Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-06-19
|DITOR ]. S.lN'NEHLY
| AGAIN EXCORLATES
SENATOR MLAURIN


sessments-we all recall how the
story was narrated around, of some
McLaurin finger in every pie. In the
words of the logged verse of the day:
1T is guilty plead when the charge
they present,
appoint all my kinsmen AID broth
ers;
l would like to know why, when
banker for pie,
l should give the best places to 9th
ers.
So you bet your sweet life,
eat greens with knife.
And pie
Any way
can get it,
The clan whose boast has always
been that they were each or all and
all for EACH was thus sketched by
Governor Vardaman, year ago. in
replying to question as to why they
opposed him: THE McLaurins are OPP
posed to me for the reason that / have
been an active, if not potent, factor
in relieving them of some of their op-
portunities of growing rich at the ex-
pense of the people of this State which
they enjoyed for number of years
appointed Senator McLaurin's son-in-
law, Judge Stevens, to one of the most
important positions in the State be-
cause he was an efficient public serv-
ant. The McLaurins thought that a
very generous deed. But when in the
discharge of my duty l opposed their
interests in the management of the
State penitentiary; they at once be-
came very hostile. The people of
Mississippi know these facts-that
the McLaurins oppose me because of
my unfaltering activity in stripping
from this faction the favoritism upon
which they fattened for years, while
the people paid the freight" Govern
or Vardaman could have said with abb
solute truth that popular faith in him
as the man peculiarly fitted for break
ing up the 'fattening process was the
main factor in his election Senator
McLaurin continues to whine about
The Herald opposing him because he
was for 16 to /. When he was test
ing the teeter pole of public opinion,
Vardaman was shouting for free sill
yer. He handled the Herald roughly,
in the time of the craze" He had
our favor for Governor nevertheless;
for the reason as he will remember
we told him at the opening of the cam
paign: That regardless of past differ
ences, or his views on the negro school
question with which we disagreed; he
should have our best support for Gov
ernor on account of confidence in his
integrity, and that he would break
planted by McLaurin, and perpetuated
under his frail and shifty successor.
In wrestling with the cotton seed
shortage shown in the report of the
CSotC AttfCiuC a6tAl ulb du-
ministration, the Senator enters the
following interesting confession in
avoidance:
THE land was cultivated by the con-
victs under the management of the
Board of Control, and the cotton, cot
ton seed, and other crops were in pos
session of the Board of Control until
they were divided, and the lessons of
the land received their share from the
Board of Control, and not the Board
of Control from the lessons; SO that
cotton seed could not have been held
out by the men whose plantations
were worked" So it was the Board of
Control of which he was president
vast it, and not Brother Jehu? AS
The Herald did not assume to locate
the graft or negligence" charged by
its correspondent, the point brought
out by Senator McLaurin is passed up
to the members of the said McLaurin
board The Senator's cute suggestion
that the alleged loss is speculative, /"
that the $4,000 shortage was due ito
rotten seed,fi" ETC., is entirely original.
No doubt there was something rotten,
If not the Sandy Bayou cotton seed.
Throughout,the Senator's attempts
to reply to the Herald is a juggle with
the facts. But all is surpassed where
he seeks to wriggle out of the impale-
ment of his brazen claim of credit for
the decision in the Y. & NJ. V. back tax
cases. Replying to The Herald he
says: