The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-05-14
FINE ADDRESS BY
GOV. LONGING
CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR DE-
LIvERS MAGNIFICENT AID
DRESS HERE MON
DAY MORNING.
Gave an Account of His Administra-
ton Stewardship, and Also
Touched on States FL
nanciaI Affairs.

for governor Of Mississippi, in a
mastery address, presented his can
didacy to the voters of Lowndes
county at the court house Monday
morning at 10 o'clock.
A large audience gathered to hear
him and he made a fine impression
on everyone, and won many to his
cause by the fairness and freedom
of his address from vituperation and
criticism of his opponents. 1t was
refreshing to those who heard him,
3 for it was above factionalism and
personalities.
He was introduced by Hon. James
T. Harrison, who was lieutenant
governor during Mr.. Longino's adj
ministration as governor. He paid
glowing tribute to Mr.. Longino as
a man and to his fine service to the
state as it's chief executive, and told
his hearers that If they elected Mr..
Longino to be the governor they
would be assured of a safe, sane
and business-like administration OF
the States affairs, free from polit-
ical strife and pickering and bitter
factionalism.
In the course of his address Gov.
Longino reviewed his administra-
tion as governor. First, he paid
tribute to the old soldiers of the
Confederacy and said that he inan-
gurated the movement which re-
suited in the purchase OF the Old
Soldiers Home at Beauvior as a
home for the heroes of the Confed-
eracy. He then paid tribute to the
boys who fought in the great world
war, saying that three OF his manly
and stalwart sons had offered their
services to their country and that
he himself had gone into the SER
vice as Y. NJ. c. A. worker to do
what he could in contribution to the
comfort and spirit and morale of the
boys in the camps.
He told of the constructive legis-
1ation enacted during his admins
tration as governor.
r E4 Nolnted ont that his recon-
mendation 70 the legislature for the
purchase of farm lands for peniten-
tiary purposes was adopted, and that
this step was the first great move
in the improvement of the prison
and convict conditions in the state.
He said that these farms today we're
paying more than a million dollars
into the state treasury annually and
thereby relieving the people OF this
much of the expense of the govern
ment.
He recommended the establish
ment and creation OF the historical
and insurance departments of the
state, both Of which were adopted
by the legislature. He was the first
governor of Mississippi to recon-
mend and commend to the legisla-
ture the enactment OF primary
election law and said that it was ul-
timately adopted before the expira-
tion of his term as governor.
Governor Longino refuted the idea
that seems to prevail in some quar-
ters that the money with which the
great state capitol building erected
in Jackson during his administra-
ton, at a cost of 100000, came
from the railroads in back taxes. He
declared that the money was dis
tributed among the various counties
and municipalities traversed by the
railroads and that only an inconsid.
cradle part of it was paid into the
state treasury. The capitol was
erected without the issuance of a
single bond and was paid for out OF
the state treasury
He referred to the record with
reference to his attitude towards the
schools of the state, which showed
that he had championed the cause
of education in the first year of hi:
administration and that as a result
of his recommendation to the legis
lature 100000 was appropriated
for school purposes.
Gov. Longino referred to the un
pleasant incidents of his administra
ton of the designing purposes o.
grafters and how they we're caugh
and brought to justice before theii
nefarious schemes had even reached
the semblance of formation. He TOLD
of how a contractor attempted Il
bribe officials of the capitol commits
sion, Offering s125.o0o as an in
ducement and summsrily anC
promptly the would-be briber wa
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