Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-04-21
! "Let the Blessed Sunlight
{ OF Publicity Shine In"
/ The Mississippi Senatorial Campaign, by L.P :.

upright, and that no vote in the eau
Gus nomination was procured by any
improper means or corrupt influence,
and that the election OF Senator Percy
is free from fraud or corruption. And
regardless of whether we have sup
ported Senator Percy i'll the recent con
test, or will support him in the ap-
preaching primary, we record with
pleasure our confidence in his chival-
rous honor and personal and political
integrity, and our desire to hold up his
hands in the performance OF his high
duties as IA representative of this great
commonwealth in the senate of the
United States"
This resolution was introduced in the
house by one of your leaders, Mr..
Cavett (see House Journal, page 1929.
This was nearly two months after
the senatorial election, and Immediately
after the bribery investigation, and still
you and your followers knew of moth
ing rotten in the caucus, for there was
not a vote against this resolution. If
you, or your followers, knew of fraud,
and still allowed this resolution to go
unchallenged, such cowardice deserves
the contempt of honest men.
Fourth-It was right and proper that
the legislature should make "a search
ing investigation of the moral and in
tellectual fitness of each of the can
didates. The blessed sunlight of pub
licity," which you say that you so mu2h
love, was turned on, and | must confess
that | was impressed with the cold
facts of record, rejecting upon your
truthfulness and honesty as Il man and
public official. For instance, [ lay down
the proposition, which is backed by the
high moral sense of all honest men.
That any man who will lay hands on a
sacred trust fund for private use is I'M
worthy of public trust.
You went out of office of governor
without turning over to our successor
the battleship silver service fund, which
was unprecedented, and according to
our attorney-general-unlawful. After
you were pressed by the battleship com
mission, you did turn over the sum OF
S LOO, which you said was correct, but
to this good day you have never given
~ 3 H. 49, c-J
The names of subscribers and the
amounts, gotten by Mrs. Lockwood, are
now on file in the archives of the state,
but the commission failed to get from
you this important data. (See their re-
port, Senate Journal 1910, page 1881.
Why should YOU withhold the list of
subscribers to this fund The charge,
as you know, was publicly made, that
you had spent this money, and while it
was your privilege to hide behind the
secrecy of Il bank, yet it was expected
of you, as you claim to have never
blessed sunlight of publicity" to come
out and put your enemies to the bad,
by publishing a bank statement show
ing that you had his fund properly on
deposit. Banks do not destroy records.
50 can you not ever now let the
blessed sunlight of publicity shine in, y
by showing this statement.
5th. You went out of office and did
not turn over to your successor the
also unprecedented. \ committee was
appointed to see why you had not done
so-see senate journal 1905. page SO7. 1t
seems that this committee got on the
track of this fund while you were out of
Jackson and from the Capital National
Bank they traced it to your private bank
tile Mississippi Bank and Trust Co.
see page S1O). The committee secured
a statement from this bank showing that
you had drawn out all of this Juno by
June the Goth, where it had been placed
to your credit eight months previous (see
page SID. Through the work of the
committee, you paid over $2,41S, nearly
four years, according to the bank state
ment, after You had drawn out the en-
tire fund. The point is this: Where
we're you keeping this fund for nearly
four years? 1t was put in your private
bank, but if YOU had it properly on de-
post at some other bank, you can come
is not afraid to cross lances with the