The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19

ItOTial, What Ii Means. appear
ing in the Jackson Daily News
lust after the election. that we
publish il in Our columns this
week.
We think that an apology is
due our readers for sOiling the
columns of our paper with such
billingsgate, but that the political
history OF the last campaign with
lis nauseating aftermath may find
Judgment in the recollection of
The public, we have decided TO
give II 10 our readers. We think
they ought TO know the charac-
ter and spirit of some OF the sup
rorters of Hon. Oscar Johnston
Ior the governorship. We are
charitable enough to concede
that the editor of the Jackson
Daily News is one of the few of
The opposition that nurtures such
venom IN his heart. In justice
TO Hon. Oscar Johnston and the
vast majority of his supporters. ii
is due them here to say that they
have Tepudiated the editorial:
What 1t Means.
Lee Russell. a common little
bounder and character assassin,
perfect prototype of the man who
now holds that Office. has been
nominated for governor of Missis-
sippi by the Democratic party.
Wen take that back. The NOM
ination was not made by the Demo-
cratic party-not by the decent.
self-respecting Democrats of Missis- |
sippi who cherish the principles of
the party of Jefferson. Jackson and
Wilson.
More than 5000 real. sure
enough Democrats went to the polls
and voted for Oscar Johnston.
About $1,000 persons of various
kinds and descriptions cast their
ballots for man who is no more
qualified for that honor than he
would be to teach theology or navi-
gate an airship.
Who elected Lee Russell to the
governorship of Mississippi?
Listen a moment and we'll tell
you,
Lee Russell was elected by the
BOlshevists, the Socialists, the /.
W. WIS, the Soyietists. and the ig-
1Orant and illiterate voters of Mis-
;issippi.
The ritf-ratf. the rag-tag and the
of creation. aided by the
lrFe element of our population that
as always allowed demagogues
nd scoundrels To do their thinking
OF them, elected Lee Russell.
The event is pregnant with mean
ng.
Among other things. it means =,
hat shameless liar and contempt
bic slanderer can go on the stump
Il Mississippi. spew his slime on 4.
ne stump in Mississippi. spew his
lime on decent. honorable, high
1inded gentlemen and get away
18th it.
1t means that majority of our
qualified electors God spare the
hrase-preter 10 worship false
DDS, fiimsy idols and brazen ser
ents.
Ii means that our people do not
ant real man in the governors
ttice; that they are welded to rant
lg mountebanks. perpetual pa
sants and political Nightmares
'aled in abortions and stabbed in
-eams.
1t means that any common char
tan, If he be possessed of vehe-
Ient and voluhle tongue, can 90
1t into the highways and byways
Mississippi and play on the pref
1lces and passions of the people,
Ike cheap minstrel twanging a
arp, and get himself elected TO the
ghest Office within their gift.
The election of Lee Russell means
uch more than this
1t means sn endorsement of the
iibo administration with all its
tteness and deprayity, its filth,
TT and intrigue that has nauseated
] decent people.
LIT means an endorsement of the
ississippi Insane Hospital scandal,
ID the conversion of that institu-
On by Bilbo and his cohorts into
mmon designation house.
l. means an endorsement of pill
&c and plumber at the state treas
y, and the riotous and .extrava-
mt expenditure of public funds.
1t means an endorsement Of James
Vardaman, traitor and German
mpathizer, the man who said that
e United States Was stabbing
'rmany in the back while En-
and held her down; who insulted
cry man who wore the uniform of
2 American army by declaring
at he could see no difference be-
cen conscript and convict.
1t means . renudiatiOn of the
party. the President of
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