The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-05-30
IT'S the Hand of Esau but the
Voice of Jacob.

Under the caption, Russell
Challenges the Combination.
the Aberdeen Weekly published
Russell's challenge to debate with
the opposing candidates and com
mented editorially as follows:
The above challenge gives a
pointer as TO the campaign now
being waged in Mississippi for
governor. The people have dem.
onstrated at the polls that they
believe In a fair tote and free
for all opportunity for every can
didate to fight in the open.
They will expect that the
three candidates who are charged
in the above challenge as having
combined to defeat Lee NJ. Rus
sell for the governOrship will
meet him face TO face one at a
time, and in Joint debate"
To this the Greenyille Demo
craft Times made the following
reply:
The Weekly is one of the
very few newspapers IN the state
unfolding Candidate Russell in
his demagogiC effort 10 resurreCt
for the present political cam
paign the putrid body of faction
aliSm, buried by the Democratic
voters of the state in August last"
The Weekly pleads gnilty to
the charge that it is one of the
newspapers in the State that is
upholding Candidate Russell in
keeping the people ever re-
minded of a great wrong that
was done them by a certain leg
islature in 1910.
1t knows that TO justify that
great wrong a group OF polltl-
clans formed themselves into an
aggressive faction in 1911; also
that the wrong attempted TO be
justified at the polls in 1911 was
the Infamous proceedings of the
legislature of 1910, which de
feated the will Of the people in
the selection Of a United States
Senator.
1t is also aware that in that
election the people repudiated
the Secret Caucus and branded
the preparation of the high
handed factionaliSts as political
infamy. 1t further knows that
the Secret Caucus of 1910 and the
group that attempted TO make
the people justify it in 1911 is the
creator of the putrid body of fac
tionalism in Mississippi alluded
to by the Democrat, and that its
carcass has since become more
and more feStered with dissimu-
lation, misrepresentation and de-
ceptiOn. 1t is a matter of history
that this faction was repudiated
in 1911 and again in 1915-buried
but not put out of business. for in
1918 it reSurreCted itself, and
what by patrioteering. dissimula-
ton, misrepresentation, intimida
ton and coercion it scored a
victory with less than
forty per cent of the electors |
voting for its candidate. 1t per
ceiveS also that this successful
performance has emboldened the
Greenville Democrat, an ac-
organ of that faction, TO
acclaim the election of its can
lidate in 1918 as the burial of the
'putrid body of faCtionaliSm by
he Democratic voters of the
State last August" Evidently the
Democrat means that the putrid
BODY of faCtiOnaliSm was buried
hen only in contemplation of a
resurrection In l9l9,
IS the Democrats faction is now
posing as the anti faCtional fac
ion of Mississippi. The decep-
ion would be complete were
not that ii has adopted the
lOgans as companion cries,
Drown all the Vardaman Pups"
nd down every candidate who |
yer voted for Vardaman or
,ilbo." s
1t is the hand of Esau, but the
dice of Jacob. The people were
ever SO blind that they will not
ap