Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-08-22
SORRY POLITICS.

ton to Oscar Johnston become I'M
|creasngly clear. Every possible effort
.is being made to throw dust in the
eyes of the voters by the Vardaman-
I Blbo-Russeu clique The attempt to
.align the laboring classes under the
Russell banner has proved ludicrous.
/ Assuming that Mr.. ]. T. Belts,
chairman of the Order of Railway Con-
ductors on the Mobile and Ohio Rail
road was for Russell, the chairman of
the Russell campaign committee wrote
him a letter thanking him for his sup
ort. A very shrewd way, he doubt
less thought, to 1atter MIR. Belts into
line.
But Mr.. Shauber seems to have
.reckoned without his host. In his let
ter to Mr. Belts he had made the
charge that Oscar Johnston had con-
sistently opposed organized labor dur
ling his twelve years service in the
/ Legislature, and now Mr.. Belts has
issued reply in which he states that
after carefully examining Mr.. john
ston's record he has found him to be
the true friend Of labor
AS a result of this Mr. Belts is now
loyalty supporting Oscar Johnston.
And the same miserable clique tried
to ruin Ross Collins, with the result
that Mr.. Collins introduced Governor
to e Johnston to the vast audience
that heard him in Meridian recently
and pledged him his haartest sup
ort.
Then they circulated the report
that as an officer in the army Lieu
tenant Johnston was austere and over
bearing And now comes out a signed .
statement from a number of Jackson |
boys who served under Johnston, in
denying the charge. As
matter Of fact, Lieutenant Johnston,
who entered the service of his coun-
try as a volunteer, being above the .
draft age, was unusually poular as an
officer ,as those who served under him
are quick to assert.
And now they have trotted out poor
old BiIbo and sent him forth cam
paigning for Russell Poor old Bilbo,
who was defeated last summer for
Congress because the peole Of his own
district had grown insutferably tired
Of his record Of deceit, graft and
fraud
Nor must we forget that gem of
literature, Vardamans Weekly, which
has rushed to RusselPs support, vom-
ting out its filth against Johnston.
and Wilson, and the whole Democratic
administration except the pseudo
Democratic State administration Of
Theodore Bilbo Wilson is something
awful, but oh you Bilbo!
1t is for these reasons, aside from
The fact of Oscar Johnston's unques-
toned fitness for the office to which
.he good people of Mississippi are 60
ng to elect him, that the Beacon en-
lorses his candidacy.
The eBacon believes that the cause
# good government is at stake.
1t believes that the time has come
o relegate forever into oblivion this !
rang Of political sharpers who have {
TIRED up strife and bitterness against
verything and everybody under the
un that didn't prove the tools Of their /
lordinate ambition.
1t believes that the time has come i
o clean out the Augean stable that q
'ilboism has polluted and that Oscar -
who helped so valiantly to y
lean out the State Insane Asylum r
18th, is the Hercules to perform the :
3b.
It believes that vote for Oscar
ohnston is vote for good govern '
lent because he is clean, fearless,
apable, efficient, thoroughly business
Ike, true friend Of the common peo- G
lie without attempting to exploit Il
lem by honeyed words. A man whose e.
acord is both clear and clean and one O
Tho can and viii give the State the t.
ind of administration that it de- D
arves.
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Oscar Johnston supported the bill y
fehblt.ng corporations from black n