Show JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS BY SAVOYARD The Te senate is this mans place There he will wi remind of or Davis and Walker of Lamar Lmar and ad George and Walthall Wallal He will wi occupy the void made by y Car macks maks absence absence He will wi have no su perlor in the body The United States senate is I the great deliberative geat cal council of the American people Its It history is the cream of ot American citi and to it I we must look for the splendor of ot American statesmanship Though we have fallen falen on times when any an Jackleg can cn make snake a better beter than that our fathers const faters the work of ot the fathers proved wonder fully successful and the ihs United States senate Is their grandest production It is the conservative element that was formed to shield o the minority from the ungoverned license of the majority and that t at Is all aU the the th expression free fre r government ever meant ment to the intel student of ot politics Ours Our is a mixed government national and fed federal federal eral the latter later a check upon and a balance bance against the th former ormer as when the conservatism of ot the senate saved Andrew Andrw Johnson from tom the radicalism of the house as a when the senate threw out the Lodge force torce bill bi of 1890 The senate Is the tt theatre upon whose stage the smallest state may play playas as great greata a part vart as the largest larget there tere Delaware and New Ney Ne York are equal equal Not only is the senate federal in Its Is membership but under the constitution It is fed federal feder eral er state In In its Is composition that Is the legislatures made up of ot representatives from equal communities choose the te senators If I you doubt that it I has worked admirably get the roll rollof rol of ot the senate for tor a century and be con convinced convinced vinced Senators are chosen by the legislatures governors by b the people Who will wi dare say sy the governors of the states are superior to the senators from the states He Ho is a reckless man who will wi say they are equal to the th senators But that is to be changed at the de demand demand mand of public clamor The tion ton of the fathers faters is already nullified In this practice of ot making senators by blanket primary prIma If I Jefferson efferon Davis had lived and retained the splendid qualities of ot his prime there would have been no blanket primary in Mis Mississippi Mississippi to bring into contempt sec eec tion ton 3 of ot article 1 of or the constitution of ot the United States True the primary prima mary ma does not nullify the letter leter but it destroys the t th 3 spirit and In as far as s possible the senate Is made a national body Instead of a federal federal It I is now proposed to put the te Initiative and the referendum to it which abolishes the senate makes the government entirely national and turns all al power over to the unbridled d license of the masses of the big states I can see how that might be favored by b New York Penn Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvania Ohio and Illinois but where would Mississippi come in She would surrender surender her equality in the senate to I have her small popular vote ote swallowed L up in n the Immense popular vote of ot Chi Cht Chicago Chicago cago or Philadelphia where majorities I are made mae to order Better Beter turn back and bear a while longer the ills Is the fathers made mate for tor us rather than fly to te fads we know not of ot otI If I I live lve I shall look down from the flu te gallery on the senate of ot the L congress something less than twenty r months In the future I hope to see t Theodore Thedore Roosevelt Roosevel sworn in as a r I tI member on that occasion I would like to fo f see se William J Bryan Ban a a senator Give these gentlemen two tw years sen service ice ic and id then reinforce the senate with wih I John Sharp Williams and Edward Edwarc I II Ward Va Id Carmack Carmak and the layout la out would I Ibe be greatly Improved In the senate a anew anew L new member is taken apart apat to see sec What he Is made of ot If I there Is a flaw flau faw it will wH be found His skeleton is hung huni up to every eve gaze and it takes a mighty might considerable fellow to stand the thing Billy Mason came here some years 3 ago and they the sala said he would laugh the th t senate out of its Is boots He tried it I I I and the senate froze him in his boots and he never thawed during the entire entre t six si years yeas though he had been ben a howl howling howlIng howling ing success in the house And yet the th senate loves to laugh Carmack made mad t It laugh but the senate will wi not stand stanc I Ifor for horseplay A debate on general politics participated paric In by Roosevelt Roosevel Bryan BIn Car Carmack Carmack mack Foraker Williams Lodge Till Tillman Ti Tillman man Bailey Bale and Beveridge and last lastIng Ing a week would be worth wort a journe Journey around the world to see se and hear What Wat a power of ot good It I would do di i Roosevelt Roosevel And Bryan too would I iI learn a deal oeal he does not now know Mind nd would clash with wit mind wit wi with wih i wit wit knowledge with wih knowledge The Th e list l of killed arid crippled would be b e frightful on this t theatre where none non e ee but hard knocks count I would like Ilk e to see Roosevelt Roosevel give gle Bailey or Car Carmack Carmack mack a a lesson on constitution by con construction I would like to see Williams William 3 S and Beveridge on opposing sides of ot the th s e scope and force of or the tenth amend amendment amendment amendment ment I would like to be present when a Tiliman Tima and Foraker clash cash on the con constitutional right of the south to vote vot e ethe the te Democratic ticket Of f that list John ohn Sharp Shar Williams is I 5 second secand to none In debate Bailey Is a greater lawyer Carmack a more bril brilliant bri L lant debater Lodge a more studious 5 scholar Beveridge a more indefatigable ble worker but as an man In Ina Ina I ii iia a political debate John ohn Sharp Is th he e equal of ot the best of ot them His Is a n powerful mind cultured In the best be schools of both hemispheres his ac acquired acquired knowledge Is varied and exten extensive extensive I sive he Is as ready as Carmack him hini himself himsel self sel like Captain Cole bulldog buldo he never sprang but at the throat vide the lacerated gullet glet of ot the Hon Hoi 1 LIttauer who ho had charge of ship sub sul subsidy subsidy sidy the last session Not only is John ohn Job n Sharp Williams a Democrat In principle princ I Ipie pie but he Is the most thorough demo denu democrat democrat crat in demeanor since old Bill Bi Mor Moi Morrison Morrison rison left lef here For this thia he has been bee n i harshly criticIzed criticised but his hl career shows s that a great geat man Is only the greater great geater T r for Cor a simplicity that makes him lova lovable lovable Iov I Ible ble bleI It I was In December 1903 that John ohn Joh n Sharp Shar Williams was wa chosen leader of f the th minority in It congress succeeding to I Ithe the place formerly r held by Richardson a aBailey Bailey Crisp Mills Mis Carlisle and Mor Moi Morrison r risen rison Since the first convocation of ot i f the th congress the Demo Dem Democratic cratic side has been a mob Crisp did d id not live Uve long enough to show how ho w hopeless his leadership would prove provi t but Bailey Baney an abler man failed la lamentably lamentably h simply for the reason that th it one having all aU the combined genius of Df Henry Clay Thad Stevens and Tom To m Reed Re d could not have led that squad aqua d dRichardson Richardson tried urbanity that failed de d as completely as Baileys arrogance e Then came John Sharp in the leader bade leadership leadership r ship and he did admirably all al things S considered for he had more nore envy snarl snarling snarlIng i ing at nt his heels than even 1 ley His biggest sir sin sir was wa his resolution Li tion ton to make the party pry Democratic After Ater a tremendous struggle he has h is succeeded In weeding out of the Demo Democratic 0 cratic end of ot the ways and means com car committee cm a the he found there then ae e That Is II the animus that tat Ot of ot the ti cussing cusing Democrats D hav have thrown at John ohn Sharp Williams JT has hs con conJ cc a J r st rued his office otle to mean to lead and he has led bed le in the maino maln o doubt he has ha s made mado mistakes but he is the mao ablest ab lest man In Iii l the house and ad the best bet debater de bater on Capitol hill hi The rho ho envy en it I excites ex cites is the best test tes of ot superiority The home of the te old south was rich ri ch in a few tew books that tat were regu regularly r g la read and healthfully digested the th e Bible Pilgrims Progress Herodotus H Robin Plutarch Gibbon Hume Hume H ume Robertson Swift Defoe Field FieldIng Feld FeldIng Ing tri g Shakespeare Milton Pope PODe P ope Burns Bums and Scott Scott Dickens and Thackeray Thackery T were read in the tho periodicals of the day Macaulay too came by piecemeal In such a home John Sharp Williams illiams Wilam W was reared Born Bor at Memphis Tenn In 1854 his mother m other died when he was wa a child and his hi s father fell fel at the head of his regi regiment regiment ment r ent the Tennessee at nt Shilon before his gifted son had told to ld his eighth year Then it I was ws that hi samIly sought refuge from the ad advancing advancing v Union arms ars and took up their abode bode a at his mothers family tamly home homestead homestead stead st ead in the Yazoo delta dela in Mississippi Mississippi sippi si He received a better beter education than th an most youths of ot family and for fortune fortune tune tu ne at the south of ot his generation He H e attended the Kentucky Military In Institute st at Frankfort he was as at the University U of the South at Sewanee he h e was wa at the University of ot y ule and at the University of Heidelberg Heidel Heidelberg berg b erg in Germany Gerany Subsequently he studied st law at the University of ot Vir Virginia Virgnia ginia gnia gi and ad in the office of ot a leading law la w firm of ot his native town Memphis In I n 1878 having been admitted to the bar b ar he returned to Mississippi and opened o an office at Yazoo Young Williams spent several sears years ears earsIn in Europe a part of the Ime time at Dijon In Burgundy where Bonaparte fixed the he t headquarters of ot that phantom army ary a with wih which he mystified his ad adversaries v Just before Marengo and ad there here t Williams student of ot was a a ranch branch b of the te College de France Frace but hut his h is purpose was ws more to perfect him himself himself self elf s in the language of or the French tongue tonge t and familiarize himself with wih the he t literature of the tie French people than han t to take the regular course curse He Het traveled raveled t much on the continent and generally g on foot fot which Is the best est way w ay to see a country countr and study a people eople p He Is what Bailey Baley is not a aman aman II man m an of rich Imagination and the his historic historic t onic lands on both sides of ot the Rhine were w ere more to him than the mere story stor of o f their history has told Such a man manas manal mans as al a s John Sharp Williams could not 1 have h ave lingered in the vicinity of ot the c classic lassic river without reflecting of o the t time ime when Julian Jubian In those ulan very ver pre pro precincts c mediated a reform of the bloat bloated bloated ed e d and cancerous Roman empire and asked aked himself the question queston If I our re republic public p shall go the way wa of the Roman L commonwealth c No doubt It was re reflection lection f on ancient and modern story stor in i n borderlands of ot Latin and Teutor L that hat t was the germ of ot that magnificent magi cent ent c philosophic oration oraton Williams de delivered livered l on the Philippine question queston In Is Inthe Inthe L the he t congress and that thai tat t was w as surpassed 3 iy by y no other speech on or I that hat t subject In congress or out of ot congress c not even by the great geat effort of o f George F Hoar In the senate Upon Williams return home he found f there was considerable contu confusion son ion s and some embarrassment in the th condition c of ot his ls patrimonial estate He Instantly Instant i developed Into a business businessman n man and for about eight years year his hh ee e ye was constantly constant on his plantations Under like conditions many men reared eared r as a he was would have let t things tings drift hoping for something to t turn turn tur t urn up Not so with wit this young youn southerner s He practiced law but he h i was also a planter He brought busi bust business business ness n ess methods to the plantation Econ Economy Economy omy my o and thrift resulted There Tere was wa discipline d and order He Hi i bought boug b t supplies with wih Judgment and am I saw aw s Io lo ko It I that there was no waste He Hi made his plantations profitable at a atme L Lime time ime t when there was wa small smal profit in in I planting even under the most favor favorable favorable able a ble conditions and disaster was the therle th t rule rather than the exception in the thi t tt cotton otton coton c ct states After a time he lifted I the he t debt from tom his estate He was now nov in i n independent circumstances a lead bead leadIng leadIng Ing I ng lawyer a successful planter and a L prosperous man And thereby hangs a tale all al too toi 7 uncommon and ad a foretaste of Utopia Mr Williams has a younger brother a coheir with wih him in the estate they hey the r inherited i from their parents The con confidence confidence f and ad fellowship between these thes a two are beautiful and ideal There Ther e ewas was never a division of their heritage heriage never a settlement of at their accounts I If If I i f indeed there were such The prop property property erty ert of one was wa the th property of the theother th a other What t belonged belonged to both belonged 1 to each Not only were their lands land S Sand and chattels in common but their r bank accounts account and private purses purse S were in n common When Ven the elder elde r brother was wS manager the younger younge r called caled on him for money or supplies S when he was In need and always re received received the full lul of ot his requests and an d wHen wien the elder entered politics and an d was vas returned to congress the younger r took charge c cf the estate and for four tour fourteen fourteen teen years has been the Both are happily married and each Is I S the father of ot The rela rein tons between them are simply delight delightful ful It I 13 la like the precious precious ointment it upon the head that ran down upon n the beard even Aarons beard that the Lt went down to the skirts skirt of his gar garments garments ments As the dew of ot Herman Hermon Heron and andas andas an d das as the te dew that descended upen upon the th e mountains of at ZIon John ohn Sharp Williams was elected to I 0 the congress and has been bee beena n na a member of ot the house of ot represent representatives L tives thes since March 4 1893 the day daf da Y Grover Cleveland was the second time thu ie inaugurated president of ot the United Unite d States This young Mississippian who to sustains to the statesmanship of this th is generation of his state and his sec see section thou tion ton the te relation Robert Rober J Walker T r sustained to a former generation was wn LS unheralded un upon his entrance to the ti Capital City and attracted small smal at attention at attention tenton He was w s an extensive an in intelligent In 1 and a successful planter from froma in ina a state whose agricultural interests Interest ts were all al Its Is other 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