The Grenada sentinel., 1907-07-20
BREWER SPEAKS| IN JACKSON
is Greeted by Very Large
Audience.
HIS ADDRESS A VERY STIRRING ONE
lays Bare The Fight Waged on Him
and Gave Reasons for 1t. A Hard
Hit For Corporations and
Bucket Shops.

Mr.. Brewer was handsomely intro
troduced by Judge Robert Powell
who said:
Ladies aud Gentlemen-After con-
Sulting with his friends throughout
the State, and q careful poll of every
county, i believe l am safe in saying
that Mr.. Brewer will lead the guber'
material race by 5000 plurality in the
first primary and be triumphantly
elected in the second.
The opposition said in the begin
ming that Earl Brewer had no strength
and that he was not in the race; that
he was not of the two, three-but
they didn t know, for the cloud that
was no larger than mans hand has
spread over the horizon, and the very
heavens have been wrought up
by the coming political storm.
The people of Mississippi want no
man for Governor who bows at the
feet of corporate wealth. They want
no man who wears the collar of any
Clique or clan. They want no man
who is a crank or hidebound in his
ideas They want no man who has
nothing 20 offer for the betterment of
his people. They want a man who is
free to devote every energy of heart
and mind to the promotion of the best
interest Of the people of the Common
wealth. Such a man they believe
they have in Earl Brewer. Begin
ming this canvass as he did without
great wealth or political influence be-
hind him, but with no stain upon his
shield or blot upon his escutcheon, he
sprang into the political arena like
Minerva from the brain of Jupiter,
fully armed and equipped for the con-
flict and the ,donghtieSt champions on
the political battlefield have gone
down before the sheer force of his
splendid personality.
Born into life amidst surroundings
which quickened every energy of
heart and mind in the fierceSt strug
gle for existence, he has learned like
Abb0u Ben Adam, to love his fellow
men, and to enter Sympathctically in
to the feelings Of those who toll for
their daily bread.
From tow7headed, 'bare-fOoted
plowbov to the chief magistrate of
great State, lis a far cry, but indomit-
able will. backed by sterling integrity
has before now and will again accom-
plish this result.
The people want him, the State
needs him, and the voters are going
to elect Earl Brewer governor.
Ladies and gentlemen, have the
honor to present the Hon. Earl Brew
.er, your next governor, who will now
address you.
The following is Hon Earl Brewers
speech delivered Ia Jackson last Mon
day night as reported in the JabksOn
Evening News. He was received
with a great deal of enthusiasm.
"A great many people have the idea
in Mississippi that man cannot be
elected governor who comes out bold
ly ia favcr of the right and condemns
that which is wrong, because it would
array against him the great public
service corporations of the state and
the p ,ltical factions, but 1 believe
that MississippiaaS are as high and
patriotic as they. have ever been in
the history of the state and have
determined to treat Mississippi to one
campaign for governor that should
dodge nU issue and come out idly
for the right all the time. They a.
buse me and say that am wrong,
and undertake to defeat me, but they
have never yet taken issue with me on
the principles enunciated in my plat
form, or in my speeches, but seek all
the while to distract the attention of
the people from the issues laid down
by me to some side issue that doesn't
interest the people of the state.
For instance, one of the Greenwood
newspapers, the Enterprise, and a
young doctor at Olive Branch, in De.
Soto county, are at work with all the
ingenuity they are capable of, and
have been for some time, in irving to
invent some scheme whereby they
might involve me in personal contro-
verSy and thereby attract the atten-
tion of the people from the issues of
the campaign to controversy with
them. The Greenwood newspaper
made a scurrilouS attack upon me
without any effort to ascertain from
me the truthfulness OF its position,
but I haven't got time to pay any at
tention to the whining of those VINO
are bowling at my feet. am too
busy with the discussion of the living
burning issues of the bay that affect
the whole people of my state.
There is being circulated an anon
vmous, scurrilous circular dated Mans
field. Texas, December IL, 1896, and
which purports to be gotten up and
written by one William Miles. This
was prepared in 1899 when | was a
candidate for district attorney in the
third judicial district, and dated back
three years Gas Miles was dead at that
time avd had been dead two or three
vears). It was printed by some con-
Darn. but fails to show by what press
it was printed. It was mailed out