The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-08-06
C. c. JOHNSON SPEAKS
TO NEWTON AUDIENCE
D~elivers Address In Interest Of HE
Candidacy For Congress.

For the entertainment OF 0enClnel
readers as well as to let them keep
track of things in other parts OF the
State. a news item is reproduced be-
low from the Newton Record of July
20 which gives q birds eye view Of
the congressional race in that dis
trict and incidentally shows how G.
C. Johnson pays his respects to his
two opponents, and especially to Hon.
Ross Collins. The three men all live
in Meridian. Venable is the pres
emit congressman. Ross Collins broke
with Vardaman in race for Governor
but the campaign he is making is
mighty like the "Jeems" pattern:
The third congressional candidate
to speak in Newton, in the person Of
C. C. johnson, Of Meridian, was here
Saturday afternoon, and addressed a
pood-sized audience in main street,
from a spring wagon. He paid his
respects to his two opponents and dis
cussed briefly his platform, which
was ~rencently published in this paper.
"He criticised Congressman Ven
able for voting for the railroad bill,
which MI. johnson pronounced the
most drastic piece of legislation ever
enacted. Mr.. Venable endorses the
bill as it is, and says that it is the
best you can get, said the speaker,
but, I say it is not
GAS to his (Johnson) position on
the League of Nations, he said he
would never vote for it as it was,
but wanted reservations so as to give
the United States as many votes as
England. He said Venable favored
it as it was.
"As to the Plum railroad plan, Mr..
johnson said he and Congressman
Venable were in accord, against it.
The speaker said that when the
Federal labor service was being dis
cussed in Washington, he called Ven
able for a consultation, and urged
Venable to oppose it and the clap
trap run by Cliff Williams, but Ven
able said he did not know anything
about it. 4 replied, I don't think you
do said Mr.. Johnson, but "Venable
voted to continue it."
Taking up his other opponent,
Hon. Ross Collins, the speaker re-
ferred to his platform, published in
some of the papers, and he remarked:
If I had a 16-year-old Sol who would
get out as Insignificant and con-
temptible a document as that, l would
send him to the insane asylum
Referring to Collins plank as to
electing federal pudges, the speaker
said that was about like disgruntled,
knee-breeches politicians, like COL
Inns, would get up. Speaking Of Col
Inns plank on Federal funds for ed
ucation, he ought to know that the
Federal government could not appro-
pirate money and allow the states to
disburse it.
Collins is advocating a national
health law that has been in effect for
the past twenty-five years, said Mr..
johnson. l would like to discuss the
Collins platform further said the
speaker, but it is so insignificant that
it is not worth it,
Referring to Collins reference to
smelling powder Mr.. Johnson said
ask him what sort of powder he smell
ed in the hotel Grunewald in New
Orleans and in the Waldorf-Astoria,
New York, and in the car, when he
was with Bilbo, who was attacked by
Henry several years ago, when he was
following around on Bilbo's coat-til.
Here the speaker said that Collins had
made the most contemplate confess
sion ever made, when he admitted
that he was following around on the
coattail of a crook, but said it was
the popular thing to do. Johnson
charged that Collins was a big crook
as Bilbo, and said he wishedC JOHNS
was here to hear what he had to say
about him. He said that on one oc-
casion he and Collins were speaking
about Emma Goldman, the Russian
Anarchist, Collins said it was a pity
that she had been returned to that
country, to which Johnson replied:
The only mistake made was that you
(Collins) were not tied to her and
sent to Russia with her and the Boil
shevik crowd
"The speaker said other things
about this opponent, along that line,
and then took up his own platform,
which the readers of this paper are