The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-08-04

reelected.
you tickle me and I tickle
you;' these revelations ought to he
a solemn warning to the people
against the dangers of keen
ing men in Congress until thew
form these rings and combinations:
and when they have ben there lone
enough to draw STE, 90 from
the public treasury they can we'll
afford to spend one years salary in
the expenses of a campaign if they
can by that means secure a con-
tinuation in Office. In other words.
they build up around themselves a
political and financial wall that is
very difficult for the best and
strongest man in the state to
break through if he is poor. There
are more than q hundred men in the
Fourth Congressional District who
are just as competent, and more
reliable, than the present incum-
bent, who are just as able and just
as worthy as either M of the other
candidates who are deferred
from making the race for want of
means. We are fast approaching
a condition where a man without
money need not aspire to an inn
portant Office.
William Ward is making this
race under great difficulty for want
Of means, but he has not asked his
friends for any help.
He is not able to hire men to
work for him, nor even to pay the
legitimate expenses Of his friends
who are willing to neglect their own
business in their efforts to help
him. OF course this is a private
matter in which the public is not
concerned except, in so far as the
public interest is concerned, in pro-
tecting itself against political and
financial rings.
They stay there for ten or fifteen
years, and then send out campaign
literature to show how many impor-
tant measures they have voted for,
when they never originated one.
Tom Watson was only in Con-
gress a very short while, and yet
he gave US the rural free delivery,
which is worth more to the farmers
of the United States. than every
thing most of them do when they
have been there twenty years.
And yet they say Tom Watson is
not a good Democrat.
If every nan and woman in the
United States who has been bene-
fitted by the rural free delivery
would contribute a dime we could
build a handsome monument to
Tom Watson and let him see it be-
fore he dies. When he put that
measure through Congress he did
not sweat, or turn red in the face,
nor talk loud enough to be heard
in the gallery, but he did something
in ONE TERM, without any recon-
mendations from Champ Clark.
If Champ had offered to give
Tom Watson a letter of reommenda-
although he had been there only
ONE TERN, because Tom did not
need it and would probably have
proposed to give Champ one.
Whoever heard of H. D. Money,
or Fuller Fox, or Shed Hill, or Chap
Anderson, or Fred Barry, or Clark
Lewis, when they represented this
district, coming back ito the voters-
with a letter of recommendation
from the speaker?
Whoever heard of any man who
represented Mississippi in the Sem
ate, circulating a letter of recon-
mendation from the president of
the Senate?
There is something Of a patent
medicine flavor in this new venture
in advertising. It reminds one of
those people who get their pictures
in the newspapers, endorsing the
virtues and achievements of "Tan-
lac" Pink Pills" or "Wine of
Cardui."
1t is laughable, it is lidicrous,
and it ought to be humiliating to the
intelligent supporters of u Con-
gressmen. What has he been doing
all these eight years if he has not
made a record he can stand on
without a letter of recommends
ton?
Alas! Alas! Has it come to
TINS! (Adv.)