The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-07-05
SENATOR SCOTS PLAIN TALK
Extract From a Speech Delivered
by W. r. Scott, of Webster
County. Candidate for Railroad
Commissioner, at Starkviile on
Nav 9th.

way OEn.
IF am elected Railroad Com
missioner there viii be a rafting Of
. dry bones from one end If this dis
trict 10 the other. The people shall
F have a better service, more courte-
GUS treatment, or we viii have a
law suit at every depot ia my dis
trict.
4 shall stand at ali times for the
interest Of the people promise
to visit the different towns and
counties, and i'm discharge If my
duties I shall not g with brass
band to give notice that ] am COM
ing.
II recognize the fact that the
railroads arc going To fight me to
+. the bitter end, they DO mot support
my kind / was raised in the
. country. worked i'm the cotton field
until / was twenty-three years old,
and If | ann your Commissioner /
Intend to- see that this class of people
get what they are entitled 90 under
/ the law
The freight rates in Mississippi
are an outrage. In the first place,
they are too high I'm the second
place. they are slamefully discrim-
inatory. Towns with a pull are
favored over those that have no pull.
/ / shall stand for lower freight rates
land Il strict equalization If the same.
FL have been dubbed in this
campaign as the '2-ceut Scott.
/ They can caIImea '2-cent anything
I II it viii serve the class Of the people
who need help and protection.
Riding over the State to-day, in the
/ same passenger coaches, sitting i'm
! the same seat, you win find man
paving 3 cents per mile and am
other man paying . cents Does
amy houostmau believe that is right
No, Nobody is fighting the flat 2
cent rate except that class OF people
/ who are receiving favors from the
( railroads and who are being paid to
talk against 1t.
.If I ann the Railroad Commits
-iancr. I propose to- get right in be-
/ bind those arch corporations known
las the American Express Company,
/ the Southern Express Company and
/ the Cumberland Telephone Com
D9Iy. These s0uIless and mercilcs5
/ ro,norations are operating I'm 1Iissis-
siesnDi to-day i'm omen. fragrant VIC
/ Iat-on ofthc law. discriminating be-
/ tween the different towns and over
Iaharpiug and extorti0niug ON all of
( Thor citizens Their practices are
outraoao-s and should not DE tole-
rae.d
VI notice that the railroads are
/ having published in this State the
address Of Mr.. w. W. Finley.
president of the Southern railroad.
/ delivered nj q banquet i'm Memphis.
The object Of this champagne spiel
is To advise the people and the
courts to get ON more friendly terms
with the railroads. Now, let me
advise Mr.. Finley to come down in
/ NTi--iS.iDDi emf out champagne.
I drink prohibition water, speak with
p clear head and loud voice and adj
wise his claim agents to pay the
people for their stock when they are
| killed without forcing them into a
lawsuit and pay merchants for their
goods when they are lost d. stolen
Let him also reduce his outrageous
high freight rates; let him see that
/ his agents at the depots treat the
people with respect. let him see
that they mark up their bulletin
boards. keep fires and water in the
sitting rooms as the law directs, and
promise him that our people viii
feel more friendly toward the rail