The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03
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printed. That is the only fair rule of controversy, and The Issue
Whenever they get ready to answer specifically and definitely
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ply to an argument that is based on avoidance of what The Issue
has said, to contemplate something different and away from it.
Quote, please. what The Issue has printed and reply to that if you
This little suggestion has special reference to the Grenada Sen,
tinel, the editor of which is one of the Governors functionaries; and
acquiring the habit that belongs to the subservient occupation, he
conceives it to be his duty to defend his master without respect to
"He has never dared to deal with the specific criticisms of the
Governor uttered in The Issue, and he dares not try to Justify them
today"
The above appeared in The Issue of Sept IS. Below we take
up in detail the indictments The Issue makes against the Governor,
and we are going to dare to undertake to answer them, but in do
ing so we would not have it understood that we subscribe to The
Issues standard of ethics For The Issues edihcation we will
state that the Governor is our master" only in the sense that every
true, tried and loyal friend is on master. There is never anything
too good for our friends. We joined hands with Earl Brewer when
he first entered politics, shortly after he reached his majority, and
we have never yet known him to fail to keep a promise or to be I'M
true to a friend. The man that is genuinely true to his friends can
not be false to his country. Brewer IA always be counted on to
remember his friends and to accommodate his enemies. But to The
Issues challenge: 1t says, first,
I'VE defy him. specifically, to explain and justify his trip to
Europe"
Will The Issue dare assert that the interests of the state sf-
fered while Gov. Brewer was in Europe? The gentleman, whom
The Issue was resusctated to boost for Governor, acted Governor
while Gov. Brewer was away. Gov. Brewer paid his own expenses
to Europe, did not draw his salary as Governor while away and also
paid the acting Governors salary This is all stale news, but The
Issue seems to be behind on this Is on many other matters. Suisse
quent disclosures and developments in Mississippi in regard to peni-
Tertiary steals would seem to satisfy any fair-minded man about the
cnecessity of the Governors European trip. The rank and file of
Mississippi are satisfied, whether certain politicians ar Or not. Nat
urally those who had to do with robbing the state on cotton wish
the Governor had never gone to Europe. Does The Issue mean to
side with them and against the people?
Challenge No. ,:
I'VE defy him to show the motive of that sneak to New York,
away from Biloxi"
If there was anything sneaking about the Governor boarding a
train and going first to Washington City, where he got certain Gre
dentials for gentlemen he proposed to send to Europe to look fur
ther into Boyce & Co.'S cotton deals, and thence going to New York.
we fail to see it. Wisdom and the part of discretion admonsh a
man not to herald his movements when he is laying plans to catch
those who have SWIndled the public. The part that The Issue manly
objects to, W e suppose, is that the Governor did not take it into his
confidence and inform it about his trip, but unfortunately for that
publication it seems to be consorting just now with a bunch that
condones the swindling of the state and justihes the hlcher.
Challenge No 3:
1--WE defy him to explain why Turley rushed to the office of the
Governor Immediately after his conviction at Brandon.
We do not know why Turey went to see the Governor, Or that
that OF L g. smith S, to ask tor mercy. Like every other crook.
Turley had a plausible story to tell-and there wa no more reason
why the Governor should not hear him than that he should not hear
any other man convicted of crime.
Challenge No. q:
I'VE defy him to explain why the Governor, As ex-oa6cio chair
trated at that institution, without any word of protest, when he was
warned and advised of them months before the legislative commit
We deny that Gov. Brewer Sanctioned the infamies perpetra-
ted at the Insane Asylum, Of course. the Governor nor any other
honest man knew about Turkeys steals, but the record shows that
there has been stealing going on at that institution among subordi-
nate employees for the past two or three administrations. In the
early days of his administration Gov. Brewer was told by the chair
maj of one of the most prominent committees of the lower house,
and one of the ablest men in the legislature, that there had been
promscuous stealing at the Insane Asylum for years. and the Gov
ernor replied: an get around to it and give a housekeeping
.iust as soon as can 1t will be remembered that he especially d-
rected the attention of the legislative committee to the Insane Asy-
Jun before it started any investigation. Earl Brewer has always
been a busy man and nobody ever yet knew him to lay down on a
job. All the snakes can NOT be killed at one time. The penitentiary
being the states largest enterprise, the Governor naturally addressed
himself to that first.
Challenge No 8:
"Above all, we want the Governor of Mississippi to explain how
and why he became the beneficiary of the postponement of the
operation of the Land Incorporation Act"
No doubt there are a great many things The Issue and its bunch
"want the Governor of Mississippi to do. The wisdom of enacting
the Land Incorporation law is a matter about which many good peo-