New Or
leans, in Washington, in New York,
in the mansion in the executive office
and on the quarantine lines-that dis
graeed the Governor office while he
sat III it.
Senator McLaurin INDUCES the
boast that he was elected to the Sen
ate in the last election without the
Herald''s support. THAT he was cleo
ted, tits true, is true, It's pity; and
pity It's, It's true" But thank God
he was never elected with Our sup
port He speaks of '.the Herald and
its like A word of him and his
elk From Belshazzar down to
McLaurin, such guzzlers and graf
tiers as defile the chronicles of their
times, have been blind to the day Of
reckoning until there appeared the
handwriting on the wall In time
when mems minds were in a tur-
MOL Of passion and prejudice, Nc
Laurin was thrown up like rotten
drift on the surface of the political
current. RealiC>.g that he is rapid
ly sinking into his normal state of
noxious desuetude, he has sought re-
through the election for
Governor of Jeff Truly; a worthy
pupil He has been forced to see
that his man is fiat failure as a can
didate, To brace him up is the sole
purpose of his wanton and SANDER
Gus attack upon the Herald. But he
will fool no one. His course is run. |
His personality suggests nothing but
bad odors He could not carry /
single congressional district in the |
State He boasts that he was REL
elected in 1908 without opposition |
He fails to say that, though at the /
head of the ticket. he ran behind it |
near $4,000 votes, and thousands of /
votes behind four other candidates |
who ran without opposition. Hei
failed to say that after. and not be-
fore, he had secured his own cleo
ion in the first primary. he sneaked /
n an attack on Vardaman, that was !
oaraded over the State by his claq-
1ers as the finish of the ''long haired
nan" Then the result should have
opened his eyes that he was back
number Vardaman carried the State
oy nearly 1000 majority. He only /
ost Rankin. McLarNin's home coun-
y by sixty votes: which in the first
primary, before the professional de-
ender of the plain people" spoke
Y 800 votes. McLaurin's last tilt
legislature when he rallied all the
Ian to save the Sandy Bayou prison
BOARD of control, resulted in his ig
lomin,ous defeat. And SO it will be
his year, it'll this last song Of the
lying swan, for Truly
Senator McLaurin says that he will
lotice the Herald no more That IS
xactly as he chooses. He began the
ght by malicious ard wholly mem
acious attack on the Herald And
.otico IS hereby served on HIM that
ee claim the privilege Of the closing
word; which is not yet.-Vicksbufg
Herald