The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-06-13
WOULD BE FRIEND To
The entire DISTRICT
Believes In Agricultural And Industrial
Development, The Improvement OF
Waterways and Establishment of
Rural Mail Routes.


Congress from the Sixth District, ad-
dressed the voters of Forrest county
at the court house this morning, and
from the comment following the
speaking Mr.. Lewis has set the people
of this county to thinking. The speak
er was given close attention and at
periods in his address was warmly
applauded. Mr.. Lewis began his ad-
dress with the apology that his life
work had not called for oratorical
ability and that he was not public
speaker, but the impression prevailed
before the address was completed
that it wouldn't take much more abil-
ity to make pretty good orator
He said he was a plain man and
farmer, and that he did not believe it
essential to have an orator as con-
gressional representative. Tom Catch
! ings, one of the most effective con-
gressmen the state had ever had was
not a speaker. Congressman Bowers
rarely makes a speech, yet has Sc
cured more for his district than any
man who ever represented this peo-
pie. The appropriations are made up
in the committee rooms and the man
who is prepared with his facts and
figures, and who by training knows
how to do things, is the man who best
serves his district
The people of this district don't
need a political lawyer, man con-
stantly stirring up strife. They want
man who will tap the public till for
the best interests of his district. Who
will secure appropriations for the riv-
ers and the harbors, for good roads,
for soil surveys and agricultural eX-
pertinent stations. And l am not max
ing an attack on the lawyer who goes
along practicing his profession in a
legitimate way, but on the political
lawyer who thinks all the offices are
made for the lawyers and is constantly
on a chase after one.
Mr.. Tally and Mr.. Harrison have
been going through the district, said
the speaker, making the charge by in
ference at least, that | was brought
out by the Gulf & Ship Island rail
road, because forsoothe Jim Nevils, a
lifelong friend of myself and of my
family has chosen to support me In
this race at Poplarville. l branded
any charge that anyone may make
that I was brought out by the G. & S.
I. R. R. as lie and brand it here as
lie. I make this statement in the
incipiency of my campaign that may
not be misunderstood, and the man
who hereafter charges that was
brought out by any corporation of the
Gulf & Ship Island railroad stands
branded as liar.
Mr.. Tally and Mr.. Harrison had a
purpose in creating this impression
and encouraging it. They recognized
in me the representative of the farm
ing and business interests of the dis
trict, and they were trying to divert
attention by the cry Corporations"
Again they cry Corporations" be-
cause Lewis Dantzler, the friend of
my manhood days, school-mate and
personal and political friend of long
standing, and whose father was recog-
nized as the greatest philanthropist
and the most charitable man and
christian gentleman in Mississippi,
whose liberality has been felt by most
every church and school house. And
yet wherever have sought the sup
port. of a member of corporation,
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