Macon beacon., 1917-09-07
HARRISON SCORES
JAMES K. VARDAMAN
kEsHo8A FAIR CROWDS CaEER
coNGREssMANs DENuNcIA.
TON OF JUNIOR SENATOR.
STANDS BEHIND PRESIDENT
Many Noted Politicians, Including Gov.
ellbo and Lieut.. Gov. Russell, DC.
cupy Platform and Applaud
Speaker.

elphia.-Declaring himself a
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
son, at the Neshoba county fair
grounds, opened one of the most in
teresting political contests that Mis-
stssippi 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
rom 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 II 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
tnsures 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 upholding the government in the
war with Germany The sentiment was
plain and unmstakable, not only when
Harrison was speaking, but when
other speakers referred to the war.
Every reference to the duty of Missis-
sippians in upholding President Will
sons war policies was greeted with
applause.
Congressman Pat Harrisons speech
follows in full:
Harrison Denunciatory.
For is years the Democratic party was
q minority party At last 1t came into
houses of Congress.
Coming into control of the government
after long period of hypocrisy and fail
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 it was
to be expected that the representatives
OF the American people would uphold the
of party. in enforcing American rights
and defending the nations honor.
No President ever assumed the duties
OF office amidst greater economic com
plicatons and with graver responsible
ties than Mr.. Wilson. As the days Of
his administration wore along conditions
became more trying, complications more
acute and the solution of problems more
difficult In a thousand different ways
since he first took up the rens of office
he 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 strangle hold on the
throats 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 and write upon the statute
books the best tariff law ever enacted
tariff law which unfettered business,
encouraged commerce and deprived mo-
nopoy of its control over production, dis
tribution and prices; law in the franz
ing of which neither lobby nor special
l.. I .t.la Il -. .-r3
the Democratic promises Of tariff law
intelligently written, not in behalf tt
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 coulI-
try and placed in the hands of a disiuter-
ested board as agents of the government.
1t was this law that gave the people con-
fidence in our banking institutions and
has proven an economic salvation, from
panics and financial chaos.
1t was under the guiding hand of this
, man that the farmers Of the country were
at last given a rural credit system where
by they are permitted to borrow money
for a long time at low rates of interest to
improve their farms and make rural life
more attractive and farming more prof!ta-
BILE.
could enumerate many other laws en-
acted in behalf of the people under the
leadership of this man during the four
years he has been in office. Suffice it 20
say, however, that his every act, his every
utterance has been with an eye single TO
the welfare of the American people and
in the interest of justice, fairness and
equity tn all. His record IS known to
every man in this land, it stands in unri-
vailed brilliancy by the side of every other
President. and needs no defense at my
charges of any man. He has never
crooked the pregnant hinges of the knee
that thrift might follow fawnng,' and !
know that you have faith in his ability
his integrety and patriotism; that you ap-
preeiated his love for peace and the pa
tience and fOrbearance he manifested for
three years in keeping this country out If
war, that you admire his courage and
Americauism in upholdng the nations
honor when the inevitable hour struck,
and that you will glory in the place impair
tial history will accord to Woodrow Will
son, the greatest statesman and patriot
OF his age.
Il was during his first term, when manv
economic and domestic questions were
nendng and the solution of which were
absorbing his attention, that the horrible
war in Europe broke with such startling
suddenness that the world stood aghast
and bewildered. The smolderng sparks
of civil strife were reklndled in Mexico
Hts hands were full. God knows II ever
a man was weighted down with heavier
RESPONSIBILITIES and more needed aid.
counsel and co-operation-especial from
members Of his own party-it was he.
Tribute to Wilson.