The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-07-09

To those counties like Lee. War
rem and Others of that sort, whose
representative in this convention
cast their votes for me. notwith-
standing the fact that most of them
4 had personally voted against me in
the last election, believing in a
square deal and fair play not
necessarily voting for Lee NJ. Russell
personally. but for the governor of
Mississippi, to all such men my hat
is off and | congratulate them upon
being true blue Democrats, fair
minded, four-square and honorable,
All true men admire manly stand
of that sort.
SAYS JOHNSTON is BRANDED.
But how about poor old Coahoma
County. led in the convention by
poor old down-and-out Brewer,
Oily" Jack Cutrer. and having as
their chief spokesman Oscar John
ston, whom the people left at home
in a contest with me for the gov
ernorship. and denied to represent
the party as governor. yet standing
up in this 5 per cert convention
and doing all in his power to dis
count me, whom he has admitted,
and must always admit, licked him
upon his own terms, issues and
grounds In all fairness to John
ston, this sounded bis death knell
for all time to come, and for that
matter all those who participated
with him. In the campaign he
denied he was a HamiltOnian
Democrat, which means the rule
of the few with no respect for the
many. But the record he made
last Wednesday brands him. While
| knew he was In truth and fact,
and had no respect for majority
rule. yet l thought he was shrewd
and. astute enough never to place
himself on recoHd. In all of his
official life heretofore he has been a
very artful dodger. has been able to
coyer up his tracks. but this time
he has shown his true self.
I was in no wise a candidate be-
fore the convention. About 10 days
before the convention Judge Robert
Powell of jackson asked for a con-
ference with me, which was granted,
in which he said that he and his
friends. the antis. favored my going
to the convention; that he would
make a fight on the floor for me
that it would be unwarranted, un-
heard of against precedent, undemo-
cratic and disgraceful and many
other emphatic terms of similar
sort, not to send me as one of the
big four" / thanked him and told
him that | stood upon the pre-
cedeats heretofore establishd that
had always sent the governor. upon
my record as an official and stand
ing as a man, and he was emphatic
in indorang me in the highest terms
and said that he would see that the
antis did no violence to party tradi-
tions.
WHERE WAS BROTHER POWELL.
Where Brother Poweh was at the /
psychological time you all know
he was there present. but not a
word. l did not send for him nor
ask him about this. ! presume the
leaders had not instructed him. My
friends, seeing the situation. realiz-
Jug that the slate" had been fixed
by the antis. very properly called
their hand and demanded a roll call,
which will be presented in due time,
as nearly as possible, to every voter
IN this state.
Another peculiar thing about this
convention is that the old warrior,
Stand Pat Pat" was standing
around pretending to be my friend,
but stated to my friends. that
be could do nothing with his friends.
That is rather strange. Senator
Harrison, in former days. was one
of the loudest talking friends that
Senator Vardaman ever had-made
speeches for Vardaman and said he
was one of the greatest men of the
world. able, honest, true to the
people and unpurchasable, and /
many other most complimentary /
things he said of Vardaman. and |
went so far as to say that in the secret
caucus Vardaman was maltreated /
and his commission stolen from him
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