Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-28
4 FINAL WORD

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it's view upon the present POLITICAL
contest, the Beacon desires as brief
ly as possible to restate its position
and once more to urge upon the
voters of the State to consider calm
lyand seriously the issues involved.
1t is at the ballot box that every
legaIized voter becomes a sovereign.
1t is there that wrongs may be
righted, oppression Overthrown,
and the voice of the people may
indeed become the voice of God.
The Beacon believes that there has
never been a campaign waged in
the history of Mississippi where
there was a greater need for the
intelligent manhood of the State
to arise and assert itself. 1t has
in large measure been a campaign
of darkness against light; Of pas
sion against reason, and a contest
where a speciOus courage has been
shOrn of all it's seeming and stands
revealed a craVen counterfeit.
1t has been a campaign of clark
ness against Light because Maj.
Nardaman has persiStently refused
to take the people into his conf
dence and prove by the records Of
the banks that he had been faith
full to every sacred trust fund com
mitted to his keeping. He has de
nOunced in bittereSt terms his ac-
cusers, yet has absolutely refused
to permit the blessed sunlight Of
publicity to shine in that the truth
might be known and his own good
name be thoroughly indicated if
innocent. That such a vindicatiOn
would have assured his election
there can be no manner of doubt.
Again, he has. time and again, re
l fused to answer questions asked
him publicly and questions too,
: that dealt wholly with his public
r record. When the people asked
for facts he gave them poetry and
n when they asked to e the records.
n he replied with verbal tributes to
O their sovereignty. And still the
facts have not been given and still
the records are unseen! 1t has
y been a campaign of darkness
! against light because, too, he has
not dealt fairly with the people il
= his charges Of corruption agaius
his opponents and against the leg
islature which elected Mr.. Perez
senator. He denounced the secre
caucus but carefully refrained from
telling the people that he had par
= ticipated i'll such caucuses NOR
than once before. He denOuncet
the use of whisky in the caucus bu
studiOusly avoided disclosing tn
fact that there was an abundanc
of whiskey in his own headQuart
l. ers and that he, himself, gave a
least one wine supper to his friend
If He acclaimed against tn
l. law creating the Office of count,
Y attorney, but failed to inform tn
le sovereign people that while Cover
ir nor he sent a special message t
q the Legislature submitting for tn
consideration Of that body tn
creation of that very office. III
l. has vigorously asserted that all tn
le corporations are arrayed agains
his candidacy, but has never ex
IS planned why one of the leadin
n attorneys of the Illinois Contra
A railway recently made a speec
strongly advocating his election.
n 1t has been a campaign of ''pas
It sion against reason" because ever
effort has been made to array elias
)r against class, the town against tn
Is country, the poor man against tn
III man of wealth, and every appes
at to ignorance and prejudice tina
n human ingenuity could conceive
" from OK wagon parades to the mos
as frenzied appeals to race and elias
% aninOsitieS has been resorted tt
,e Yea mOre. The State legislator
A. has been grossly maligned; the su