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In deepest Mississippi, 320 candidates have already filed for next August's primary, to select a 189-man legislature. Last week, in Eupora (pop. 1,377), Citizen Phil Bell, hill farmer, backwoods raconteur, onetime moonshiner, felt the urge to serve.

Wrote Citizen Bell to the editor of the Webster Progress:

. . . I am thinking very strongly of entering the race for Representative but am worred to know just what nice things you could say for me like you have all the good fellows that have allready announced as I have no political or public record and I have not done any thing big or that is commendable that I could hold up as a lure to the people. . . .

Will giv yeou the low down on myself. I am a Dimocrat and have allweys advocated the SSales tax old peoples pension and a hospittle in every Co. Some of this we allready have but it is not what it should be. Of course you couldent expect every thing to be what it should be. ... .

But back to myself. Everybody knows that I havent sold any whiskey in 8 years and on turning the first page of the 1943 calendar me & my wife went into a huddle and I made myself some very salom promises. She don't take very much stock in these new year reselutions but I promased myself that I would quit lying and stealing and I have kept that promos. I also promased to quit drinking, while I reserve the right to take a social drink with a friend that promas too I have kept inviolate and I will farther promise that if I am elected that I will discharge the dutys pertaining to that office to the very best of my ability & draw my pay.

P. W. Bell.

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