The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1895-07-27

| he nedfu IL again. Pspeclhllt de IL
thought of Mr.. Grittis, a gentlemac
with brain and sagaci1y enough To
make a fortune. who has read every
thing in sight on the money question
for years. and whose good judgment
impels him to accept the silver side
Mr.. J. 7. Thomas. the clshier. who
favors the gold standard and gives Gre
NADIA county to the silver men by the
! majority named above. ascribes the one
sidedncse Of things to the fact that
there have been no speeches in the
county. though perhaps he did not re-
feet that the dearth Of speeches nadt
it as fair for one side as the other.
But if the people up here have not
heard speeches they have had oppor-
tunities to read both sides of the CUES
tion as interpreted by Cleveland. Car
lisle. Catchings. Wnltball, George,
Money, AID others.
Mr.. Julius Ash. Il merchant and GOLD
standard man. said to friend here to-
day: Say, how many people in this
county are opposed to this free silver
foolishness?' After a few minutes OF
figuring both Mr.. Ash and his frienc
admitted that all of the county FROM
Gen. Walthall down were in favor Of
the ''free silver foolishness,' except
some thirty or forty. The country peo-
pie, they said, are ''practically solid
for it.
But" said Mr.. Ash to the Tilnes-
Democrat correspondent in a tone thai
indicated that he thought the an-
nouncement was received as sad sur
prise, that's all right: they vii
change after awhile. when they know !
more about it.
If Mississippi don: do complete
mental somersault on the oney ques-
tiOn in the next six or eight mehtas
there will be enough blasted hopes
among the goldbug Il tcld YOU So" 10
furnish material for a book of sent
mental poetry. That prognostica,ioH
is the burden OF their song-the theory
that all Mississippi silver men viii
some time during the next few months
become suddenly converted to the gold
standard doc:; inc. when as Il matter ot
fact the preaching Of Patterson, Catch
ings. Sims and others in the last few
months has not lefta ripple on Nissis-
sippi's smooth silver a.
ro!'NTE>' ? 1LITICs.
With a mass meeting. tive primary
elections and local option election on
the tapis. Grenada county, like Nadi-
son. has something t. interest its peo~
pie besides the silver question. Not
only this: the Populi>ts have nonina~
ted "a full county ticket, and propose to
make things interesting. The pa0plc
at The SENTINEL office, an eEecllcn1
free silver paper. owned and aood4cted
by Mr.. J. ". buchanan. as good Il
newspaper nan as there is in the State,
say the Pops have no chance. and
prominent Democrats. with whom the
question was discussed, say that the
| PopHiists will not eiccta single man.
The Populists held their nominating
convention here a day or so ago. ana an
amusing incident happened in conncc-
tion Herewith. The meeting was held
at the court house. and the Fopulite
brother who was calling his folks to-
geth by ringing tie bell did not know
the "lnodus op, randi" of getting the
regular ding dong" to the bell, but
managed to get a funeral ring out lit
every ten seconds. Some one on the
streets asked who was dead. when q
local wug responded that "a son OF a
gun over at the court house IS ringing
out the death Eineli Of The Populite par
! ty in the county.
The prohibition c.mpai IN is being
led by Judge y. T. Roanc ANA Hon. w.
G. Mclean, of whom the SENTINEL.
says: NO two men in our county stand
higher for purity Of personal character
and men of culture and brains.
The people have tried it here wet
and dry, the latter system being in
vogue at present. and the impression
seems to be that it will go dry again.
UNIT OF VOLUME"
Gen. Wallhall to-dny showed the
Times. Democrat correspondent two
American silver dollars coined in 1899,
which he has had in his family for
years, they having been given him and
his daughter as souvenirs. On the
edge of The dollarare the words Hun
dred Cents Unit." which shows. the
General says. that the silver dollar was
the unit of value in l199-a fact that
silverites have clearly established, hat
which the gold men attempt to dis
prove, with the same nerve that they
try to say that silver 'y;ls not dcmoue-'
tized surreptitiously II 1873.