The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-12-31
the sHpAIoeiAl suCCfss,oN

Tx S6NAJO&M SUCCfSSlM.
The Legislature which is to con.
vene next week in our beautiful
capital city has no easy task before
it. Besides the thousands Of impor-
tant measures that will be brought
before it for final adjudication, the
most important act of this session
will no doubt be the election Of q
United States Senator to represent
Mississippi and to succeed the Ia
mented McLaurin.
It is being hoped that the present
legislature will deal q deathblow to
the professional politician. There
are psychological moments in the his.
tory of commonwealth when the
people get away from the beaten
paths and confer their highest poll
teal honors on men peculiarly fitted
to hold Office. On the arrival of
these moments the professional poll
tician becomes a dead number. We
hope that our Legislature has arrived
at such a moment and that the next
three or five weeks will tell this. We
hope that they will lay aside all pre-
JUDGE and passion allow their votes
to be gagged by the man possessing
senatorial qualifications.
They should at once begin the
study of what are senatorial quail
fcations so that at the time of selec-
ton, they may elect the man that is
most properly fitted for the place.
Rampant rawlings, vitrolic denunica-
tons and rhetorical Trades have no
effect in the Senate. The militant
leaders, insurgents, radicals, and the
extremists find a poor area in the
senatorial chamber. Their every
attempt to revolutionize this great
est of deliberative bodies result in
dismal failures. A man to repre-
sent our state that would becoming
the laughing stock, be burlesqued,
ridiculed and derided until he is
truly a pitiable subject, is not the
man that Mississippians wishes to
represent them. Mississippi does
not crave the novelty of their rep
resentatives stirring up sensations
and fussing at the Capital City. An
esteemed contemporary says that
good, common, horse-sense, capacity
for work, business judgment, calm.
ness of thought, and ability of ana
lysis on problems of worldwide i'm
portance are the essential qualifca.
tons for a United States Senator.
The wearer of a toga, with nothing
to recommend him save fiery oratory
and fervid rhetoric, does nothing
but mildew in Washington
MI. Law-maker, there will be nc
lack of aspirants for the une1pired
term of the late United States Senator,
The field of eligibles presents a
well-nigh limitless wealth of mater.
ial. There was never a time in he1
history when Mississippi was unable
to offer men for membership in the
greatest deliberative body in the
world who could measure up to the
requirements of the Office. Her for.
mer senators have been without
peers in the senate. They have
gained distinction for the magnolia
state. They have added prestige to
the state where oratory is in flower,
You, Mr.. Legislature, are now de.
pended upon to maintain this exalt-
ed standard. The ablest statesman
in the commonwealth should be
elected by you to fill this vacant SEN
atorship. Our state wants a senator
that can be placed in a class with
Davis, George, Lamar and Walthall
Your sober, sensible, and thinking
thinking constituency will not toler'
ate a demagogue or a mountebank
If the whirligig of politics shoule
decree the election of such a man
his tenure will not extend beyone
the unexpired term. Mississippi
will not have q sensationalist no
extremist. Their former election
for senator expressed disapproval o
this political type. They will no
be deceived by rampant rediculism
nor led astray by an alluring blu
cratic personality.
1t is up to the Legislature to pu
aside questions of personal perfer
ence, to use the judgment wit
| which they have been endowed an,