The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1920-07-16
: I'd RATTLE
BE RIGHT THAN
BEPRES|DENT"

'T'd rather be right than presi-
dent" was the phrase used by Rev.
j. 7. McCafferty, paster of the Meth
odist Church Of Starkville, quoting
from Henry Clay, in his sermon last
Sunday morning.
After explaining the Scriptural
meaning of the text, he branched off
on the San Francisco convention, in
which he felt humiliated in the man.
ner the Mississippi delegates acted in
supporting whisky men for the presi-
dency. In beginning he read the fif-
teenth Psalm, stating that it con-
tanned many of the fundamental prin-
ciples of Christian citizen. His text
was part of the nineteenth and twen-
tieth verses of the twenty eighth
chapter of Matthew: go ye, there
fore, and teach all misunderstanding
them to observe things whatsoever I
have commanded you."
In part he said:
"Christ in His teachings covered
the whole sphere of human activity.
The difference between individuals,
and even of nations, is largely one of
education. If you were to take an
American-b babe of Anglo-Saxon
parentage and place it in the heart
Of Africa it would grow up to think,
speak and act like the natives that
surround it.
"a similar thing would take place
in it's life if it were placed among
any other people. The I. w. WIS,
some of them it is stated, would do
away with marriage and make woman
common property. Many of these
men have great intellects and have
covered broad fields of knowledge,
but they have left Christ out of their
learning. An American Christian
fentleman honors his mother, wife
and daughter with faithful and low
ing service. He has given Christ the
eminent place in his education.
Science cannot lift men up. Science
cannot preserve nations. Many
learned nations are now covered with
the accumulated dust of the centuries
Their power has passed, their glory
faded, asd all the history of their
greatness that remains is written up
on few tablets that have been dug
up from their buried ruins. They
left the true God out Of their edu-
cation.
"We need Christians in every walk
of life. To see how bad we need it,
let us look in on our San Francisco
convention. There man standing
pleading with eloquence for plat
form on which all good men and
women could stand and for a candi-
date free from the taint of rum, for
whom they would delight to vote.
From hundreds of voices there came
cries of "Down with Bryan" Why?
Because he stood up for righteous
platform and clean man to run it.
He advocated nothing that was
Srong. The Commercial Appeal
time and again rang clear on the
whisky question and pleaded that the
convention in San Francisco come out
boldly and squarely for prohibition.
The convention, however, was afraid
to offend the whisky element. Our
own delegates to the convention act
ed very strangely to many of their
fellow citizens that~watched with sad
hearts their acts. We cannot under
stand where they could have obtained
the idea that a divorced red liquor
man would be acceptable to the peo-
Pile of Mississippi for the Democrat
ic standard bearer for the presiden-
cy of the United States. Mississippi
was almost dry by local option; made
completely dry by statutory enact
ment and was the first state in the
union to ratify the prohibition
amendment. With such state re-
cord many of us do not believe that
the delegates could have felt that a
whisky man would be an acceptable
presidential candidate to the people
of Mississippi.
"There are numbers of us that be-
lieve that our great standard bearers
should be clean men, men with past