The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1918-05-08
Ex-Gov. E. f. Noel
Makes Initial Cam
paign Speech Here.
SAYS OPPONENTS
HAVE DONE LITTLE
Flays One Of Competi-
tors in Speech.
(From Mondays Daily.D

EX-GOV. r.. r. Noel, candidate Tor
United States Senator, opened his
campaign in Greenwood this morning
with very characteristic and elo-
quent address at the court house, be-
ginning at IL o'clock. Only med
ium sized crowd heard the former gov
ernor's talk.
Z The speaker was presented by Hon
A. F. Gardner, who said that the nan
who has not succeeded for himself,
can not make success for the people.
Mr.. Gardner spoke of being il the
senate with Ex-Gov. Noel and Of his
association with him at that time and
reviewed his work in public Office as
being most excellent.
Ex-Gov. Noel was welcomed with y
ring Of applause as he was presented
He thanked the court and the audi
ence for the opportunity he had Of
speaking to them and congratulated
the county on its patriotic progress
sivenesS.
Getting into the subsistence of his
speech later he said:
Wars cannot be won unless there
be substantial, if not absolute, harm
ony between all of the military and
civil forces. All should work togeth-
er under one leadership. Divided lea
dership means weakness and failure.
Some men are of the born ito rule or
ruin type, and may be of certain
kinds of service in times of peace.
In war, unless they are made the chief
leader, they become of vastly more
hurt than help. Success requires that
they be relegated to the rear.
"There are but three candidates for
United States Senate. My two com
petitors, at the end of their present
terms, next, March, will have had six
or eight years of Congressional ex-
perience. Each stands on his record.
By that record, as the future can only
be judged by the past ARE they to be
tested.
Challenged Work of
Either of Competitors.
an ask the friends of each who
may be present, to point to some act
of state craft, some important law of
any kind, or even bill along that line
that has been seriously considered
by either branch of Congress. / have
no recollection of ever having read
or heard Of it. If tree yields no
fruit, it should not be permitted to
cumber the ground. 1t should be cut
down and cast out, according to the
scriptures"
Speaking of the offers of the other
two candidates for military service,
the former governor said:
Each offered, in way, himself for
military service. One by letter to
the President, and the other by YER
bat offer to the Secretary of War, to
raise regiment. Neither PROPOSE
tion could go any further than mere
offer. As each must have known that
the law provided exclusive methods of
getting into the army through recruit
ing stations, or training schools. Sucn
routes were not selected, by either. |
Had they been utilized, both might
now be soldiers.
Back to the Ship.Purchase Bill.
Commenting on the work of one of
the candidates in taking sides against |
the president, he said:
at needless to name the competitor
who thus harrassed and obstructed
President Wilson, not to catalogue his
numerous actions covering the whole
period of our struggle with the Kais-
er. He says, in recent open letter
to the people of Mississippi, "a most I
insuperable difficulty over which we
must climb to victory is the question
of shipping facilities" According To
a recent newspaper report of speech |
of his in Congress, he declared that |
all farmer boys should be ordered from
the training camps TO their homes, as
we now had more soldiers than avail |
able shipping could transport and pro
vide for in the next three years This
same competitor with few filabust
ering colleagues defeated the shio pur-
chasing bill in 1914, when our govern |
ment could have obtained ample ton
mage, at but fraction Of the present
cost and difficulty.
"Be not misled by such matters as
are published, under striking head
lines, that Mr.. Harrison has intro |
duced and spoken in behalf OF bill
to give a preference TO disabled sol
diers to all federal civilian work. That
has been a law for So years, since /
March 3, 1865, and was not restrict
ed by the Civil Service Act, as ap-
pears from Sec. 1854, of the Il S. he !
vised Federal Statutes. The very
next Section commends similar action
and preference for all private work >