The Brandon news., 1922-08-31

lawn. Every seat provided on thu
beautiful grounds was filled anC
dozens of men stood under the shade
of the trees and listened.
Bolivar County gave Stephens 4
majority Of 1876 votes over both his
opponents in the first primary. HIS
lead over Vardaman was $40 votes
out of total of 1,496 cast. Senator
Vardaman has carried the county
but one time in the 20 years ht
has been active in Mississippi poll.
tics. That was in 1911, when he
received an overwhelming vote fol
United States Senator. His majority
then was small being less than 3OC
votes. Senator Harrison carried the
county in 1917 by neat majority.
Mr. Hmphreys spoke in part as
follows:
Il have come to say good word
for my friend, Hubert Stephens.
served 10 years with him in Con-
gress and there had the best of OPP
portunities to enable me to properly
assay his qualities both of head and
heart. We served together through
10 of the most eventful years Of the
nations, history, years of peace and
years of war, fat years and lean
years, happy years and years full
with events of narrowing circum-
stances, and through it all, as near
ly as may be expected of erring man,
he obeyed the injunction, Let all
the ends thou aimst at be thy
country's, Gods and truths.
81 am speaking to you as Demo-
Gratis and must assume that you be-
lieve the best interests of our coun-
try will be served by having its at
fairs administered in Washington
by the Democratic party. Otherwise,
you would not be Democrats.
Democrat i'm Washington.
Il prefer him to his opponent be-
cause | know he will be a Democrat
in Washington as well as in Missis-
sippi and a man who will not follow
the party banner after election ought
not to ask the honor of carrying it
before election.
Il prefer him because he support
ed with all his strength the match
less legislative programme of the
ship of Woodrow Wilson, and /
challenge any party TO match that
record of legislative accomplish
ments in the interest of all the peo-
pie!
Il prefer him because when the
world was afire and the sparks
were flying and the mothers of the
land were praying to the God of
nations to give to our great leader
wisdom and courage and light to
guide his footsteps to the end that
he might lead us always in the
paths of peace, he neither by word
nor vote threw stumbling blocks
before his feet.
'T prefer him because when the
sad day came and grim viSaged and
unwelcomed war had reared his
Wrinkled front and we were COM
PEELED to choose between righteous
war and craven peace he had the
courage to draw the sword.
Il prefer him because through all
the awful and soul trying days OF
war he stood four square to every
breeze, upheld the hands of our
commander in chief, that having
entered the quarrel he might make
his adversary aware of it, and never
once did he utter one word or Sent1-
ment that could give aid or comfort
to the enemy.
81 prefer him because when
victory at last had perched upon
the earth had gathered around the
table, he did not set his
tongue awagging to hinder and en-
barraSS our great representative
there in his divinely inspired pur-
pose to give to the old blood soaked
world a lasting peace.
Worthy and Qualified.
"And now in the aftermath, when
the shouting and the tumult have
died and the captains and the kings
departed, when the spirit of discOn
tent stalks abroad in the world
menacing the stability of all ordered
government, | prefer him because
never before did we so need the
counsel of sane and conservative
men and never before was the
leadership of the radical so fraught
with possibilities of evil.
Il have watched him through it
all and | know he is worthy and
well qualified.
Let me be more specific. | am
a Democrat. | am here to talk to
Democrats who are about to choose
a Democratic candidate for the
United States Senate. No man or
woman who does not wish to see our
party win in the nation can right
fully claim to be Democrat. | have
great respect for Republicans and l
am willing to debate our political
differences with them this fall when
the campaign opens in the doubtful
states where Republican frankly
admits that he is Republican. II
we win we much successfully match
the achievements of the Democratic
administration with the achieve
ments of the Republican administra-
ton. Does any one believe we can
do that if we indorse the proposition
that the administration of Woodrow
Wilson was the most infamous in
the history of this country? Can
we say to the people, 1T is true we
made a thorough mess of things