East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1911-08-11
STATEMENT OF WILEY N. NASH
Late Candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor of Mississippi.

specially and to the people of Mis-.
sissippi generally:
In January, 1911, l entered the
canvass for the Office of Lieuten.
ant Governor of Missi sippi, sub
,ject to the action of the democratic
primaries: These primaries hav-
ing decided in favor of another
the people having spoken, in the
battle of the ballots, in obedience
to their will | retire from the race
My thanks are due and hereby ten.
dered to the people of Mississippi,
to all who voted for me, who
worked for my election. | accept
the verdict without murmur or
complaint Although having held
high official position at the bands
OF the people, still | am not Il
stranger to defeat, for mine it has
been a so newhat checkered private
and pnblic life. 1t is great sat
Isfaction to me and | trust to my
friends and supporters to know
that the returns show that | re-
ceived respectable vote in every
county, in every section of the
state. entered the race for Lieu
tenant Governor with no ill will,
with no unkind feeling towards
anyone. Thus it was, thus it is
and thus it will be. In my cam
yass, in my conversations, I spoke
to the people, | talked to the peo-
pie in the interest of the people.
In my canvass | tried to deal, as
best could with the material prog
ress, the prosperity, the happiness,
the greatness, the grandeur and
the possible glory of Mississippi as
a state and her people as a people.
Her educational, her agricultural,
her industrial, her commercial
progress and greatness is, what
most concerns me. My endeavor
was to show, as the cause of edu-
cation advanced the people ad-
vanced, that out among the masses
the cause of education, next to the
cause of religion, should lie near
est and dearest to the hearts of the
people. | told of my effort, when
as a member of the legislature of
1884, | tried to pass a bill putting
the state convicts on public i'm
provements, putting one-half of
the. convicts upon building, con-
structing and maintaining the Mis-
sissippi levees inside the state, and
tie her half to be worked in the
building and construction of a
great highway from some point on
the gulf coast. of Mississippi up
through, the inland counties of the
state north to the Tennessee line,
which would improve our gulf
coast country and the inland coun-
les of the state. l spoke gener-
ally of the improvement of our
public roads and of the policy of
ms ny states of working the con-
viets OH the public roads and it's
great success. | spoke of the
great matter of drainage and how
much this, if properly done would
improve every section and greatly
rebound to the wealth and prosper
ity Of the state, and of our people.
spoke of the Deep Water Harbor
Convention, held some years since,
upon our gulf coast, which had for
it's object the promotion and i'm
provement of Deep Water Harbors
on the gulf coast of Mississippi.
/ spoke Of my being appointed by
Governor Stone as a delegate tc
that convention from the first con.
greSsional district of Mississippi
The people " ere told of the work
OF that convention, and about tn,
memorial sent to congress urging
the Importance of appropriation
by the national government for tht
com nercial Improvement of thu
harbors on the gulf coast of Mis-
sissil pi, as well as the great result.
already secured along that line
Again spoke of the great cana
e.