Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-09-06
,kEsHoBA FAIR CROWDS CHEER
coNcREssMANs pENUNcIA-
TON OF JUNIOR SENATOR.
STANDS BEHIND PRESIDENT
Many Noted Politicians, including Gov.
BIIbo and Lieut.. Gov. Russell, o.
/ eupy Platform and Applaud
Speaker.

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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
keresting political contests that Mis-
gissippi has ever witnessed.
If you are 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
feeking 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 upholding 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 upholding President Will
sons. war policies was greeted with
applause.
Congressman Pat Harrisop's speech
follows in full:
Harrison Denunclatory.
For IS years the Democratic party was
Q minority party. At last il came into
its own, eleeting President and both
houses Of Congress.
Coming into control of the government
after a long period of hypocrisy and fall
ure by the Republican party to redeem
their pledges or heed the legitimate de-
mhnOS OF the masses, II was 10 ne eH-
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 dissenson, 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 enforcing American rights
and. defending the nations honor.
No President ever assumed the duties
Of office amidst greater economic COM
plcations and with graver respGnsiblii-
ties than Mr.. Wilson. AS the days If
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 reins 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 a strange hold on. the
Threats of the peorle and extracted from
them high and eXorbitant tariff duties.
Ie 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
a tariff law which unfsttered business,
encouraged commerce and deprived mo-
nopoly of its control over production, dis
trfbution and prices; law in the franz
ing Of which neither lobby nor special
interest had hand and which redeemed
the Democratic promises OF tariff law
intelligently written. not in behalf q
the favored few. but in the interest or
the people.
New Problems Arise.
II 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 couf-
try and placed In the hands of d!sinter-
ested board as agents Of the government.
fidence in our banking Institutions and
has proven an economic salvation, from
panics and financial chaos.
It 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 profita-
could enumerate many other laws en-
IN behalf y 81; Of the people pev under 9S the
years he has been in office. Suffice 1t 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 to 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
hands from the aspersions or indirect
charges Of any man. He has never
ssorooked the pregnant hinges of the knee
that thrift might follow fawning." and l
know that you have faith in his ability
his integrety and patriotism; that you APP
preciated his love for peace, and the pa
Hence and forbearance he manifested for
three years in keeping this country out Of
war; that you admire his courage and
Americanism In upholding the nations
honor when the inevitable hour struck,
and that you win glory in the place impair
tial history will accord to Woodrow VIII
Of his age.
II was during his first term, when MANY
economic and domestic questions were
pending and the solution Of which were
absorbing his attention, that the horrible
war In Europe broke with such startling
ruddenness that the world stood aghast
and bewildered. The smoldering sparks
Of civil strife were rekinuied in Mexico.
HIS hands were full. God knows II ever
q man was weighted down with heavier
responsibilities and more needed aid,
counsel ana co-operation-esp from
mefahers OF his own party--it was he.
Tribute to Wilson.
with the advent Of war IN Europe the
ocean transportation facilities Of tho