The Tupelo journal., 1911-07-07

the highest order. In fact, 80 great has
| been MS SUCCESS iii life, that IL is now
sought to be used against him, though
It has come as u result OF his own Ell
fact his father having given him an
education and practically nothing else.
lie is d scil-maue man. 1t should also
be taken into consideration that by
the time ii new man could take his seat
III the senate MIR. Percy will have had
three years OF experience and llase taken
such rank on the committees as time
i'll the public service alone can BRING.
Are not the proficiency and position OF
vantage thus acquired assets too val
liable to be thrown earelessly away
| The states which exercise a commanding
Influence III congress are those which
keep their representatives there, ana the
sooner the south learns this lesson the
better it will be for her.
a. But, finally, Leroy Percy should
be endorsed by eiecting him to the
long term in the senate because OF the
unworthy aud unjustifiable attempt to
besmirch him. In my Judgment, moth
ing so iniquitious as this can be found
il 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, candor
and absolute reliability have never been
! questioned, even by the remotest lnsin-
uation, 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. n
legislature. after the most searching IN
yestigation, 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 eVi-
dence showing that he had in any way
acted improperly. And yet there are
those in the state. who, by their IN
sinuations. are still seeking to besmirch
! this hiob-minded and honorable man and
poison the minds of the people against
him for political purposes. VIII the
brave, just and patriotic people OF Mis-
sissippi stand for thisf Will they stand
nv 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 q
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, II they
will.
d Nor is it Mr.. Percy alone who has
been assailed in this discreditable con-
steaf. All Indictment has been register
III 81 these men against the Legislature
III tie state. The honor and good name
xof AI Nsippi have been impeached,
boueh here is nothing to warrant it
hut the bold assertions of politicians,
Who. though challenged to do SO, nave
not been able to addnce a syllable OF
proof except against one of their W
number. How may this outrageous as
! sault upon the fair fame of the state
be most effectively repealed? Not by
e~Iecting a third man-that would be to
waive the issue-but by endorsing SEN
ator Percy's election by an overwheim-
| ing majority. This alone will administer
to these calumniators the rebuke which
iSthey deserve, and send them, branded,
into the oblivion into which they ought
to sink. b. STREATER, Black Hawk,
! Miss, in Jackson News.