The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1915-07-22
Babo, the People, Champion.

same falsehood will be reiterated as though
undeniable evidence of its correctness was
too potent to be denied II has required
the greatest courage to stand out openly as
champion of the burdened tax payers as
Bilbo has done. 1t has required the high
est order of intelligence, backed by store
house of Knowledge and information, to
defend his position against the shrewd at
torneys who are the paid agents of the
community of interests which seek to ex-
plot the people and the fruits of their toll;
and it has required great astuteness of
mind to correctly understand and check
mate every move of his enemies in their
efforts to destroy his usefulness. As Lieu
tenant Governor and presiding officer of
the senate he stands without peer in the
history of the State; his rulings were just
and fair to those who opposed him, his
great talent in constructive craftsmanship
always stood out brightly in the interest
of the great body Of the people, which fact
is borne out by the Senate Journal; and
were it not so, his enemies would not be
pushed to the extremity of peddling false
hoods against him. He favored the anti
land corporation law which will save the
State from the curse of absentee landlord
ism. He favored the elective judiciary
and to him is due largely the credit that
it is part of our statute laws He fav-
ored the reduction of the contract rate in
terest, which saves to the poor man many
thousands Of dollars each year.
He favored the guaranteeing Of bank
deposits, and the enactment Of this law is
due in a great measure to his constructive
ability as legislator and his power as an
advocate He favored more equal adj
justment of the burdens of taxation on the
rich and the poor and succeeded in requir-
ing, by statute, that the large land holding
corporations pay taxes on their holding
which had before been merely nominal. In
fact, every act Of his official life, so far
as my association has been or my knowl-
edge extends, has been as the answering
friend of the common people; and during
his labors in their interests he has had to
wend his way through the snares that
would have caught less wary feet in their
tolls.
These are some Of the reasons why the
people Of the State Of Mississippi are de-
voted to Bilbo and why they are going to
elect him by an avalanche of ballots on
the Bird day Of August, that will send such
a shock up the spinal columns of his adj
versaries that they will be affected with
temporary paresis, and, for a time, will
paraliEe the corrupt machinery that is
now operating against him. The people
love him for the enemies he has made,
using his magnificent talent in their be-
half. Calumny and the assassin have been
the instruments used by the favored
classes against every friend and advocate
Of the masses, as against the classes, in
every period of the worlds history, wheth-
er he be priest or statesman, and the only
thing that saves BiIbo from destruction,
either by SANDER or by assassination, is
the bulwark of public sentiment in the
minds and hearts of an Enlightened cleo
torate, who have learned some things in
duplicity and demagogy from the pres
emit administration.
In the interest of true democracy and
The perpetuation Of our democratic insti-
buttons let every man who loves his home
and freside 90 to the polls on the Bird
day of August and tell his neighbor on the