The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-05-30

thoughtful man is now turned to Jackson because Of the investiga-
;t beng o"u we fe Jy t 20 n ID u ano lsu us IS nece ssm for Tor te
space given by this article to the revelations already caused by the
Soon after Governor Brewer went into office he discovered that
s sheu Isiq be, fr He knew tne pt 5his i"ss ss i a BUSINESS wers m ar a from mu ebse rs IS tney
In fact, the Governor, after discussing affairs of the penitentiary dur
means committee of the House, discovered, for instance, that in the
year .samsd I9 ibon the % 'O Oo"mds crop af per Tft 'O ms Of h, raF' M snu plantation t a y S
pie might not have known that there was anything radically wrong
with the penhentiary affairs, but the Governor, being a man of prac?
t,cal business experience. knew Immediately when he cast his eye
upon this situation that the taxpayers OF the state were by no means
1t was found, when the Chief Executive undertook to in
the cotton for the last FIVE years had been sold to one firm, There
were no marks put upon the basging OF the cotton, only a paper tag
of the bale. and a soon as this passed into the hands of the buyer
II was thought to be impossible to trace the cotton beyond New Or
leans.
The Governor worried over the matter a while, advised with
certain experts on the subject and consulted with a few of his init
tanning ne real truth; So without saying anything to any
one about the purpose OF his mission, he got aboard a ship and went
the state had been shipped, and spent a few weeks. There was much
speculation in the newspapers a to where he had gone and what he
was engaged in. The Governor said nothing further than that he
was trying to attend to important business for the state and at the
denece a. to what his mission was and md What he had acc ou lis s'""
1t will be remembered that the Sentinel at that time suggested
that it was hardly fair to crticise the Governor about his absence;
that the people would be entirely satisfied when they were made &C
Governors return it was learned that Skilled experts were checking
every bale of cotton sold the firm which had bought most of the
While the Governor was abroad, the complaint was made by
is the custom in all CONFERENCE.-The when the governor is out of the
state; but in order to be scrupulously exact and fair with the public.
and lest he might not accomplish anything, Governor Brewer did
not only not draw his own salary during the time he was abroad,
but paid the salary OF the Lieutenant Governor out of his own purse
and bore the entire expense OF the trip himself. The records of
the state treasury and the auditors office will bear witness to this
fact.
a few weeks after the Governors return from abroad,
a newspapsT charged gross irregularity in handling the affairs of
remarked that he had heard these things before. Whereupon the
trustees filed a damage suit against him for 100000 and everything
possible was done by the Governors old time enemies to array the
Put st,i aga anS g 5m and n" t to Ifsa5e " fSpa w s,sm mon about %Sd his hs,d Ie ;a v
wa a little less than sacreligious to intimate that penitentiary a-
was resorted to to to cripple any esiortts he he might make make in m invest issni
the Penitentiary; but the Sentinel said at that time that it had known
missed and the plaintiff had a run for his money to keep out of the
come through ali this TRADE Of viHGi6eation' abu "a and ' lawsuits "o sd
stand on the other side waving an untarnished flag of victory.
that in addition to the shortage confessed by Yerger that this is not
all that will be found wrong with the penitentary affairs. Any COM
mon sense man may take a casual look at the cottonseed alone and
find that there is over three and one-half million pounds short in the
were accounted for, and we venture the assertion that before the
Governor gets through with his probe he will demonstrate that
tiary farms has never found its way INTO the state treasury.
ment fails to disclose thousands of dollars worth of 'e prodScts shie Q
ped from the various plantations; products have been shipped
pie. so Is to render it almost impossible to locate this property or
MOI a we know him. we make the prediction that he will locate ev-
cry dollar OF it and call upon the parties who got the money to turn
any B Bsblie Of 9a sI 5hS o i ;bfs :e., eIf fys, that ot, HeJe =, ever i5, bee" made Ssa against sass
& CO. invited an inspection of their books by the Governor, takes the
cake. Boyce insisted through the public press, and through letters
written to Governor Brewer, which he gave to the public, that he
had come FIVE thousand miles to have this matter settled about the
purchase OF twenty thousand bales Of cotton by him from the state
and he was going to show that the transaction was fair and clean
He wired the Governor that he would be in Jackson Monday, May
10 and show him all that pertained to the transactions. He arrived
at Jackson with a suit case full Of papers and not a single book. The
papers. when the Governor began an exarination, disclosed that it
was nothing except copies of the account of sales that he had rem
dered to the state when he purchased the coton-al of which was
on file in the penitentiary office in Mississippi. The Governor then
said to Mr. Boyce: at is charged against you that a large part of
this cotton has been aft'weighc4 at fachman plantation for your
benefit and sold to YOU on phony weights: 1t is also charged against
you that much Of the cotton you bought from the trustees as short
staple cotton was in truth and in fact long staple cotton; that a Jug
Cling of samples had been made at Parchman in your interest, and
1t you will display your account of sales Of this cotton to purchasers
to whom you sold it, and the weights on which you sold it, it will
very quickly demonstrate whether this was TRUE or false. am ma