Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-25

and that l had tried to do Il. / ex-
planned the Instructions that had been
put in my way. / came on down
through Leake county and visited the
Leake County Fair at the request OF
the people there. 1 represented the
same thing.
The message came in to the Bilbo
people, and this was the message that
you have made a mistake by pitting
your faction against Governor Brewer,
and his administration; and, if you
don't come out and meet him, he will
beat you for office, and the only saliva
ton is to come out and meet him.
Bilbo says there is nothing to do but
to send out n of the boys. The lot
fell to Senator Hebron, who thought he
was a candidate for the United States
Senate. So, in Quitman county. on
the next Monday, the Senator went
down there and met me and showed
me up, but he retired from the race
and has not made a speech in Missis-
sippi from that day to this. But he
came to the Issue office, so l am re-
liably informed, and told them, 81 told
you you made a mistake in getting
Brewer In this affair. You can't take
all the crooks of Mississippi and run
over the Governor and law-abiding So
ciety. And l now tell you that l have
been out and heard him speak in Quit.
man and Clark county yesterday, and
il he keeps that up he will beat Bilbo
twenty thousand votes"
The Lieutenant Governor says there
is nothing to do except meet him ana
show him up. WELL" said Senator
Hebron, you a go out and show him
up II you want to. have done been"
So Senator Russell came and met
me at Winona the following Thursday.
He showed me up; the boys did not
quit hollering for two days. l said,
I'VE are here under the shadow Of the
wing Of the venerable Doctor Ward.
You are told that the country people
are for you and Bilbo." So we took
an inventory, and out Of the twelve or
fifteen hundred mourners l don't thinR
l lost twenty-five. I told him to get up
and call mourners and see how many
he had. l told him to come and make
1t unanimous. and while the light
should burn l would let 1t lead my
way. said, when l turn you loose
this evening this is not the last one of
the Governors appointments you are
invited to from this to the election"
l told him. "You come to any point
where l speak, and I will divide time
with you. and will give you a free bal
lot, and q fair count" Four months
later he come back to Raleigh, in
Smith county. He got up and made
his speech of not more than thirty
minutes, Notwithstanding that l had
given him an hour and a half's time.
He said, ~ have been in the Senate,
while Governor Brewer has been the
Governor" He said, 81 was his cam
paign manager in Lafayette county"
That wasn't true, but Mr.. Sisk was
the man. Senator Russell owns q
newspaper over at Oxford, body and
breeches. He published in this paper
many untruths about the Governor and
Bilbo. The Issue come out and said
Governor Brewer has no right to go
and make speeches defending his ad-
ministration; he has no defense to
make. That Lieutenant Governor Bill
DO has never mentioned his name ex-
cept in a way. So they decided to
quit, as Senator Hebron said. ! had
gone from Tupelo on the north to the
gulf IN the south, in the populous white
section of the State, and they could
hear me speaking to thousands of peo-
pie in Mississippi, and calling for
mourners and getting them all. So
that they decided that they would
come back or have to get out Of the
race.
They shifted the issue. But l said,
mo, you started this row. l am like
the farmer who was coming down by
the farm house and a vicious bulldog
undertook to eat him alive, and he
took his ~pitchfork from his shoulder
and used It on the dog. The owner Of
the dog said, why in the world did
you kill my dog with that pitchfork?
Why didn't you turn the other end of
the fork on him?' and he said, Wing
didn't he turn the other end on me?'
My message has come back to you
from your own friends that they are
going to defeat you unless you defeat
the issue. Now, you are laying down
Governor Brewer 1t got hot, that
is why he laid 1t down"
A negro preacher went over to the
white folks church, where they were
burning incense. He decided to adopt
that in his church. He got some oys-
ter cans and filled them with incense,
and painted the outside, and give them
to some little boys and told them at
the right time to file down and by the
altar. They came q little late, INT
without the incense pots. He asked
them in song, "H~allelujah, what did
you do with the incense pots? Halle
I'VE drapped dem in de aisle,
case the pots got hot, Hallelujah."
So, my fellow-citizens, | have turned
an than opd ho oo0nnt chift Tho te.