The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1907-02-28
MIR. SCOTT MAKES
FINE IMPRESSION
BOLIVAR COUNTY'S CANDIDATE
FOR GUBERNATORIAL HON
ORS SPOKE AT COURT
HOUSE ON FRIDAY.
The Speaker Was Greeted by a Large
and Intelligent Audience, and
Many Ladies were Present;
Made Fine Impression.

concourse of people who braved the
elements in order that they might
be permitted to hear the address of
Hon. Charles Scott, Bolivar county's s
distinguished candidate for guberna-
torial honors, was a decided compli-
ment to that gentleman. and proves
cOnclusively that he has a large num-
Der of admiring friends and loyal
supporters in this county. Mr. Scott
was introduced to the audience by
Judge J. A. Orr, who paid glowing
tribute to his career as a Confederate
soldier, business man and a private
citizen, who had devoted the best
years of his life TO work in the inter
ests of his native State, and especially
in the interests of the great Ievee dis
trict, of which he is a resident He
also called attention to the fact that
Mr.. Scott had pledged himself not TO
become a candidate for the United
States senate, and said that this in
itself should be enough to secure the
support of every voter of intelligence
and discrimination, as he would not
be tempted TO jeopardize the interests
of the people in order to further his
political aspirations.
Mr.. Scott is a plain, straightfor-
ward business man, and he delivered
a practical, cogent, business-Iike talk
which was a calm and dispassionate
review of the political situation in
Mississippi and which was entirely
free from invective and innuendo.
He began by paying a glowing trib
ute to Columbus and her people. He
said that his first visit to this city
was as member of Gen. Hood bri- |
gade in the dark days OF the civil
war, and that he remembered with I
gratitude and affection the many |
kindly acts of the men and women I
of the city toward the soldiers who !
wore the gray. Mr.. Scott declared |
that the city had lost none of its /
charm nor the people none of their |
hospitality during these intervening |
years. He said that when he came I
here as candidate for political pref
erment he met with that same cor
dial welcome which was extended to
him as Confederate soldier. and
on every hand that gracious hospi-
tality which has made the South ia
nous was apparent
Coming down to the meat of his
address, Mr.. Scott took up one by
one the most important issues of the
impending campaign. The first ques-
tion to be touched on was that of
immigration. He said that his views
on this important question had been
grossly misrepresented, some having
misrepresented him through igno
rance and others through political b
motives. He said that he had never
favored bringing to Mississippi igno-
rant and impecunious foreigners, the
fotsam and jetsam of the great cit
les, who never made desirable citi
zens; but that he did favor the inn
portation of healthy, industrious
young men and women from the ru-
raj districts of Italy, who, having
been brought up in the country, are
to work in the fields and
will make good farm hands. He said,
however, that as immigration was
regulated by the Federal government
he as chief executive of Mississippi
would not be called upon to deal Of
ficially with the matter.
Whenever immigration or anything
the labor question is men,
toned, the people of the South nat
urally think of the negro, and Mr..
Scott very frankly stated that in his ]
opinion the negro as a laborer was
not now a success, and that the men
were becoming drunkards and cocaine
fiends, while the women bedecked I
in tawdry f1nery and led
lives of idleness and shame both in
the towns and in the rural districts.
He said that he believed If to be a
to educate the negro at all.
but that If he must he educated it
should be along industrial lines. Mr..
Scott said that in his oninion the best
negroes in historv were those old
time darRies Of the aate-bellum pc
riod, who did not know one letter !,
from another.
The speaker said thu he believed
in liberal annropfsa ions for the
schools, not onlv FOR TIE more impor- I
tant colleges and universities, but for !