The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1915-07-22

nant hinges OF the knee, that thrift may follow
fawning" don't you know that they would be
doing everything in their power to get you to
vote for me3 Of course, you do But instead of
this, we witness the spectacle of the President
of the Illinois Central Railroad spending Rail
road money to buy space in the newspapers for
the purpose of injuring me. We see the Gen
eral Manager Of the Illinois Central Railroad
Company, at Chicago, Illinois, sending out tons
upon tons of printed matter criticizing the Rail
road Commission. We see the Special Agents,
train masters and railroad boosters riding around
over the district cussing George Edwards and
asking people to vote for his opponent.
Are you going to let the railroads select
your Railroad Commission for you, or you
going to do this for yourself?
When I was your State Treasurer, handled
about $14,50o,0OO of your public money. My
books have been checked and rechecked two or
three different times, since went out of Office,
sometimes by men who were my political enc
mics, and each and every time, my books were
found to balance to cent and the money was
all there. In all this talk in the newspapers
about public men being short in their accounts
and stealing the peoples money, you have never
heard one word of criticism of George r. Ed
wards good name, and you never will, unless
they lie, and have handled more of your pub
lie money than any other living man has ever
handled, except the State Treasurer who sue
ceeded me-
am the same George Edwars whom SEN
ator Vardaman in every political speech he
made in the district four years ago, advised you
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you then that I would make you good Rail
road Commissioner, and have striven in season
and out of season to fulfil his prediction.
/ am anxious to be reelected. I want your
vote and hope you will give it to me- want
your support, because want to know that you
approve of my course as your public servant.
want to know that you are standing behind
me, aiding, abetting, sympathizing with and
encouraging me in the fight which am making
to force the great railroad corporations to pay
their taxes just like the people have to pay theirs
am not going to make you lot of foolish,
silly senseless promises in order to get you to
vote for me. / decline absolutely to make any
sort of extravagant promises with the view of
catching your vote decline absolutely to
promise you anything which know beforehand
that cannot do, and which do not expect to
do. @t
When you cast your vote for some unknown
person, some untried person without record of
any sort; some person who has never been sub
jected to the great temptations which constantly
beset the Railroad Commissioner; it will be
leap in the dark for you, because you cannot pos
siby know at this time what that person will do;
you cannot possibly know whether he will expe-
rience change of mind, after the election is
over, and then betray you by undoing all of the
good things which your present Railroad Com
mission has done. The fact is, you do not know
anything at all about the two men who are run
ming against me. You do not know whether they
are good or bad; you do not know whether they
ire corrupt or honest
When you vote for George R. Edwards, you
Know beforehand just what you are getting.
You know whether or not 1 have been honest;
aithful and fearless in the discharge of my du-
les as public official I have been tried in the
iery furnace and you know whether or not
ave come out of it with clean hands, and wheth-
r l have been true to the interests of the people
Mississippi All you have to do is to go to the
ublic records at Jackson and you can easily
scertain by my vote on thousand questions,
neither what have said have done is true Or
OF.
L here and now challenge either Of my op-
'neEts to show one single instance where have,
y word or vote, or official act, been unfaithfuT
} the people of Mississippi and their interests.
challenge every man in Mississippi to go to the
lblic records at Jackson and show that have
lied to stand up. in one single instance, in the
,ople's behalf
With your good help. am going be re-
ected BY the largest majority ever given any
an IN this District for Railroad Commissioner.