The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-08-22
LET HI ISSUE MAKE Il SHOW DOWN

The Issue OF August ID devotes about half its space to rapping
Gov. Brewer about the penitentary investigation and because of GER
tain convictions by the juries of Kinds county. The Issues attitude
calls to mind the statement that it is the animal that collides with
the moving missile that howls. Why does not the Issue openly at
tack the jury that rendered these verdicts and the grand jury that
returned the indictments? The gentlemen who composed these Ju-
ries are personally unknown to US, but it seems to be universally
conceded that they were composed of good men and those OF dis
corning minds The Issue advises the Governor that if it is not let
alone it might be provoked into using some solid shot that it has
IN its locker instead OF the squibs that 1t has been shooting, II the
Jackdaws persist IN pecking at it, The Issue has not just now dotted
its swaddling clothes and it is to be ptied if it has not learned that
it is worse than foolishness when it goes out after game to shoot
"Squbs.' OF course, when one is confronted with using 'squbs' or
hunting for tall timber, it is to be expected that the "squbs" will be
used and much suffering done before hiking. The Issue mas been
so undertaking in its activity to embarass the Governor that it is
difficult to believe that it has anything in its locker that it has not
already turned loose. Certainly it would not withhold anything that
it thought would injure or confuse the Governor 50 sure are we
down.
This paper desires to repeat what it has often before said: We
IRE IN favor OF convctlng every n n mas roooeo the state; re-
CARELESS OF how he voted in the past n whether he claims alegi
ance to the Brewer faction" now, the "Vardaman faction" or the
Civilians faction" or to any other faction" All crooks look
alike to Us. The fact is. with al the agencies usually put into oper-
alton in Mississippi to protect a prominent white man, it S a safe
proposition to bank on his guilt when a grand jury Indicts him. No
matter how a man HAS stood, the real question is: Is he honestly
exacting should be the test. In speaking of the conviction of Tur-
ley, the Commercial Appeal well says:
things in Mississippi oficialdon. A disposition not to suspect
members of frs. families and to overlook the wrong dongs of prom
inent people has hurt Mississippi.
THE more prominent a man is and the higher up he is among
the first families, the more he should be punished if he does wrong.
"lf first families and prominent people are to justify their exist
ence under this artificial classification, they could do it by discharg-
ing with the utmost fidelity the duties of any office they may hold
Or by carrying out to the letter any trust that may be imposed on
them
MI. Tuhey never ought to have had bail. The trial Judge at
Brandon made a mess of the pententiary cases all around. The idea
of sentencing McLendon. the mar who had charge of the Rankin
sorts OF petty stealng-to only six months in the penitentiaY Pur-
Wis and Miller both got off with practically no punishment. 1t is I'M
fortunate tor the state that the bunch was not tried before Judge
Henry of Jackson, or some other judge who had a just conception
OF his duties