The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-07-09
Honorable ID. w. Houston,
of Aberdeen.


Honorable ID. w. Houston,
of Aberdeen.
The following merited tribute
TO the worth and character of
MOnroe's native son, stalwart
democrat and leading citizen,
copied from Vardaman's Weekly
of July 1st instant, will be read
with interest and peculiar graft
fication by his numerous friends
throughout the State.
The men who know Judge
Houston best do not believe that
he aspires TO any political office,
or that his activities IN promoting
good government in the cause of
the people is inspired by motives
of personal interest. NeVeTthe-
less, interest unselfishly displayed
by any citizen in Contending for
thing that are fair and democratic
necessarily brings that citizen
into the range of public de-
mand for his services in places of
high authority whether he wills
it or not, or however disinterest-
ed from a personal standpoint
those activities may have been.
Those who know Judge HOuS-
ton intimately, doubt if he would
consent TO become the candidate
of the people for the high office
of governor, bur realize that he
can not escape a wide demand
on their part that he should be-
come their candidate:
A friend writes me: They are
talking about men for governor. Why
not Judge w. Houston, of Aber-
deem? He meets the Jeffersonian
standard In every respect-he is hon
est he is capable and he is faithful
to the people of Mississippi
Ny friend describes Judge Hous-
ton accurately. To begin with he is
honest, fearless. patriotic. faithful
to his Cod. loyal to his country and
devoted to his family. Every drop
of blood that courses through his
veins is in sympathy with the plain.
honest white people of Mississippi
He knows the people of the state
as few men know them. He loves
them as few men love them, and
whether!in the office of Governor. on
the bench or in private life his efforts
are all dedicated to their service.
The writer has known Judge Hous-
ton for many years. He has had an
opportunity to study him in all the
relations of life, and l can truthful
" say that the elements are so mix
ed in him that nature might stand
up and say to all the world He is
man. l have seen him in the
depths of pessimism when the low
ering clouds of disappointment al
most smothered his snbdued soul. |
and then | have seen him come
forth with optimism as radiant as
sunlight. Defeat gives him strength
and the righteousness of any cause
that he espouses stimulates hope |
for the future of his state and the
republic.
He is
One who never turns his back,
But marches breast forward;
Never doubts clouds will break;
Never dreams though right were
worsted wrong wonld triumph. I
we fall TO rise, baffied to fight
better;
Sleep to wake.
He understands the great prob
lens confronting Mississippi and
a.
those problems he never permits
to sway him from the
path of rectitude and right thinking.
He ia friend without variable
ness or shadow of turning. and if it
should be your misfortune TO be his
oe. you can rely upon him always
doing the brave and honorable
hing.
But the great trouble about my
correspondents suggestion, is THAT
JUDGE HOUSTON HAS NO POLITICAL
WHATEVER He enjoys .
/ lucrative-law practice. is happily
ituated at home and do not think
hat any office would tempt him to
'hange his life. / have never known
me to take as lively interest in pol
tics as he does who was as thor ,
'ughly devoid of all political aspir-
tions as be is To my mind he is {
n ideal citizen and a patriot as l
rue and loyal to his state as eyer !
ived in the best days of the Greek /
utilization. His friendship is an in
piration and his example a sure
uide. In my estimation he stands !
mong the men of Mississippi q
AS some tall cliff that lifts It's awful {
form 8
wells from the vale and midway p
leaves the storm. a
'hough round its breast the rolling
clouds are spread, 1t
'ternal sunshine settles on its head. 4
And I have the supreme pleasure !
Numbering him among my p
leeds"