The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1951-07-12
Your Vote Is Sacred" Woman Candidate
For Governor Tells Holmes Citizens AT Rally
Lions Political
Rally Opens Here
At 1000 A. IA.

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sissippi's first woman candidate
for governor, told Holmes county
citizens at a countrywide rally
which opened in Lexington at
1000 am. today.
The rally is sponsored by the
Lexington Lions club and will
continue through the day with
some 38 candidates for state and
county offices scheduled to speak
on the program. The complete
list is carried elsewhere on this
page.
The rally will be concluded
with a dance in the Lexington
armory tonight beginning at nine
o'clock. Eddie Hill and his radio
and television band will furnish
music for the dance-the same
group which played at intervals
throughout the day. Dancing will
continue until midnight or posi-
sibly later.
Mrs. Cain was the first candi-
date to appear on the program.
Don't Feel Obligation"
The woman candidate said no
person should feel under obliga-
ton to support any candidate I'M
less that candidate stood for what
the voter really believed to be the
best interests of the state. You
have no right to complain of gov
ernment," she said, when you
SAY you stand for one thing but
fail to uphold it by your vote. Too
many people today are paying lip
service to the American way of
life while they bow the knee to
socialism. / am opposed to every
form of Specialization that besets
this country today, and that in
cludes subsidies to farmers, un-
employment compensation, feder-
al aid to education, socialized me-
dicine and compulsory health in
surance, arbitrary wage and hour
regulations, public housing, the
Brannan plan, the Valley authori-
ties, federal aid for the aged and
needy, and especially social Sc
curity, as it is called. These are
ideologies that are socialistic in
concept because every single one
of them is based on the theory of
taking from those who have and
giving to those who have-not-the
great leveling process which is So
cialism.
II am in this race to give people
who honestly and truly believe in
the REAL American way - the
way of pride, self-reliance, and
rugged individualism - an oppor-
tunity to stand up and be counted.
No person should let blood ties,
personal friendship or anything
stand in the way of a ~conscien-
tious vote for that way of life. You
cannot support people who prom
Use you pensions, subsidies, gov
eminent electricity, etc.. and
truthfully say that you are casting
a vote for good basic American
government"
Mrs. Cain discussed in detail
the 18 planks of her platform, bas-
ed primarily upon a refusal of
any further federal grants-in-aid
and a program of drastic tax re-
duction. She advocates abolition
of the state income tax (she holds
it to be unconstitutional at both
federal and state levels); the black
market tax, which she labels Thy
pocritical;" the admission, estate.
chain store, slot machine and malt
taxes. These taxes total $28 mil
lions for a biennium," she said.
That's a pretty large sum to say
we can and must do without, but
! know'of only one way to stop the
frightful upward spiral of cost of
government and that is to cut off
the water 1t must be done if we
are to reduce the $122 millions
cost of government that we had in
the last biennium. At the end of
that biennium, incidentally, we
had an $18 million dollar surplus.
with which we did NOT get any
tax relief. Adding to that the
saving of $40 millions which the
committee on reorganization says
could effect with consolidation
of the LOG bureaus and agencies
we have in the state, employing
$4,000 people, and you can see
that | am not asking an impossible
thing. Cost of government has
risen more than S44 millions in the
last six years here in Mississippi.
1t is high time economy was re-
discovered"
Mrs. Cain advocates taxing the
cooperatives and states that she
believes they would honestly like
to be taxed as a matter of fairness
to tax-paying business with which
they compete; she favors a sound
educational program but promises
nothing except an effort to con-
soiidate the one, two and three