Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1923-01-04
MURPHREE ANNOUNCES
FOR LIEUT.-GOVERNOR
Twelve Years in House and
Three Times Speaker
Pro TEN

The ENTERPRISE this week car
ries the announcement Of Hon.
Dennis Murphree Of Calhoun
County for Lieutenant Cover
nor.
Although it has been general
lily known since April that he
would be a candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor of Mississippi,
the formal announcement is
just now being made and the
active campaign of his friends
to elect him to this office has
begun in earnest. There will be
nothing spectacular about the
campaign-just a campaign to
rut into the Office Of Lieutenant
Governor, a man, honest, con-
scientous. qualified bv exper-
ience and devoted to the devel-
cpment cf the state along pro-
gressive lines.
The Office of Lieutenant Gov
ernor is one Of honor, rather
than of adequate compensation
for services rendered, but never
theless it is one Of Importance
and deep consideration should be
given to the filling of this Of
flee. Upon the Lieutenant Gov
ernor devolves the duties of pre-
siding over the Senate. Twelve
years of service in the Housg
of Representatives, where he
was three times elected Speaker
Pro Tenn and has many times
presided over the body, quail
fies Mr.. Murphree by actual ex-
perience to perform the duties
of President of the Senate.
Another important duty of
the Lieutenant Governor is to
act in the stead of the regular
ly elected Governor, when the
latter is absent from the state.
Honesty, sincerely Of purpose:
intelligence, non-factionalism,
force OF character and a clean
moral life should be the main at
tributes in the making up of
any of the states high exc
cutives. Dennis Murphree has
these attributes. His home life
as a plain citizen is clean. His
services to his county and state
as legislator are above re-
proach. Nothing harmful of
his reputation has ever been
brought against Dennis Muir
phree. The fact that he was
elected three times by his home
people to represent them in the
legislature, attests the esteem
in which they hold him and if
he had not been the right kind
of a man, they would surely
have found him out in twelve
years. His home people are
vigorously supporting him for
Lieutenant Governor.
Mr.. Murphree has perhaps
the widest acquaintance of any
man who has thus far an
nounced for a state office. His
three terms as a legislator put
him in intimate touch with his
colleagues and these colleagues,
of whom he made warm friends
are rallying to his support in
this race. ~
In addition to his wide ac-
quaintance with present and
former legislators, Mr.. Murph-
rec has had the advantage of
having toured about thirty coun-
ties in the state during the past
two years. On these tours Mr..
Murphree visited practically
every school in each county, car
rying to the people message
Of education and health. These
tours we're arranged at first by
the Grenada Bank system and
later were under the direction
of the Board of Health of Miss
issippi.
While Mr.. Murphree did not
mention his candidacy for Lieu
tenant Governor during his can
vas of these counties, he had
the opportunity to meet large
number Of people who will re-
member him when the time
comes to cast their votes.
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