The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-04-11

As an evidence of the god heart
carried in the bosom of the Hon. Charles
Scott, the distinguished gentleman from
Bolivar county, aspiring for the office
of Governor of Mississippi, we publish
the following letter:
Malvina, Bolivar County, Miss.
March IA, 1907
To The Commercial Appeal.
Won't you please print this letters ]
like a square fight and think most folks
do. and | hear lot of things in this
race fer governor that are not square
fighting, but just plain mud singing.
A friend showed me letter from out in
the state reading that the Hon. Chas.
Scott's political enemies were saying
'sthat he was rich mans man ami
against the poor people, and that wnea
poor white man and negro called at
his office he saw the darky first and made
the white man wait
Now, that's what call mud singing
of the very meanest Kind, and besides
it is not true. [ know I am small
farmer. For years made and gathered
my own crop. This year I was lucky
and Western man who bought place
here got me t. manage FOR him; but
before that all the tlma l cropped for
myself.
Ntw, :. have krcwn Mr.. Scott for a
long time. When | list knew him he
was as poor as I am, ad he is just the
same now as he was tten. and is always
kinl AMI polite and lice to everybody,
and is everybody IS friend. He is my best
friend. may say he has been a brother
to me all these years, and in spite of
the fact that he has made money he is
lust the same as he was when he was a
poor man. Money makes no difference
to Charley Scott, as everybody calls him,
because everybody loves him. When /
.lsed to go t, 2osedale I sometimes went
up to Rcsadale with him and his family,
aul i: is the same tsiss now, md oe
never fails to invite me when 1 am In
his Office at dinner time. This talk
about Mr.. Scott being against the poor
man is all nonsense. He is kind to all
men, white and black. I know, and l
want to tell my brother farmers III
Mississippi how I know and some of
the things Charley Scott did for me,
and he has done lots of things just like
it for others, too.
When the Bank of Rosedale failed
they had mortgage on my place for
what it was worth, but I thought maybe
I could work it out with a few years
good crops. asked Mr.. Scott to get
the Memphis or New York bank that
held the note to give me time, and
though, as everybody knows, he and his
wife mortgaged their property to get
the money to pay the banks depositors,
though they were not responsible for
same, he did so, and the bank gave me
time, and after two or three years Mr..
Scott paid the Memphis or New York
bank my note, and he then held it up
for me. After a while I found I could
not pay, and went and told him to sell
the place. I owed more than it was
worth, and if sold out under the mort
gage it would not have brought half the
debt. Now, what did Charley Scott do?
He gave me more than the place was
worth and gave me to boot little cash,
saying he hated to see me dead broke.
Then he offered to sell me the place
back for a whole lot less than he gave
me for it, and even now, when land
here in the delta is high, and after all
these years, he is trying to sell it for
less than he gave me. Now, does that
look like man who is against the poor
white man7 But that is not all. /
rented land from another man for d
few years, and then went to Mr.. Scott
and asked him to rent me rich little
place of his near his Malvina place.
He did so, and at some trouble to fix
it, too; and for four years, until this
year, have been his tenant. The first
year with him I made good money; the
last three years our crops have been
bad. There was too much rain and
have been sick, and had hard time
to support my family; and during all
this Mr.. Scott has been my best friend.
He furnished me from his store and sent
us his own doctor whenever we needed
one, and let me pay when could, and
never a word or dun. Because of sick
ness and bad crops, could not pay him
in full, and he told the bookkeeper to
square the account and mark it pail,
saying I had been in hard luck. Now,
how is that for man that is against
the poor mana Now, do you think that $
alla Well, it's not. Mr.. Scott always
wanted me to save money enough to buy
us home, but some way / seem to have
hard luck, and couldn't. Now, just think
how surprised and glad my wife and I
were when on Christmas Day, 1905, we
got deed from Mr.. and Mrs. Scott,
giving us forty acres of fine timber
land right next to the land we were
then renting from them. The land and
timber is worth over $500, and Mr..
Scott fixed the deed SO we can It sell or
mortgage it, but when we die it gocs
to our children. Now, this gives an idea