Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-03-19
PUBLIC EYE OF NATION ON MISSISSIPPI

ssippi is to be in the public eye until the
of U. Senator John Sharp Williams is named at tn
Democratic primaries to be held in 1915
Mr.. Williams is debater pure and simple
logical thinker of great originality; clear close
cold matteroffact in argument quick to dis
cover truth, and ever ready to accept it when found
He therefore, is intoerant Of and prompt II
meet and combat it. no matter when or where or il
whom found.
To some persons there are many questions will
many sides
Not so with MIR. Williams; for to him, no question
possesses more than two sides-and such are his pow
of analysis his mind quickly takes in both of them
His thought being honest as it is profound its in
tegrity is such it welnigh invariably prompts him to
choose the right-to espouse the right thing and say
and do the right thing, at the right time and in the
right way to defend and promote that thing
His oratory is of the spontaneous convincing kind
1t is born of honest earnest thought and store of
knowledge, acquired by study and observation and ex-
perience; for behind all Mr. Williams wit and humor,
and love of life and fun, lies this fact:
All his life he has been as he now is student
dilgen intelligent student of AFFAIRS books and men
and measures and the current events of his own land
and of foreign lands as we'll
The arts of the demagogue; the tinse and glare OF
the stage; the cheapJohn defamation and eocution Of
the transforming actor, set off by pagarisms para
phrases and Rotations of poeca quotations old as the
hills so to express it which were ancient when Adam
was young never appealed to him.
John Sharp Williams never vexes the ears of hi,
hearers with anecdotes whose edum are relieved only
by their vulgarity Nor does he ever reeale his aud
fences with salacous stories seek 10 poison thei
minds, and pursuade their judgment on wrong lines
by appeals to their ignorance and pref dces through
Misrepresentation of conditions and misstatement of
facts
tie is leader because his sympathies are Genuine
because he has the sort of pride that makes a man
proud in the of respecting himself and respecnd
the rights of Others because he is wenformed sane
and safe because he is viruous and vaoros and ova
and because too he prefers the realm of statesmanshn
though therein he finds the way difficult and must tread
thorny path to the seas of political endeavor in which
eXpedlency trims the sails to catch the popular breeze
and watt the adventures craft into safe waters.
In Its editorial The Register defines the issue as it
ought to be, but we much fear it will not so be.
In all the qualities that 60 to make statesmanlike
and popular leader-Vardaman is the opposite of VIII
liams
Inc latter snobe generous brave; and scorns mean
ness malce and wrong no matter by whom perpetrat-
ed or for whose advantage
The former is the reverse
The one loves an open field and fair fight and for
hSel ana MS friends never seeks or desires anything
more He stands all along the line for truth and inc
tice for honor and duty; and for courage.
The other is the reverse
The one would not misstate fact to misrenrooon+
an opponent advantage his own political
though he knew by doing he could attain anv reward
within the gift of the people W
The other is the reverse d
Though the heavens might fall Williams would not p
invent lie or willingly profit by the fiction of another ~
winch would work wrong to his enemv To da;n 81
the highest honor in the Republic pc
Not so, with the other F.
In moral qualities and those other distinsu;sb;nd W
traits OF character strength of mind unaffected indie ~
pendence steadfasness of purpose or determination ia
ana unyledlng resolution, where questions nvolvino
points of honor involved the one is in str;kd of
trast with the other 0oi tv
Williams wears no concealed political weanon unon y.
lis person. whereas Vardaman carries DAGGER I'm bs ISIS
eeve-a fact fairly illustrated by his condnct o,,ard tn
he President and the majority of his Democratic coea Of
ues In the senate in the matter of the death blow .d Va
the other day to the ship purchase bill 90
IL there could be had in this state what The Reds st
CT apply calls tryout in Mississippi of the shin hin
ssue as well as Of the case Of Williams versus vara tn
nan on such scale that the discussions on both sides @
would be fairly conducted and ruthfuy reported and St.
|ardaman and other speakers and writer's Of his III
you'd address themselves to the patriotism and ;nta
gence of audiences by telling the truth the Who'll no
nth and nothing but the truth, as to Vardaman no s
hipb issue and the record of John Sharp Williams all
would admit the truth to either when told bv an
her there is small doubt what the popular ver
let at the polls would be- boz
"Ay, there's the rub" for thew will ~ q 80, Nc
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