The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1895-07-27
GEN. e. G. WALTHALL.
He Says Mississippi is 80
Per Cent Silver.
1t Will be SO, lie Believes, A Year
Hence.
GOldbugs Scarce in the Senator's
Home County.
Prominent G' enada Banker and Merchant
for Silver.
GEN. e. G.. WALTHALL.
pccial to The Times-DemOcrat.1

Special to The Timcs-Democrat.]
GRENADA, July 23,-''This is about
the 'solidesl' county for silver you have
visited, isn't it?" said United States
Senator f. G. Walthall to the Times
Democrat man to-day, as the latter
was pleasantly greeted at the pretty
little suburban home of the distin-
guished Mississippian. Considering
the fact that one of the most ardent
goldbugs of Grenada, Mr.. j. T. Thomas,
had admitted that there were not more
than dozen gold men in the town,
and less than thrice that in the county,
The Times-Democrat correspondent
was compelled to ackno Hlege to Gen.
Walthall that Grenada county was
found to be as little gold ''buggy' as
any Of her sister counties.
Gen. Walthall is spending quiet
5 mer at his home here, the front
yard of which is filed with big magno-
lia and crepe myrtle trees, pretty
roses and flowers of all kinds, and the
rear yard affords a cool shade, where
TIE Senator can loll at ease on his
pajamas and keep up with the doings
and misdoings of his county, through
the newspapers. His family is away
in the mountains for the summer. Il
place he dislikes on account Of the un-
pleasant habit the chills have OF swoop-
ing down upon Kim and turning his
pleasure to pain
Senator WaIthall, always accounted
one Of s.issippi's Landsom st as we'll
as brainiest sons. h as the same old
chivalrous and polite manner that
made him popular Il quarter OF CEN
tury ago, wears long hair in which
there is no silver to mark the teeting
years, and a keen eye that flashes il
in command OF the battlefield, where
he made himself famous, is as bright
and piercing as the day he first shoul-
dered musket for Dixie.
Gen. Walthall has been silver man
for years, and it is doubtless due to his
big silver speech of 1893, which was
widely circulated in this county. that
the people are 80 per cent. or more on
the right side Of the question.
1t was refreshing to hear Gen. Wal
thall say, in opposition to what the
gold men claim, that the sentiment is
not changing in favor of the goldbugs.
On the contrary, Gen. Walthall says
that his personal observation and in
formation impels him to the belief that
the silver sentiment has increased
ever since the goldbugs sent Josiah
Patterson here some months ago to
open the campaign. If the gold ora
tors in the State did their cause any
good, Gen. Walthall thinks it would
certainly b. manifest before now, and
in proof that the manifestation is to
the contrary, he recalled recent pri-
mary elections held in counties where
Gov. Stone, the geld candidate, got ll6
out of nearly 1900 votes, Montgomery
county, where Stone receivnd III out OF
more than 1000, and others where the
proportion was equally great in favor
of free silver. And in considering
this vote Gen. WaIthall said he believ-
cd that Gov. Stone was more infiuen-
tiul man than the cause he represent
ed. In other words, that many of Gov.
Stones supporters were those who
voted for him on account of personal
friendship and admiration for his
good recotd as Governor aud his excel
lent character as a gentleman.
As to this county, Gen. Walthau
said it would be difficult to find the
thirty gold men in it or the twelve in
the town of Grenada, ascrtbed TO it by
Mr. Thomas. There were certainly no
more than that
No money speeches have been m@de
ntre. tuc SllNef tuSu IcdltHluS tIldV ~
was useless to ''preach to the right
eous.' and the gold men doubtless
thinking that the people were too
deepl. rooted in their silver ideas to be
changed.
There is a gentleman in Grenada
who should have been living when
Dicgenes was going around with his
lantern looking for an honest man.
The old philosopher would certainly
have stopped had he struck Mr.. J. w.
Griffis. He is one Of the richest men in
Grenada, as a merchant and banker;
is silver man uncompromisingly, and
has been such for years. He is a
living retutation Of the statement
made to-day by another gentleman
here that the people are for silver he.
cause ''they have not read up on the
subject" 1t was the same Old story
told by the gold men everywhere; and
The Times Democrat correspondent
could not refrain from whistling,
Darling, / Am Growing DID," when