The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-06-14

The main issue now before the peO-
pie of this Congressional District is
not whether my ambition to repre-
sent you in the Lower House of Con-
gress shall be satisfied or whether the
ambition Of either of the other two
gentlemen in the race shall be salts
fed, but, according to my humble
judgment, the issue is how we stand
on the principles of sound govern
ment, and especially at this time the
war which a hatred-breeding, malice
fostering, spy ~incubatilg, malicious
planning, Kaiser ridden, women dlsre-
garding, children forgetting, treaty
breaking, murderous designing gov
eminent forced upon the United
States. Those who know me person
ally can say that l have shown myself
in this citizen testing hour to stand
for nv country. All of you have had
an opportunity to put to the test the
gentleman who now holds a commits
sion from you in Congress. But, l
must confess that, however much l
may feel it a duty to refer to his rec
ord, | undertake the task with re-
l~uctance.
There is no full-fedged American
who does not admire the mar who has
well thought out, matured convictions
and who is possessed of the ability
and the true courage and discretion
to maintain them. Neither is there
any full-fedged American, who has
a lust regard for his fellows, that does
not know that our Government was
founded in the spirit of conservatism
and that from the making of its Con
~stitution up to this good hour, that
man has been most effective for his
w people and for the country at
large who has been willing to follow
as we'll as to lead. 1t takes as much
wisdom and as high an order of states
manship to follow the lead of another
as it does to lead. Indeed n must
show himself intelligent and depend
able in cooperation before he is able
to persuade others that he should
lead. Outside of u Congressman's
vote on the McLemore resolution, and
sundry other efforts apparently made
bv him to put himself in the limellght,
he came home last fall and, II the
testimony of some of the best men
and women in the country who heard
him is to be accepted, made speeches
attacking the Select-Draft law, a law
that put the rich and the poor, the
high and the low on equal footing
in raising an army, and evidently
sought to leave the impression IN
MANY localities that the Washington
authorities were allowing the big rich
enterprises to fitch millions of dollars
from the Government. Now strange
to say that this astute politician did
not make his same speech at every
place attacking so many things the
Government had done. The fact that
he varied his speeches lays him open
to the charge that he suited his
speech to what he thought was the
temper of his audience. AS an evil
dence of this, l quote below a broad
side that was fired at him by the
Mayor of Okolona and more thar a
hundred and twenty-five other cltl-
zens of Chickasaw County just after
his speech there. And also l quote
from an editorial mention OF his
speech made in Grenada, Nov. ~,
last. in the The Grenada Sentinel I'M
der date of Nov. %, 1917. Now all
those who know the political leanings
and affiliations of the editor of The
Grenada Sentinel feel that they know
full we'll that he would not have given
Mr.. Sisson or anybody else a favor
able notice in his paper had he
thought he was in the least attacking
President Wilson or the attitude OF
the United States in this war. l do
not know the position of The Sentinel
editor in this race. He has not COM
mitted himself to me. There are
some who have quoted him as being
for Sisson, but if he is, I am confident
he would not be if he would take the
trouble to compare our Congressman's
speech at Grenada with his speech at
Okolona and at some other points.
But read some extracts from what the
Chickasaw county citizens say and
then compare that with The Grenada
Sentinel's account of his Grenada
speech.
Whereas, The Commercial APP
peal of Sunday, the 18th, inst, pub
lished an item from Okolona under
the heading, 'Sisson at Okolona,' stat
ing that Mr.. Sisson spoke to "a large
and appreciative audience Thursday
might, ETC., ETC., and