The Grenada sentinel., 1907-01-26

papers with wilful Misrepresentation
OF the members of tie board os con
troll. Sweeping aside the numerou.
false charges he has circulated in con
verSation, and also the numerous
false charges that he has circulated
through the newspapers, as Il gentle
man brushes cobwebS from his path
| will use one case that established
my contention that the governor
knowingly, deliberately and wilfully
miSrepreSt nted the board OF control
10 take up the numerous falSehoOds
he has circulated would so lengthen
this article as to tax the readers pa
5ience. and the one case cited will Suf-
dee. =
Gov Vardaman and Commissioner
| McNair were the committee. to sell
tho states cotton and cotton seed dur
| ing almost the entire three years of
| their service as members of the board
In the face Of this fact, the governor
wrote a gentleman of NickSbGrg, who
| had written the governor requesting
| that he be given a chance to bid for
| the state Is seed, that on account of
| the fact that he had so little influence
with the board he was not in a posi-
tion to offer him any seed. This Was
done, without even mentioning to his
associate on the committee or any
member of the board the fact that
the gentleman had indicated desire
to bid Tor the seed. 1t will be seen
that this letter was made TO do double
duty for his exccllency by establish
ing i'm the mind Of the gentleman to
whom it was addressed two falSehO0dS:
First, that the governor was honest
and desired 70 give him chance on
the seed, and second, that the board
of control objected to this.
By chauce the board of control
learned OF this correspondence, and on
my motion directed the secretary to
call on the governor for a copy of the
record OF his correspondence as a
member of the committee Tor the sale
of the states products. lie declined
to fnrniSh this. and tiS contention
that the board Of control had no right
to this record is 81 manifcStly absurd
that it is unworthy of discussion. In
stead oI furnishing the record as it
was his duty to do, he pursued his u.s.
ual course in traDSacting the public
bGsintr and answered through the
newSpaE S. In his public statement
he charged that this request for ihe
record was IL stab" at him. and that
il was intended to place him in bad
light. | admit that this matter does
place the governor in Il bad light, bat
it is merely an incident in connection
with this business transaction. If to
unmaSk u falSehOOd and 70 reveal the
truth IS stab" III his excellence
then Indeed Yves the action OF the
board 4 sab" hut iJ mast be- admit
ted that The stab" was from the
front, with the truth, and directly
Oppt,Sitc 10 the governors sab" aG
the board in The back with false
hood. The governor further states
that he expects to reap a benefit from
this stab" In theSa modern days.
the governor may be able to harvest Il
political profit from this exposure by
the cry "' persecution hut it is
written that in ulden times for d les
ser sin Annanias WAS struck dead.
The governor attempts to mislead
the public as to the complaint against
him and pre+endS 10 think that the
board meant to charge that he had
failed 10 obtain good plac.S for the
states products. The board did. con
tend that the governor violaled in
Structi0nS and that he was unfaithful
To a pubic trust, when he failed to al
low widespread competition for the
states cotton seed, and the board also
cODtended that 10 one cUuld tell if the
best price was obtained when buyers
were deprived the privilege Of bidding.
Stiil. the greatest complaint against
the governor was that he used his pO-
SitiU1 to miSrcpreSeLt and Slander the
members of the board Of control, an1
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) the charges made
against the governor by the board of
COhbA Va ilO iCoOI 10 w bouSC3 ubu
into play Il number OF high sounding
adjectiveS, but fails to deny one single
charge brought against him, although
he was charged with having suppress
ed Il public record, and with having
made false statements to the board in
regard to it. although charged with
other things of a more serious nature,
he contented himself with the state
ment that he could not have Influenced
the senate. Nobody had ever brought
this1charge against the governor. Ger
tainly no intelligent citizen of Missis-
sippi would charge the senate with be-
ing SO ignorant as to be influnced by
d man OF the governors calibre.
The governor attempts to mislead
the public into the belief that the
members of the board of control lob
bied against the bill aboliSning the
board, and that in spite of their opp
sition and solely for the reason that
the acts Of the board were condemned
the bill was passed. The wish is
father to the thought. The governor