Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-04-28

proper, this choice was ratified and re-
ceived the vote of every member OF both
houses when his name was called, save
one, and was duly elected senator, and
a commission given him as clean as ever
a senator went to Washington with.
Much has been said by the radical ele-
ment in their rage over the defeat OF the
radical candidate about his caucus. There
was nothing wrong about it except that
the right man was chosen, for the Demo
cratic party of Mississippi never sent a
man to the senate of the United States
who had opposition or who had not been
cept after he had been chosen by a Dem
ocratic caucus wherein the manner of
selection was the same as in this one,
that is, in a caucus open to the world,
wherein the manner of voting had al
ways been by ballot.
In just such a caucus, the voting being
by ballot, Albert G. Brown defeated
Jefferson Davis in 1854 by one vote. Mr..
Davis did not whine, and two years
later, in a Democratic caucus wherein the
voting was by ballot, he himself de-
feated Jacob Thompson by three votes.
It was in the same kind of a caucus
wherein Barksdale came in three votes
| of being nominated, that J. Z. George
was entered as a dark horse and de-
feated Singleton after the retiring of
| WalthaH and Barksdale.
1t was in the same kind of a caucus
wherein McLaurin, Marshall Miller, John
Allen, Governor Lowry, Judge Campbell
and Col. Robert H. Taylor were candi-
dates, thai McLaurin was nominated
over Taylor after the withdrawal Of
Miller and Allen and the elimination of
Governor Lowry and Judge Campbell, in
a caucus composed only of the opposition
to McLaurin, wherein Col. Taylor had
been declared the opposition candidate.
1t was in the same kind of a caucus,
the voting being by ballot, that Senator
Money was nominated over Governor
Lowry, John Allen and Col. Hooker.
None of these defeated candidates ever
whined or pleaded the baby act.
Mr.. Percy has been abused, slandered
and vilifed as no Democrat and no
gentleman was ever before in the states
history. Assuming that the radical can
didate was the peoples coice" with
nothing to base their assumption on, ex-
cept the fact that he had been repudi-
ated by the people at the same election
that elected this same Legislature, that
in turn repudiated him, they set up a
howl and the whole bunch of Tray,
Blanche and Sweetheart nave been bark
ing at Mr.. Percy's heels ever since. They
refuse to be comforted, but their enmity
to him may be understood, because they
know who 1t was hat challenged the fall
lacies and ~demagoguery of their defeated
chief. They know "who struck Billy
Patterson ana through their hysteria of
tears, sorrow and anger, (they look to
Senator Percy and say, you killed Cock
Robin"
Be not deceived at their wild claims
of what they will do in the August pri-
mary; o may have heard that noise
before; they may hire bands now to play
Hail to the Chief and 10, the Con-
quering Hero Comes" but the day after
the primary, they will listen to the
music of the dirges and to the measured
step Of the muffed drum; they will bear
their thrice repudiated candidate to the
political scrap heap.
Senator Percy has not chosen to yoke
up with the junior senator from Arkan-
sas in the senate and "raise hell" as it
has been threatened that others would
do, but he has won and established a
reputation there as a polished orator,
as a constitutional lawyer and as a
broad-minded, aggressive statesman,
measuring up to the full height of the
ablest men in that body. He has the
courage of his convictions and has al
ready shown that he is able to maintain
them, though his opponents be the Roots,
the Carriers, the Lodges and the ablest
men in the Republican party. Those
who know him love him and he loves his
friends. One thing they love him for is,
that he never turned his back upon a
friend, and another thing about him is,
that he has never turned his back upon
a foe. Leroy Percy never turns his
back and runs away from anything, not
even a joint discussion; no mistake was