Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-09-07
HARRISON SCORES
JAMES K. vARDAMAN
NEsHo5A FAIR CROWDS CHEER
coNGREesMANs DENuNcIA-
TON OF JUNIOR SENATOR.
STANDS BEHIND PRESIDENT
Many Noted Politicians, Including Gov.
Bllbo and Lieut.. Gov Russell, oc-
cupy Platform and Applaud
Speaker.

lphia-Declaring himself .
candidate for United States senator
against Senator James X Vardaman,
and making the war with Germany and
the policies of President Wilson's ad-
ministration the dominating issues in
the campaign, Congressman Pat Harri-
son, at the Neshoba county fair
grounds, opened one of the most in
teresting political contests that Mis-
sissippi has ever witnessed.
IF you are a supporter of the peer
less president of this great republic"
exclaimed Mr.. Harrison, you cannot
consistently support the junior senator
from Mississippi If you love your
country, which was born in the womb
of war and nurtured and protected by
the blood of your heroic ancestors, his
reeking record cannot command your
suffrage If you love liberty and free
dom, the blood bought legacy of every
free-born American. you cannot reward
the man who gives aid and comfort to
the enemies of the government that
insures liberty and freedom"
Harrison's entry into the senatorial
race took place In the presence of one
of the largest and most representative
crowds ever assembled in the state.
People from all sections of the state
came to Philadelphia to hear him. 1t
was a Harrison crowd from start to
finish.
There was also no doubt about the
sentiment of the crowd on the question
of unfolding the government in the
war with Germany. The sentiment was
plain and unmistakable, not only when
Harrison was speaking, but when
other speakers referred to the war.
Every reference to the duty of Missis-
sippians in unfolding President Viii
sons war policies was greeted with
applause.
follows in full:
Harrison Denunclatory.
For IS years the Democratic party was
q minority party At last it came into
its own. electng a President and both
houses of Congress.
Coming into control of the government
after long period of hypocrisy and fall
ure by the Republican party to redeem
their pledges or heed the legitimate de-
mands Of the masses. it was to be ex-
pected that Democratic representatives of
the people both in the Senate and the
House would assist in redeeming those
promises on which victory was won and
uphold the hands of the chief executive
and the leaders of the legislative branch
OF the government 1t was hoped that
there would be unity of action and team
work because we had seen the Repub-
lican party wrecked upon the rocks of
discord and dissension. At least 1t was
to be expected that the representatives,
of the American people would uphold the
hands of the chief executive. irrespective
of party, in enforcingN American rights
and defending the nations honor
| No President ever assumed the duties
of office amidst greater economic COM
plications and with graver Responsible
ties than MIR. Wilson As the days Of
his administration wore along, conditions
! became more trying, complications more
acute and the solution Of problems more
difficult. In thousand different ways
| since he first took up the reirs of office
| ne has proven his allegiance TO the
masses his fairness and justice in the
execution of the laws and the admins
/ tration OF that office
For years the trusts and protected in
| terests had held a strange hold on the
| threats Of the people and extracted from
! them high and eXorbitant tariff duties.
| lie remained for this Democratic Presi-
| dent through the matchless power OF his
wisdom and influence, to force through
/ Congress ana write upon the statute
J books the best tariff law ever enacted
! a tariff law which unfettered business,
| encouraged commerce and deprived mo
| nopoly of its control over production dis
! tribution and prices; a law in the franz
! ing of which neither lobby nor special
! interest had a hand and which redeemed
the Democratic promises of a tariff law
| intelligeatfy written, not In behalf Of
the favored few. but in the interest OF
the people.
New Problems Arise.
1t was under the guiding hand of this
man that Wall Street by the enactment
! of the federal reserve law. was divorced
from control of the finances of this coun-