The Grenada sentinel., 1922-05-05
SENATE CANDIDATE
MAKES ADDRESS HERE
Methodist Minister Pays Hubert D.
Stephens Fine Tribute. Hon.
Cowaes Horton Makes Strong and
Eloquent Introduction. Stephens
r Promises Honesty In All Things
and Offers Proof that Republicans
Are Backing Democratic Critic.

the snterest of his candidacy for the
UnHed States Senate. Mr.. Stephens
mas never before appeared before a
Grenaaa County audience, but was
evidently among his friends and those
VINO 1eel that he ought to be named
at tie August primary to succeed
,H6n. John Sharp Williams.
Mr.. Stephens was introduced by
Hon. Cowles Horton, member of the
Grenada bar and one of the leading
sattorneys of North Mississippi, but
-eceding Mr.. Horizons introduc-
t,on, -. j. E. Stephens, not related
to the candidate, teacher of the Bible
IN Grenada College, spoke just few
words to the audience. Rev. Mr..
stephens said:
yellow citizens of Grenada Coun-
tya 1t gives me genuine pleasure, in
deetd feel 1t duty, to express few
WorNs of appreciation of Hon. Hubert
~. SSephens. ! was pastor of the
Meth3odist church at New Albany
nearly three years and had occasion
TO (Know the distinguished speaker in
Emately and well. / want to say that
he is Christian gentleman of un-
: questionable standing. No man stands
better with his home people, those
who know him best.
Notwithstanding the fact that
Union County has always been re-
garded as a Vardaman county, make
the prediction that out of the three
thousand votes that will be cast that
Hubert Stephens viii get twenty-five
hundred of them.
GAS a fellow-townsman, I always !
found him actively on the right side |
of every moral question. He is a |
man Of good judgment, Of few PIE
tensions and is a safe counsellor and I
tree a41G loyal frfeI. s.s.,> : chs eIt, a.
ly and unreservedly commend him to
you, my friends, as man worthy of
your confidence and of your support,
and as a man who will serve our
state wisely and well in the United I
States Senate"
Introduced by Horton. l.
Rev. Mr.. Stephens then presented I
Hon. Cowles Horton. Mr.. Horton
said in part: ''The so-called right of
suffrage pales into insigniicance
when we consider its corresponding
duty. This is particularly true when
it comes to electing member of the
United States Senate, the greatest
deliberative body in the world. Which I,
ever way we turn, we are inspired +,
by he stupendity of the obligation s
which is connected alike with the fu-
ture, the present and the past.
GAS we look backward we are in
spired by the greatness of the days
gone by. Mississippians have much to ;
make them proud. Names like Jeffer- |
son Davis, Lamar, George and Wal
thall loom up before US like mighty i
mountains above the undulating plain I
of humanity beneath. The toga these I
men wore fell from their shoulders t
pure and undefled, honored and glor-
flied by them that wore it. II
THAT toga now wraps the shoul- {
ders Of the matchless John Sharp Will T
liams, and great indeed will be the Y
task of him who follows in his foot
steps: {
'The present holds out to US great v
problems to be solved, issues to be f
met, obligations to be performed; that G
present demands our best thought, c
our care, our unselfish consideration. f
Looking out into the future, we +
are again reminded of the task that |:
lies before us. Those who follow v
countless generations yet to come de-
mand of US that we write our own {
history as it should be written. In il
this situation Mississippi stands with c
a great problem before her. She de- n
mands that we eschew and throw Il
aside our prejudices, that we be true S,
to our obligations, that we take care tt
that what we do shall be creditable it
to her history. "
her people are responding. From t,
the Second Congressional District
they have sent Hubert D. STEPHENS ir
as candidate for United States Sem ST
ator. They commend him as a patri- fl
lot whose slogan has always been al
My country always, right or wrong S.
They commend him as one who has h,
always stood on the right side of b,
moral questions, man whose pri- iB
vate life is what it should be, as in
man who has never been defeated w
for Office, who has served them ably a
as district attorney and wisely for A
five successive terms in the lower in
House of Congress. They commend fe
him as one who has the fundamentals lii
ty on which to build, pure, clean ia
life, patriotic spirit, a strong, ro- 10
bust man in every respect, worthy of w
The great office which he seeks and lcs
worthy to follow in the footsteps of cl
our great leaders," ia
Raps Party Disloyalty. m
Mr.. Stephens thanked both the Rev. az
Mr.. Stephens, who by the way, is not he
related to him, and Hon. Cowles Hor- la
Ton for their gracious words and made Isl!
n substance the same speech he has he
been making at other places in the st
state. lat
He stated that he fully coincided w,
With the idea that there were grave an
md delicate problems before the pno Ct
Die. He said he was a Democrat, that W
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