Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-05-11

Mr. Edtor:- Il
| notice that Voter" in calling of
Captain f. B. Boyd to become can
didate for the Legislature, said he
wanted business man to be a member
of the Legislature. Now, | endorse
everything he said about Captain Boyd.
| He is a young man who has won an en-
yiahle reputation as a business man, and
holds the respect and confidence of all
our people, and one that we would de
light to honor with any position that he
should aspire to, and he would worthly
represent Noxubee in any capacity
whatever. But he says we want bus
mess man, Il want to know what is the
matter with me-" 1t is true that my
headquarters are located in Jackson,
but think am entitled to more credit
for making my money over the state
and coming back to Noxubee to spend
lit.
Nat Harrison once asked what one
act of my life entitled me most to the
gratitude of the people of NoXubee
county. Some one asked his service
as a soldier He said mo. " His ser
vice as Ku Klux? He said mo. "
| As democrat? He said mo" Then
/ Nat said For leaving Noxubee county
and selling my hedge fence to the Ala
/ bamians.
Now, want it understood that | am
| the senior member of one of the largest
/ insurance companies in our state. We
have renewal collection of some two
/ hundred thousand dollars. Collected
forty-eight thousand dollars in first
years premiums last year, and have
about thirty agents, some of whom are
receiving as high as one hundred and
fifty dollars per month salary. 1t takes
my brother, bookkeeper and typewriter
all their time to attend to the office du
ties. Spend from fifty to seventy dol
lars in stamps each month, and have
collected fifteen thousand in cash this
year on my changed policies. Written
siXty-hve thouand dollars in paid TO"
business. Have ridden out two two
thousand dollar mileage books, and then
had time to take my wife and attend
the Gates meeting in Columbus, and
spend ten days at sancttied meeting
in Meridian. If this doesn't constitute
business man, what does it take to
make a business man in the eyes Of the
"voter" If. / hadn't succeeded in my
own business, | would not have had
the temerity to offer to attend to the
business of the people of my county.
1t is also being reported that have
removed from this county, and am now
living in jackson. All of the older cit
liens will know what | promised Sam
Jones that Macon should be my postof-
flee until it was changed to Heaven,
and still think that will eventually
have that place for my postollice, al
though Uncle jim Kncannon said he
was afraid that when | got my mail
changed to Heaven; that | would have
to leave forwarding directions if |
didn't, my mail would be advertised as
Not called for"
Now; as to my citizenship gener-
ally owe from Stewards restaurant on
the west side of the street, to Shan
mans stable, and from the court house,
on the east side of the street, to Joe
Sheltons and am nearly always over
drawn at both banks. can prove by
Rogers and Holbergl buy more beef and
bread than any other man in the county.
If this doesn't constitute citizenship,
would like to have some one to tell me
how to prove it for am determined
to be a citizen of old Noxubee as long
as live, and expect to go the Legis-
Iature as long as the people will send
me. | never had a job that suited bet
ter, and it is the only job ever had
that attended to strictly.
Now, it is true we have our bust
ness so we'll established that | can
make as much money as | want to
spend and give away in four months in
the year, and as money has never been
my God, take delight in spending
the other eight months with my chill
dren and among the friends that | love
so well. SO don't regard me as a
fossil or "has-been," for if | didn't
feel fully competent to discharge of the
office to which aspire, to the satisfac-
ton of all the people of Noxubee coun-
ty, | wouldn't offer for this place, and
| want no man to vote for me who
doesn't feel that can fill the position
and reflect honor upon myself and my
constituency. Yours.