The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12
PROMINENT WOMAN
ENDORSES HENRY
ms. COMMISSIONER
Mrs. Lizzie George Henderson Gives
Reasons for Endorsement. He
Has Rendered UnseIfish Service
to State. A Faithful Officer.

l take great pleasure in calling
the attention of the women of the
state especially, to some reasons
why we should vote for Hon. T. M.
Henry, Insurance Commissioner, to
succeed himself And / would call
the attention of the Confederate
Veterans of the state and the Sons
of Confederate Veterans to some
reasons why they should support
him.
To begin with, If l did not believe
that he would fill the office accept
ably, l would not write at all, be-
cause l am personally under no
obligations politically to any man,
my only debt being to Mississippi,
and her best interests.
But when a man has rendered
unselfish service for the Confederate
Veterans, who are in need of such
service, | confess l think that it
ought to be recognized by all the
citizens of this state, the End one
to join the Confederacy, and which
furnished the only president for
that short lived nation. For not
only for their war records do we
owe them all they need, but for
an even greater service; for it was
they who preserved the civilization
of the south during the dark days
of reconstruction.
SO / am hoping for the re-elect-
ion of Mr.. Henry for these reasons:
First, because he has made a
faithful officer despite the fact
that he has been harrassed in many
ways by that political clique, who
tried to defeat him because he did
not belong to them.
Second, because he served with
out charge, as a member OF the
Sons committee to raise the money
for the purchase of Beauvoir, and
it's establishment as a Home where
Confederate Veterans might spend
their last days in peace and com,
fort, and then for 4 years-until
the State passed a law preventing
any state officer, other than the
ex-officio member, from serving on
the boards of any eleemosynary or
educational institution, and as he
was then auditor, he was not eli
gible for longer service.-he served
on the executive committee of the
states board Of control, visiting the
Home once a month for all those
years, looking after their comfort,
and seeing to the appropriation for
the support of the Home at every
session of the legislature during
that time.
He has never been ''coat tail
rider, and l am thinking could
not possibly be one, by the very
nature of his being. And l am very
sure that he could not be one to
mix with mud even to ride the
coat tails of some popular idol,
though by riding he might ride into
office
He must be making an honest
officer, or the present administra-
ton would not be making every
move which it's ingenuity could
think of, to put him out. Its Gar
even going so far as to serve notice
of removal and ordering him to turn
over to one of his selection, all be-
longing to the office, with the office
given to him by the people Of
Mississippi. Fortunately, the Su-
preme court prevented this by a
unanimous decision in his favor.
One governor of Mississippi, a
sovereign state, sending troops to
put a sheriff of a county, elected
according to the constitution, by the
people of that county, out of the
office entrusted to him by those
people, upon a mere pretext, of
rumor. The next, serving notice of
eviction on a servant of the state,
on a pretext thrown out by the
oO,1rt unIauuf,1lf rant