Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

the highest ORDER. In TACT, 50 great mas
been his SUCCESS III lie, that 1t Is now
sought to be used against him, though
it has come as 4 result OF his own eI-
fact his father having given him an
education and practically nothing else.
lie Is u Sel1-made man. 1t should also
be taken into consideration that by
the time a new man could take his seat
IN the senate Mr.. Percy will have had
three years OF experience and have taken
such rank on the committees as time
ia the public service alone can Nbring.
Are not the proficiency and position OF
vantage thus acquired assets too val
liable to be thrown carelessly awayT
The states which exercise a commanding
influence in congress are those which
keep their representatives there, and the
sooner the south learns this lesson the
better it will be for her.
4. But, finally, Leroy Percy should
long term in the senate because of the
unworthy and unjustitiable attempt to
besmirch Tim In my judgment, moth
ing 50 iniquitious as this can be found
in the annals of Mississippi politics. His
whole life has been lived in the same
town and county, and his honor for
nearly fifty years has been considered
above reproach. No man who knows him
has ever wanted more than his word
about anything. His honesty, cando
and absolute reliability have never been
questioned, even by the remotest insin-
u%ation, until it was thought necessary to
try to stigmatize him to promote the
political fortunes of another. And even
this effort has been cowardly and in
directly made. There has not been the
slightest attempt to show that Mr..
Percy was guilty of any wrong doing or
knew that any was being practiced. The
legislature, after the most searching in
vestigation, said his conduct throughout
the heated political battle at Jackson
was above censure. Even a partisan
grand jury, though anxious to do so,
could not dig up a single shred of evil
dence showing that he had in any way
acted improperly. And yet there are
JIOSc Ill TIE Sldtc, wiz, ny ICA III
situations. are still seeking to besmirch
this high-minded and honorable man and
poison the minds of the people against
him for political purposes. Will the
brave, Just and patriotic people of Mis-
sissippi stand for this? Will they stand
by and see one who was born and
reared among them, the son of a gallant
Confederate soldier, and a man with a
record of stainless honesty for nearly a
half century, thus maligned and de-
famed by men who cannot produce a
thing to Justify their base insinuations?
We are much mistaken in them, if they
will.
Nor is it Mr.. Percy alone who has
been assailed in this discrGditable con-
test. An indictment has been register
ed by these men against the legislature
of the state. The honor and good name
of Mississippi have been impeached,
though there is nothing to warrant it
but the bold assertions of politicians,
who, though challenged to do so, have
not been able to adduce a syllable of
proof except against one of their own
number. How may this outrageous as
sault upon the fair fame of the state
be most effectively repealed? Not by
e~lecting a third man-that would be to
waive the issue-but by endorsing SEN
ator Percy's election by an overwhelm-
ing majority. This alone will administer
to these caIumniators the rebuke which
they deserve, and send them, branded,
into the oblivion into which they ought
to sink-J. B. STREATER, Black Hawk,
Miss, in Jackson News.