The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1918-08-15

i people, VIZ, 70 give MISSISSIPPI port
for export and import in Gulfport
from mere road stead to one Of the
deep harbors of the gulf coast for yes.
sells drawing twenty feet Of water; q
cantonment, Camp Shelby" for the
thirty thousands soldiers to be trained
IN modern warfare for the American
Expeditionary force to make the Ger
mans in this worlds war feel the ef
fects Of our KhalSi~clad boys in battle
on the Western European fronts; in
having shipyards to build wooden,
steel and concrete ships that will fly
the American flag in the seven seas
and five oceans; and lastly in making
Gulfport a naval training school for
officers and sailors in the nyay and
merchant marine.
The standing of a Federal Repre-
sentative can be judged by his party
associates and colleagues, notably by
assignment to important committees.
The greatest committee in Congress
is the Committee on Rules, which has
the say so, whether a bill shall come
up for consideration or not, and its
ipse dixit is law. Congressman Har-
rison is one Of three members Of it,,
with Speaker Clark ex-oflicio chair
man, and Gillett Of Massachusetts,
Mississippi has been exceptionally
famed BY the speakers with Catch
ings in the Reed congress, Williams
in the Cannon congress and Harri-
son in the Clark congress on the Rules
Committee.
The House Committee on Foreign
Relations declared by resolution war
on Germany and Austria Hungary,
and it is needless to say Congressman
Harrison, q committee member, voted
in the rooms and the House on that
proposition to hold up President Will
sons hands to make the world safe for
democracy Also on many measures,
particularly in regard to alien enemies,
in espionage trading with the enc
my and extending the draft for our
allies subjects IN the United States.
Mr.. Harrison's high sense Of justice
is shown in the case Of the Choctaw
Indians in Mississippi During all of
his congressional service he has en-
deavored to have some Of the tribal
friends of the Oklahoma Choctaws
paid to those in Mississippi that did
not migrate 10 the Indian Territory
after the Dancing Rabbit Treaty Of
1886 Notwithstanding this claim met
recurring defeats by the Oklahoma
lobby it incurred the attention Of u.
S. Indian Commissioner Cato Sells to
investigate by visit to the state Of
these wof$hy Choctaws, the recipients
of Harrison's labors
Loyalty is the test of Americanism,
and Representative Harrison, though
contemptuously referred by United
States Senator Vardaman as the
little echo in support of all Presi-
dent Wilson's policies, let US answer
by our votes next week to make him
"the big echo" in the United States
Senate in ratifying the peace treaty
that viii be made between the allies
and central Empires, an American
peace, with democracy and not autoc-
lracy, the signboard for all nationali-
ties. Be sure, Voters, that it will be
United States Senator Byron Patton
Harrison because the vote may be
close in confirming President Wilson
and the treaty, making power Of the
Federal Senate We cannot afford to
jeopardize this peace treaty by a
known obstructionist, as President
Mckinley saved the Spanish-Ameri-
can War Paris Peace Treaty by one
vote and that vote was cast by United
States Senator Samuel D. McEnery
of Louisiana.
Mississippi has played major part
nj the United States Senate as one Of
the duumviate in Conkling and Lamar,
Edmunds and George, Walthall and
Spooner and Lodge and Williams,
And why not next year with Pat Har-
rison, an expert In international af-
fairs and a loyal American to his
country's traditions
Vote for Harrison, vote for him
the personifcation Of loyalty, vote to
let our soldiers somewhere in France
and our sailors somewhere in the war
sea zone know that We are backing
them by sending champion for them
in the United States Senate, and vote
to have one of The Wisest controllers
in national affairs where his skill and
knowledge will secure for the whole
state national rewards and favors.
JAMES 4. McCALEB, M. d.
Byrnmore Plantation, August 18th,
1918