Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-08-10

of last resort. While it is true that there is no appeal from the action of
the committee to the courts there is a law by which the committee is sup
posed to act and that law provides that If fraud is practced in a precinct
that the entire precinct should be thrown out. That is the law by which
the committee should act. The committee is not the law. Our primary
elections settle everything and unless We conduct them according to law we
have 10 way to secure ourselves and our families the right to participate
in the affairs of our government.
We care nothing about the little record that DR.. Lowrey has made in
congress, whether it is good or bad. The question for is to decide is: Did
he make a better record than A. c. Anderson would have made or can he
go back there and do more for the people in the next two years than Ander-
son can do? He deserves nothing for writing letters and sending or gar
den seed for which the people are taxed. In addition to Lowreys salary
and mileage he has his son as his secretary at $224O 90 a year and his sons
wife is IN the pay roll at $1A4o. 90 a year, all together Lowrey and his
family are drawing slightly less than $12Ooo.0 90 a year, q cool thousand
each month. Why can't they send out seed and bulletins you are taxed to
pay for?
Then the Lowrey committee undertakes tx explain the Tippah county
vote of 1920, but facts are facts and they stand there against them. His
statement that he had been away from the county and that the voting popu-
laton had changed, etc, is far fetched and very weak. Even if he did
spend a few years out of the county the Lowrey name vas here, the Lowrey
school was here and he lost nothing by being out of the county for a little
while.
We do lot claim that this was a personal reputation of DR.. Lo~rey,
but simply that the people preferred Mr.. Anderson, with his II years legis-
lative experience to a mn whose thought and activities had been along
other lines.
These ire matters for the serious consideration of the voters and they
re matters that should be settled right at the ballot box m the 18th of
August. Do you believe in a fair election? Do you believe in a clean bal
lot? Do you believe in a honest count? Do you believe these matters
should be settled at the polls or by a committee? Mr.. Andersno felt In 1917
that it was his duty to himself, his family and his friends to investigate
these charges of fraud. He submitted to the action Of the committee then
but is appealing o to the highest court of resort the people. The mn
and the women who constitute the electorate, who are charged with tine
sacred responsibility of selecting a mn o represent them in the United
States congress. He has every right under our form of government to
make this appeal. DR.. Lowreys committee thinks M such appeal should
be made. Then what about the Newberry case? The court threw out the
Newberry case. The Senate seated Newbemy. Yet the Democratic party
is making the Newberry matter the leading issue OF every Republican who
voted to seat him and will make it IN of the leading issues in the next
Presidential election. It is an appeal to the American people for honest
elections. Upon the right to vote and have that vote counted rests the fu-
tue security of the American people. We submit this caseto the men and
the women-the fathers and mothers, of this district. We ask n o more at
Your hands than o would ask for your son or your daughter. Let US here
establish a ideal-a standard upon which W e car appeal for a higher order
of political life. 1A