The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-08-17
through
Hazel
Eyes

The day after the election hes
started circulating in Holmes county
about at least one candidate in the
race for a county office.
This candidate, given an over
whelming vote. in fact almost a ma
jority of the votes cast in the cleo
ton, is being accused OF being lined
UP with a candidate who was elected
by the people Of Holmes County to
again serve them in a state office.
AS a matter Of fact, the candidate
about whom the rumors are being
circulated ran his own race, a clean
and honest race based on his in
dividual merits and capability of hand
ling the office he seeks. The fact that
the people of Holmes county believe
he 10 capable of handling that office
and want him in it is clearly shown
by the fact that IL he had pollej
just a few more votes he would have
been elected In .he first primary.
Now comes a lot OF ugly rumors
and b~are-faced lies to try to discredit
luA3 CdIlQIudtt Hill uldhC III iaS
tions in the county sore at him.
him.
We think the people OF Holmes
county are sick and tired of politics
conducted on such a basis. We be-
lieve that they want men in office
who are first Of all unquestionable
in character, capable of handling the
office they seek, and last but not
least. men who serve the best In
terests of the entire county all the
time, be fair and sincere in all their
dealings with the people both IN
private and public life.
The people of Holmes county don't
want professional politicians in Of
flee any more. They are tired of it
They are tired Of their eternal prom
Uses which NEAR nothing. They are
81 tired of 1t that they want a COM
plete rest.
Four years ago in Holmes county,
we have been told, the same tactics
were used in a campaign and a good
man was defeated; a man who had a
very great lead over his opponent a.
the end of the first primary.
1t is said that only fools prophesy.
But we hereby make this wager. TINS
people of Holmes county are not go
ing to be coerced or intimidated this
year when they elect their officials,
They are going to vote for whom
they please. Their votes are not
going to be gotten by falsehoods.
Thew are not going Ia believe every
thing hey hea during the campaign.
Some of the stuff they rear is going
to be discounted one hundred per
cent.
We'd like for our readers to know
one thing. We are no. trying to tell
them how to vote. We feel hat the
privilege of voting Is about the only
privilege in the world accorded every
one alike. The rich and the poor,
the high and the low, all have only
one vote.
What we do want our readers to
do is to take the trouble to know
the person for whom they are voting,
no e his qualifications For holding of
flee, judge him by his past and pres
ent life and be guided as to what
he is going to do in the future.
Only by electing the best men we
have to office a we ever hope TO
preserve democracy in rs best form.
When we start taking dictation
from persons as to how we shall
vote we are helping support a politi-
cal machine that will eventually en-.
gulf us and our democratic form Of
government.
In a true democracy people vote for
they please. They are not
We don't know but we think Mike
Conner and Paul Johnson can fight
it out for the governorship of the
fair state of Mississippi without the
endorsement of he editor of the
Durant News. We think they'll man.
age very nicely without our help.
We're unfortunate in that we don't
a large family that we can
divide for the benefit of the guberna-
candidates. If we did we could
in good with both sides.
But since there's only one OF us
strictly neutral and will not
.ry to force our views on anyone.
The Editor of the Pontotoc Pro-
sress has the following to say about
liquor in Mississippi:
strict prohibitionis5s have long
that the State should not
profit from the nefarious whiskey
.raffic, that tax derived
rom sale Of the poison are i'll gain
ID; that new should the state sane
ion liquor selling in any manner,
'hape or form. However, a tinge OF
egaity has been lent to .he boot
eg traffic by the Mississippi Tax
Collection Department. Tax Collection
'uits filed by j. B. Gully. state tax
collector, had netted the state $50, 1000
according to official reports made last