The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-06-18
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committee said, -Four out of five of
us live in the country. Governor
Brewer told you to come here and you
have come now. Let's see If you will
speak" He was in the crowd. | said
there, he can have unlimited time to
make a speech and l will have unlim-
tied time to make a speech. l told
them that you cannot pull him up
here with a log chain" He is here
tonight, and he won't speak II / have
time to reply to him. | have five times
In succession given him the closing
speech. At Ecru yesterday l told
h,u that the committee at Gresnv ood
had wired me that l may invite you
to meet me in Greenwood in e joint
debate, but ! van to tell you that ]
think time about Is fair play, a free
ballot, and a fair count, and l amt
going to give you the closing speech.
And l wanted him to have the first
speech here this time. He came here
and undertook to take a long time to
pour out charges against Governor
Brewer and should have the last say,
and the committee said, 1--WE won't
have anything of the kind" He is
here.
| am sorry to take W your time
with this fOolishness. / want you to
know that l tried to give him a fair
deal, but he doesn't want a fair deal.
He wants to obstruct me and throw
mud upon me without giving me an
opportunity to reply to him.
Now, l am through with that trash.
daughter by the audience.) Let's be-
gin to talk about something that may
be of interest to you and to me and
the good people of this State.
When l was a candidate for Cover
nor l came before you with a pub
lished platform; / told you in child
like simplicity in that platform what
| should stand for II elected Governor.
| spoke here in this court house and
explained what Imeant by each of the
respective planks Of that platform.
Now, since | have been elected L have
regarded every plank of that platform
as a contract between you and me.
Let's study that platform. l told you
in that platform that foremost in my
administration | should stand for the
highest order of enforcement Of the
law. think my most violent enemy
will concede that I have tried to
carry that out. | told you l despised
every form OF graft, and that l would
send every crook from under the
dome Of the capitol OF Mississippi.
Some people think | have tried to
carry that out in good faith. Thirdly
| told you l was in favor of suitable
child labor laws in Mississippi.
took this question before all of the
people of Mississippi, and the next
legislature passed a law on the sub
; ject wholly inadequate. When l was
elected, in my inaugural address.
: informed the legislature of the fact;
; and now they have the most mag
; n~ifcent statute on the subject tina
! adorns the statute books of any State
of this fair country. We have an in
spector to go to every factory where
women and children are employed
: and look after their welfare.
l told you l would exercise thu
. power of my high office to raise thu
, age of consent from the barbaric ag,
of ten years. Today we have tina
splendid statute that looks to a highe,
7 civilization adjoining our statute books
| told you | would drive out tn
bucket shops. They had been strony
enough in the two preceding admin
istrations to enter the legislature ant
= prevent the passage of any law
against them. One day the past gran'
7 chancellor of bucket shops came t
me and said, I'VE want to know wher
you stand" AS for as much as t
say, you must be with us or get out
v | said that | will. and l will try t
q put this matter before the plain pee
pie Of Mississippi, and l will sho,
d this hideous business before the pee
]. pie of Mississippi in its bare naked
O ness, and make II as plain to them a
the handwriting on the wall at tn
feast of B~elshaZZar. was defeated
e But the people Of Mississippi respond
d ed to it; and our representatives, wit
House Bill No. 1. put that nefariou
business out Of Mississippi-I hop
forever. They had helped for notf
ing but to ruin the business men an
give premature patients for the insan
asylum.
j. | told you we had a wholly made
quate banking law in this State.
III pointed out that we needed som
N change; that a bank would break, me
"a who were old and unable to get
IL competency again in life would los
their everything. | brought this t
the attention of the legislature in m
inaugural address, and again in
ID message, and 1t failed to respond. I
le 1914 | pointed It out again and fror
every angle. And they responded an
se they passed such a banking law tha