The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-05-03
HENRY WATTERSON AND
JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS
Give Views a. to the Standard Of
Men To Be Entrusted With Office.

In a speech delivered a few days
ago in the United States Senate, hon.
John Sharp Williams expressed him
self ~unreservedly as to what was de-
manded now as the supreme test for
public service. He said that if he
were confronted with the choice OF
voting for a Democrat who had been
vacillating and uncertain about the
war an d the rightness of~this
try's answering the German or for
a Republican "who had been abso-
lutely patriotic and true from the
beginning, NOT ONLY FROM THE
DECLARATION OF WAR BUT BE-
FORE 1T TOOK PLACE, AGGRES,
SIVELY AND ABSOLUTELY IN
FAVOR OF AMERICAN RIGHTS
AND AMERICAN HONOR,
l would vote for the Republican and
ask God to forgive me for the first
offense of that sort / had ever COM
mitted in my life" Here is Senator
| Williams speech:
"Now, Mr.. President, l want to
say this: / am no longer a Democrat
nor a Republican while this war lasts:
I am not a partisan at all. l will
vote against any Democrat nominated
for office in the state of Mississippi.
Bourbon Democrat. as / am and as 1t
is, if the Republicans nominate a mar
more loyal than he is. Now that is
a gbod DEAL; coming from "a Bour-
bon Southern Democrat. l will face
every situation that can put itself
| forward in my own state; and l am
not condemning any Republican who
is lukewarm in this war any more
than l am condemning any, Democrat
who is equally not. l do not care
a continental cent about his parti-
san politics, and / am asking you not
to care. l am asking you to take the
same position that l take-that If
one man has been either unpatriotic,
or even lukewarm, and another man
of the opposite party to yours or
mine runs against him, support the
man in the opposite party; and am
| pledging you a word that so far has
never been consciously violated that
| will follow that course, even In the
state of Mississippi Southern Bour-
bon Democratic state as it is.
4 GAS far as / am concerned, FOL
the balance of this war ! know no
Democracy and l know no Republi-
canism. l am for men who are hot
bloodedly and aggressive and offensive,
if necessary, Americans, antl-hy-
phenates.
Il GA Bourbon Southern Democrat by
1tradition and environment and aspira-
and love, as / am, if the Repub-
party at the next election would
SInominate a man who had been abso-
patriotic and true from the
beginning, not only from the declara'
'Ition of war but before it took place
Progressively and absolutely in favor
ilof American rights and American
Honor, and the Democrats were tt
nominate a man whose record upor
the subject I considered doubtful,
would vote for the Republican ane
ask God to forgive me for the frs
offense of that sort l had ever com
United in my life"
That great old, war horse Demo
crat, that sage of many political bat
ties who fought Republicanism whel
there were few Democratic victories
that man who has helped to WRIT
: more Democratic platforms than per
{ haps any man now living, a Ken
;. tuckian of Kentuckians and a Dem
> ocrat of Democrats, gives his un
: qualified endorsement to Senator WI
liams' position in the following
words:
SIN that the Mississippi senate
speaks the sentiment of a large an
growing class of the American PEG
! pie today; a sentiment which tn
thiek-and-thin partisans of the OF
, political PARTIES would better recoe
nize now. if they would escape tn
6 necessity of recognizing when to
late, that the man who places part
sanship above A~mericanism must lin
l. his own proper place in the boneyar
of the Stacker" - =
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