The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-06-30
MURDER WILL OUT,
Anse McIaurin Shown In to the
Public In His True Light by the
Biloxi Herald.
THEIR EYES ARE OPENING. "

McLaurin' He has appointed VIM. /
McLaurin tosone of the jndgships
our State. What next? Waite
another brother, will at an early dat
we bet dollars to cents, be appointed
succeed Warden Jenkins at the pen
Tertiary. Oxford Globe free silver
The Herald hopes that he will. Tn
free silver yayps who elected the NJ
Laurins governor, Is the Raymon
Gazette very aptly puts it, are only RI
eeiving their merited disappointment
The Herald want, Ause to continue. hi
nepotic, course until fhe last one of til
kith and kin are sticking the publ
teat' 1t will BIZ the best thing that cal
come to the people of the State. Mis-
sissippi has been for some time prett,
well McLaurinized, and when the da,
comes, and come it will, when the PEG
pie OF the state will rise and overthrow
them the state will be relieved of ,
great political burden. In the shor,
time that Anse has been in the guber
national chair. he has proven his inca,
pabllity MS an executive, and there is
scarce a doubt but that his adm,nistra
ton will prove anything but an honor
to either the state or himself. Intel.
l~ectnally he is beyond question third
rate in state matters and can not rise
above his own personal inclinations in
his administrative acts. For his course
he is not at fault. He is powerless to
rise above that level to which nature
assigned him. 1t is the people who are
at fault, They are to blame for plac-
ing a man of small executive ability in
the gubernational chair. AS a le. isla.
tor he ranked about on the level with
n majority of the legislature, and as a
United States senator he did nothing
but walk in the tracks of those who
had preceded him, just as the faithful
follows his master. This the
people knew, or could have known by
investigation, but that he has espoused
fanaticism that 'coincided with their
crude ideas of finance was all that
they deemed necessary, and fired by
fever of that craze that made him
governor of the great state of MiSsis.
They We're welded to their
IDOL in haste, and many of them are
now bitterly repenting at their leisure.
But in the end it will be a blessing for
The state. When the sun sets for the
asst time upon Anse McLaurin as gov
'rnor of Mississippi the McLaurin
light will forever have been snuffed
in this STATE, But before the ex-
of his four years as governor
will doubtless make an effort to ex.
end his lease upon hiss official life.
lie will undoubtedly be an aspirant for
Walthall's place in the United
Senite." In this direction he will
certainly prove 70 be a sad failure,
While he kept we'll in the background
n the contest for Senator Georges
lace, the friends OF Mr.. Money are not
gnorant of the manner in which the
were tried to be manipulated and
hey will not be slow to repay his dis.
Interested ca position with interest
everal times compounded, He will
ever be chosen to succeed Senator
in the United States Senate,
nd the overthrow of his aspirations in
hat direction will not only mean his
wn political death, but that of all of
ne name in this State.
While his acts in ignoring the will o.
le people in making appointments
fall upon hem as acts of deep in
ratitude, it is the best thing that can
efall the public, and the Herald hopes
e will continue his present course un-
| the end of his gnbernatoriaI term.
The Herald is not a prohpet, neither
oes it claihi prophetic powers, but
nse McLaurin is sustaining, by his
'ery act, the Herald's oft repeated !
that he possessed no quail.
of the statesman. but was n
.magogue pure and simple. That our
ee silver contemporaries are begin. I
ny to recognize this fact does the F.,
erald proud. Biloxi Herald. |,
The above article was published in .
1itor Mayors papers Of Scranton last ,
eek. and shows the Herald's true opin. !
n Of McLaurin. Why it is supporting