The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-03-17
Ward Makes His First
Speech in Grenada Go.
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and then Gov. Vardaman were candidates
for the U. S. Senate and he asked his
hearers to note that while Vardaman
was beaten that he carried this district
by about 5000 majority, which he SEEM
ed to think had something to do with
Mr.. Sisson's determining to run for
congress against his former friend, law
partner, gubernatorial campaign man.
ager and "benefactor." In this race
Mr.. Sisson got on the platform Varda-
mar used the year before. He said
that while Mr.. Sisson ran for Governor
without any platform that when he got
into the rae for congress that he
bought up several lumber yards getting
planks for his congressional platform.
He said that Mr.. Sisson gave as one of
his excuses for running against Hill for
congress that while Mr.. Hill had been
his campaign manager the year before
for Governor that he (HilD had let it
be known that he was for John Sharp
Williams for the Senate as against
Vardaman which Sisson claimed was q
lack of fidelity to him and that Mr..
Hills friendship for Williams had hurt
him (Sisson) in his rae for Governor.
MIR. Ward stated that it was true that
Mr.. Hill was for Williams but it was
also true that he (Ward) the secretary
of Mr.. Sisson's campaign committee
for Governor, was for Vardaman.
which he thought was a pretty fair
stand of-in other words Mr.. Sisson
might 'ketch 'em comm and gwyne."
He said that m of the planks of Mr..
Sisson's platform when he ran for COLI
gress was rotation in Office" that the
makers of the constitution intended for
congressman to serve but a few years,
that they should be frequently changed,
hence the fixing of the term for only
two years, but now, he said, Mr.. Sisson
was running for his fifth term.
He said that last year Mr.. Sisson
said it was about time to beat John
Sharp Williams and that he thought he
could do it and asked him WARD to
manage his campaign. but he said he
told Mr.. Sisson that he thought he
would run for congress himself, where
upon Mr.. Sisson replied that it would
look like too much of a family affair.""
but Mr.. Ward said he could not see it
that way for the reason that he was
the first n of the Ward family to
ever run for an Office. He claimed that
during all the twenty years of Mr.. Sis
sons public career that he had never
written a newspaper article discussing
a public question and that he had never
pushed the candidacy or advocated the
claims for anybody for any Office ex-
cept T. U. Sisson's. He said that
when a mere youth he openly espoused
the cause of Senator George, that he
had done what he could for Senator
Money, and that he had also been openly
for Vardaman and for Bilbo. He said
that he knew that he could not collect
anything in Grenada county because of
being for Vardaman and for Bilbo but
that he believed the people preferred
a man that they could always place
rather than one about whom there was
some doubt. He said that he had the
greatest respect for those who differed
with him politically and that he be-
lieved that they were just as sincere
and just as patriotic as he, but that he
would not make one sort of a speech
here and another sort in Pontotoc
county. He mentioned the fact that he
and Mr.. Sisson were brothers-in-law.
He said that while he and Mr.. Sisson
both made their homes in Montgomery
county that the county had but one
candidate for congress and that was he.
He said that he would get more votes
than Mr.. Sisson in the block where he
(Sisson) lived, more in the ward where
he lived, more in the town of Winona,
more in that beat and more in Mont.
gomery county.
Mr.. Ward was pleasing in his re-
marks; there was nothing harsh or Wit
riolitic in what he said. The speech
was regarded as a somewhat ingeniou.
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