The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-09-07
NESHOBA FAIR CROWDS CHEER
cONGRESSMAN'S DENUNCIA-
TON OF JUNIOR SENATOR.
STANDS BEHIND PRESIDENT
Many Noted Politicians, Including Gov.
sllbo and Lieut.. Coy. Russell, oe-
eupy Platform and Applaud
Speaker.

and making the war with Germany an,
the policies OF President Wilson's ad
ministration the dominating issues ii
the campaign, Congressman Pat Harri
son, at the Neshoba county fail
grounds. opened one of the most in
teresting political contests that Mis-
eissippi has ever witnessed.
II you are a supporter of the peer
less president OF this great republic
exclaimed Mr.. Harrison. you cannoi
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
tie enemies of the government that
1nsures liberty n 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 un~mistakable, 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 Will
sons war policies was greeted with
applause.
Congressman Pat Harrison's speech
follows in full:
Harrison Denunciatory.
For IS years the Damocratic party was
q minority. party. At last it came into
houses Of Congress.
Coming into control of the government
after a long Beriod of hypocrisy and fail
their pledges or heed the legitimate de-
mands Of the masses, it was to he ex-
pected that Democratic representatives. Of
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
thera would be unity Of action and team
work, because We had seen the Repub-
discord and dissension. AT least it was
20 be expected that the representatives
OF he American people would uphold the
hands n the chief executive. irrespective
OF party. in enforcing American rights
and defending the nations honor.
No Pre- sident ever assumed the duties
Of nfFfgp amidst greater Grnpnria n1--
ties than MIR. Wilson. AS the iass If
his administration wore along. conditions
became more trying, complications more
ecute and the solution of problems more
difficult In a thousand different ways
massey MS fairness and justice in the
execution OF the laws and the adminis-
tration 81; that office.
teresfs had held a strange hold on the
throats Of the people and extracted from
them high and eXorbitant tariff duties.
Il remained for this Democratic Presi-
dent. through the matchless power Of his
wisdom and Influence, to force through
books the hest tariff law ever enacted
a tariff law which unfettered business,
encouraged commerce and deprived mo-
nopoiy Of its control over production, dis
trthutUn and prices; a law in the franz
ing of which neither lobby nor special
interest Lad a hand and which redeemed
80 49, ~ = vi q - law ]
tntelligently written. not in behalf Il
the favored few. but in the interes. 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 coui,-
try ans placed in the hands OF "A d'sinter-
ested board as agents of the government.
It was this law that gave the people con-
GnH III nlT h "A / . fans a-l
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 p%rof!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 10 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 fawning,' and l
know that YOU have faith in his ability,
his integrity and patriotism; that you APP
preciatrd his love for peace, and the pa
tieuc" and furbearance he manifested for
three years In keeping this country out #
war mat you admire his courage and
AmefI.tuism In UNFOLDING yhe nations
homo q ~ the inevitable hour struck.
and O.. 90 Will glory in the place impair
tial history will accord to Woodrow Will
Kor, tr" greatest statesman and patriot
of hts 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
suddenness that the world stood aghast
and bewildered. The smoldering sparks
of civil strife were refunded in Mexico.
His hands were full. God knows If ever
"A man was Weighted down with heavier
responsibilities and more needed aid,
counsel and co-operation-especially from
member of his own party-it was he.
Tribute to Wilson.