The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1890-07-05
THE HEMINGWAY TRIAL

Tho following editorial article from
he pen of Capt. J. S. McNeily, editor
tbe Greenville Times, on the recent
al and conviction of ex-Treasurer w.
hemingway, is the most touching in
Lotiment, logical in argument, truth
4 in fact, and on the whole the best we
ave seen in any paper in or out of the
tate on the subject:
The Hemingway trial, now carried
oonviction, will stand on the record
a most noted episode in the States
istory. It forms a theme on which
be moralist may dwell; especially the
nralist who believes and trusts in the
nth and force of the popular will. In
h the events of the nation, there has
aen no greater display and triumph of
,is element. 1t has brought to trial
ID nunishment one than whom no cit
on stood higher. Well off in worldly
Nods, popular, highly connected, a
bwer in the States governmental ad-
{inistration, an aptitude, a very genius
[deed for political management
trough and over all these the course
Justice lay and won. Despite the
INCH disproof in the ends attained all
ker the land, in this case of such mag
Emde that the depths are moved, there
the proof that in the hearts of the
kople the sense of right is supreme.
Ne Times has never doubted that this
Inviction would surely ensue, unless
N deficit was erased. Much is made
the District Attorneys speech.
pmingway would have been convict
a before any fair jury in any county in
ssissippi, as simply and admirably
Unmarried by Judge Chrisman, had
he District Attorney sat dumb. There
hs no occasion for the State to 60 be-
bpd the third count of the Indictment.
here is no need of further justifca-
on of the Jury's verdict. 1t was the
he and sole fact with which the people
re concerned. 1t stands out clear and
hpregnable, not to be obscured or
terthrown by technical trick nor in
rcacies and subtleties of legal logic.
What is said here must not be un-
erstood as exultation over the punish
ent Of a man. For individual calami-
we have the sympathy and COM
kiseration natural and becoming in
is fellows. But in this case these are
walowed up in the reflections upon an
outrageous wrong, on what would have
Zen the position of Mississippi had
| be eX-Treasurer been discharged with
|is deficit uncleared. The shame Of
|ermitting this gross deficit, through
timinal negligence of common pre-
buttons, is great enough, but non
5pnishment of the author would have
ben supreme disgrace. What q
book it would have been to have allow
proven previous good character to
kltwoigh the established fact that the
tate is short through Hemingway's
B5OO0. Still it is most sad that such
character, testified to without stint
Senator's, Governors, the clergy,
be friends of life time, should meet
[th utter wreckage. Verify in all
State, there was no man who had
Nhold on the popular confidence and
FRem that W. l.. Hemingway bad.
san oyer-strained illustration, but
be case recalls the vivid and gorgeous
Imagery under which one of the most
Filliant figures in English history was
fntenced to his doom. "Sir Walter
Raleigh thou hast been as a star at
Fhich the worlds have gazed. But
Fars may, nay must, fall when they
|isturb the harmony of the spheres in
|hich they move"