East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1911-05-12

Ties we'll, you find great deal less
work for the circuit court to do.
Judge Carroll here dwelt for
some time on the small fines I'M
posed by the justices of the peace
IN this county, and said he thought
there were too many one dollar
fines imposed; that while the viola
tions of the liquor law have not
been so very numerous in this
county, when they have been vio-,
lated and when the party has been
dealt with with great deal of
mercy; that the least penalty for
llqnor selling was fifty dollars, and
III three or four cases Jllat came
under his observation since the
last grand jury, the least penalty
that the law would allow, fifty dol
lars had been imposed. with no i'm
prisohmrnt whatever; lhat he did
not be.ieve in being blood thirsty.
but that If there was one class of
men over another who violated the
law, and who deserved no, sympa-
thy, 1t was the liquor seller; that
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the liquor seller did so with his
mind fully made up in advance that
he was going to violate the law,
and violate it for a dollar; that he
was not like the man who might
shoot his fellow man in the heat of
passion; but that the liquor seller
did so deliberately for the purpose
OF coming money.
Judge Carroll did not fail to give
plenty of thought to the pistol
toater" and the gambler, and said
that the man who gambled always
carries whiskey and carries arms,
and while he did not thiuk carrying
a pistol was as bad as wiiiskey
they were closely akin.
He said that up the |. &C. road
about quarter of a mile beyond
the corporate limits, they have two
regular places especially adapted
for gambling, where they play
every Sunday afternoon, and two
hundred and fifty yards this side is
another place where the negroes
play every Sunday afternoon, and
that the local officers ought to stop
them.
The judge then charged the
grand jury on child labor in the
various factories and cotton mills,
reviewing at length the conditions
under which children between GER
tain ages were permitted to work
in them, and that the sheriff was
to visit them and look al
the books and determine the age Of
the children and make reports, and
if he found the law violated, it was
his duty to make arrests.
One of the most important rarts
OF his charge was that on the work
ing of the public roads, and he said
if they would get after some of the
road-overseers it might have eff
feet
After admonishing each member
of the grand jury about keeping
the secrets of their deliberations.
and reporting any leaks whicl
might occur in the grand jury room,
the grand jury retired to theil
room in the charge of their bailiffs.
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Among the state candidates who
were in Starkville Monday whel
Alexander spoke we're Hon. p. S.
Stovall, of Clinton, candidate fol
state treasurer, Attorney. General
Hudson, candidate for reelection,
Messrs. Geo. w. Cook, of Maben,
and w. r. Scott, of Mathiston.
candidates for railroad commission
er, Hon. Leroy 7. Taylor, of We
roma, candidate for penitentiary
trustee. Each Of these gentlemen
made short speeches at the court
house announcing their candidacy.
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Hon. Jas. w, Norment, who is
temporarily residing at Santa Fe,
New Mexico, arrived in Starkville
Wednesday and is spending sever