The Grenada sentinel., 1908-08-15
Analyses Opposition to Shed hill
GiveslReasons for Reelection
He Asks the Question, What Has
SiSsOn DOnG?"
Hill Voted Against Increasing his
Own Salary $500
EDITOR SENTINEL:
TORRANCE, Miss. ,
Aug. l., 1908.

Aug. l., 1908.
EDITOR SENTINEL:
| am not in the habit OF ruSlllng IN
to print and am only impelled to DC
SO this time out Of sense or duty 10
a friend and because | recognize that
the demagogic attacks being made by
Hon. It. Z. SiSSon upon Hon. w. ).
Hill may becloud the minds OF many
of the voters, and, possibly thereby
deprive the people of this congresSloh-
al district of the services or IL tIue
friend and noble man and servant
who has had no other desire than TO
do that which is best for his people
and for the South.
During any time other than
the heat ola political Cam
paign, nobody would be
found with little sense
enough to talk about Shed
Hill selling his conscience
and his people for money.
Hence this talk about IL
S4OO "mileage grab" is all
rot.
Mr. Hill voted twice
against increasing Il con-
"ressman's salary from
$4,000 to $500. Wouldn't
a man that would grab
at S4OO also grab at
Twenty-Five Hundred, and
doesn't his vote against
putting Twenty-five Hum
dred a year into his own
pocket answer the mileage
charge? Let any fair mlh-
ded man answer.
Shed Hill is a broad gauged man
He is man that no one really uiS'
likes and one that makes Str0-g
friends wherever he goes. lie has done
this at Washington City and IS just
now in a position to u>e the Influence
of the friends he has made in Con-
vress to subserve the nee"S ana tAe
demands of his friennS at home. All
this talk al tout This having been IN
Washington long enough is all rot ana
is born IN the mind of the young man
who brayS like a jackaSs ana VINO
would cut the jngular vein, politically
speaking, Of the man who mas be-
friended him and stood by him in the
hour OF greatest need. in order 10 Sc
cure Office Mr.. SiSSon'S actions 10
this race are surprising and hum lat
ing to some Of his best friends and
are a sad commentary upon the eSti-
nation some men place upon the sd
cred tie of friendship. He has been
heard TO say, | am reliably Informed.
a number Of times in this dist let
that he owed all he was 10 Shed Hill
or words to that effect. lie may be
sore at Hill because he (>isson) failed
to get the nomination for Governor
last year. He may be sore at Hill be
cause Mr.. Hill did not let him vote
him in the Senatorial race last year.
Hill had the political manhood to vote
his choice. Sisson voted for neither
Vardaman nor Williams. In other
words, he ducked. Do we need a
''ducker" in Congress? And this is
not the only time Mr.. SiSSon has duck.
ed. SiSson may be reat Hill be-
cause Hill was for Brewer in the Sec
ond primary last year. Sisson has
swiped part of Brewers platform
and is paying that gentleman great
tributes throughout the district, when
last year he sought to joke out the
things for which Brewer stood and is
this year loudly proclaiming them to
be good. How does anybody know
how to take man that will face
about that way? Hill was in advance
of SisSon. He endorsed Brewers po-
sition twelve months before Sisson
did. What has Sisson ever done to
specially commend him to the people:
He made a very ordinary district at
uorney and as soon as he got warm 10
the Office, he was electioneering fol
another. He has a fine voice. He
can sweat like an Ethiopian preacher
and paw the earth, but 1t takes some
thing more than CAB to do things in
legislative halls and in executive
chairs. He does not advocate any
thing original. He will not have
Vardaman or Brewer at Washington
to tell him what to do and when he get.
beyond their platforms, what can nht
do? The offices belong to the people
Offices were created because it wa
supposed that the people needed some
one to do certain duties for them
Could all public work have been done
through one Office and Dy one officer
then but one office would have beer
provided for. 1t is therefore patent
to any mind that the work of any otii
Ger concerns the welfare of the people
Hence it follows that they shouit
choose the men best qualified by ex
perience, temperament and other
wise to do their work. Do you sup