The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1909-07-16
GALLOWAY FUND
is LAUNCHED
Memorial Commission Has
Issued Appeal For
Donations.

/ Jackson, Miss. The move
ment TO erect a statue on the
capital grounds in honor of the
late Bishop Chas. B. Galloway
was formally launched today,
when the memorial commission
recently appointed in a procla-
nation of the governor issued
the following address:
TO the People and the Press of
Mississippi.
Pursuant to q resolution
adopted at the forty-fourth an
nual convention of the Mississip-
pi Press Association, Gov. Noel
has appointed the undersigned
as a commission to take charge
of the work of raising funds for
the erection of statue to the
late Charles B. Galloway at the
capital building.
This work is to be a labor Of
love with the Mississippi Press,
and we earnestly appeal to each
and every newspaper in the COM
monwealth to actively join in
the movement by soliciting con-
tributions from their readers,
and to carry on the campaign
with all possible energy until a
sufficient sum is raised.
1T is fitting that this memo
rial to Mississippi's greatest cit
izen Of his day and generation
should be speedily erected, and
the press and the public should
regard it both a duty and an
honored privilege to give active
aid and support to the move
ment.
I'VE therefore appeal to the
members Of the Mississippi press
| to Immediately open their col
umns, in behalf of this cause,
and to earnestly appeal to their
constituents for contributions.
We feel confident that the re-
sponse will be spontaneous, and
by concerted effort in every
county in the commonwealth we
will succeed in raising an amount
sufficient to erect a statue that
will stand as an embodiment of
the love and devotion cherished
by all Mississippians for the
great preacher, orator. philan-
thropist, publicist and statesman,
our most distinguished and most
beloved citizen, who labored SC
zealously during his eventful life
for the moral and material ad-
vancement of his native state,
whose genius transcended the
boundaries of his priestly office
and left his indelible imprint on
a multitude of great and worthy
movements with which his name
was associated.
I'VE accept the commission as
signed US by the Mississippi
Press Association and Gov. Noel.
feeling confident that the people
lof the commonwealth will moi
neglect their opportunity to pay
this small measure of tribute te
the great and gifted leader o1
men, whose every act was in.
spired by a spirit of patriotism
whose great soul was sincere II
every purpose and whose love
fof the people of his native state
! was as broad as the boundaries
of the universe, and whose un
timely death has brought pro
found sorrow into countless
hearts and homes,
i History will accord to Bishol
4 Galloway his proper niche in tn.
hall of fame, and his name will
live forever in the hearts of nj
countrymen. But it is both pro
per and customary that we shoul'
have erected at our beautiful
: capitol building, within a stone
throw Of the home he occupies
for more than twenty years, al
image of this great man that vii
stand for all time to come as {
testimonial of our love and de
lyotion and an inspiration for ris
$ inr generations, that his virtue
$ NAV grow brighter, and his glol
ii ious name be writ larger on tn
| pages of history with the pas
! sage of years.
! "The statue Of Bishop Gallc
: way should be an expression Q
1.-The love and reverence cherishe
a for him by all Of the people 6
ID the state irrespective of cree
\ lor denomination. We desire I
d d|impress upon the members
lasE AA:~.:rasxo,ns ,a,eacc ond Fl