Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-08-13
BILBO ELECTED.
the Jackson Daily News.

His majority is not large, but it
is sufficient for victory
There is no probability that a
canvass Of the official returns by
the State Executive Committee
will materially change the result.
Although he is the party nom
inee for the highest office within
the gift of the people of Missis
sippi, our opinion of Theodore G.
Bilbo remains unchanged.
He is still a self accused bride.
taker, a self. confessed CRATER, a
foul. tongued slanderer, an unmit'
igated liar and a contemplate
crook.
The robe of Office cannot hide
the bar sinister across his fore.
head.
1t is an unhappy day for Mis-.
sissippi, and there are many un.
happy days ahead for our beloved
COHlHlOH wealth..
A majority of the voters-fool
ed, deluded, blinded, lost to all
reasOn-have SAID by their votes
that they would rather wallow
in filth than walk on clean ground.
So be it Itf u nasty, naus
cous dose, and we cannot swallow
it without gagging, but there's
some consolation IN the kn0wl.
edge that it will not make us any
sicker than it does those who arr
responsible for placing this un
speakable person in Office.
Only two things remain to b,
done in recognition Of the new
era we are now entering. Thu
blow has fallen, the die has beer
cast. At the very moment whel
Theodore q. Bilbo takes the oatl
of Office as Governor of Missis
sippi, we should substitute a Car
riOn crow for the proud bird o
liberty on the Great Seal of tn,
commonwealth, and remove tn,
great golden eagle from the DONE
of our capitol and place a pukinl
buzzard there in its stead.
In the foregoing emphatic, i
not altogether elegant terms,
editor Fred. Sullens expresses his
opinion of the Democratic NOM
nee for Governor and of those
who voted for him as the choice
of the party.
In the estimate placed upon the
moral worth and character of
Lieutenant, Governor BilbO, the
BEACON is frank to say it thor
Oughly concurs, and it entertains
the same sentiments as those de-
clared by its esteemed contempt
rary as to the unhappy effect of
the malapropos result of the prim.
aries disclosed on the face of the
returns.
But however freely we assent
to the sOundness of the summing
up of the disreputable qualities
of the party's choice-which rem
der him wholly unfit to hold any
place of honor, emolument or
trust at the hands of an intelli.
gent, proud. spirited, self. respect,
ing constituency we respectfully
dissent from the view set forth in
the following paragraph
"a majority of the voters
fooled, deluded, blinded, lost to
all reason-have said by their
votes that they would rather
wallow in filth than walk on clean
ground"
In fairness to "a majority of
the voters" and in justice to all,
we want to say +;
The BEACON does not accept the
conclusion there announced as a
correct Interpretation of ,''the mo.
tives of the voters fooled, delud,
ed, blinded, lost to all reason"
who cast their ballots for Bilbo.
Trying to consider the thing
dispassionately, the BEACON in
terprets their action in so voting
as evidence that, being deluded,
blinded to reason and swayed by
prejudice and passion, they were
utterly misled.
The specious Misrepresentation
and lies told by Bilbo aud Lee
Russell and some of their partisan
adherents proved, in the present
condition of politics in this State,
simply irresistible to the unin.
formed voter.
For the spirit of faction has
attained such magnitude, force
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