The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1898-06-18
THE PICAYUNE BUREAU, /
Jackson, Miss. June 10, 1893.

THE PICAYUNE BUREAU, !
A Jackson, Miss. June 10, 1893
l@s"Ile who lilches from me my
good name, robs me of that which
not enriches him, and makes me
poor, indeed"
Mississlppi's good name is dim
med of its luster, and her patrio-
tic citizens mourn the scandal
which droops like a pail over
the humiliated commonwealth.
Little did the citizens of this
proud state dream that when Mr..
W. 9. George, the noble son of
the great and lamented Jas. u.
George, consented, at the request
of Governor McLaurin, in behalf
of the people, to allow the re-
mains of his father to lie in state
here, that he would accidentally
discover, ten months thereafter,
that the bills for hcarse, carriages
flowers drapery and the like, had
not been paid. 1t must need
have taken the imagination of a
Poe to have conjured the thought,
as the body of tho idol Of tho
people--the soldier, statesman,
jurist and patriQt--lay in the ro-
tunda of the capitol in the
majesty of death, surrounded
by floral offerings, and the
dark symbols Of public woe
where he received the long fare
well of the people that he had so
honored, that any one could have
80 blundered, as to cause the
Nstate to weep tears like rain.
He who had struck ten thousand
blows for Mississippi, and never
one against her; he who had won
fame in two wars; he who had
slept in dark dungeon in John
sons island; he who had choked
the black vampire of radicalism
from the neck Of the, common
wealth; he VINO had adorned the
elmine; he who had shown him
self in the senate of the United
States the mast0r in constitution-
al law of the giants of that body
he Whose brain gave the people of
the state an organic law that
brought tranquility between the
races, and purged the body politi-
cal of ignorance, and it was hoped.
misrule; he who defended that
constitution in the senate, and did
it so successfully as to challenger
the admiration of his political adj
versaries; he who, as member
of the constitutional convention
of 1890, refused to accept his
compensation OF $400 and mileage,
but left it in the state treasury,
where it still remains, a credit tc
the taxpayers Of tho state. But
alas
"Better, far better had Missisip.
pi never emerged from the chrsalie
condition of a territory to wear the
gaudy butterfly wings of a state, -
than have this cup of hemlock
pressed to her innocent lips.
The Daily News of this city this
afternoon contains the following
lengthy details of this awful blum
der of somebody for which the
good name of the state-like that
ofman or woman, IS tho imme-
date jewel of her soul-hangs her
head in sorrow sorrow and shame
ut has just developed here the
the expenses incurred IN the name
of the state of Mississippi for the
lying in state of the remains ol
the late Senator James u. George
in this city have remained unpaid
for the past ten months, and were
never paid until a son of the dis.
tingulshed senator discovered
their existence by accident and
paid them. This is indeed me-
ancholy fact. But be it said &c
the honor of the people of Missis
sippi that they did not know that
their beloved dead slept beneath
the sod while the bills for the pa
geant which should have been ar
honor TO his memory we're being
| pressed in vain for payment.
painful as must he the truth tC
the family and to the people who
mourn his loss, and painful as il
the duty of the faithful press
which is required to chronicle
the facts, nevertheless, the fact,
must be told in order that the res
possibility for this shameful out
rage and unparalleled disgrace
should be placed upon the shoul-
ders Of whomsoever is to blame
These bills were paid within the
last ten days by Mr.. w. e. George
a son of Senator George, who wa,
at the time visiting Jackson az f.
volunteer soldier in the SeconC
Mississippi Regiment.
| "On the 14th of August, 1897
the day of the death of the sena
tor, which occurred at Mississippi
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