The Grenada sentinel., 1907-07-20

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district. / discovered the author o
this iniquitous slander and in unmeas
ured terms, in every county in tha
district l denounced him, and ever.
man who had anything to do with it
as a cold -blooded, red-handed assassin
OF human character and liar and ;
thief. Some malicious person is re
! peating this now, as hundreds of cop
les of it are being mailed into my of
flee by citizens Of the state, who say
that they have received them through
the mail and cannot ascertain from
what source they came l hardly
think that an attack upon a man s
character or stab in the back on the
eve of the election in this manner
would be treated seriously by the peo,
pie of the state. / am at loss tC
know why such fight should be made
upon me, for have tried to live as a
good man and honorable citizen. am
glad to see in this audience many citi
zenS of that district who will gladly
testify to the character of adminiStra.
tion that / gave the people as district
attorney. They can find nothing in
my official conduct, nothing in my
privte life, nothing in my platform or
public utteraVceS on the stump,
that they can assail and the fight
which has been made against me in
this campaign has been one of mis-
quotations, where they undertake to
injure me on the misquOtationS and
one that is now being conducted by
anonymous, scurrilous circulars, at
tacking me and undertaking to pois-
On the public mind against me and
no man will dare to put his name to
the circulars.
| had heard it said that one of my
opponents (Mr. SisSon) was charging
upon the stump in the state that the
largest bucketshop in the State was
running in the city of my residence
ClarkSdale, and more recently that
there was bucket Shop running next
door to my office. The reason Of this
is that l have been recognized through
out this campaign and during my en-
tire term as district attorney, as the
uncompromising enemy of the nefari-
Gus bucket shop, and | fail to see how
this wonld benefit my distinguished
but at Carrona, i'll Lee
county, | corrected him upon this sub
ject by informing him that there was
no bucket shop running in the 11th
judicial district of Mississippi, and
had been none for some months past,
with the exception of bucket shop
that was openeda few days ago, SO /
am informed, next door to my office,
and is strongly suspected as being
opened for political purposes only; but
the sheriff of the county interceded
a-d broke the bucket shop up. and
had a letter from him SO stating and
SO informed Mr.. SiSSOn at Corona
last Wednesday. However, since Mr..
SiSSOn has Seen fit to mention this
subject, let me say that the ring lead-i
erS of all the bucket shops in MisSiSs-
ippi are actively and energetically sup
porting him for governor of the state,
and you couldn't pull one of them into
my camp with two yoke of cattle
they KIN ow their friends, and for six
long months l could not make Mr..
SiSson or any of my opponents men,
tion bucket shops, and now since the
great churches cf the land, the Cotton
Growers Association and the Farm
erS' UniOn-theSe great organizations
that stand up for Christian civiliza-
ton for the welfare and glory of the
state-have joined hands with me and
we have given solar-plexus blow to
these Misunderstanding. soul destroy
ng products of greed and avarice that
Ire corrupting the morals Of the rising
and teaching them how to
gamble, and the meaneSt class of
gambling and since we have practical
y rooted them out of Mississippi, so
that they exist now in less than dOZ
IN counties in the state, and we are
going to root them out entirely as
soon as the legislature meets. My op-
9onents see the handwriting On the
wall and are trying tn climb into the
oand wagon on this subject. But the
people of Mississippi will not forget
that came out and laid down plank
n my platform violently opposing
these institutions when they were
strong all over the state and took the
matter up and discussed them and ex-
posed them in all their hideousnesS to
,he public gaze, when none Of my op-
oonents would mention the subject ex
,ept Emmett Thomas.
My fellow citizens, / have not hesi-
lated to make the fight, though l have
1ad the combined corporate and power
,f the state opposing me, and it has
been a campaign of Misrepresentation
Ind misquotatiOn, lodging the issues
Ind trying to raise immaterial issues
LII the way through. came down ON
5he planks of my platform, and Istand
IN this race in favor of the industrial
facilities so as to place within easy
reach of every white child in the state |
IN opportunity to get an education
and more equitable distribution of
the public school funds among the re-
,pectlve counties Of the state, accord
ng to the plan laid down in my plat
form; in favor of taking care OF the
few remaining heroes Of the lost cause
nd THAR yvidowc admira hlv and we'll. |