Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-02-27
He Will be Partloned Out of
the Pen and Head the Next
Democratic Machine
Ticket.
An Enthusiastic Correspondent
Tells How the Thing Will
be Managed.
\ Campaign Slogan That Will
be Decidedly Apt and
Catchy"
JACKSON. Miss. Feb. 2i, 1894

! Editor Mississippi Leader:
You have no doubt seen what ha,
been published in the daily papers thi:
week about the pardon of Col. VIM. L
Hemingway. our honored eX-Stat'
Treasurer. now serving cruel five
year sentence in the Penitentiary. Ior
have been so hard headed and stiff
necked in your opposition to the par
don of this just and prosecuted man,
acknowledge to a sort of ''ghoulist
glee," as Grover would say. in writing
you about what is going on. We Hem
ingway people have felt nightly lifted
up ever since last year when Ike Vim
cent. Alabama's defaulting State Treas
urer, was pardoned. and have beer
busy quietly maturing our plans fol
getting Hemingway out. These plans
have been well-considered and laid
and are now launched with flying sails
Wat Stone. State Auditor, is one of the
chief pilots of the scheme. and like
everything he undertakes. he is man
aging it we'll. Wat. as you know. was
Auditor during Hemingway's last term
in the Treasurer's office. and he and
Hemingway have been fast friends ever
since. After Lynn was convicted In
the Circuit Court for not accounting
for that missing s315,61219. pending
the appeal to the Supreme Court, he
and Wat were often seen consulting
and riding together. and when the SEN
tence of the lower court was affirmed
and Col. Hemingway was carried up to
the penitentiary, Wat Stone gave his
son good clerkship in the Auditors
office and has kept him there ever since
on the pay roll of the State his honor
ed but prosecuted father served so
long and well.
But. as said, the pardon scheme is
working beautifully, and we Heming-
way people feel nightly lifted up. |
will give a condensed outline for the
benefit of such of your readers as have
not seen it. You know the story that
something was all wrong with the
Treasurer's books, and that no money
was actually missing, was all exploded
during and after the trial. Then some
other story, consistent with the eX
Treasurers innocence, had to be in
vented and it took long time to work
the thing up right. This, we think, has
been successfully done at last. The
new theory is that the treasury deficit
was "the result of robbery perpetrat
ed by unknown parties through the in
strumentality of secretly acquired con-
troll of the entire lock protection of the
treasury, which said secretly acquired
control was unknown or unsupported
by Col. Hemingway
1t is an easy matter these days to
find professional experts who will lie,
especially expert crooks and detectives,
and evidence has been produced which
convinced the grand jury which indict-
ed Col Hemingway, the trial jury which
convicted him, and the grand jury
which served one year ago last Janu-
airy, that the robbery theory is true,
and they have all so certified and join,
ed in the petition to the Governor for
pardon. A form of petition, with these
certificates is being sent to every coun-
ty and community in the State, where
a trusted friend can be found, to cir
culate it for signatures. Some of our
newspaper friends in and out Of the
State are already rendering us valua-
BILE assistance. The New Orleans Times
Democrat, the old organ of Major
Burke, who stole nearly a million dol
lars from Louisiana while State Treas
urer and ran off to Honduras where
there are no extradition laws, is fairly
humping itself for Lynn, both in its
news and editorial columns. "A fel-
low feeling makes us wondrous kind
Our leading Jackson daily, the Clarion
Ledger, always cautious and wary, has
already published the petition and ju.
rors' certificates and copied some OF
the Times Democrats editorials. with
appropriate headlines, and can be
counted on to timber up right as soon
as it finds the Hemingway people are
fully on top. The Hyphen wouldn't
dare buck against anything Wat Stone
favored anyhow. Most of the newspa
per correspondents have taken The
right cue and are getting in their work
like artists, but Ed. Wilson, of the Pic
ayune Bureau, is little too of-hand
and unsympathetic in his style to suit
some of us, and will have to be laboret
with. 1t is known Ed. stands rather
closd to Stone 1.-THE Governor, not Wat
and this makes us feel a little shaky.
Confidentially, l don't consider there
is any more in the robbery theory thar
there was in the wrong book keeping
but it is plausible story, and as the
missing money has never been posi-
lively located in the pocket of Lynn Oh
any of his intimate friends it is easy
enough to gull people and make them
believe it. The most encouraging re
ports are already coming in from the
petitions ia several counties The rob