The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-04-26
To The People of Mississippi:-

40 ne 1GOplc VI 0AASS1SS1PpA'-
The Pat Harrison Central Cam
paign Committee sends q message OF
good cheer and encouragement to
the thousands of friends Of Hon. Pat
Harrison who have so freely and so
voluntarily pledged him their sup
port, and to the still greater number
of thousands of Mississippians who
never fail to place loyalty to Country
and. to State above their personal
ends or the fortunes, political or 9TH
erwise, of any man or set of men.
We unhesitatingly state that the news
pouring in from every corner of Mis-
sissippi warrants the conviction that
Mississippi has made up her mind to
send no man to a seat in the upper
branch of the Nations law-making
body whose political record does not
square with the Allegiance plank In
the last National platform of the
Democratic party, and with President
Wilson's oft expressed idea Of the
necessity of team work. No
amount of dissimulation or camou-
faging can conceal from the people
the real issue in the race for United
States Senator. 1t is unfortunate,
now while the Nation is in ter
rife struggle with foreign foe, that
a political contest is made neces-
sary, but it would be a greater mis-
fortune for the people of Missis-
sippi not to have their patriotism and
correct position on this momentous
issue registered in the United States
Senate for the next six years. 1t
matters little whether MIR. Harrison
or any other man is chosen Senator,
but it is a matter of the greatest
import to this great State, and in
deed to the whole United States, that
she have no representative in the
greatest deliberative body in the
world whose pulse does not beat in
unison with the spirit of our fathers
and whose heart does not attune to
the sentiment of one of the remain
ing few of those grand heroes who
wore the Confederate gray and who
pronounced his wrath upon the man
"who is not for his country right or
wrong"
We all know that our President
exhausted every effort known to hu-
man agency to avoid war. he was
tolerant in the extreme, all of which
makes the people at large have lit
tie patience with the man who failed
or refused to cooperate with the
head of the Government in an hour
when every act of an American citi-
zen was being watched and interpret
ed by the Kaiser and his emn1issar-
les. The National legislators who did
not know that every criticism of the
President was falling on glad
ears in Germany and was be-
ing construed there as an evi-
dence that the people of Amerl,
ca would not follow their Pres
ident in his efforts to maintain the
honor of the United States and to
protect the people of this country
in their rights, failed in a great crisis
to rise equal to the opportunities ano
demands of the hour. There are
tines that it will not do to halt
There are times when even the wisest
must follow those duly constituted
with the right of leadership. The
bare suggestion now that I'VE had
no just cause" carries a taint OF dis
loyalty.
For any man by hint or inuendo
to array himself not only against
the expressed judgment of his gov
ernment but the expressed judgment
of the church and benevolent organi
cations of the Country, puts him or
dangerous ground and marks him a:
one of defective judgment and o1
doubtful responsibility. The churche:
believe in the righteousness of the
war; they have said so. The fra
ternal and benevolent organizations
unreservedly state that the war wa
unavoidable, SO the doubter and th'
obstructer finds himself in unfortu
nate company. Only recently thu
Bishops of one of the great churches
in the United States sent this mes
sage to the country and to the Presi
dent:
"We shall give our eighty mil
lions. We shall buy liberty bond
with them first. We shall proud!
pour our money into the nationa
treasury just as we give our sons t.
the nations army and navy. We shal
make our dollars and our sons hell
win the war for freedom, for hu
manity, for democracy, against greed
tyranny, and brutality. Then w
shall turn these bonds of our countr,
into the treasury of our Lord, as w
shall give our sons ana daughters Z
his holy service, that the whole worl
NAV be made free in him
limiting with all other Christian force
and bodies, we lift this holy task i
our hands and take it, with them
upon our hearts and faith"
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Mis-
s;ss;npi at it's last Convocation off
ciaTly declared that Eve condem
every act or word that tends to hin
d.r or embarrass the President in hi
Great undertaking, as help to tn
enemy and hurt to our cause.
This is Indicative of what is bein
thought, said and done throughou
the country. Where is the man wh