The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-05-06

SS"'eAC WVulu BcI W De one Oh Tilt
d associate Justices of the Suprem.
E, Court. Many members of the HOUSE
Knew or thought they knew that &
,e deal had been on for quite a while
le but a vast majority of the House, SC
l. Tar l could learn, myself among the
lr number) thought that the Senate had
d already passed our Concurrent Resolu.
ton. Many knew or OWNED that nc
stone would be left unturned to give
all OF the ''fa, tn "ul'' a place at the pie
ounter but thought that the constitu-
. ton stood in the way of some, at least.
i. But what difference did it make that
! yet a little while before we had said,
IN order to pass the Commissioner Bill
THE PEOPLE NEED FIVE JUDGES
on our Supreme Bench? What differ
ence did it make that the Senate had
! heretofore passed BY TWO-THIRDS
[ MAJORITY THREE TIMES that very
: resolution, on which we were THEN
! about to vote for it's third reading and
submission to the people? What differ
ence did it make hat the House HAD
FIVE TIMES GONE ON RECORD
FAVORING THAT RESOLUTION or
one exactly like it in effect? NONE.
WHAT! PASS THAT RESOLUTION
NOW! PASS A RESOLUTION THAT
MEANT NO JOB FOR ONE OF THE
'FAITHFUL?" PULL THE TEAT
FROM THE PARCHED AND FAM
ISHED MOUTH OF ONE OF" THE
"PATRIOTS?" KEEP THE HAND !
OF ONE OF THE BELLWETHERS
OF THE CONSERVATIVES OUT OF
THE PUBLIC TREASURY WHEN
HE WAS IN REACH OF THE GOLD2
The House WAS SURELY CRAZYr
REVERSING ITSELF WAS MOTH
ING but denying the ''faithful!T
TREASON, TREASON, TREASONME
The House Must NOT pass that res
o%lutlon; tfss patriot would never get
his job il the resolution PASSED?
The Chief Justice WOULD NOT swap
# that resolution PASSED. There was l
nothing Tor him to gain by the trade, I
+ the resolution passed for the length
u life of the Commissioner would be only n
bout as long as he had a right to the
bench: the ghsst1y figure of Brewer in '
he Governors chair, that had been
tangled bcfora the eyes of the Chief
'ustlce, would lose its potency, if that u
passad; it would have no
more terrors for him as Judge than it l.
would have as Commissioner, for the
ommissionership would end with the h;
dvent of the FIVE Judges: the reso- D
ltion MUST DIE; the ''people be W
amned!' The. Vacancy on the Su- tn
Bench MUST OCCUR. Nothing CO
reverted 1T but the fear of the pas K
age of that resolution low UP for 81
the place on the Su- bs
rene Bench would be traded for the B.
ing term as Commissioner but if this al
esolutiOn passed there would be no co
'ng term, all would be Judges in 1912. ba
nd the Chief Justice might not be re- gr
ppolnted fright here l wish to say luz
lat he deserves disappointment, he has an
cen a faithful public servant; over
nd over again his voice has been heard
l the side of the toiling masses), the
solution must be killed, for by its
'ath n of the most potent factors in Pc
e defeat of Vas,daman ~orld ba va VIII
the sacred refuge of the op- ).
'essed, the last hope of the weak and
WHY, the safeguard of our liberties, ma
e Supreme Court of our State would 10"
called on to contribute its part on
ward rewarding the patriots" who tlol
r fifty days and FIFTY NIGHTS had er
Id the State by the throat, and were res
descriptions in nothing to carry out ol
cir christian, conservative and pat GRO
tic combination" to thwart the will Iui
the people and demoralize, to say c;
2 least of it, their chosen representa- chn
'es. the
Johnston of Coahoma, Quin, Yewell, a." 1
and the writer formed a little nv
nch that lead the workers for the 1"e
and e~ndeavored hard to pass N III"
n the dying hours Of that most re-
rkable Legislature. The result of I
ballot almost took eur breath h"ii
ay but we rallied all we could for the pas
t fight, while in the heart of each "eS
re was the gloom of certain defeat, GU I
invasion of the Senators almost rapi
ted US, the very boldness Of the at III
k took US off our feet. lore
v to n
he resolution was called up the IN
vious question was promptly r.oved, s;on
and carried and with only FIVE IT,
.UTES allotted us, Yewell took the ..:.,
inr oens,a:a~ ''ey 0ieo ny lodg
'ther his voice but he waited and 49,.
uAn - 1;atn nooi sio LID. Nifty
Lively hioHleHI ol "s
t five minutes was put in to the very