The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1907-03-14
JENKINS REPUDIATED.
The Dispatch has long ceased

incident. jenkins has been sputter
| tering over the State since rushins
into print whenever papers We're oper
| TO him. but the general public has
| long since lost interest in the mat
| ter, Jenkins being so thoroughly dis
crdited as 10 merit little notice.
The Dispatch does not now refer
TO the matter except TO reproduce
resolutions adopted by mass meet
ing Of the citizens Of Clarke county
Jenkins home county. It is at a
mans home where his real worth and
standing are known, and where a
mans neighbors repudiate him and
publicly pillory him, as the people OF
Clarke county have done Jenkins,
surely he has sunk low in the scale
of decent and honorable citizenship,
and is unworthy of the confidence of
men. At mass meeting Of the cit
izens Of that county during the past
week, the following resolutions We're
adopted:
Whereas, H. T. Jenkins, a resi-
dent of Clarke county, has been twice
sentenced in the circuit court Of said
county as a criminal; and,
Whereas, he was convicted in the
first case of most brutal, ferocious
and wholly unprovoked attack with
a pistol upon an old negro seventy
five years of age while peaceably at
work on his farm and in no wise in
the employment Or under the control
of Jenkins; and in the second case
of unlayful coha bitation with a negro
woman, the said Jenkins being a
white man and having a family; and,
Whereas, the said Jenkins, for
ening to kill the circuit Judge of this
district, and has, during said period,
conducted an unproyoked and unceas-
ing, malicious warfare in the State
of Mississippi against the judiciary
of the Tenth district, raIlying wher-
ever he could the dissatisfied element
by spreading false and slanderous re-
ports against the judge Of the said
Tenth district.
Therefore be it resolved by the
people in mass meeting assem- bled,
first, That they condemn and de-
nounce in unmeasured terms the as
saults and warfare conducted by the
said Jenkins and his henchmen
against the judiciary Of the said
Tenth district
Resolved, second, That we here |
md now declare to the people of the |
Tenth district and State of Mississippi |
hat the sentences or judgments of
he court in both cases against the I
aid Jenkins were humane and mer-
ifuI, the Jail sentences in both cases
,eing omitted by the court, and the
ines imposed by the court were not
S great as demanded by the public
eminent of the good people Of the
ounty Of Clarke.
Resolved, third, That we endorse
nd commend the fearless, vigorous
nd upright administration of public
ustice by the circuit judge Of the
'enth judicial district; the cleared
ockets and suppression of crime and
court expenses in said dis
rict will stand as a lasting memorial
D Judge Cochran's yirile and impair
al administration Of public justice,
-hich will never be effaced from the
lemory of the honest taxpayers by
ne assaults of criminals.
aT7 af h1f
aIse reports the aforesaid Jenkins
lay spread, and all of the malicious
ffdavfts he may make, will never !
essen our confidence In or impair
ur respect for the honest and impair {
al administration of public justice ,
Y Judge Cochran. !
Resolved. fifth, That while in the
asst the judiciary of the State Of {
[ississippi has been fostered as the
oal of the highest dignity and honor,
aspiring the inspirations of the most {
onora bic and capable of our jurists, I
ct, if the people of the State will l
ermit or tolerate the judges of our I
ourts to be terrorized and intimi- {
ated by criminals who fall under $
he sentence and penalty of the law; t
the Judge who passes a just judg- t
tent upon criminal who has been I
1nyicted by a jury Of his country [
len is subject to be held up TO pub I
c scorn by false charges and un- 8
accusations, and such false G
1arges and ungrounded accusations {
re TO be cherished and disseminated {
) true through the columns of a c
rejudiced press and by vile tongues.
len surely the honor and dignity of I
IN and dpbauehqry. 0nr ho3stpd