The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-11-26

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more consistent friend in the president
|tial chair than President Roosevelt. II
This editorial from the Outlook, !!
which is too lengthy for The Sentinel
ito reproduce, discussed President
|Roosevelt's southern policy, and Mis-
sissippi and Mr.. Edgar S. Wilson, the
presidents adviser, are singled out by|
lit for illustration. The EDITORIAL
seems to speak by authority of the|
president himself; and strengthens
THE growing hope Of the South in her
hour of isolation, the result Of the re-
cent election.
1t is indeed fortunate for the peO-|
.ple of Mississippi and for the South
that President Roosevelt has such AMI
adviser as Edgar S. Wilson. Mr.. Will
zson is a native of Mississippi, and his
work for and devotion to his state and
people is a part of the best history of
the commonwealth. He has been
3iustly credited for many years with
accomplished, through his
journalistic pen, more for the material
land industrial advancement of MisSis-
aSippi than any other citizen. OF course
SMr. Wilson, like every one else who
shaS risen to eminence, has been the
target for envy and malice; but he has
s-standing always for law and order
land public education perSued the
snoiseless tenor of his way through crit
sicism and SANDER with a step that has
never faltered and a courage that has
never failed. The only n answer he
has made to his would e-detractOrs
ehas been a lofty and crushing one
the answer of silent contempt.
The honors, personal and official,
bestowed upon Mr.. Wilson by Presi-
sdent Roosevelt some three years ago,
las The Sentinel knows, where as I'M
as they were unexpected. How
5well Mr.. Wilson has worn them the
srecord must tell. The editor of The
Sentinel has repeatedly heard exam
liners and inspectors for the various
,departments-men in the civil service,
of them Democrats and some of
them Republicans - state that the
personnel of the federal officials of the
state of Mississippi under President
Roosevelt is higher than the personnel
Iof the officials Of any president of any
This statement they support
led by another-the recOrd-that not
Ia single appOintee of President RooSe-
welt in Mississippi has %defaulted, or
otherwise scandalized his commission.
Was there eve anything like it in
..any other state in the nations history?
The absolute master of the federal
patronage in Observation-Disclosures
sof appointments made and all on his
Observation-Disclosures higher tribute
could be paid Mr.. Wilson'S Judgment,
conservatism and patriotism as the
.chosen adviser Of the President of the
States? The good that Mr..
Wilson has done and is doing will live
after him.
A democratic paper, The Sentinel,
'antagonized President ROOsevelt's
election with all the power Of its be-
ing. AS an honest journal, however,
it will do justice to its a~dverSarieS
the heavens fall. President
Roosevelt has done some things which
the Sentinel can never indorse or con-
done. But he has done some other
for which he deserves praise.
He has rid the South of a venal sys-I
TEN of office broking, and given Mis-
.sissippi sober, competent, law loving
Officials -hundreds of them Democrats
and scores of them Confederate SOL
diers, and for this he deserves all.
praise.