Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-01-26

discussion Instead Of furnishing tie
record as it was duty to do, he pursued |
his usual course in transacting the pub |
Tic business and answered through the |
newspapers, In his public statement be
charged that this request for the record |
was "stab at him, and that it was
intended to place him in bad light. |
admit that this matter does place the
governor in a bad light. bat 1t is merely
an incident in connection with this bus
mess transaction. II to unma,k a
falsehood and to reveal the truth Is a
stab at his excellency then indeed
was the action Of the board a stab,
but it must be admitted that the stab
was from the front, with the truth, and
directly opposite to the governors
'stab" at the board in the back with a
rasehood Thelgovernor further states
that he expects to reap a benefit from
this stab" In these modern days the
governor may be able to harvest po~
litical profit from this exposure by the
cry Of persecution" but it is written
that in clded times for lesser sin An
nanias was struck dead
The governor attempts to mislead the
public as to the complaint against him
and .pretends TO think that the board
meant Ito charge that he had failed to
obtain good places for the states pro-
ducts. Tho board did contend that the
governor violated instructions and that
he was unfaithful to a public trust.
when he failed to allow widespread
competition for the states cotton seed,
md the board also contended that no
one could tell " the best price was OBJ
tanned when buyers were deprived the
privilege of bidding. Still. the great
est compliant against the governor was
that he used his position to misrepre-
sent and SANDER the members of the
ooard Of control, and principally for
this reason the board removed him from
the committee.
| wish to direct the attention OF the
public to the fact that in his notice Of
(not answered to- tho charges made
against the governor by the board OF
control he resorts to abuse, and brings
ino play a number Of high sounding
idjectives, butIfails to deny one single
charge brought against him. although
he was charged with haYing suppressed
public record, and with having made
false statements to the board in regard
to it, and although charged with other
things Of more serious nature, he con-
snted himself with the statement that
he could not have influenced the senate
Nobody had ever brought this charge
against the governor. Certainly no in
telligent citizen of Mississippi would
charge the senate with being so igno
rant as to be influ enced by man Of the
governors calibre
The governor attempts to mislead The
public into the belief that the members
Of the board Of control lobbied against
the bill abolishing the board, and that
in spite of their opposition and solely
or the reason that the acts of the board
were condemned the bill was passed
The wish is father to the thought. The
governor makes this charge in the face
If the fact that the penitentiary inves-
tigating committee in therireport to the
legislature said ave thinkt he board Of
control should be abolished, because
every member thereof has other duties
20 perfofm and duties as a member of
the board of control are foreign to the
duties Of the office, to which each mem
Der was really elected. The magnitude
Of the interests demand the entire time
md attention Of those in authority.
The governor pretends to believe
that the members of the senate voted
in favor or the abolition of the board
IF control because majority Of that
body condemned the acts Of the mem
oers Of the board The record contra
licts this,
On the test vote in .the senate there
were twelve votes recorded against the
abolition of the board, and twenty.
three votes in favor, Although much
lad been said by the partisans Of the
governor against the members Of the
members Of the board of control, ma
iority Of the members of the senate who
voted for the abolition of the board dis
claimed any intention of reflection upon
the members Of the board, quote
from the senate journal
Explanation.
The following explanation of their
votes on the adoption of the foregoing
amendment, made by sundry senators,
was ordered spread upon the journal,
viz:
I'VE vote aye in the matter of max.
ing a change in the management of the