Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-02-24
JUDGE JAS. II. NEVILLE.

week Mr.. Vardaman made bitter per-
head of the legal department of the
Gulf & Ship Island road, because it
was through this official that public
knowledge of the existence of Round
Trip Pass No. 1854 became public
Mr.. Vardaman follows his personal
attack on Judge Neville with an asser-
tion to the effect that this is an evil
dence that the corporations are fight
ing his election to the senate-the
same assertion, by the way, that he
made during the democratic caucus last
year, which was so thoroughly refuted
when it was shown that more corpora
tion agents were working for Varda-
mans nomination than could be shown
in behalf of any other candidate in the
race.
Judge Neville is amply able to take
care of himself in any controversy in
which he may become involved, and es-
pecially if it be in a controversy with
Mr.. Vardaman. He is a native son Of
Mississippi, man who has fought the
battle of democracy when it took a
man of courage and determination to
do so, and he was battling for the par
ty in this commonwealth when James
K. Var1aman was in swaddling clothes
Furthermore, if the instance can be
cited where he has not always stood
for the best interests of Mississippi
the Daily News will be glad to learn of
it.
AS an illustration of just what sort
of Mississiy plan Judge Neville is, the
Daily News presents from it's files the
following extract from a speech deliv-
cred by him at the opening of the Har-
rison County fair at Gulfport last
November:
My friends. my desire today is to do
something for Mississippi [ want to
see Mississippi great; l want to see her
people prosperous and happy, and she
will have a certain measure of great
ness and her people a certain measure
of prosperity and happiness, but we
can never hope to reach the full meas
ure and the fullest need of greatness,
prosperity and happiness until we
shall do those things and live that life
which encourages the material welfare
of the state. l have no patience or tol-
Grafton for the ran who, seeking Of
flee, declares, as l have heard them de-
clare, that Mississippi devotes her at
tentiOn to the moral man rather than
the material man. AS if any man un-
der any circumstances who was honest
with himself and who loved his home
and his family desired other than the
highest type of moral man. Man can
be moral and rich at the same time. A
state can cultivate the highest moral
type and at the same time encourage
the greatest material advancement. l
love Mississippi. All have and all /
am I owe to the people of the state,
who have been good to me in the past
My dead are buried in her soil; my
hopes and my aspirations are bound up
with the people of the state, and if l
should ever so far forget mvself as to
do her people or the state the slight
est wrong. then may God paralyze the
hand that does the deed and the tongue
that speaks the word. Feeling this
way, with no other ambitions, conjure
and beg you to labor in season and out
of season. against that spirit of intol-
erance, that spirit of hate which is
preached by some against those things
which tend to build up our state and
make her great.
Il have sat in the courtroom and at
public gatherings of the people of the
state and listened to men who were
seeking Office arraign the wealth of
the state of Mississippi as they would
the criminal at the bar. l have seen
them bring their audience to a pitch
of excitement and fury against corpo-
rations and corporate wealth without
ever giving one single act of wrong
committed by any corporation against
the sovereignty Of the state or against
who keep in touch with such things,
that about the first thing a man who
seeks Office in this day does is to
arouse their passions and prejudices of
the people against corporate wealth, to
stir the passions ana prejudices of the