The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-03-23

Interest in Mississippi's Senatorial
race was revived last week with the
announcement from Washington, D.
c., and Yazoo City, that the Hon.
J. Sharp Williams would Immediately
on his return to his home after the
adjournment of Congress. go
on the stump in the interests of his
candidacy. This announcement was
heralded with great delight by the sup
porters Of the Hon. J. Sharp Will
liams. and they just knew that he
would burn up the woods as soon
as he opened up, and would not leave
any tall timbers anywhere in the state
| for our illustrious governor and op-
ponent of ]. Sharp to hide himself.
The friends and supporters of the
governor, however, were not afraid
of the result, and watched the open
ing proceedings with keen interest
and satisfaction. The result was that
| J. Sharp failed to burn up the woods
and the prairies, he has burned the
bridges behind him, but left the
woods and tall timbers for his own
refuge when the race is ended
We are not minimizing the great
work of J. Sharp. He has done some
good work for the grand old state
of Mississippi, in times past, and he
has let many other opportunities slip
by him. These opportunities have
been given out to the people, and in
this race the people want to know,
and they are going to know just what
to expect from the senator they send
to Washington Here is just the diff
ference between the two candidates;
our governor is not afraid to come
out and say what he thinks and be-
leves to be best, and says what he
will do, while ]. Sharp says, that if
so and so is SO, with the accent on
the if) why, so and SO could be
done He is at loss to satisfactorily
explain his position in regard to his
attitude toward to VIM J. Bryan at
the ST. Louis convention, and left his
supporters worried about his chances
of winning the race.
We give below some comments
on his speeches:
Hon. John Sharp Williams the mi-
nority leader and a candidate for the
United States senate to succeed Sem
ator Money, addressed the voters OF
Alfalfa county at the courthouse IN
this place last Monday. He spoke
on the same lines as outlined in his
interviews and public utterances Of
course, Mr.. Williams has a strong
following in Alfalfa, but since his
speech here the supporters of Gov.
Vardaman are much more hopeful
than ever of carrying the county for
the governor for United States Sem
ator. Many of Mr. Williams warm
friends and admirers believe that he
is now occupying the proper place.
where he can serve his State and ma
ton as bene6cially and honorably
to himself as in the position he is
now seeking There is little or no de-
sire to retire Mr. Williams from pub
lie life. but in elevating Mr. Varda-
man to the position of United States
senator Mississippi will have the
best of the talent and services of both
OF these great men. We feel that
there is no doubt about the result
in Alfalfa county Mr.. Vardaman car
ried il for the Governor three years
handsome majority. and he IS unques-
tionab1y stronger than when he car
.-Kosciusco Ledger.
John Sharp Williams has been in
| town, but like lots of great men looks
bigger in the newspapers than at
close range. Now if our hearts de-
ceive us not. we want to be entirely
/ fair and just with the distinguished
Mississippian, who we regard as
being one of the most representative
men Of the world today. He is not
by any means an ordinary man, he
is one of the ablest His speech was
not a puny affair, but from many
i viewpoints an able address. But, all
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