The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-08-19

Hon. Hubert D. Stephens, Of New
Albany, candidate for United States
! Senator, dropped off in Grenada be-
tween trains Wednesday afternoon
and was seen by representative of
The Sentinel who propounded some
questions to him relative to his cam
didacy and the issues Of the contest.
Mr.. Stephens rather demurred to
making any statement at this stage
! of the contest but on being pressed
for an interview made the following
statement:
II did not enter the race for United
States Senator to fight any other cam
didate but to interpret the principles
Of the Democratic party as best ! can
in the light of the psesent day and, if
possible, to help my people solve some
of the grave and perplexing problems
left by the world war. Had the Re-
publicans in the Senate not decided
to play politics at the expense Of the
country and co-operated with the
Democratic minority in ratifying the
treaty of peace, conditions would be
much more nearly settled than they
are today, The Democrats were in
authority in directing and winning
the war, but the Republicans were in
the majority in the Senate when the
treaty of peace was submitted and
they determined that the Democrats
should not have the credit for both
winning the war and making peace,
so upon the Republican party rests
the responsibility for the present dis
ordered condition of world affairs" I"
Mr.. Stephens was asked about his
attitude towards the Administration
during the war to which he replied
at length:
"The record shows that my attitude
towards the Administration during
the war was one of cordial cO-opera-
ton and not of wilful fault-fnding.
Whatever, if any, objections had TO
any war measure or policy of the Ad-
ministration, / made known in that
confidence which the exigencies of
the hour demanded but never in a
manner that would give aid Or COM
fort TO the enemies of my country.
was not so foolish as to think myself
wiser than a majority of my party.
After having talked over in commit
tees and discussed in Congress mat
ters pertaining TO the war and the
care of our Soldier Boys, believed
it patriotic duty to fall in line with
the Judgment Of majority of my
colleagues. That is what ! did and
] am pleased to say that that was
the rule that guided vast majority,
indeed almost all, of the members
Of both the great political parties dur
ing the progress of the war.
"Of course said Mr.. Stephens,
there were mistakes made in prose-
cutting the war, anybody can talk
about errors and mistakes, but con-
sidering the great magnitude of the
task and what great things were
done, the Republican party made far
bigger mistakes and by far a greater
number OF them in prosecuting the
little three months war against Spain
in 1898. In our late war no spoilt
canned beef was fed our soldiers but
spoilt canned beef reaped its havoc
among the soldiers in the Spanish
American war.
Yes, Mr.. Stephens continued,
"there were mistakes but there has
never yet been a war prosecuted IN
which there were not mistakes made,
1O1 mas any IuiNS else VI any slnpoiO
ance or magnitude been done in which
there were not mistakes made. There
were great numbers in the North who
said Lincoln made many blunders in
prosecuting the Civil War and some
Of the most loyal sons of the South
thought the immortal Jefferson Davis
made great blunders in the defense
of the Confederacy. But regardless
of any errors, we whipped Germany
to her knees and today the American
flag is honored the world over as
never before. We won our cause.
The client whose lawyer makes er-