The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-06-08
5. R. King Enters
Race For Senate
From Holmes
LocuI Man Contestant
For Office Against
Stewart Watson


nounce the candidacy of Mr.. Sandy
r. King, of the Holmes County Bar,
for nomination to the office of State
Senator from Holmes county in the
August primaries of the Democratic
party.
Mr.. King was born in the Black
monitor community in Carroll Coun.
ty, Mississippi, and moved with his
parents to Durant at the age of two,
and finished the Durant Schools in
1916. He later attended Southkwes-
tern, University OF Chicago, and fin
ished his law course at Ole Miss in
1923. having been admitted to prac-
tice law in 1923. He has been en-
| gagged in the practice of law in Hol-
mes county since 1928. Aside from
his practice of law he has perfected
and copyrighted a card-index law di-
,. gest system. In 1896 Mr.. King serv-
ed as administrator and paymaster
of the Works Progress Administra-
ton for Holmes county. He is a mem
her of FKA fraternity and of the
Presbyterian church. His announce
ment is as follows:
To the Democratic Voters Of
Holmes County:
I take this opportunity to o
my candidacy for nomination for the
office of State Senator for the twenty
first Senatorial District of Mississippi,
being for Holmes County, in the
Democratic Party primaries to ne
held in August. Although this is
my first offer as a candidate for
an elective office, I have always been
intensely interested in public and
governmental affairs. My interest in
politics has ever been to advance the
interests Of the people by means of
progressive democratic government.
For the past several months a great
number of the members and voters
of u Democratic party in this coun-
ty and from all walks of life have
urged me to become a candidate for
this important office. I believe that
\ aii dAiiRiy 4odlk1lCo ~ oCI yott
in this office due to my legal train
ing, and by general experience in
life in such employments as farm
hand, laborer, mechanic, school teach
er, policeman. clerk, auditor, and
lawyer. I have always remained in
close everyday contact with the mass
es of the people and I believe myself
to be fully acquainted with their
wills. desires, needs, and require
ments. 1 believe that I am fitted to
express accurately their wills in mat
tiers of legislation and other matters
incidental to the functions of that
office, and to advance the cause of
progressive democratic government
during the present period of political
and economic instability and I'M
rest.
Should you choose to elect me to
this office of Senator I pledge to
work n vote for all reasonable
and progressive legislation which is
feasible and economical. If you elect
me 1 will stand for the immediate
paving and hardsurfacing of all state
and federal highways in Holmes coun-
ty with prompt and immediate hard
surfacing of the farm to market roads
of u county; adequate old age pen
sions. establishment of county juve-
nile departments for the protection
and advancement of wayward boys
and girls of tender age, with a law
providing stiff penalties for those con-
tributing to the moral delinquency OF
minors; adequate support by the
state for our state and county hos
pitfalls, schools, colleges, and eleemos-
ynary institutions; retirement funds
for school teachers, with sufficient
and adequate compensation for our
school teachers for their services:
homestead exemption; and other pro-
gressive measures too numerous to
state here.
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