Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-10-05 | Page 4 | Stormy Petrel from Yazoo Was Loved as Few Men Are

Stormy Petrel From Yazoo Was as Loved as F Few ev Men Are Ate By fly HERBERT PLUMMER ER WASHINGTON Oct Ocl 5 The 5 The recent d death th of ot John Sharp Williams venerable ven yen erable statesman of Mississippi perhaps per per- haps laps moved the capital as much as asIt asIt ast It t did his home state The hill hlll never tired of ot hearing hearing about Williams or recalling the days when he was in Washington although al although al al- though he quit the senate in disgust to retire to his home in Yazoo City Senator Stephens of Mississippi once told the senate that never n a day passed that some senator or visitor to Washington did not seek him out and ask about Williams For more than thirty years the MisS Mis- was a powerful figure Inthe in inthe inthe the national life of this country But it was after he made his now famous statement that he would rather be a hound do dog baying at the moon than to continue in the senate and went back home to grow old gracefully that he is perhaps best remembered STATE LIKED lID HIM They used to have a saying down downIn In Yazoo county that John Sharp Williams was prized more than the postoffice the courthouse or or r the Mississippi river All over the state he was a man mark marked d for special at af But he wanted only to be let alone It was seldom that he broke his si lence When he left the senate he said that he would make no public speeches but usually he was the firstman first firstman firstman man on the invitation tion list when Mississippians Mississippians Mis Mis- I started so something met h in g whether it was a political rally or a public improvement project He retained much of his old wit I and satire to the last His reply once I to an admirers admirer's praise of him as one I of the foremost characters in American Ameri Amen can public life for the past fifty years was i No youre you're wrong Im I'm nt not a great man As I grow older I 1 become mo morel more moreland and more convinced that I am like a ai case of near beer something beer something like Ilk the real article but lacking in the kick I WILSON SUPPORTER i Williams Williams' career in the senate W wa waat at times stormy Fearless and ou aut- aut spoken spoken spoken-he he fought a duel once in hJ hi hia 1 student days in Germany He Wil wa one of President Wilsons Wilson's supporters during the league of na na-j na lions fight 1 He was hl hissed d and md booed In tb the senate chamber once when he struck j out at Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts Massa Masu declaring that Lodge liked to make a show of himself He He- wanted the late Senator La Follette FOUtt of Wisconsin expelled from the senate sea sen ate and the late Socialist Berger interned for lor their view on the conduct of ot the World war But in his last da days s he became singularly sin sin- mellow and docile One of his last public observations was Were all little children some sonic of ofus oti us very little children and oth 1 very contemptible little children T