The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-01-14

them TO write his conscience away
OF those who write assaults upon me
for the jackson News and manufac
ture tho statements upon which they
predicate thoir assaults, are II, $,
Wilson, who refused to vote the
ticket in 1896 because OF the free sill.
yer platform, and Ex-Governor Lowry
who was so eulogzed by Senator
Murray Smith in the speech here
which they say was the opening OF
the campaign. | here exhibit the
manuscript for one OF the articles
written by Ex-Governor Lowry for the
News in his own handwriting and on
his own letter heads, and even the
News had not gone so far at that time
that it would print ii without cutting
some Of it out.
Senator Murray Smith was selected
to make the opening speech Of the
campaign. The selection was an apt
one. There have been very few apt
things done by them in their TRADES
Of abuse and utilization, but the Sc
lection of Mr.. Smith to open the
campaign for them was exceedingly
apt. Their principal causes OF Of
Tense against me are that | am a be-
lever in and an advocate of free sill
yer; that ! desire the Y. e NJ. V. r..
r. Co. to be made to pay their lawful
taxes like other people, and that !
appointed q new set OF men to COM
pose the levee board. Mr.. Smith is
opposed to free silver; he is attorney
for the Y. q NJ. V. r. r. Co., and he
is an exponent of the old leyee board
ring. So you can see the aptness Of
his selection to open the campaign.
The occasion was advertised and it
was heralded that Mr.. Smith would
pass through Jackson on the morn
ing train-the 8 o'clock train. Ex-
Gov. Lowry met him and held a con-
sultation with him at the depot, and
boarded the train and rode with him
to the State street crossing, about
half mile, E. S. Wilson went on to
Meridian, and the campaign was
opened with Mr.. Smiths speech.
SMITH CHARGED WITH AN ATTEMPT TO
sUBORN PERJURY.
BEFORE proceeding further let me
read you paper that recently came
into my possession, and give you
some facts connected with it, and LOT
these speak for the character Of their
campaign as well as the character Of
the man selected to open it. When
| speak of their campaign | have no
reference to those gentlemen who
signed the invitation to Mr. Smith to
speak here. l do not think that the
signers of that invitation expected
Mr.. Smith to peryert an invitation
from Democrats into an occasion for
the abuse of a Democratic admins
tration.
| have a son-in-law living in Yicks-
burg, Mr.. Robert L. MeLaurin. On
Monday evening, the Goth day of De-
cember 1898, three days before Mr..
Smith was to speak here, negro
named George Sutton came TO Bob
McLaurin, in Vicksburg, with this
typewriter paper, which | now
read
STATE OF MIssIssIPPI-Sharkey Co.
Personally appeared before me, the
undersigned, a justice of the peace in
and for the county of Warren and
State Of Mississippi, George Sutton,
who, being duly sworn, deposes and
says: That he is the father Of Jerry
Sutton, and that the said Jerry SUIT
ton was convicted Of manslaughterin
the Circuit court of Sharkey county,
and sentenced to the penitentary for
Il term of years.
Affiant further states that shortly
after Hon. A. j. McLaurin was inau-
gurated Governor of Mississippi that
he published petition for the par
don of his son, and presumably went
to Jackson and presented tho same to
the Governor; that the Governor did
not give him any decided answer and
he left the Governors Office that
during the conversation had by the
affiant with the Governor in his Office,
that affiant recollects that Mr.. Wal
ter McLaurin either came into the
office in jackson, Miss, or was in the
Governors office, and, shortly after
leaving the Governors Office and
near the capitol, he was met by the
said Walter McLaurin and was asked
if he desired to have his son par
doned, and he answered Of course he
did, and that said Walter McLaurin
then answered him, that if he would
pay him $25 cash and SIS after his
son was pardoned that his son would
be pardoned.
Affiant further states that after the
lapse of some four or five weeks he
went to Jackson to see about the
pardon of his son, and again met Mr.
Walter McLaurin, and that Mr.. Wal
ter McLaurin told him that if be
would pay the 500 to his bro Ser,
Mr.. II. J. McLaurin, at Rolling Fork,
that it would be the same thing as If
he had paid it to him, and that as
soon as the money was paid his son
would be pardoned.
Affiant went home and hauled cot
ton to Rolling Fork and delivered
the same to the said H. j. McLaurin
to the amount of $40, and shortly
thereafter his son was pardoned,
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this, - day Of -, 1898
This paper, you will notice, is
neither signed nor sworn to.
George Sutton on the same even
;,,c, r,oda and attached tn this tyDe