The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1911-01-05
ADDRESSES
RANKIN COUNTY
CITIZENS
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i ted an annual retainers fee from
corporations, because the business
Of the railroad attorney was to de-
feat legislation of the people prin-
cipally, and he never accepted or
rode on pass.
The speaker also believed in bet
ter control Of the liquor traffic. He
stated that he wrote the temperance
bill which Was passed by the state
and yet the national government
had issued IS licenses III one OF the
cities Of the state. Also he re-
lerred TO the fact that after the bill
became law express companies
were turned into saloons, and fed
eral judges held that congress alone
had right to regulate inter- state
commerce.
AS to the race problem Mr.. Al
exander said that every state had
its race problems. On the Pacific
coast, in the Philippines, and in the
south. He said there was no doubt
about the superiority of the white
race and the inferiority of the negro
race. He said that the war for the
Mississippians did not end until
1875, and the years between 1865
and 1875 were the most menacing
for the citizens of the state, but the
white race never lost supremacy.
He believed that when dispute
between the white and negro race
could not be settled between them
it should not be left to Vermont or
Massachusetts or Minnesota Jury
to decide, but should be left to
jury Of Mississippians.
What do you want with a United
States senator?n asked Mr.. Alexan-
der. DO YOU just want to honor
a friend or do you want a man to
represent Mississippi man who
at the end Of his service can show
YOU some laws he has passed, man
of success. Mississippi don't want
much but it wants its share. What
we do want is that if million dol
lars is spent we want our just
share. We want more rural routes.
soil tests, parcels post, our har-
bors improved, and better mail SER
vice" ..<siEa9E;R1s.
! The speaker believed that the
state would always be an agricul-
tural state and that 100 bushels Of
corn to the acre would cease to be
"a surprise.
During the entire address he did
not indulge in mud Singing or men
ton names, but he did let go fling
or two at some of his opponents in
the-face, when he asked How do
hou weigh men? By what stand
ard? A man who won't pay his
private debts certainly can't be ex-
pected to pay his duties to the pub
lic.'
He believed that the big watered
trusts should be given no more
clemency for their misdeeds than
the poor clerk who defaults for a
few paltfy dollars, and declared
that he was man before he was
a lawyer and wants to remain SO.
The vote buyer and seller ought
! tosbe AesiFasizeds antlNscpIned by. the
entire community.
Mr.. Alexander said that friend
| asked him some time ago how he
| was getting along, to which he re-
piled: Il ain going to be elected as
sure as there is an election" to
which his friend replied, but you
want to tell the people something
about YOURSELF and therefore he
gave brief sketch of his life. Born
the son Of circuit rider, he worked
his way through college and mas
tered law. He practiced law when
20 years of age, and although he
did not get much law to practice
at that age he was allowed to make
speeches for the Democratic party
and escaped shooting, and there
fore he had the pleasure OF being
in Brandon Monday. He came to
Jackson with his wife 25 years ago
and knew just seven people at that
/ time.
He said he was not making any
promises in this campaign because
so few promises are kept. He told
how he had been asked to run for
The office while in Chicago by some
OF the same papers that now oppose
him, and on these requests had
asked himself the question: why
not run?' He told his son to make
an investigation and if he Thought