The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-04-05
HARRISON CAM
PAICN COMMITTEE
ISSUES ADDRESS
Promise. Contest Upon a High Plane
and Insists That the Junior Sena-
.,or'. Own Acts Responsibls tor
Issue Before the People or
Mi.sissippi-Loyafty to be
Their Slogan.

Jackson. Miss, March 31.-The fat
harrison central campaign commit1ee
has prepared the following stateMeM'
relative to the campaign for the Unit
Cd States senatorship, which is De-
c;nninc TO take on more than ordi-
nary interest: oon.
naipn committee sends greetings 10
the people of Mississippi on the grea'
;mnetus given Mr.. Harrison's candl-
dacy for the United States Senate oy
the gathering of so many representa-,
tives of the patriotic and unterrlneo
hosts of Democracy which came 70
Jackson last Monday We feel that
YOU already know that a large per
cent of those in attendance at this
meeting were supporters of Mr. Har-
rison's opponent when he was elected
to the Senate. These men say that
they have not changed, but that the
iunior senator from Mississippi has,
1--WE know that you want this cam
paign pitched upon high plane, and
we pledge the people that, SO far as
Mr.. Harrison and his committee are
concerned. that shall be done. The
country is concerned just now with
men only so far as they square with
the American idea Of the greatest
and the gravest issue ever before the
people Of this conutry. Loyalty. ab-
solute. unconditional and unmoditied,
is the supreme test to be applied in
this hour to those asking official
trust.
Had Mr.. Harrison been less pa
vo11fieior ho U0ntd
have sought to travel in the line of
least resistance end again have made
the race for Congress in the district
which he has so ably and wisely repre-
sented and where it is universally con-
ceded that he could have been re-
elected without opposition.
"But there was demand from the
Tennessee line to the gulf, from Ala
barna to the Mississippi river for
some one to lead the fight for loyalty
to country and to party in the COM
ing senatorial race. The war cloud
which darkens the nations horizon
and which is taxing its every energy
caused may of the noble sons of Mis-
sissippi to shrink from political con-
test in this hour, yet it was felt that
it would be an impeachment OF the
patriotism of our people to allow
many of the acts of our Junior SEN
a. or in the Senate to go unchallenged.
The great office of the United States
senator belongs to the people and it
is their right and privilege to run
whomsoever they will.
''In yielding to the great demands |
upon him to make the race, Mr.. Har-
rison was not so foolish as to believe
that he was the only one who could |
successfully carry the banner of 10y
atty to government and fidelity to |!
party just now.
"At a time when German!sm is bat
tering at the very gates of the repub-
lie, When the foul breath of his be-
stial "kultur" is a stencil in the nos
trils of the civilized world" and when |
every man who is proud of his Ameri-
can lineage, and who looks with pride
upon the heroism, valor and states
manship of those who planned and
fought the Revolutionary War and
set this government upon its feet, is
called, Upon to sacrifice life itself this
insidious monster and the horrible
system of philosophy and religion for
which it stands be destroyed, no man
should be chosen to fill public trust
whose Americanism is not unques-
toned and unassailable.
ut is therefore patriotic duty to
inquire most carefully into the char
acter and the leanings of every can.
didate for office. What man in
office has done once he will most pro-
badly do again No candidate who is
unable to meet this test should be
sent to the nations law-making body
Greater problems than the mind can
now conceive will come up for ad-
justment after this war. The welfare
of our children and the future of our
country demand that there be men
in the United States upon whom our
president can absolutely rely for aid
and cooperation.
Respectfully,
TpAT HARRISON CENTRAL CAM