The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1910-03-30

negotiations with Dulaney and pay
ment to him by Dulaney Of $645
and the promise Of $3.50 more II
Percy was nominated. When Bill
bo secured this money for q vote,
which it was Of course well UNDER
stood beforehand between himself
and confidential friends was not to
be cast for Percy, he made report
and turned the money over to the
custody of one of these friends nm
til it should be needed as evidence.
These friends were some Of the
most prominent and reputable citi-
zens of Jackson.
The proposition to make the
exposure while the caucus was still
in session was first contemplated.
but after this was discussed and
fully considered by Senator Bilbo
and his confidential advisers it was
decided that it would be denied
and denounced as a political trick
to make votes in the caucus for
Vardaman, that partisan feeling
was running too high then for any
fair or impartial consideration of
such charges, and that the best
thing to do under the circumstances
was to wait quietly until legal
investigation Of this and other
charges of corruption could be
made by grand jury and the
courts.
Senator Bilbo stands high with
the people of his district and thous-
ands Of them are ready to vouch
for him. He has been a leading
advocate ofa constitutional conven-
tion. and is the man who, when a
lobby Of the Gulf & Ship Island
Railroad officials were besiegina
the Legislature two years ago, in
troduced an ironical resolution in
the Senate, proposing to build at
the States expense spur track
i
from the Union depot to the State
House for the accommodation Of
their private ear. The resolution
was withdrawn. but it scattered
the lobby.
The spirit and denunciatory lam
guage now being indulged by Mr..
Percy,s extreme partisans and jack
son organs and his two rich
brothers who hastened from Birm-
ingham and Memphis to jackson on
1.-THE first train after they learned
that the Kinds county grand jury
was actually doing business in
connection with the secret-ballot
caucus and bribery charges, amply
vindicates the wisdom Of the
course decided on by Senator Bilbo
and his confidential advisers in re-
gard to the most opportune time
for producing his evidence.
/ Representative ]. G. Cowart. OF
jefferson Davis county, and .
staunch Vardaman man, repeatedly
declared to friends during and
since the caucus that he was offered
81 900 by Dulaney to change from
Vardaman to Percy $500 to be
paid down in cash when the deal
was closed and $500 if Percy were
elected. A, woman is reported as
having figured as a decoy in this
case and got Dulaney and Cowart
together. but Cowart Indignantly
turned the proposition down and
Mr.. Dulaney apoloeized, CoWart
says. when he discovered he had
walked up the wrong passenger
and that he was not for sale.
Gowart has also been summoned
before the grand jury.
Dulaney was arrested yesterday
and placed under a 81. 900 bond.
The State Senate is now investi-
lgating the BiIbo charges behind
closed doors. Last night the fol.
flowing resolution, BY Senator
Sanders, was adopted and given to
the press as an anwser TO various
false reports which had been pub.
Elished by the jackson Percy organs
Whereas. It has been given oui
| By the press that the Senate st the
State Of Mississippi has gone into
an investigation Of the bribery
charges made BY Senator BilbC
with d view to the latfers expuli
sion; and,
Whereas, It il Che purpose o1
this estigation to find the truth
Or falsity Of said bribery charges
reservino the right for future ac-
1 tion. after IT'S findings therefore,
Resolved. That It is the sense oi
tile Senate that the object sought
10 be obtained by the resolution
should be given 20 the press thai
the people Of Missi ppi may know
and understand The full scope 81
this inquiry
Senator Biib0 repudiates d state.
znant which has been sent out from