The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-26
BILDO AND HIS
 OPPONENTS MAKING HE WOOL FLY
Contest for Seat in Congress in Coast District of Mis- sissippi Is Growing
 Interesting
nv E. F.. ERANrz

Jackson, Miss, May 25.-(Special)-A spirited congressional campaign has de- veloped in the Sixth district-that now represented by Pat Harrison, candidate Tor Vardaman's shoes in the Senate There are four candidates, all well-known and popular men, and they are all on the stump. They are telling the truth on each other, and therefore the wool is flying in more directions than one.
 At recent joint debate Governor Bill by and Judge Paul Johnson paid their respects to each other in vitriolic language. Judge Johnsons chief plank seems to be opposition to statewide tick eradication though it is now entirely too late. War was declared on the ticks two years ago, and they have been elim- mated almost completely, the state quar- antine having been lifted several months ago But Judge Johnson keeps on talk
 ins about it and declaring Governor. Bilbo
 promised his people when candidate
 for governor that if he was elected and
 the legislature passed such a law he
 would veto it. Judge Johnson declares
 his language as to that was inconsistent
 with any desire to tell the truth The
 governor has a perfectly good excuse for having approved the measure-that the legislature would have passed it over his head and there was no use in a veto The governor charges Judge Johnson with all kinds of anarchism in that he charged his juries to pay no attention to violations of the tick laws and telling them that if they did find true bills against any man for blowing up vats, he would throw the case out of court and wipe it off the docket.
 l When Zan Anderson another candi-
 date, gets up to make a talk to the voters
 he gives Governor Bilbo and Judge John soT credit for telling the truth on each other, declaring he believes what both | of them say about the other. Anderson l is a member of the lower house in the | legislature. and a kind of free lance with | the Queens English, but that makes
 no difference to an audience of men com posed largely of men who do not know
 and who do not care whether he is | speaking English as she is spoke" or | not, and it is said that he is going to i poll great many votes among the saw mill men, turpentine boxers and distillers 1 as well as farmers.
 1 F. J. Bowers, another candidate, is a distinguished Gulf coast and railroad law yer, who retired from Congress q few
 years ago of his own accord to accept
 the office of chief attorney for the Gulf and Ship Island railroad. Later on he | suffered a stroke of paralysis some l thing of the character, and has been ] rather on the retired list for some time | However he has almost entirely recov | cred, and is putting in some heavy blows l on Bilbo and Johnson. The understand i ing here is that Bowers is going to be in l second race with either Bilbo or John l son. He has never belonged to the Vard- 1 aman or Blbo faction, and in conse i quence will poll all the opposition those
 two men had five years ago-and per | haps some more.
 ] Governor Bilbo was here Sunday l night and stated that he is very, well
 satisfied with the political situation in i the Sixth He is confident that race | is between himself and Bowers. That l is he states he comes first in strength, Bowers second and Johnson third It
 may be- as a matter of course, that the | wish is father to tue though. Wis | itors to Jackson from that part of | the state put Johnson in First place l that is great many of them do, 9th CTS give Bowers first place, and pre-
 diet he will defeat both his chief op- ponents. The only reason Bowers does | not clean up the bunch, it is generally
 admitted, is that he has been in bad 1 health so long they are telling it on l him that he will not live to finish out
 one term. However, Bowers is very ! live wre one of the best stump speak | CTS and readest debaters in the state,
 and it need not he surprising if he runs away with tbe banner.
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