The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-05-05
STEPHENS ADDRESSES
GRENADA AUDIENCE
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he believed in party government, tina
he thought parties necessary to tn
progress and the wlfare of the n.
tion, and that he was one of thos
who believed that individual ideas an
individual differences among thos
charged with party leadership shout
be fought out in the party and that
solid front should be presented to tn
opposing party.
He said that he did not mean to sa
that there were rot able, good an
true men in the Republican party blu
that he did mean to say that Republi
/. can ideas and Republican policies rul
absolutely counter to the best senti
ment and best hope of the south. H,
cited President Harding's recent visi
to the south and the speech he mad,
at Birmingham, in which the presiden
commended for equal political right
Tor negroes. Yet, Mr.. Stephens said
there were men in Mississippi nov
running for office and men who haC
been honored by the Democratic par
ty who just excused President Hard.
ing in very mild words on the ground.
that the president did not know condi-
tions. But he said that this same
man, had President Wilson, Pat Har-
rison or Senator Williams or himself
a anything that met this critics
dlspleasure, would hardly have found
anything too eve to haves said
ahcut any of them.
Mr.. Stephens cited as further evil
dence of this persons ~disloyalty to the
Democratic parry his almost contin-
uous attacks on party leaders, the
many vicious things he said about
Woodrow Wilson and which he is still
saying. and that same persons recent
commentator of Republican senators
an expressing the hope that Senators
johnson of California and France of
Maryland would be reelected.
Nf. Stephens paid a great tribute
to Ex-President Wilson and stated
that all this thing about Woodrow
Wilson not wanting to avoid the war
was untrue. He said that there were
over 100 war bills during the war and
that he voted for all of them.
Mr.. Stephens made a plea for unity
of purpose and unity of action in Mis-
sissippi. He said that the best inter
ests Of the state demanded the WHIP
ing out of factional lines. He init
mated very strongly that those Demo
Gratis who were led away from the
party fold at the last presidential cleo
sion were. led away by this continual
criticism of party leaders by this Mis-
sissippi clitic and the political paper
which he publishes and that they
ought not to expect to come into the
party primary and help name a Dem
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Mr.. Stephens insisted that faction
al politics in Mississippi had brought
graft, corruption in public officials,
high taxes and waste of public money
and that the people owed no mar any
office but that it was the duty of ev-
cry man and every woman to wake
UP to the serious condition that con-
fronts the State. He said that he be-
lieved in economy and that it was
time to trim public expenditures to
the lowest possible limit.
Republicans For Democratic Critic.
He said that there was hardly any
question about the fact that the Re-
publican organization in Mississippi,
whatever that is, was doing what it
could to help elect a fault finder. He
said that it was good politics for the
Republicans to aid this critic because /
they knew by his past record as a
Senator and by what he continues to
write and to say that they could
count on him to do many things at
Washington and that no surprise need
be felt if it was found that the Re-
publicans were sending emmissaries |
up and down the State o-secretly aid
this ex-candidate and abuser of lead
ing Democrats.
Easy Enough To Fault Find.
Mr.. Stephens stated that it was
easy enough to find fault, to pick out
mistakes, but that the good Mississippi
plan and loyal American would hunt
for the good things, and that there
were so many hundred good things
in the record of the last Democratic
administration as compared to Its
few mistakes or blunders that it ought
to be easy for any good Mississippi
TO talk of the really great
things it did. He said that one could !
not live by looking backward, that it
was the forward looking man that was
needed on duty today.
: Mr.. Stephens said he had no great
to promise if he were honored
with the United States senatorship, 4
but that he would promise to be hon
est and to do that which he thought !
best for his people. He insisted that
rule of reason and party loyalty !
be his guide and that he would
never be found taking the part of
any foreign government against his &
own country. IL
Mr.. Stephens could hardly have
appeared at Grenada at a time when ]
it was more difficult to get an audi i
ence. 1t was Monday, and the first n
day of the month, a fact that pre- n
vented practically every merchant in
town from closing during his speech. d
The ladies of the different churches h
all had some missionary or other S
meeting for the afternoon.
The day was fair, but it was about \