East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1911-03-31

| and your followers knew or nOthln
rotten in the caucus, for there wa
not vote against this resolution
II you, or Your followers, kn w ot
fraud, and still allowed this re 0!u
ton TO go unchallenged, Slcl
cowaltllco deserves the co tempt O.
honest men.
4th. 1t was right and proper thai
the legislature should make .
searching investigation of the
moral and intellectual fitness OF
each of the candidates. The bless
ed sunlight of publicity" which
you say that you so much love,
was turned on, and | must confess
that | was impressed with the cold
facts of record, rejecting upon
your truthfullness and honesty as
a man and public official. For in.
stance, lay down the proposition
which is backed by the high mora
sense of all honest men. That any
nan who will lay hands on a sacred
trust fund for private use, is un.
worthy of public trust.
Yon went out OF office of Cover.
ucr, without turning over to youl
successor, the battleship silver ser
vice fund, which was unprece
dented, and according to our At
torney- General-unlawful. After
you were pressed by the Battle
ship Commission, you did turn
over the sum of 81, 700, which you
said was correct, but to this good
day You have never given a list of
the subscribers to that fund. The
names of subscribers and the
amounts, gotten by Mrs. Lock
wood, are now on file in the arch
ives of the state, but the commiss-
ion failed to get from you this i'm
portant data see their report, SEN
ate Journal 1910, page 153. Why
should you Withhold the list of sub
scribers to this fund? The charge,
as you know. was publicly made,
that you had spent this money, and
while il was yourprivilege to hide
behind the secrecy of a bank, vet
it was expected of you, as you
claim to have never had a politi-
cal secret" and love the blessed
sunlight of publicity" to come
out and put your enemies to the
bad, by publishing a bank state
ment showing that you had this
fund properly on deposit, Banks
do not destroy records, so can you
not even now, let the blessed sun
light of publicity shine in," by
showing this statement?
9TH. You went out of office and
did not turn over to your successor,
the Spanish American War Fund,
which was also unprecedented. A
committee was appointed to see
why you had not done so-see Sen
ate Journal 1908, page S07. 1t
seems that this committee got on
the track of this fund while you
were out of jackson, and from the
Capitol National Bank they traced
it to your private bank-The Mis-
sissippi Bank and Trust Co., (see
page S10.) The committee secured
statement from this bank show
ing that you had drawn out all of
this fund by June the Goth, where
it had been placed to your credit
eight months previous (see page
911.) Through the work of the
committee, you paid over So, 41S,
nearly four years; according to the
bank statement, after you had
drawn out the entire fund. The point
is this; Where were you keeping
this fund for nearly four years? 1t
was put in your private bank, but
if you had it properly on deposit at
some other bank, you can come out
even now and show it. Otherwise.
this record is a challenge to your
honesty in handling trust funds,
for it is prina facie evidence that
you drew out all this fund when
you did not need it all to settle
war claims, for you paid back
So, AIS (see page 811.)
You say that you turned over
every cent Of this fund, and all
other funds, aud apply coarse epi.
thets to those who say otherwise
of which is foreign to the record
as it now stands, that you useC
trust f'nds as a private perquisite
AS to you paying back every cent
after you were pressed by comit.
tees, does not satisfy Il breach o.
trust. Burk, the defaulting treas
urer of Louisiana, and Morse, thu
New York bank wrecker, have
offered to pay back every cent i,
they can only get pardon for theil
crimes and because we have ne
law to punish governor for ,
breach of trust, makes these, fund.
doubIN sacred, and a,still mora stric