The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-04-30
DR.. WATKINS INTRODUCTION
OF HON. HILLRIE M. QUIN.
The Able President of Minsaps College Pays the Next
Governor of Mississippi a Deserved Tribute.

The rally of the friends and support
ers of Hon. Hillrie NJ. Quin, speaker of
the house Of representatives and prom
inent candidate for Governor, at the
court house in jackson on Thursday
night of last week, was q distinct suc-
cess, the court room being crowded to
the doors and overlooking with an IN
thusiastic audience that gave an ova-
ton to the jackson man who is in the
race for gubernatorial honors at the
hands of the voters, with bright pros
poets to win.
Many ladies' were in the audience,
and took q deep interest in the events
of the evening.
w. Calvin Wells presided as master
of ceremonies, introducing candidates
for county and district Offices. in his
usual able and complimentary manner.
w. A. Montgomery, secretary of the
Quin campaign committee, also was on
hand. He worked hard to arrange the
big event and much of the success of
the evening is due to his aggressive eff
forts.
QUIN INTRODUCED.
After the candidates for county and
district Offices had spoken the candidate
| for governor was introduced by DR.. A..
F. Watkins, president of Millsaps Col
lege, who paid a glowing tribute to the
integrity, fearlessness and patriotism
of Mr.. Quin. When Mr.. Quin arose in
response to the very f1attering intro
plause, that was in the nature of an
ovation, the cheering continuing for
| several minutes.
DR.. WATKINS INTRODUCTION.
Mr.. Chairman and Fellow Citizens
We are assembled here in the exercise
of one of the important and cherished
| functions of a free and untrammelled
citizenship. We are, politically speak
ing, each man under his own vine and
fig tree, confident in the assurance that
no one dare modest or make us afraid.
We have not met to receive with
servile adulation some heralded mes
senger from our King beyond the sea,
a messenger arrayed in all the trap
pings of courtly show and circum-
stance, and to hear from his lips the
name and title of him, whom imperial
condescension has appointed to be a
ruler over us. We are here to give ut
terance to our own thoughts, to ex-
press own convictions, to declare
our own preferences.
This is the heritage of our fathers
blood, the glorious fruitage of their
heroic valor. The shades Of Washing
ton and Jefferson look upon US with
complacency; for they see the travail
of their souls and are satisfied. They
see a strong and happy people dwell
ing in peace in the broad lap of q
mighty continent, secure in their un-
paralleled power from foreign perils
and safe in their unity of spirit from
civil strife. Their cities sit like queens
upon the banks of their majestic riv-
ers; their waving fields make glad their
smiling valleys; their countless hocks
cover their widely extended plains; the
busy hum of their factories tell Of the
successes of prosperous industry; their
temples of worship lift stainless spires
toward heaven; their institutions Of
learning crown the hill tops; their pal.
aces of justice adorn their thorough
fares; and liberty and peace and plenty
shine through the golden cycles OF
their happy years.
We represent the browning, the tri-
umphant, experiment of popular gov
eminent, the vindication of the ability
of the common people to achieve ane
maintain their civil, practical and re.
ligious liberty, and to the great repub.
lie of the west looks for sympathy
for guidance and for support. every op.
pressed people on the face of the globe,
But glorious privileges, that thrill
the heart with ~exultation and fill the
mouth with singing, carry with then
responsibilities that temper the wild ex.
ultation of the heart and change the
paean Of victory into q song Of prayer
Shall not we, who govern ourselves
show to the world that we can govern
well? Shall not we teach the worlt
how free men live? Shall not crime b.
sfnitten in its tracks? Shall not vic,
be throttled in its lair? Shall not hid
eous graft be driven from the land
Shall not q beauteous cities be q
clean in their morals as their spotles
streets are clean? Shall not our ruler,
be men Of probity. and our citizenl
like those Of whom the Psalmist sings
Men, I'm whose eyes q vile person il
condemned, but who honoreth then
that fear the Lord"
Gentlemen, the problem that Ameri
ca must work out for the world is th,
problem Of self-government, which
means not the self shall govern itself
FRI