The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-06-15
DIR. q. F. WARD SHAKES HIS FIST
IN "PRivATE" JOHN ALIENS
FAcE-cAUsTic WORDS.
JUDGE BLOUNT OFfENDS Mr.. HILL
The Sentiment Of the Crowd Was
Divided and There Was an Uproar
All the TIme-Scenes Seldom
Equalled and Never Exceiied.

Winona, Miss, June 15.--The de-
bates between John M. Allen, OF Tupe-
10 and Judge !. T. B,ount, of Water
Valley, representing Senator Leroy
Percy and former Governor Jas. X.
Varadaman, respectively. candidates
for the United States Senate, subject
to the Democratic primary to be held
Aug. l, terminated in a performance
here today seldom rivaled and never
excelled, series of interruptions and
sensations probably not equalled in
display of passion and thoughtlessness
In the political annals of the state.
Those who predicted that some
thing would happen when the -debat-
ers struck DR.. B. F. Wards town have
reason to congratulate themselves on
their foresight, for John Allen had not
spoken ten minutes when DIR. Ward
was shaking his fist In Aliens face
and the entire aggregation was wild
and scrambling over each other in or
der to get little nearer the princi-
pals, than the other fellow.
Blount likewise had not proceeded
far when he gave unintentional Of
Tense to w. S. Hill. who presided, and
for thirty minutes the crowd surged
some more.
The speaking was held today, be-
ginning at l o'clock, under a cotton
shed made famous by Sam Jones, and
which, on more than one occasion, has
sheltered revival meetings, as well as
every political gathering of conse-
quence since it's erection. There were
seats provided for 800, and some
body sat or stood on every seat. The
platform was provided to accommo-
date about fifty, but the fifty invited
to occupy it interfered very little with
the other 100 that used 1t. Estimates
of the crowd are varied and irrecon-
cilable. The Allen followers claim
they interrupted Blount longer than
Blounts followers interrupted Allen,
and the Blount adherents claim that
Aliens crowd could not be heard more
than two miles away. while Blount's
men could be heard to yell "Varda-
man and "Bilbo" for three miles; but
e conservative estimate would be that
the crowd numbered something over
1900, and was badly divided.
Allen Spoke First.
Holm Allan NaS h., Rrof -
The speakers had not agreed when
they reached the stand. which would
: speak first, and Mr.. Allen began in q
5 manner to indicate that whatevel
warming up he needed had been done
I before beginning his speech. He re
: ferred to himself as an ex-warhorse
John Private Allen, and that a dis
tinguished physician had accused hin
n of having hookworm, and prescribed
: thymol for him. He declared that
s better remedy than thymol had beei
e provided the threat of Vardamanisn
II had taken away all his lassitude an'
p brought him into the fray.
II There were calls for Vardaman, fol
II lowing that statement, which led tn
speaker to remark that II they woul
bring him he would join in the cheers
Then they yelled for populism an
some one in the audience announce
that eve are red necks," and anothe
y answered: Yes, and proud OF il.
Then somebody said: "Hurrah fo
Bilbo." and Allen, pointing towar
Of him, said:
Up Now, there is man with re,
Dr. strong stomach"
20 Seeing that he was making no pr
es gress, mighty little impression and b
ing unable to make himself heard b
ce others, Allen changed the dint of h
he argument and began on the Mobi
,t- and Ohio Railroad merger bill and Il
as discussion of vardaman's veto.
IA Turning to DR.. Ward, who sat ,
in the stand, and pointing his fing
as toward him, Allen said:
If II now want to address few wor
MS, to the man who said performed i
he part of Judas Tscariot"
(Continued on page eight.