The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1951-07-12
Your Vote Is Sacred" Woman Candidate
For Governor Tells Holmes Citizens Al Rally
Lions Political
RoIIy Held Today
At 1000 A. M.

for governor, told Holmes county
citizens at 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 rally will be concluded
with a dance in the Lexington
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
until midnight or pos
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 UNI
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
eminent" she said, when you
SAY you stand for one thing but
fail 70 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. l am opposed to every
form of Specialization that besets
this country today, and that in
subsidies to farmers. un-
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
ldeologies 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
.ialism.
I 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-
unity to stand up and be counted.
No person should let blood ties.
personal friendship or anything
stand in the way of a conscien-
,ious vote for that way of life. You
'annot support people who prom
Sc you pensions, subsidies, gov
'rnment electricity, etc., and
ruthfully say that you are casting
| vote for good basic American
government"
Mrs. Cain discussed in detail
he IL planks of her platform, bas-
"a primarily upon refusal of
my further federal grants-in-aid
md a program of drastic tax re-
iuction. She advocates abolition
II the state income tax (she holds
t to be unconstitutional at both
ederal and state levels); the black
market tax. which she labels ''hv-
'ocritical;;" the admission, estate.
main store, slOr machine ana ma.
axes. These taxes total s28 nil
ions 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
rlghtful upward spiral of cost of
government and that is to cut off
he water. It must be done if we
ire to reduce the $122 millions
'ost of government that we had in
he last biennium. At the end of
hat biennium, incidentally, we
lad an ,$l8 million dollar surplus.
With which we did NOT get any
ak relief. Adding to that the
aving of $40 millions which the
ommittee on reorganization SAYS
We could effect with consolidation
Il the 100 bureaus and agencies
We have in the state, employing
1000 people, and you can see
hat | aln not asking an impossible
hing. Cost of government has
lsen more than $44 millions in the
asst six years here in Mississippi
is high time economy was re-
iscovered!"
mrs. Cam advocates taxing the
Operatives and states that she
elieves they would honestly like
. be taxed as matter of fairness
tax-paying business with which
ney compete; she favors a sound i
EDUCATIONAL program but promises
othing except an effort to con- |
olidate the one, two and three !
eacher schools of the state and an |
nd of the federal lunch room sub |
dy; she would purge the mental
of all except those
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