Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-06-09

Gus, but submitted to the action of the
party to which we belonged. l recon-
mend our course to you, if you will
pardon the ~immodesty.
The Cause.
The caucus in which you were de-
feated never rotted or became Infamous
until you were defeated. If o had
been elected the people would never have
known of its infamy or rottenness.
mo, major, the only thing wrong
about that caucus was that it did not
was an investigation. Some of your
most ardent friends were on the in
vestigating committee, and after a thor
ough investigation, one of your warm
est friends offered a resolution in the
Legislature declaring that there was no
stain On Senator Percy's title to his
seat as Senator, and giving both him
and the caucus q clean bill of health,
and when that resolution came up for
passage there was not a voice raised
nor a vote cast against it. Does it not
come in bad taste to be raising this big
howl about it now? There is much
complaint about the common cause made
by the other candidates against you.
That grew out of the fact that they all
thought as l do, that your election would
be a calamity, and therefore they were
willing to make common cause and per-
sonal sacrifices to avert it.
Merger Bill.
LET me correct another false i'm
preston you are trying to make, and
that is that the Mobile & Ohio railroad
is trying to defeat you because of your
veto of what you call the Merger Bill
[ am pretty familiar with the manage
ment of that road and nave never seen
any evidence of it's taking any part in
this senatorial contest. When you first
commenced to max these charges the
lamented Ed Russell was at it's head,
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unanimous man than Ed Russell has lived
in this state in my time. | enjoyed
his warm and confidential friendship for
forty years, and 1 will be borne out in
my estimate by thousands of as good
men as are in the state. I never heard
him mention the senatorial election but
once, and that was long after Senator
Percy's election; and to bring to your
remembrance some facts which disprove
to show that Col. Russell did not fall out
with you about that veto, don't you re-
member that after that, when you were
Governor, and were going to the St.
Louis exposition on Mississippi Day, &C
cOmpanied by your staff of colonies and
your family, that he rendered you his
private car to 60 in, and that you re-
piled to him, thanking him for his cour-
tesy, and telling him you had accepted
Il Pullman car rendered you by the Hi
nOis Central railroad? Let me call to
your mind another fact which should
be absolutely convincing. You will re-
call that before that veto you wrote me
at least two letters urging me to come
to Jackson and advise you what to do
about that bill, and l replied that I was
not we'll enough to go to jackson, but
advised you to veto the bill; that while
there was not much in it, it would be
good politics to veto it, as it might be an
issue in the next campaign in this state;
| might have something to say about it
myself, and l did not want you to get
in range of my guns. You will also re-
call that on receipt of this letter, or
soon thereafter, you vetoed the bill
that Col. Russell knew of my writing
the letter, and always believed | caused
the veto. He never fell out with me
about it, and l am sure he did not with
YOU.
M. & o. Not in Politics.
Il sometimes represent the Mobile &
Ohio railroad as an attorney, and it
has been charged that my opposition to
you grows out of your veto of that bill.
You know very we'll that | am not
against YOU for taking my advice about
that matter. I am on good terms with
the present management of the Mobile &
Ohio railroad, and 1 nave never heard
from the head of that management a
single suggestion or intimation about
this senatorial contest, but l have been
told that Mr.. Taylor, refused to give up
some documents or information that