The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-30
THE GRENADA SENTINEL.
PAT HARRISON CAN DO THINGS.

PAT HARRISON CAN DO THINGS.
as 70 be on good terms with his ~neighbors and to have the good
will will, and IN i. approval Ppc%n a.. Of a x vast ma' Se soe a1 # He 'i is a piain S unas-
SHINING man; Therssis nothing of the strut or the vaaa,g,Gri.
s sHs ae'9 This h'n is the He S ass' he not IS s regarded to ' at soms n S Rsis IS tSs
way he is regarded in his district which he served so faithfully sthaff%
IL in him IN his district where he has served for three terms in
sen s1ss. w Rt ae se w to t seDt to hoy con 1s SssaH his n aSiiity wss' seen
recognized there, and he was placed on some OF the most I'M
Of the committee on Foreign Relations. a committee SECOND in
importance in this war crisis to none in the House. he is q
reefs house procedure and, the one that must steer the party
csme to Sm ~h Seea ases Of h al's sSilt yn snd f Secause he had had shown .
that he could d do ,,I things a;., H hs fsSnm has ds% de%oastraf He h 5aa' n nt
set his opinion over and above his conferees; When his opln-
ions have been overriden in committees he has not bolted his
p pitsy th snd Rs sSns eSss an Harrison frisco 10 has s'd directed sR q his Course us ui,o
the tt h Theory :. that at his hi , fsil4 4r.t la tSsy were iu sas ab as w as e aaa }ent
tous as he is. Of course he could have gotten himself in the
usual; had he cussed the President, had he seen snakes in ev-
cry, proposition that came along, had he talked about money
refused to cooperate with his party and lined up in = vast
majority maj . Il sas of Instances nSss.v when "9 wi vital anG questions H We're up' b with se Te
enough to know that he could not rewrite the constitution of
man at the present time can not: Harrison has never attempt
ed &c, to kick the dome Of the c aPpa';a, nor ii has as he so tried to s,d spit aed in
intentions of his fellows. He has not talked about the head d., Of
his Il party .t being q a., dictator Hater: he f;i has n.n not sale thai that w Woodrow .sSsr . will,
expected to see another DemGcrati bcP; President sn1e;n. l Harrison has
not written letters back to MISSISSIPPI cuSS1ng almost every
thing at Washington. He has not done all these things be-
cause in the first place he has too much good, native common
sense, and because, in the next place, he could not 60 so and
state the facts and Pat Harrison has always tried to make
his statements square with the truth. We repeat that Harri.
son somehow or somehow else has so conducted himself that
the leading Democrats at Washington believe in him. He
has made a record at Washington that has prompted the lead
ing Democrats of the nation to frequently call him in coun-
sci. 1t is violating no confidence to state that he has often been
the number of leading statesmen that President Wilson
has summoned to the White House for conference. What spe-
cial things he has undertaken to do for his district, ne has
done! The future is brighton him His attitude towards men
and measures as a national legislator has made others want to
serve him. it has made others stand ready to cooperate with
him and has thereby increased his usefulness and effective
ness as a member of congress. The man that so conducts him
self as to be regarded as a freak, or as a sack OF verbal dyna-
mite, becomes a political eunich, unable to serve himself or any
one else. In addition to all these qualities of statecraft and
political acumen. he isa most hkeable man. To be around him
is to become attached to him and to realize in him those ex-
emplary traits of character always seen in the upright citizen
and in the true and loyal friend and %neighbor. With Pat Har-
rison associated with ohm Sharp Williams in the United States
senate, Mississippians would feel that the days OF Lamar and
George had returned and that she was represented in the
greatest deliberate body in the world by two men that would
demand respect and challenge the confidence and the admira-
ton of the world.
Pat Harrison can talk but he is more of a doer Of things
than a talker, especially is he not an iconoclast.. He would
prefer the unseen path, rather than to shoot verbal broth at
the accomplishments of some one else. He is no knocker. He
is no Great l Am" There is none of the Kaiser about hlm
He has good sense enough to know that he has made mis-
takes. The man is to be pitied who has not brains enough tc
see that he has made mistakes.