The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1919-06-25
LONGING GROWS
STRONGER DAILY
SAYS EASTLAND
Reviews Primary Cam
paign For Governor
In All Phases.
ENEMY POINTS GUN
FORMER GOVERNOR
Other Candidates Direct
Their Attacks Against
Longino.

Longino.
Chairman Woods C. Eastland, of the
Longino State Campaign Committee,
gave out the following signed state
ment which reviews the primary cam
paign for Governor in all of it's
phases. What Mr.. Eastland says can
not fail to be read with interest by
every Mississippian at this time:
ITO The Democratic Voters of Miss
issippi:
1--WE are pleased to state to you
hat the strength of Ex-Governor
Longino as a candidate for governor,
from the reports which reach our
headquarters, continues to grow, and
that he is stronger now than at any
time since his campaign began We
have every reason to believe that his
strength will continue to grow until
the primary, and that he will be over
whelmingly nominated in the first
primary.
"We are amazed at the desperate
efforts that have been resorted to by
the opposition in their futile attempts
to break the strength of Governor
Longino, and shake the faith of the
people in him. These efforts have
been and are utterly vain.
ct is to be regretted that before
an intelligent citizenship such gross
attempts to deceive the people and
the voters should be made as have
been lately made, and as are now be-
ing made by the opposition to Gov
ernor Longino. The resort to these
attempts indicates that the opposing
candidates or their friends believe
that the great mass of Democratic
voters in Mississippi are ignorant and
easily duped and influenced by mis-
representation, abuse and falsehood.
"The desperation of the opposition
is illustrated in the fact that one of
the opposing candidates, according to
information that m to us, has
been vainly seeking within the last
ten days to secure crowds at APP
pointments made by him for pub
lie speaking, in order that he might
pour out a diatribe of misrepresen-
tation and abuse of Longino. But the
people will not stand for his con
duct in this campaign. At some of
these appointments he has had no.
body present to hear him; and at other
places some of those who appeared to
hear a candidate for the great office
of Governor Of Mississippi discuss
the questions and problems that con
front the people of the State left the
meeting before the candidates speech
had proceeded very far convinced by
the candidates own showing that he
is not a fit and proper man to be
Governor of Mississippi.
Another of these candidates has
likewise been vainly endeavoring to
persuade the people to come out and
hear him speak; and he has appeared
III " HI C1G1CS " IIOIc tidH live
thousand population, and has had less
than seventy-five people to hear him
at we'll advertised meetings in fine
weather at the county courthouse.
And of the few who have attended his
places of speaking, some were not
voters, and some were pronounced
friends of Lnogino. This candidate,
perhaps despairing of being able to
interest an intelligent citizenship in
his misrepresentation, has finally re-
sorted to the publication of an article
in which there is such a Juggling of
figures as shows the writer to be
dealing in duplicity or to be ignorant
of the matter which he tries to dis
cuss. Our information is that this
article will be mailed to every voter
in Mississippi, with the hope, we sup
pose, of securing readers though the
author cannot secure hearers. How
ridiculous it is for the friends of this
candidate, in view Of the small crowds
that have met him at his appoint
ments, to contend that there is any
general demand On the part Of the
people of Mississippi for him to be
their Governor.
These gentlemen for ten days or
more have been pointing their guns
IN Governor Longino, and have. said
little or nothing in regard to each
other. The unanimity with which the
opposing candidates are making wal
on Longino, justifies US in entertain
ing the suspicion that these seekers
Of the loaves and fishes" Of office
have an agreement among themselves,
that they will all fight Longino. II
this suspicion be fact, then their
agreement amounts to nothing less
than . conspiracy against the public
welfare, the interests Of the people
and the progress Of the State. These