The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-29

or people is an unmitigated liar. Twen-
ty-two years ago, at Ocala, Florida,
wrote the planks in what was denomi-
mated the alliance Demands which
have since been endorsed by William
Jennings Bryan, thrice the nominee of
the national Democratic party for
President of the United States, and
the best Populist speech | ever heard
was made by that distinguished gem
tleman in this city four years ago.
Finding myself in such good company,
upon invitation l returned to the party
of my youth and earlier manhood, for
could see no good reason for the
advocating the same principles, and
don't care whether it is said l came
back to the Democratic party, or the
Democratic party accepted the princi-
pies for which l and those who agreed
with me contended in the nineties.
am rejoiced to know that we all agree
upon the fundamental principles of
good government and trust we may be
able by united and harmonious action
in the coming Presidential campaign
to bring our country back to pure JEFF
fersonian Democracy Mr.. President,
during a residence of forty-five years
in Chickasaw county ! have striven to
make a good and useful citizen. Near
ly half that time have been honored
as a representative of the good people
among whom | live. They never
failed me when a candidate for their
suffrage. have grown hoary-head
el' in their service, and, so far as |
know my bitterest adversary at home
never spoke of me as "hellion," and
my friends there, as well as my as
sociates in this Senate, are as far from
being puppets" as the dirty political
scullion who wantonly insults them
and me is from being a gentleman.
Calls Sullens All Sorts Of Names,
WI L iNSilClt, lCICl VI NOui DC, W tiAC
Jackson Evening Liar as the newspa-
per, and Fred Sullens, its editor, whom
you. sir, on a former notable occasion,
very appropriately characterized as "a
degenerate by birth, carpet-bagger
by inheritance, a liar by instinct, a
slanderer and assassin of character by
practice, and a coward by nature
when the State of Missouri was
purging itself of the putrid element
of its population, this filthy little spec
linen dropped into Mississippi, and
from the day of his landing in the
state to this good day, he has been
shining like a dead mackere in the
moonlight"
Resolution Of Custer For The Daily
I News.
Senator Garter then offered the fol
lowing resolution:
Whereas, There is published in the
city of Jackson a certain disreputable
yellow journal known as the Jackson
Daily News and which is the most I'M
reliable, irresponsible, dirty and rep
rehensible paper that ever disgraced
the honorable profession of journalism
in this state, and which paper is edit
ed by man whose name is said to be
Fred Sullens, and who is known as a
common liar and a moral degenerate
who has not had an honest thought or
a patriotic impulse since he hoboed
his Yankee carcass into Mississippi
and whose editorial opinion on all pub
lie questions is known to be for sale
to the highest bidder for cash, and
whose almost daily habit is to publish
slanderous attacks upon members OF
the State Senate, without cause, justi-
fication or warrant of reason; and
Whereas, this editorial scavenger
published on yesterday an article
which was a mendacious attack upon
the Senate and which no man with q
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