Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-07-20
The Political Round.


sent on the grounds. Mr. J. Q. Poin-
dexter vas master Of ceremonies aud
made very able and graceful presia-
ing officer, introducing each speaker in
an appropriate and happy way
The Senato.-s,
The first speech was made by Mr..
Hardin II. Brooks. Jr,, candidate for
State Senator. The speaker paid fine
tribute to NoXubee county and its peo-
pie and expressed his appreciation of
the value of the honor he aspired TO of
representing them in the Senate of MICS
issippi He referred to his record as
member Of the Legislature from this
county, justified his course in that body
and spoke of how the practice and ex
peritnce there gained would add to his
usefulness in the senate should his peo
pie send him there.
Mr. Brooks took up his printed plat
form, which has been widely circulated
throughout the county, and enlarged
upon the principles an measures briefly
set out in that paper. He was opposed
to any lessening of Noxubee'S represen-
tation in the Legislature or in her
share Of tie school fund, was in favor
Of good roads, an elective judiciary,
state bank spection, reduction Of
the contract rate OF interest and ex
emption from taxation of money loaned
at six per cent. He would urge liberal
appropriations TO education and to Con
tederate veterans,
The speaker thought corporations
should bear a just proportion OF the
burden of government, that fiat rate Of
two cents onlY per mile should be
charged passengers on railroads, and
inveighed against the iniquity of a
greater charge for short haul than a
long one which should be made illegal
and punishable He would fight for a
law requiring coal oil inspection, and
would seek to require insurance compa-
MES TO loan a certain portion of their
funds in this state. In closing the gen
tleman spoke in high terms OF his oppc-
nent, Mr. Price, and referred in a good
natured way to his or his own possible
defeat
Mr. Brooks was in fine voice and
could be heard easily by those lurtherest
from the SPEAKERS stand. This was
quite an advantage as in the open air
m any of the candidates we're heard
only by those of the audience who
stood or were seated near the stand.
MR.. PRICE.
The other candidate for the state
senate, Mr. Walter Price, spoke next
! IIa ba1,,, nc ropoo ,I.r ~, p roF.ra,,ca > n
having lived all his life in Noxubee
county and his whole career being
known to the people. Without boast
ing and without denying his faults and
short comings, he came before his fell
low citizenss as candidate for their
suffrage standing upon the record Of
his life among them. He did not be
lieve in mud singing, but what would
trouble him would be the mud that
stuck-not how much was flung.
Mr., Price then took up his own poll
teal record, made when state senator
some years ago. He said he had a
record as a representative of the people
of Noxubee, and while he could not
and did not claim the credit for all that
the Legislature of which he was a mem
Der accomplished, he did take a hand
in many measures paSsSd or rejected by
that body Reviewing that record he
spoke Of the part he had in the schoo
laws then enacted. He recalled tina
he had led the opposition and was sue
cessiul in def atlng a measure which
had passed the House of Represen: a
tives which would have added great,
to the costs of school books He baC
been in favor of the State printing it
own school books. but while he coulC
not get such law passed he did sue
coed in defeating the law lobbieC
through by the American School Bool
company
In the matter of new legislation Mr.
Price favored, SO far as it could legal,
he done, county aid to bonded cotton
warehouses, and legislative enactment
giving certain negotiable qualities t.
certificates from such warehouses S,
that they might pass current and b,
used rs collateral for loans in the none,
centers, not merely locally as now. H,
was keenly alive to the value of gooC
roads and would support any gooC
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