Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-07-27
HE ACCEPTED DOODLE.


1t is charged against Senator Money
that while member of congress and
chairman of the committee on post
offices and post routes he received as
gift the sum of sixty thousand
dollars in stock from the Pan-Electric
Telephone company which was press
ing legislation before congress
through his committee.
1t is time for Senator Money to
come forward with proper proof and
show the charges to be false.
Senator Money has before been
charged with accepting gifts or loans
of money from railroad magnates and
other capitalists having measures be-
fore congress favorable to their cor
pOrations, and we do not recall that
he has ever proved his innocence, on
the contrary circumstances have
tended to prove that the charges were
not unfOunded.
In the case now in question there
must be no evasion, no whipping the
devil around the stump. Senator
Money either did or did not accept
the doodle, and he must show that he
did not or stand convicted at the bar
of public opinion.
Bribery is grave charge to bring
against any man, and especially
against member of the United States
senate, in whose purity and integrity
the people have trusted.
If the chrage is false there is a liar
and slanderer at large who should be
branded aud forbidden association
with decent people. If it is true
there is sentator who is q scOundrel
and whose proper place is in the peni
Tertiary. Let the light be turned
on.-Raymond Gazette.
The Gazette is one of the Oldest,
ablest and best papers in Mississippi.
1t helped to kindle. the camp fires OF
democracy in 1875 and to drive the
cohorts from the borders of Missis-
sippi. 1t has announced no choice
for United States senator IN this
campaign, but has frequently, as has
the Progress, criticised Governor
Logino, when it differed from him.
Senator Money over his own state
ment given out by him from Winona,
confesses that he received 100000 of
Pan-Electric Telephone stock, but
pleads that he received part of it
after he went out of conrgess. The
confession of Senator Money shocks
Mississippians and many of his sup
porters are leaving him as honest men
must everywhere. In this connection
tn following facts become pertinent,
Notwithstanding Senator Money s
braggadocio and his TRADE against
reputable newspapers III the state
which have no other interest in the
election of United States senator than
to get clean, honest, able man fol
the exhalted position:
On April /, A. d. 1882, Heranando
Desoto Money in conjunction with
James Wesson, Jr., and James W.
Perkins gave mortgage to G. P.
Huntington of New York City fol-
$50, 900 on a lot of land in Lincoln
county Mississippi to secure a vote
for that amount payable in five years.
The security for the loan of $50, 600.
was at that time listed by the assessor
of Lincoln county at $4,000. This
mortgage is recorded in the chancery
clerk S office of Lincoln county, in deed
book NJ pages 623 to 62S inclusive
This mortgage has never been marked
satisfied At the time the mortgage
was given Mr.. Money was chairman
of the committee of postofffce ant
postroads of the house of representa-
tives. Mr.. Huntington was the
owner of many railroads out west an6
got large contracts to carry the mails
from the postofics department. A
long suffering public may trace the
connection. The Progress got it'
information from a gentleman who
took the pains to look up the record
yNCuTNG IN TIL TNOTS