Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-07-27
MISS
FLIRTS RED FLAG IN
STEPHENS FACE
She Wants To Know What He Has
Given In Return For the $4,000
OF The Peoples Money He Has
Received.

Received.
Miss Belle. Kearney, lady candi-
date for congress to succeed John
Sharp Williams, has addressed the
following letter to Hubert Stephens,
which will be read with much interest
by the people of the second congress
sional district.
We have been wondering "What
Hubert ever did other than defeating
j. R. Shinault four years ago. And
we have yet to learn if he ever did
anything during his ten years in
congress, beside draw his salary
and mileage"
This letter of Miss Kearney will
not be answered by Mr.. Stephens,
is our prediction. 1t furnishes food
for thought, nevertheless, and
should be read by every voter.
Miss kearney's Letter.
Jackson, Miss. july II, 1922.
Hon. Hubert D. Stephens.
Candidate. for U. S. Senate.
jackson, Miss.
Dear Mr.. Stephens:
With many other persons, | am
very anxious to learn what position
you occupied in reference to certain
great questions while you were a
member. of Congress, and on other
issues which have arisen since your
last term there.
Did you vote against the establish
ment of a National Department of
Education with a Secretary in the
Presidents Cabinet?
Did you fight the Draft and later
vote for it?
Did you favor the Child Labor
Law?
What were your achievements in
connection with the Federal Reserve
Act? Of course we know that the
men who put through the measure
were Nelson B. Aldrich, who conceiv-
ed the idea, and that Owen and Glass
worked out the details, and that Presi-
dent Wilson pushed it through Con-
gress. IF you were instrumental in
the creation of this act. why wasn't
your name connectde with its his
tory?
Will you please tell us of your
definite achievements in Congress, as
you were a member of the body for
ten years and received S75,OO0.OO in
salary to say nothing of thousands
of dollars in mileage? The people
think that they have a right to know
what you gave in return for this COM
p%ensation.
Did you fight the Eight-Hour
Law?
Did YOU vote for. National Constitu-
tional Prohibition?
We know that when William Jen-
nings Bryan made his speech at the
National Democratic Convention, at
San Francisco, advocating a plank IN
the Democratic platform for the ne
orcement of the Volstead Act, there
was a great demonstration In the con-
v~ention hall on behalf of prohlbltlon;
that every state in n half OF the
auditorium, the names from A TO IN,
Joined in the demonstration except
Mississippi; that Pat Harrison swung
the delegation to Cox, although ne
knew that the latter was allied with
the LIQUOR element; and that Mlssls-
sippi was the first stat elm the Union
to ratify the Federal Amendment Tor
National Prohibition. Mr.. Moore,
the of Cox, said to members
of the Mississippi delegation, This
election of Cox means that we shall
have light wines and beers" Mrs.
Peter Olson, who has just been noml-
mated by the Democrats of Minnesota
as their candidate for United States
Senate, exclaimed, "The Democrats
have drowned our party in a key of
beer!"
1t is said that you are the chosen
of Senator at Harrison as a candidate
for United States Senate from Missis-
sippi. Will you use your influence in
the next Presidential election for or
against prohibition as defined by the
Volstead Act? This is an aspect of
the Senatorial campaign in Missis-
sippi which few have considered.
Do you favor the bonus?
In my conversation with you at
Hazlehurst last summer you declared
that while a member of Congress
you voted against the enfranchise-
ment of women because you were
Inherently opposed to woman's suf-
ffage; that it was a question of senti-
ment with you. What argument can
you offer now for the political sup
port of the women f this state?
Yours sincerely.
BELLE KEARNEY.