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...ballot: Smith, 849?; George, 55½; Reed, 52; Hull, 50?; Jones, 43; Watts of South Carolina, 18; Harrison of Mississippi, 8½; Woollen, 7; Donahey of Ohio, 5; Ayres, 3; Pomerene, 3; Bilbo of Mississippi, 2½; Thompson, 2; not voting...
Last week, eight years after leaving under a politically-brewed cloud, Theodore Gilmore Bilbo returned in triumph to the State Capitol of Mississippi, for his second four-year term as Governor. Once tried and acquitted of bribery, Mr. Bilbo had recarved his career, whetting the fighting edge of his ambition on the grindstone of his persecution.* Inaugurated once more, he reiterated all the things he wanted to do for Mississippi. The list sounded to the holiday crowd that had flocked to Jackson from counting house and cotton field, like a sane program to fulfill. It included...
Though each of these items was important, Number 2 seemed most important to Governor Bilbo. "I will push the passage of this measure," he cried "and will not smile upon any other until it has been passed...
...Governor Bilbo well knew that of all the states, only two?neighboring Louisiana and proud South Carolina?surpass Mississippi in illiteracy...
...idle figure of speech. The name "Bilbo," well-loved by collectors of people's-names-that-mean-something, is an antique word for "sword...