Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-06-15

the published impeachment of his We.
racity by the speaker of the house and
the acknowledgements; the open signs
and talk of deals and pulls to secure
its adoption, which drove the legislature
to reject it in the confident belief of its
rottenness; to pass bill taking appoint
ment of the building commission from a
! governor who rested under common dis
trust; naming the commission. with
Honest John NJ Stone as chairman in
the bill; all eorroborated by the dead
! give away of the executive vote of the
plan adopted by the legislature OF the
numberless circumstances pointing to
corrupt dealings and radiating from the
executive office, one only is cited. A
certain big contract firm was notorious
! ly putting up for the plan. After its
rejection the Herald published on the au-
thority of the agent for said firm, that
his first expense cheek was drawn on
the desk of the governor, for $3.50, in
| consideration for work for the Weathers
| plan; and in favor of one of the gov
| ernor's brothers to whom the check was
delivered, A challenge for contradiction
| OF this accusation was published--a
| challenge that was never taken up.
I Poor Weathers. When he, some years
later went into bankruptcy, he at.
tributed his failure to the terri
bic drain on his finances made by
the fight for the Weathers plan. In his
schedule of assets on file in the bank
ruptcy court at Memphis is an item of
ten thousand dollars charged as an as
set against the state of Mississippi for
failing to adopt his plan. This ten thou
sand represents the dough he paid out,
in cash in attorney fees and lobbying,
etc. Would WeatLers but name names,
unfold the secrets of this prison house,
what a rafting of dry bones would there
be!
Revenue Agents Report.
Senator McLaurin calls the quoted re-
Election upon the integrity of his broth
ers "a vile and Shiny accusation Let us
see further as to this: The Herald of
July /, 1906, published a lengthy COM
munication compiling and tabuatng the
contents of the state revenue agents
report on state farm receipts the same
report that E. N. Thomas quotes from
as stated above. The Herald CORES
pondent demonstrated from it that
during the McLaurin administration
the state was defrauded by graft or
negligence of near 100000 in cotton seed
held out by the convict lessecs OF this |
sum II. j. McLaurin, one of tae scna.
tors brothers, was charged with over
error in a jackson special. which MFR.
McLaurin claims to be able to explain
away He, too, denied something not
charged. The actual accusation has
never been denied or explained To |
this day it stands as the Herald cor.
respondent stated it, from the revenue |
agents report; as money withheld from
the state by negligence or graft
Senator McLaurin saws: when rec.
commended to the legislature the sub |
mission to the people of an amendment |
to the constitution for an elective Judi.
ciary the Heralds wrath was further in.
tensifed.' This is another stupid false
hood. AS State Senator Noel, the au.
thor of the amendment, will remember.
the Herald supported it; we could pro,
duce columns of editorials from our
files to this effect. Never partisan of
the appointiyc system. its gross prosti.
tuition by McLaurin the Governor. en-.
listed the Herald for the elective. Equal.
ly false and paltry is the following:
Again | incurred the Herald's hostility |
by my advocacy of primary elections, in
stead of conventions, to nominate cand-
dates We never before heard of his
advocating primary election law.
Whatever especial credit is due for the
primary in Mississippi belonged to
Hon. Frank Burkett and Senator Noel
How he incurred the Herald's hostility
to speak accurately, our contempt and
aversion-was by his nepotism and
traffcking in iudgeships; his repeated
issues of veraeity with men who had sup
ported him for office and whom he had
thrown down; the stories of boodlinr
that, lilse the trail of the serpent. was
over his whole administration: and last
and worst, the frequent bestial and
drunken orgies-exhibited in Vicksbure,
in jackson. in New Orleans, in Washing.
ton, in New York, on the trains and on
the quarantine lines-that disgraced the
governors 5 office while he sat in il,
Senator Mclaurin INDUCES the boast
that he was elected to the senate in the
last election without the Herald's sup
port That he was elected, it's true.
But It's pity: and pity IT'S. It's true
But thank God he was never elected with
our support. He speaks of The Herald
and its ilk.' From Belshazzar down to
Mc!.aurin, such puzzlers and grafters as
defle the chronicles of their times, have
been blind to the day of reckoning un-
til there appeared the handwriting on
the wall. In a time when mems minds
were in turmoil of passion and preiu.
dice, McTaurin was thrown M like rot
ten drift on the surface of the political
current. Realizing that he i: rapidly
sinking into his normal state of noxious
destruction. he has sought resuscitation
through the election for governor of jeff
Truly, a worthy pupil. He has been
forced to see that his man is a fiat fail
ure as a candidate. To brace him I'M is
the sole purpose of his wantop and SIAN
derous attack upon the Herald. But he
will fool no one His course is run. His
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