The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-06-23

1Ormer p0lltlcal associates, ana
time comes," declared the COVE
Jackson, Miss, June 22.-Charac-
terizing the Mississippi state conven-
tion as a trump" knockdown, drag
out affair, Gov. Lee M. Russell has
issued a scathing deunciation of
those who rejected him in his official
capacity as chief executive of the
state as delegate to San Francisco,
The honor is due to the position, not
to himself personally, Gov. Russell
says, and again charges that he was
refused the place, which he had not
sought, by lot of subservient poll
ticians who acted on orders.
Gov. Russell charges that the beat
and county conventions which named
delegates to the meeting at Jackson
last Wednesday did not represent five
per cent Of the qualified voters and
pays his respect in no unmeasured
terms to Senator Pat Harrison, Con-
gressman Humphreys, ex-Gov. Brewer
and Oscar Johnston, who he charges
their "Hamiltonian Democracy" and
were responsible for his rejection with
"rule or ruin" policy.
His statement follows in full:
To the People of Mississippi
In view of the extraordinary hap
penings in the recent state convention
and especially because of the enmity
and unfairness Of the local daily
press, think it just to my friends
throueheat he state and in other
states and to the fair-minded citi-
zenship everywhere that should give
out the following statement:
Spectacle Was Disgraceful.
Our state has never witnessed such
a spectacle as that staged at Jackson
Wednesday, June II, since the days
of the infamous "secret caucus" of
1910. Let me impress you first with
the fact that of all those who par
ticipated in the beat conventions and
county conventions for the selection
of the delegates that met here, the
entire participants in all these did not
amount to five per cent of the quail
fled voters of this state.
In fact, the remnants of that old,
decayod, disgusting and thoroughly
repudiated minority crowd who con-
trolled that convention controlled this
one. 1t is well known and well set
tied, and that by the people, since
1910, these leaders do not represent
the majority of the people Of Mis-
sissippi In truth but not in name,
there are two separate and distinct
parties in Mississippi and this has
been so for many years.
In many respects these parties are
SO different and far apart in their
ideas and ideals of government as the
real Democratic party of Jefferson
and Jackson is different from the rock
ribbed Republicans. One of these
parties may be properly termed the
Hamiltonian and the other Jefferson
ian. The Hamiltonians believe the
government should be in the hands
of the few and that the great masses
should have no part in the govern
ment-the exponents Of this idea were
in control Of the recent convention,
The other party believes in the pri-
mary election and that every man
should exercise an intelligent ballot
at the polls without intimidation OF
coercion from any source. In other
words, the latter are really the only
true Democrats in Mississippi.
Castigate Senator Harrison.
The leaders in this convention were
such men as Ex-Gov. Earl Brewer
"Oily" Jack Cutrer, Oscar Johnston
Ben Humphreys, together with a few
other lesser ring politicians, including
the Honorable "Me, Too" Pat Har.
rison, who stood shiveringly by await
ing orders from those who had placed
him in power. These men and then
political machine have for many years
had associated with them all the cor
porate influences of the state, includ
ing the railroads, telegraph, telephone
money interests and other public anC
private corporations of similar kind
In every contest they pass the wore
down the line, and their slogan il