Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-08-19
RINGS BELL EVERY SHOT.
Senator Percy Makes Telling Speech Before Large Audi
ence at Court House Monday Morning

thall, for 20 years, had been genera
counsel for large trunk line. If a sen
ator is honest ne will honestly repre-
sent you in Washington, If not it mat
| ters little whether he he corporation
counsel or not.
| He wished that the tales of his wealth
were really true. Like most Mississ-
| ippi lawyers he thought he knew how to
| farm, and had bought land to spend
money on. At present it was beseiged
by an army of the boil weeviI camped
around it, with whicn he would be glad
to effect a compromise
His connection with the whiskey trust,
| if there was any such trust, was that
he refused So, 500 fee to represent the
liquor interest before the legislature,
and was then asked to name a fee.
This offer, too, was refused because, in
his opinion, it was inimicaT to the best
interest of the State When state
wide prohibition was enacted he ad-
dressed the prohibition law enforcement
league of Washington county, and rep
resented it in its fight for enforcement
of the law refusing a fee for so doing,
He had seen in The Issue that he had
bolted the Democratic ticket, voting
for Palmer and Buckner, or for McKin-
ley This was untrue as many other
statements in that paper concerning
! him.
NATIONAL QUESTIONS,
National party questions upon which
/ all democrats agree were not necessary
to be now discussed, but many practi-
cal questions came before the senate to
be dealt with by it as a business body.
Among them was the question of deal
ing in cotton futures. The bill was to
come up next session. The system on
the New York cotton exchange whereby
the market value of cotton was de-
pressed by Over-selling and the delivery
of dog -tail' or worthless cotton was
explained and the operations of the
Bull Clique" of 1910, which maintained
the price of cotton, and its prosecution
by the national government were ex-
planned and his position and speech in
the senate on the question reviewed.
secure them for Mississippi were touch
ed on. There were II routes in Miss
issippi approved but noe installed With
the others of the Mississippi Congress
sional delegation he had protested to the
Postmaster General and had la tely re
ceived letter saying action would be
taken in the matter soon. He had
spoken in the senate on this question,
ridiculing republican economy which
increased the army, navy and pension
sion appropriate by millions and mil
lions, but could not spare one million
for rural mail routes. The rural mail
routes were great convenience to peo-
pie in the county, and the people in the
county were the producers of the ma
tiOn and deserved every action for their
assistance and amelioration
The great work Of the Agricultural
Department, especially in the matter of
| the government cotton reHorts, was
commended and his attitude toward it
emphasized. Twelve million a year
was appropriated to that department
against one hundred and thirty seven
million for the navy. He favored vastly
greater appropriations for the uplift of
the farmers.
These questions, said Senator Percy,
were practical business questions They
demand no great amount of declama-
tiOn and elocution, but good sense, ar
gument and appeals to the sense of
right that all people have-even repub-
lican senators and congressman. That
he had so dealt with them with what he
modestly submitted was a fair degree
of success. But in reading The Issue,
the thought struck him that maybe he
had not been aggressive enough. That
he had relied too much on argument
and appeals to mems Eense of right.
These statements in The Issue, in his
opinion, were Mr.. Vardaman's state
ments just as much as if he han made
on the stump, and he percy in all fair
ness could so treat them He read
from The Issue of recent date where
Nardaman spoke of Southern congress
men playing the role of beggars in
Washington and Crawling on craven
bellies" before the republican powers.
"How long" said Senator Percy, have
Mississippi congressman and senators
assumed the attitude of beggars in the
Halls of Congress and crawled on crav-
en- bellies before the republicans so that
Mr.. Vardaman is tired of it. -
VARDAMAN IN WASHINGTON.
He drew a picture of Mr. Vardaman
in the Halls OF Congress calling out in
stentorian tones to the southern S, ma
tors and congressman Quit your beg
ging and get off your craven bellies and