Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1909 — ATTACKS SILVER SERVICE [ARTICLE]

ATTACKS SILVER SERVICE

Protest Because Davis's Picture Is on Battleship Gift. Washington, April 30.—Representative Hollingsworth of Ohio has prepared a resolution calling upon the secretary of the navy for information relative to the report that Mississippi is preparing to present to the battleship Mississippi an elaborate silver service whose centerpiece bears an engraved portrait of Jefferson Davis. The resolution asks what lesson of loyalty or patriotism such portrait’or engraving is intended to teach.