Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-07-31
FROM THE PEOPLE.

the First Congressional District
should select his successor in the ap-
preaching primary election.
Citizens throughout the district will
remember that in one of his contests
with John Allen to succeed him in
Congress, that Mr.. Candler's chief
slogan was rotation in office" He
said from the stump substantially as
follows:
"Mr. Allen has been in Congress for
twelve years, long, long time to hold
one Office. Elect me to Congress in
his stead, fellow citizens, and I prom
Use you before have served that
length of time, shall retire in favor
of other worthy Democrats"
| Conditions have changed with Mr..
Candler. After we'll nigh sixteen
years of continuous service, we find
him as eager as ever to retain Office
and he is now flooding the district
with literature appealing to the people
to "Save me, lest I perish"
Mr.. Candler's career as a Congress
man has been uneventful. During
the years of Republican supremacy in
Congress, he proved his attendance up
on roll call and drew his pay with
regularity. He also distributed an
nually his quota of garden seed, and
furnished the minnows to stock our
fish ponds. This, with his speech
against the repeal of the seed distri-
button, which some of the abiest Con.
gresham denounced as a species of
graft, and the naming Of cadets to the
military and naval academies, without
regard to competitive examination,
seems to constitute Mr.. Candler's SER
vice under a Republican administra-
ton.
With the coming of Democratic SD,
premacy in the nations affairs, we find
Mr.. Gambler eager in the distribution
Of the patronage that has come to him,
by reason of Democratic success. How
wisely and i,npartially he has done this'
is for his constituents to determine.
In these days, the common people
are very tenacious of their rights, and
have always been ready to resent any
invasions of the same.
The right of petition has always been
the Magma Charta of all liberty, and
the voice of the people expressed
through this medium, or more popu-
larly through the medium of popular
elections, has always been dear to the
American people. In the matter of
the distribution of this patronage has
Mr.. Gambler recognized this right?
lake the record of appointments for
instance, in the post office patronage.
Have the petitions for the appointment
OF competent, deserving persons or
the privilege of expressing prefer
ence for suitable persons to fill these
places through primary been
needed. The answer is from the rec
ord-No.
Commencing in the northern end of
the district, in his home county. we
hnd he has appointed his brother. a
lawyer supposed to have a lucrative
practice, as postmaster at Corinth. in
the face of earnest petitions for men
needy and deserving by reason of mer-
itorious service in behalf of the coun-
try.
Coming down the counties TO
Noxubee, the southern boundary OF
the district, we find wherever these
appointments have been made the peo-
pie have been ignored, and appoint
ments made of those who in popular
expression of preference, through peti-
ton or election, would not be consid-
cred as parties to the running.
1t may be said in support of this
contention that more than one of our
Mississippi Congressman have recog.
nized these vested rights of the peo-
pie, and have made the appointments
accordingly after primary election.
The writer is not welded to the can
didacy of any one for Congressman
tr 'm the First District, but inasmuch
as Mr.. Gambler was first elected upon
the declaration by him of rotation in
Office" and that he is now unmindful
OF this declaration, we believe it is due
his opponent, Hon. Harden H. Brooks
Jr, that the people OF the district elect
him.
lie is a lawyer of distinction, has
filled capably positions of public trust.
and he comes from a family known
to be loyal to Mississippi and her in
terests. FIFTH DISTRICT.
Monroe County, July rs, 1914.
Some Of us bury the hatchet all right,