The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-09-17
HAS WORKED FOR MISSISSIPPI.

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from every quarter of the common
wealth. he who has been accused O
everything dishonest in politics th'
skillful politician could cOncOct; he ant
none other than he, did more while
his pungent pen sent its daily mes
sage TO the four corners OF the eartf
to bring about the present era OF
prosperity in Mississippi than al
other forces combined. AS news
paper man Edgar Wilson stands with
out peer. AS heralder Of advance,
ment all We'd with him but none
could reach his standard. True he
has shown his fine hand in politics,
but his magnificent work for indus
trial development lives and has made
many fortune for men who discredit
him.
THE secret of his success was I'M
partiality. No hamlet or community
which exhibited the right spirit ever
failed to get its praises sung by Ed
gar S. He played no favorites. The
entire state reaped the benefits.
To-day his pen is silent and his I'M
itatorS have resolved themselves into
a kind of mutual admiration society
and are playing themselves and their
favorites to the detriment OF all 9th
ers. Spare US from Edgar Wilson,
the politician, but give us another IN
dustral optimist like him and Mis-
sissippi'S advancement will SurpaSS all
preyiOuS records. ''-BrantOn News.
To those who have watched the
course of Mr.. Wilson the above will
strike them as a neat compliment. 1t
is true that the political course of Mr..
Wilson has not suited a great
many people in Mississippi, yet some
of these very same people who are
standing on the street corners bless
ing him out, have in times past
been groveling at his feet and asking
for Office at his hands. They are
willing to accept the commission OF
Roosevelt via Wilson, but the min
ute they were turned down they be-
came violent against him. The ed
itor of the News has entertained for
many years a warm friendship for
Mr.. Wilson, and has always found
him true to his friends. This writer
and Mr.. Wilson do not come anywhere
near agreeing on the Roosevelt prop
Osition, but the facts IN the case are
that Wilson has given to the state
as high a set OF federal appOinte'S
as Mississippi ever had under any
president' Nine-tenthS Of them are
democrats, and SO far as the editor
of this paper knows, there has not
been democrat in the state who
has been rendered a federal appoint
ment by Wilson who has refused 1t.
AS a newspaper man Mr.. wilson
stood unique in the state. His pen
was ever ready to work for the ad-
vancement of the state, and in his
present position the News does not
believe that he would do one thing
that would make for the injury of Mis-
sissippi. The editor Of the News
would not hold a commission bear
ing the name of Roosevelt, and he
believes that he is the worst type or
pot-houSe politician who is seeking
his own ends no matter at what cost,
but the facts in the case are that bis
appointments in Mississippi have
been above the reproach because he
has followed the recommendations ol
his adviser. 1t is easy when puDll(
sentiment seems set against a frlenC
to turn and join the popular clamor
but the News is not built on these
lines, and if there are those who dt
not approve of this policy, the News
cannot help it, and would not help Il
if it could. Becaused Wilson has ac
cepted a commission at the hands o
republican president, d thing tha
| thousands of democrats in MISSISSIPPI
Fnave shown that they are ready U
do, there are those who would con
| sign him to outer darkneSi, rob him
if they could, of the fruits of an non
orable career and deny to him an
of the qualities of the true man.
! There are those Of bis friends WI
would have preferred to have see
him CT ntinue in his journalistic wor
rather that enter this new field
but certain it is that the true an
loyal friends he has made during hi
long and honorable career in MiSSls
sippi are still his friends, and are read
to speak word in his behalf Whe
they believe that he is being unjustl
assailed. This is the attitude OF tn
editor Of this paper, who is probabl
as close to him as any man in tn
state, yet has refraiBed~from maxim
any suggestions as to the appointmen
of this man or that man for Office
resisting pressure from friends WI