Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1919-08-22
LETTER FROM BIG BUD.
Macon, Miss, August 10, 1919,

Macon, MISS, august ~, 1919.
EditoE Of the Beacon,
| have been getting some very com
phmentary letters from friends all
over the State on my being reelected
to the Legislature, and none that | ap
preciate more than the ones received
from my young colleague, j. R. Dins-
more, and old Confederate friend,
Clay Sharkey.
John writes me that he is going to
the Legislature to do his very best
for the people of the county, and
hopes to be able to work in harmony
with me at all times. He is bright
Young man and | am..sure will reflect
credit on the county, and if he makes
one-half as good a legislator as his
honored father, he will certainly make
good one. His father and Lon Will
liams' father were special friends Of
mine, and | am glad | lam to serve in
the House with their sons, and am
confident that with Henry Minor in
the Senate and John and Lon with me
Ia the House, we will have a harmon
ious delegation, and that we will be
able to compete with the members
from other counties and get anything
tha tbs coming to old NoXubee.
Clay Sharkey writes me that | will
be the oily old Confederate in the
House. and that as he was only six
teen when the first battle of Manassas
was fought, and where he received hls
baptismal of fire, he has always hoped
to be the last living old Confederate to
see what fool the Y. d. C.'s could
make Of him as the ast,representatiye
of that grand body of men to which he
and both belong. am writing him
that was about sixteen myself at
that time and am pretty healthy, too,
I thank you, and expect to give him a
good race for the honor of being the
last living Confederate in the State OF
mississippi. We both live in a grand
Old State, and are likely to be a hun
dred. When Chas. Edward Russell
was in Jackson last winter, when told
that / was seventy-four years old, he
asked NE to tell him how he could be
as yicofous as ! was when he reached
chat age. | told him to simply come
to Mississippi. So here's TO you, Gay
and am going to give you race Tor
your money.
Senator Kendrick wrote me Q. very
kind letter and said he was satisfied
he was beaten because he introduced
Varlaman, and the word had gone
ground in his county to not only beat
Vardaman, but to drown all Of the
pups" He was a very fine man, old
Ku Klux; made a splendid represen-
tative and we will miss nm IN the
NM old friend, Spears, Of Holly
n tags, who was q great advoeate,.pi
the dor law proved the truth OF the
old saying, that no man who zealously
advocates a dog law in Mississippi can
ever be reelected was defeated. But
he was a GOOD friend of mine and
writes me a very fatterins letter and
pays me a compliment, saying that
aiWavs stood for right and justice and
] was big enough to rise and soar
above the cheap politician. He was a
Vardaman man, but we go ito be very
pood friends in the last Legislature
and he was exceedingly kind to me
and it gratiiied me very much to re,
ceiye letters of this kind from al
parts Of the State, and ! shall &c
down there determined to pursue the
same course and win the confidence OF
ali of my colleagues and do justice tC
the people who so kindly elected me
It has been my boast that ! always
left the LEGISLATURE with the member:
of my delegation thinking more of m'
at the close than they did at tbs be
.ginning, because did them all full
Justice in my letters to The Beaeol
and gave them always their need O.
praise.
We'll. will not write any more, a
the boys say l have found out it vii
not do to talk too much. SO will sa!
goodbye for this time.
Yours,
BIG BUD.