The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-07-05
HON. JEFF BUSBY
CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS

Hon. Jeff Busby, of Houston, is formally an
nounced as candidate for Congress form the Fourth
District. subject to the action of the Democratic
party at the Congressional primary in August.
Mr.. Busby is now serving in the office OF county
prosecuting attorney, where he has made a splendid
record for enforcing the law without fear or favor
itism. He has acted with the courage of a man who
knows his duty, and is not afraid to do it. and yet
there has been no undue zeal or fanaticisr in con-
nection with it.
No citizen of Chickasaw county is held in higher
esteem than Jeff Busby. He is a splendid type OF
young Christian manhood, thoroughly equipped for
his chosen profession, endowed with a genial and
attractive personality, and in every way Splendldly
equipped for the office to which he asplres.
The biographer has it that Jeff Busby was born
in a log farmhouse about ten miles from the historic
old town of Iuka, in T~isomingo county, Mississippi.
on July 26, 1884. The parents Of a future president
could not have selected a more appropriate place for
the birth of q great statesman. He is a man
who despises anything that smacks of demagoguery.
He reluctantly admitted that his parents were very
poor; that his early education was obtained at short
intervals between the planting and harvesting of
crops; that he usually attended country schools two
months in the summer and two in the winter, until
he was about eighteen years OF age, when he passed
the county examination and was given a certificate
to teach. He taught in the country schools of fish
omingo county for two years, and then by p~racticing
the utmost economy and self-denial, and with the
cooperation of his parents, he got together enough
money to attend a session of the Georgia Robertson
Christian College at Henderson, Tenn, finishing a
B. S. degree in one session. He returned to his
home near 1uka and resumed teaching country
schools tor three years, and again by denying nlm-
self all of the luXurleS, and many OF the necessities
of life, he accumulated sufficient funds to crafty the
burning desire of his heart from early youth to take
a law course at the University. He mastered the
first and second year course in one session, secured a
diploma and was admitted to the bar. Every lawyer
knows under what difficulties this was accomplished.
Mr.. Busby's career in Chickasaw county is we'll
known and has been too brilliant and successful to
require any econium from our pen. However, we
will say that when he had been in our county only
two years he w nominated and elected county at
torney over two we'll known and popular opponents.
In the 1915 campaign for reelection he was opposed
by a worthy and competent young man, a native OF
this county, but the voters were so we'll pleased with
the way he had conducted his Office that they en-
dorsed him by a vote of 1908 to 722.
He is a member of the Methodist Church. assist
ant Superintendent of the Methodist Sunday School,
a Royal Arch Mason, and a WOodman of the World.
Jeff Busby is an honest, sincere, painstaking Of
fetal. He is alert, affable and void of affectation.
He has the courage of his convictions and is not
afraid to prosecute a criminal no matter what his or
her social standing may be. He would be lenient
only with those whom he believed to be innocent or
upon whom the evidence showed mitigating circum-
stances.
While still a young man, Mr.. Busby has been
engaged in the practice of law about ten years, and
is recognized as one of the leading lawyers of this
district. He is exceedingly popular with the people
of his home county, who know his work best, and be-
ing a man of highest integrity and moral standing,
having a record of absolute honesty and fair deal
ing, we believe that he is especially fitted. both by
study and disposition, for the duties of Congressman.
The Tlmes-Post UnQualifedly endorses him for the
place, believing that with Mr.. Busby in Congress, the
Fourth District would have a representative equal
to that of any district in the South. We would urge
friends throughout the district to bestir themselves
in Mr.. Busby's behalf, for it is realized now,
as at no other time in recent years. that the best.
brainiest and most dependable men of the country
should be at the National Capital.
(The above article is taken from the 'rimes.Post,
Mr.. Busby's home paper. It shows how he is re-
garded by those who know him best.) CAdv)