The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-01-16
WHAT the EDITORS
HAVE TO SAY.


fine Recent Hobbs Trial and AC.
qnlttal at vIcksburg.
Tallahatchie Herald: Now what OBJ
loot could Governor Brewer have in
nercecuting either Mr.. Bilbo or Mr..
Hobbs? II your neighbor should steal
a cow and our sheriff should arrest him
and remand him to jail, would that be
ner secution?
You will say. Certainly not, that is
doing his duty, but Mr.. Bilbo is can
didate for governor and Mr.. Brewer
wants to kill him politically"
WHY should Mr.. Brewer want to kill
him politically? The Governor, &C.
cording to constitutional authority,
can not succeed himself, and why
should Mr.. Bilbo be in his way? The
argument will not hold. 1t is simply a
question as to whether you are going to
believe the Governor OF the state. who
was sworn to enforce the laws, whose
mast official life bears witness that he
enforced the laws, and who has no OBJ
iect in political persecution, or you are
to believe Mr.. Bilbo, who confessed to
taking a bribe, whose entire past repu-
tation is shady. and wlo has an axe to
grind with 1.-The dear people" by want
ing to ride further.
true Judgment and give Gov. Brewer
entire vindication, not by electing him
to some other Office, because he asks
none, but by refusing to elect all of
shady reputation to Office. By doing
this they will say to Governor Brewer,
well done, thou good and faithful
servant, your promises have been full
filed and now you may retire in peace,
full in the knowledge of the love, conf.
dence and esteem Of the better people
of Mississippi.
THE LOGIC OF 1T.
That the majority of people resent
seeing a candidate for office unjustly
iccused and, if the accusations are moi
proven, will rally to the banner of ths
.'persecuted one, is the statement O.
Mississippi contemporary. Is thu
Mississippi logic? Why should people
give their support to political candi
date who happens 20 be accused O.
something unjustly? Is it any badge O
merit or honor to be unjustly accused
of something wrong or criminal? Is /
not rather an indication that at least |
part of the people believe the accused
might have done the thing charged?
If this hypothesis were carried to. it
logical conclusion, we should have tn
remark able spectacle Of every candi
date for public Office getting somebod
to accuse him of something, and Civ
them money to hire detectives to pu
upon his trail to give him the appear
ance of greatly prosecuted and ma
ligned man. Biloxi Herald.
HAS EN- SKINNED.
Says the Mansfield Na.) Enterprise
Blbo, the lieutenant governor of Mi
sissippi. has been arrested under
charge of soliciting bribes. He W;
indicted by grand jury. Truly, til
Mississippi politicians are playing tt
devil in more different attitudes tha
even Louisiana ward boss has ev'
dreamed of, and that's going some"
URGES DISCRIMINATION.
The Leader is going to accept Il
verdict of the jury at Vicksburg. 1t
the thing to do. The ''hostile county
has spoken it and regardless of all tt
powerful influences brought to bear u
on it against the defense, Senat
Hobbs is acquitted!
If the verdict of such juries is n
honest, let us look to the science OF la
and revOlutionize the whole system
anything to the end that the cour
shall be upheld and respected and the
decisions accepted as honest opinio
and finality before the people.
Let US accept this latest verdict
this latest test of the honor of the sta
through prosecution of officials. Br
for God 8 sake, through oncoming els
tions, let US regard the ballot as t
most sacred thing it is. Hereaftt
sooner than vote for man whose
tegrity you doubt; whose hands are |
clean; whose life is besmirched; who
daily association with his fellow m
tells the tale of double-dealing, of liP
regard for personal honor, of selfish
terest at the expense of others. let W
arm be palsied, your tongue cleave
the roof of your mouth, your VIII
body be brought into subsection to "
utter confusion and dismay, rather tn
vote for the unrighteous man who is
candidate.
Give US men!
Men from every rank,
Fresh and free and frank;
Men, of thought and reading,
Men of light and leading,
Men of loyal breeding,
The nations welfare speeding;
Men Of faith and not Of faction,
Men OF lofty sim in acton.
Give US men-I say again.
Give us men!
-Brookhaven Leader