SALTER: Candidate John Arthur Eaves didn't win, but had few rivals as a populist campaigner | Mississippi Politics and News
By: Sid Salter Like Ross Barnett, Jim Buck Ross, Robert “Blowtorch” Mason, and J.P. Coleman before him, highly successful trial lawyer John Arthur Eaves Sr. was a master of populist political campaigns and always made of most of his ten-minute speaking slot at the Neshoba County Fair, the Jacinto C