The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1927-06-09
Dennis Murphree Thrills Record Crowd in
Mastery Presentation of Platform and
Record at Lexington Court House Tuesday

VI W SudiSc IL So tHdL you WOulQnL
know it if you met it in the road" as
one candidate is alleged to be advocat-
ing, would face that state with choice
of two situations; to sink back into the
iniquitous policy of issuing bonds to
pay for current expenses, and thus max
ing still heavier the load of debt that
must be carried by our children and
our grandchildren; or to increase the
state tax levy by four or five mills.
Mr.. Murphree pledged his support to
the continued development of all state
Institutions, educational and eleemos-
mary He stated that throughout his
life he had felt the handicap of the
lack of schooling, and that he wanted
the highest possible educational facili-
ties available to every boy and girl in
the state. At the same time, he gave
fair warning that insofar as was within
his power, he would keep the state on
u ray as-you-go basis, and promised to
veto any and all appropriation bills that
exceeded the state income. Mr.. Muir
phree argued that the states business
should be considered in the same light
as the individuals business, and that in
either instance, the spending of more
money that is taken in means sure ruin.
A greater care of the states sick
was urged with especial emphasis. The
tuberculosis institution at Magee was
fully endorsed, along with the other
state institutions for the care of the
physically and mentally sick, and prom
Use was made that these institutions be
supplied with funds to operate to full
capacity. An especial plea was made
for the 10000 tubercular patients in
Mississippi, who cannot go to any in
stitution, and who are facing death
from disease that is durable. The
speaker proposes that the state in CO.
operation with the counties and with
philanthropists like Rockefellow, place
health units in each county; and that
these units advise the sick as to diet,
fresh air and medical treatment, while
at the same time urging and putting
preventable diseases.
Mr.. Murphree is an intensely earnest
speaker, impressing all with his high
motives and his seriousness in the con-
temptation OF the high office he seeks.
He did not deal in personalities, and
injected enough of that rich Irish wit
with which he is abundantly supplied,
to enliven the occasion. In commenting
On the bitter attack that had met his
entry into the campaign, he confessed
that he was puzzled. "In Calhoun coun-
ty," he said, tive RUN for office; five
of us we're in the race for representa-
tive at one time and seven another.
"Why," he continued, "up in Calhoun
we figure that any man has right to
run for any office he wants. so long
as he is white, twenty-one years of age,
and has never been in Ja-I mean, the
ponitentiary."
Mr.. Murphree spoke for an hour and
a half. and had the closest attention
throughout, with frequent applause
puncturing his forceful declarations. 1t
was Murphree crowd, in and out, and
the hundreds of people who had never
seen or heard him before and were
supporting him solely because OF the
principles he represents, were outspoken
in their delight of the man and his
of doctrines. They feel
that Murphree is admirably wearing the
mantle that fell from the faltering hand
of the lamented Whitfield, and that the
direction of the old Ship Of State is
safe in his hands.