The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-05-05
GRAND DAUGHTER OF PRESI-
DENT JEFFERSON DAVIS AS
SPONSOR OF REUNION.
Afteynood Session Governor Co
mer Scores Wickershom for Cotton
Pool Probe in Opening Address. Sons
Continue Their Session.


Mobile, April 26.-A slender, black
clad, frightened girl stood on a raised
platform today ard while six thousand
conferedate veterans cheered and while the
bands played Dixie" a score or more
gray bearded confederate officers passed in
review before her and with uncovered
heads, kissed her hand The young girl
was Miss Lucy White Hayes, grand daugh-
ter of the only-president of the confed-
eracay.
TIE incident was the climax of the first
days session of the United Confederate
Veterans. The big tent, which is said
to seat comfortably six thousand people,
was packed to its top-most tier of seats.
The sides had been raised and the throngs
outside had pressed in. When the new
daughter of the Confederacy" was be-
ing presented to the convention tile old
veterans went mad The bands were play
ing "Dixie"-three of them were-but the
combined bases could not drown out the
cheers. The veterans surged forward
but the ropes stopped them. Then only one
by one, the stately general officers on the
stage removed in review before the fright
ened trembling girl and each kissed her
hand as he passed.
Miss Hayes eyes filled with tears and
she seemed overcome with emotion as she
passed back to her seat on the arm of
her maid of honor. Miss Ella Mitchell.
Miss Hayes is the sponsor for the southern
confederacy" in the reunion and takes
rank over all other sponsors and maids.
The afternoon session of the reunion
was brief The confederate choir sang
and Judge L. B. Mcfarland Of Memphis,
delivered the Grafton of the day.
Tonight the credentials and resolution
committees are in session and their re-
ports will be made tomorrow.
In his address of welcome at the open
ing of the reunion today Gov. B. B. Co.
mer, of Alabama, in addition to greeting
the old soldiers in cordial way, severely
criticised Attorney General Wickersham for
his prosecution of the men who are alleged
to have operated bull pool in cotton. He
said:
"And now we have the remarkable
spectacle of an attorney general of the
United States instituting legal processes for
the arrest of citizens who are trying to
break the power of speculative cliques
which, through the New York cotton ex-
change, have fattened by using millions
of money to force the price of cotton up and
down,without regard of the effect on the
grower, the consumer, or the manufacturer.
say we have an attorney general of the
United States instituting processes of the
court for the arrest of business men who
are trying to establish regularity in the
price of Gotten founded ON the law of
supply and demand"
The governor asserted that the attorney
general failed to show that it is the pur-
pose to prevent speculative sales of cotton
whenever it suits tire spectators to press
down the price of the staple He charges
that when the spectators are caught short
and are forced to deliver the thousands
of bales they never even saw, they call
on the federal government and in helping
them the attorney general forgcts the in
interests of the toiling masses of the south,
the poorest paid labor in America. He
was astonished at any officer thus attempt
ing to injure the citizens of the south in
the south's greatest product.
eve of the SOUTH" he said, after con-
demning the Aldrich tariff bill, "have
never asked for a tariff which would en-
rich US by levying tax on the publif for
our benefit. We have never treated our