Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-12-02
SENATORIAL QUALIFICATIONS.

Inc SelecClOn OI d OillCSu DldIel
Senator for Mississippi at thi,
crisis Of progressive development
involving the most vital interests
Of every part of this great repub
lie, and the crystalization of {
broader and better national spirit
is a matter of such grave impor
tance that it should rise above al
partisan strife-all selfish ambi,
ton. It isa crisis that is fraught
with the veal or woe of our peo-
pie for ages to come crisis that
requires the clearest intelligence
and the broadcast patriotism or
the part of the citizen in the Sc
lection of a leader who must stano
the test in this hour of trial. Such
a leader cannot be a man, who, in
his petty spite for those in his
own State whose only crime is
differing with him in opinion,
ystoops to the lowest levels of the
vilest billinsgate, disgusting his
;own friends with his profanity
and vulgarity. Nor can it be a
man whose hatred for the people
of other sections, expressed in
the bitterest and vilest terms
will render him not only useless
in weaving the gathered threads
of our interests, material, moral
and intellectual, into the weft
and woof of that modern pro-
gress that is now in unison with
the great national spirit, with all
ofits glorious possibilities, but re-
fleet an odium upon our great
Commonwealth, create a mis-
trust in our people, and set us
back quarter of a century.
Mississippi is now advancing as
never before in her history. The
heart-beats of a new and broader
civilization are felt in the dawn
of such an era of prosperity and
enlightenment that it seems more
like the vision of an enthusiastic
dreamer than a realfabricwrought |
by the brain and Drawn Of man.
And greater possibilities are in
our grasp! Our great State is in
the heart of the richest and most
productive river valley on earth.
The virgin bosom of her bound
less resources are being laid bare.
But we can never reap the golden
harvest by laying bare old sores
that times is healing, or the open
ing of old WOUNDS by radical and
reactionary demagogues in the
American Senate. We have had
enough of the tearing down
enough of destruction-and we
nave all to lose and nothing to
gain bv arousing the fires of Sec
;ional hate-the pouring out of
The vitals Of his wrath by our
representative in the greatest de-
lucrative body on earth. This is I
laid with as much reverence for
'ur heroic dead and the holy
memories of our glorious past as
i'll the heart Of man. But we
we to the children of these dead
heroes all that is best in intelli-
renee and patriotic citizenship
md all the more in this crisis, in {
which so much is involved. We
we this in the selection Of a q
United. States Senator who is :
road enough and big enough to Z
tand for the interests of Mississ-
opi in the conservatism of that 2
pirit of constructive statesman ],
hip that seeks to build up and :
ot destroy "a man whose brain
nd heart are in the national idea IS
"a man whose bosom swells with
ride4at every star in our flag. n
God save us in this hour of sor- i
st need, in this hour in which :.
ne intelligence and the patriot d
m of our citizenship must stand S9ee
le crucial test. from that base in
orn littleness which can only !.
,alize it's own prejudice and its ffe
vn selfish ambition-and give Ii
! a great soul, who will refsct II II
edit upon our people, an honor III
pom our State, a man strong ea
lough to be felt in the vanguard ts'
progress-that we may wipe j
IT the fostering sores of old and
ma into orr own in tho oIo,.v