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Senator Bilbo's Reply
to Henry and Lowrey
—His Version of The Stark
ville Affair .
The Jackson Sanatorium.
Jackson, Miss.,
July 13th, 1911.
To The People of Mississippi:
The pain and suffcrUig which 1 have
been forced *o undergo, as a result of
the cowardly and unprovoked assault
upon my life at Starkville. Oklibbeha
county, July 6th, has been made a
'thousand times easier to bear because
of the many messages of love, con
fldence and sympathy, borne to me
. upon my bed of affliction by my physl
cian and family, from my friends in
every part of the state.
I am sure no man in the state has
learned to appreciate more fully such
expressions of kindness and loyalty
than I, since I have been compelled to
suffer so much unkindness within the
last eighteen months, all because of
the humble service T have tried to
render the people of Mississippi.
As It Is well known by the honest
citizenship of Mississippi, my political
enemies, since I took the lid off of the
secret caucus of 1910, have stopped
short of nothing to bring about my
destruction. They first tried to black
en my name, destroy my reputation
and discredit me before my fellowman,
and then tried to wrestle from me my
Senatorial toga, and, failing In this,
they have continued to hurl ten thou
sand slanderous arrows at my life and
character, misrepresenting me and the
facts in a million different ways, mag
nifying every Incident of my life, try
ing to distort same Into a crime.
They have even tried to disgrace
the name of my family, telling lies
upon my ancestors. They have just
recently, with fiendish and ghoulish
hands, invaded the sacred city of the
dead, making the picture of the grave
of my first love—my first wife—to be ,
used as a campaign document: and, j
having failed at all, for truth is mighty j
and will prevail, they have at last j
conspired to take my life, and this 1 j
would freely and gladly give to rid
Mississippi of the most corrupt gang
that has ever tried to outrage and dis
grace a free and proud commonwealth.
I have seen the statement of J. J.
Henry, in which he makes a miserable
attempt at justification of his cow
ardly assault. In order that the peo
ple of Mississippi may thoroughly un
derstand this whole affair, T wish to
submit the following:
Shortly nftpr beginning my cam
paign for Lieutenant Governor of Mis
sissippi, I made a visit to Tippah
county, and, upon arriving at Ripley
to deliver my speech, a Mr. S. Mon
roe Cole, a farmer of Tippah county,
presented to mo a circular, the title
of which was. "WHO TS BILBO?" say
ing that the same had heen handed to
him by J. J. Henry, claim agent of the
N. O., M. Sr C. R. R.. at his home on
the 29th day of March. 1911. 1 asked
Mr. Cole if he would testify to the
factB, and he said he would. I then
approached Hon A. C. Anderson. Rep
resentative of Tippah county and odi
tor of the Southern Sentinel, and
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A WOMAN'S BACK
The Aches and Pains Will Disappear
if the Advice of This Hhatties
burg Citizen is Followed.
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and pains.
Most times 'tis the kidney's fault.
Backache is really kidney ache;
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cure It.
Many Hattiesburg women know
this.
Read what ohe has to say about it.
Mrs. William Duckworth, 143 w .
Fifth street, Hattiesburg, Miss., says:
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ommend Doan's Kidney Pills, for I
know that they possess great merit.
I found entire relief from kidney trou
ble' through their use and another
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this complaint by them. Not only
was my back weak and painful but
other difficulties plainly showed that
my kidneys were at faujt. T obtain
,ed a supply of Doan's Kidney Pills
at Hays & Field's Drug Store and it
did not take this remedy long to re
lieve my suffering. Anyone having
*need of a kidney mdlclne will do well
to try Doan's Kidney Pills."
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Poster-Melburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole, agents for the United
States.
-Doan's—and
taka no otbor.
asked him if Mr. Cole was a citizen of
good standing, and he replied that
Tippah county had none better—that
he was as pure as gold.
This circular is one of the vilest,
of
a
meanest. dirties and most slanderous
attacks against a man that could be
concocted by depraved and dissipated
minds. It makes about ten or fifteen
d* r ty charges against my life and rep
utatlon. It has no name signed to it,
neither has it the name of the printer.
being in open violation of the law, and
in I feel sure that no white man of Mis
sissippi can read this circular thus
circulated against me and then blame
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me for any denunciation of the man
responsible for Its printing o f dlstribu- ]
tion. And when I delivered my speech j
on this occasion there being present j
about 2,000 of the best men and women ,
of Tippah county, I called on Mr. Cole ^
to Identify the circular given him by
Henry, which he did: and I then de
nouneed In GENERAL TERMS, Henry
and ANY MAN WHO WAS MEAN
AND COWARDLY ENOUGH to try to
assassinate human character by the
distribution of such a slanderous cir
eular, which he did not have nerve
enough to father, and that the printer j
dared not attach his name to.
The language used by me on this
occasion was identically the same as
used in my Blue Mountain speech on
the same day at 3 o'clock p. m., and,
out of 2,000 men and women who
heard me at Ripley, there wasn't a
lady that blushed or left the speaking, (
and not a word of criticism from
friend or foe.
One T. C. Lowrey, who seems to be
hungering and thirsting after a little
cheap notoriety and publicity, has
been giving out statements, writing
letters, expressing documents and
,
j ma king affidavits ever since my Blue
j Mountain speech, in a vain effort to
j create the Impression that I had in
j sl,Ited some ladies at Blue Mountain,
T have heretofore paid very little at
tention to this little fellow, for. like
his kind, he is only trying to break me 4
down; but T wish to make the follow
ing statement as to this incident:
Before arriving at Blue Mountain,
Hon. Ross A. Collins, candidate for
Attorney General, had related to Bro.
Kimbrough, the facts concerning the
denunciation of Henry and the parties
who were circulating these anonymous
circulars, giving him the exact quota
tion that I had used from Brann of
the Tconclast, after which Mr. Kim
brough remarked that he was going to
bring his wife out to hear me. and,
when I made the same denunciation
as at Ripley, three or four ladies DTD
leave the hall, and, before I had fin
j ished, it being lute in the afternoon
and raining, the remainder of
ladles left, and as to why Mrs. Kim
brough and her party left, I have no
idea, for I certainly had no intention
of insulting any ladies or iady. Low
rey has tried to leave the impression
1 urposely that my language was of
fensive and forced all of the ladles to
This is not true, and no one
knows it better than Mr. Lowrey. The
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the !
'ollowing signed statement should for'
ever retiie M nwrJv tn nHvlv
- oneclallv when viewed L th b!!i
Ms sworn affidavit and many state
rn a davit and many state
ments and letters:
Blue Mountain, Miss.,
July 3rd, 1911.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
We, the undersigned ladles, hereby
certify that we heard Senator Bilbo
speak at Blue Mountain, and, while \
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we left the room during his speech, it
was not because of anything Senator ,
Bilbo said. He spoke late in the after
noon, and our domestic duties de
jnanded pur attention,
Respectfully submitted, j
MTSÖ CARRIE COVINGTON, j
MRS. EVÎE HILL,
MRS. LOUALLIE GUNTER,
MISS MAMIE FULLER,
MISS LUCY FULLER,
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Mr. Lowrey has, at all times, done ,
me the injustice by failing to throw In
contrast with the bitter denunciation
that I made of the parties trying to
rtestroy my home, name and family, ;
the nature of the attack made against
me, and, if Mr. Ixiwrey will say that
the two or three ladles whom he
clalms to have heen offended at the
strong language used by me at Blue
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Mountain, are better and have a high
er and more delicate sense of pro
priety and decency than the good
ladies who gave the above statement,
and the three or four hundred best
women of Tippah county who heard
me make the time speech at Ripley,
I will then, conditionally, admit that
ray language was insulting.
Mr. Lowrey's own statement Is
enough to convince any thinking MIs
sissippian that the good people of
Blue Mountain never thought that I
had insulted their good women, for he
says that when he called upon the
manhood of Blue Mountain to resent
what 1 had said, that instead of heed
ing his call the men gathered around
me and began to cheer for "Bilbo."
Lowrey's frank admission is a sad
commentary on his standing at home.
He says in one statement, "1 THINK"
j Rilbo said so and so about Mr. Henry.
! To Henry he says that he would dare
; not quote me in full, and then he
'ears a while and later he becomes
very positive, and then, to brace up
his charges and insinuations, he at
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tempts to quote a Postmaster in Ttp
pah ROlmty> hpt at thp same time, he
falls to toll us who the Postmaster îs,
; and where he stands )n thls oont est,
and hls poIltIoa , alignments,
f Rot 0 f jpp wbole business Is, I
t)lipk Mr i.owrev has eagerly and
wi in n g Iy , lsed himself and permitted
himself to be used in getting a little
notoriety by the "Gang," who has
s0 „ Kht my de8 truction, Just as Oover
nor Noel and the "Gang" tried to use
1 his brother B. C. In the secret caucus
] of 191n to encompass the defeat of
j Governor Vardaman, and I think his
j reference will explain to the people of
, Mississippi the reasons for the attl
tude of the Lowreys' towards Bilbo
and b i g exposure of the caucus meth
ods.
Shortly after the Blue Mountain
speech. It was rumored all over North
Mississippi that .1. J, Henry was going
to km me OT > a, S ht - To these threats
T P a, <l no attention, because any man
who would be guilty of circulating the
vile and anonymous literature against
a nian's life and reputation, as he has
a £ainst mine, I know to be too big a
noward to meet a man fact to face and
settle personal matters like men.
T continued to speak on the railroad
of which Henry was claim agent and
,n surrounding country for several
weeks, I was on the streets of Jack
son at the same time with him, and 1
never met him. If I did, I didn't know
him, for, up to the time of this assault, ;
1 have never seen-him to know him. |
While at Ecru, Pontotoc county,
County Attorney M. A. Saunders came
to see me as a mutual friend, and In
terviewed me concerning the state- j
ment I had made about Henry, and he
assured me that I had done Henry an |
injustice, because he said he knew
Henry was too much of a man to dis
tribute such circulars against myself
and family, whereupon I told Mr.
Saunders that no man would more
quickly withdraw a statement than I.
when T was convinced that 1 was
wrong, and 1 told him that if he would
bring me a signed statement from J.
■T. Henry to the effect that he had not
!
Hrcuiated these campaign posters
agalnst me , that , would give him a
statement in writing, retracting every
reference to him.
But at the same
time T produced Mr. Sanders the evi
dence of Henry's guilt upon which T
.made the denunciation at Blue Moun
tain and Ripley. Mr. Saunders asked
me not to make any more public state
ments concerning the matter until he
saw Mr. Henry and reported. This. T
agreed to do, and I have refrained
from referring to the matter publicly
any more since, yet I have never heard
from our mutual friend, Saunders.
Henry tries to leave the impression
that he was resenting the reference to
his mother.
This Is all nonsense! I
have been assailed in every possible
way in this most bitter campaign and
many rpi,hp ' s aml T have
nPVPr r0,lstr " rtl an >' of «"«"»
8n ° P8 8 refleot,on "l™ m >' mother '
y °" m * y the ° f my tra "
ducers, and he will tell you that he
never meapt fo rpflm Qn my
in any reference to me.
Mr.
to say that he did?
tack with his crowd had no political
Henry says that he did not
mean to kill me.
Did you expect him
Mr. Henry says further that his at
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significance. Did you expect him to
say that it did? I am willing to leave
the facts to a candid world, and let
the people of Mississippi be the Judge. ,
Hon. Ross A. Collins, candidate for
Attorney-General, and I spoke at Cale
clonla and Columbus on the 5th of July, 1
leaving Columbus after midnight,
reaching West Point via Artesl% We
left West Point early In the morning,
and occupied the smoker department
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of the train with ten or twelve other
gentlemen. I had a seat next to the
aisle on the left-hand side of the car.
Mr. Collins occupying the seat In front
of me. When the train pulled up at
BtarvHle, I was smoking, at the same
time looking out of the window at a
few people on the station Platt 0 "".
when I was suddeiily struck from be
hind with some heavy instrument,
which knocked me down on the seat
In a dazed and semi-tinconsolous con
dltlon of mind, and T was continued to
be struck over the head until I was
knocked down on the floor of the car
between the seats.
I did not know John Henry by sight,
and this party, whom I learned to be
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''°hn Henry, I only saw dimly then
with my eyes fillediwith blood, and, in
this semi-dazed condition, he contin
ue d t° heat and strike at me with his
i''»t.ol as 1 lay between the seals.
, at the same time, saw another
in standing just behind him with a
ma
pistol in his hand. As to how many
helpers Henry had In running all of
the passenger» out of the coach at the
point of a gun, others will have to say.
The first man I remember seeing
after Henry turned to go out, was Mr.
? 0l ' lnS> Wl '° hf * d been f ° rCPd t0 Stand I
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pistol in his life, and was absolutely
helpless to render me any assistance,
for an overt act on his part would have
precipitated a shooting on the part of
Hie gang of bandits and hold-ups,
which would have resulted in the
death of both of us. He did the only
sensible thing he could have done.
1 understand that Henry claims he
did not intend to kill me, and that I
was never unconscious. These facts
Henry cannot deny, as the cuts aud
bruises on my head will show There
I no doul >t mrmind hut that Henry
| thought he had brained me when h( ,
j , eft me between the seats, because he
broke my skull at the first lick just
over the right eye, and the top of my
head has several gashes that could
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had sent It. and he had Intended
not have been caused by hi 1
I have a letter from
Attorney of Oktibbeha <■•.
if I will be able to attend tin
This
my physician says that I wib
able to be there at the tini
the 15th.
vill be impo:
ther asks if I desire to pro 1
ca3e wltl) pl , lvati ,
counsel, and I
to say in reply that the ci ira:
tempt at assassination is
the peace and dignity of 1 ! <
Mississippi than against
nur'
me.
State of Mississippi has 1110
for the State guarantees t
protection from the hands
cowardly assassins,
mil I hav
position to Interfere with the
dispensation of justice.
Ail that I ask
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