Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-23
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Or. J. D. DONALD: For State Senator.

recently entered the race for STATE
Senator from this district, AS is oul
custom we give with each announce
ment comment or the equivalen
IN space free. AS we have no &C
quaintance with Donald cant max,
the comment ourselves. What infor
nation we have is purely derived
From DR.. Sam Pool. who is dis
tant kinsman Of Donald's we learr
that Donald's parents emigratcd t.
this state from South Carolina along
with the mother of (Pool's) parents
! That he and d. were schoolboys to
gether and claim the same Alma Ma
ter. Mobile Medical College. Donald
has been spoken of more or less fol-
the last past several years in connec
ton with several offices in the state
portfolio. We now proceed to repro
duce some clippings from papers
published in his present and former
home counties. The Jones County
News says: '''''' %
Yielding to he demands of
friends from all parts of this, the
Second Senatorial District, DR.. ]. d.
Donald of Hattiesburg, today an
nounces his candidacy for State Sen
ator. The district is composed of
the counties of Forrest, Jones, Perry
George, Wayne and Greene, and is
the most important senatorial dis
trict in the state, both from the
standpoint of population and large
business interests.
1t was not without careful and
mature consideration that DR.. Don
aid consented to become candidate.
He has many loyal friends and sup
porters, not only in the district, but
throughout the state, and he has
heretofore been solicited to become a
candidate Tor Congressman, Govern
or and Lieutenant Governor but in
each instance the large territory to
be covered in the canvass and the
large expense entailed has had a
deterrent effect. For personal rea
sons also, DR.. Donald hestated to
enter the race tor State Senator. but
feeling that he owed duty to his
friends and to his future aspirations.
the announcement in todays News
was the consequence.
DR.. Donald is a strong polltica!
factor in the district. He is broad
minded and highly iutelligent,a clean
man personally, and has spotless
political record back OF him. He has
positive convictions, stands up for
them unhesitatingly and dares to do
what he considers right under all
circumstances and conditions. He
served Que term on the State Board
of Health, aud two terms as May or
of Hattiesburg. fIe is just in the
prime of usefuliues, is South Mis-
sissippian by birth, and by inclina-
ton, and has the best interests of
this section first. and then of the
entire state, closely at heart. He is
an easy speaker, a pariamentarian
of no small ability and would be able
to exert great influence in the law
making body OF the commonwealth.
In discussing DR.. Donald's candi-
dacy, the Hattiesburg News says:
'Dr. Donald stated that if elected, he
would not enter the Senate in hap
hazard manner without plan or plat
form, but that he stood for some
thing ald wanted the people to know
just what bis platform was.
First, he said he favored Il iuven-
lie reformatory and would give intel
ligent effort toward securing it. That
he secured the introduction of bii,
to that effect four years ago, and a.
gain at the last session. aud was go
ing to keep after 1t whether elected
or not. That he believed the pre-
vention of crime better than the
cure. That the boys and girls OF the
state who from environment ard
neglect were led astray should be
cared for, and taught in broad
minded way the paths of right. That
they should not be made the COM
panions OF thieves aud moral per-
yerts in the jais and peuitec tlaries,
nor should they be allowed to run
wild, q menace to other girls and
boys. but the state should handle
the situation in liberal way.
Second, he favored constitutions
al convention to right the wrongs of
South Mississippi. That taxation
without representation is an injus-
tice that does violence to any free
born American citizen, and that
South Mississippi from a standpoint
of population, from standpoint OF
wealth and from standpoint OF tax
paying, is allowed only half the rep
resentat,on to which it is entitled.
Third he favored an appropriation
from the state to the State Normal
School equal to that already made by
the city of Hattiesburg and the coun-
ty of Forrest, and would give his
best efforts towards securing it.
That the State Normal is and should