The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-09-04

Bnbo's invasion of the fifth circuit court district is proving a
nightmare to him, His soul is disturbed. He has ploughed up
more snakes by the trip than he can kill for the rest of the year.
The entire first page of The Issue of last week is consumed by Mr.
Bilbo in a belabored effort to back out of what he did and to try to
explain that he was not trying to play the political boss" He at
tempts to be serious about it, and, reading between the lines, one can
imagine that he can almost hear, ever and anon, "Oh! wish had
not butted in" His communication is headed, "Mr. Bibo defines
his attitude towards the fifth circuit court judicial election as if the
people of the district were so wickedly stupid and dense of mind as
not to know from what he said and from what he did while up here,
and from the attitude of his personal organ. The Issue. his position
in regard to Judge Teat and the gentleman opposing the Judge. Mr..
Bhbos action is unprecedented in the history of the state. There
has never before been a public man in the commonwealth who mani
tested such a base regard for the political rights and views of the
voters and it remained for the Lieutenant Governor of the state to
attempt to snatch the electorate from the lofty pinnacle where storm
and destiny had placed it.
The opening sentence of Mr.. Bilbo's communication reads, 81
have been accused of seeking to play the part of political boss and
debating to you for whom you should vote for Judge of your circuit
court" The very communications through which he enters a denial
indicts him and proves him guilty of trying to play political boss"
for in it he says, II deemed it a duty to tell the people what knew
of the gross misconduct of one of the candidates for Judge and "f
you (te people Of this distric) wanted that kind of a man for cir
cmt: Judge that was your affair" Your affair" most valuable infor-
nation, was t not? He further said, eff he (Teat) is corrupt or
otherwise disgraces the ernine he wears" yet in the very teeth of
such statements as the above he pirates about sense of political
propriety " " = than to undertake to tell my friends how they should
vote" How blind and how stupid must he think his friends to be
that he should presume that he can reconcile them to such glazing
Inconsistencies. We repeat, the statement which appears over his
own signature is his indictment it is sufficient ii there were nothing
more, but let's travel a little further with him. He stated when he
first came into this district that II came up here to beat Ttat; / jut
2oa~t 10 shop Mnm wAat ran do" then all recall his oftrepeated
Nr|Id ~ ""e " tO| H LHS SNNf 4 tO"U SI o." my DHt
and ydf 10 f1ty 90hng precinct and see that 1rat did not get a coyboals
guard And in The Issue of the very date IN which his commune
cation is published we read, Mr. Teat ran better in Grenada county
where Mr.. Blbo did not speak at all" showing that Bibo claims that
he reduced Teats vote, and that he came into the district just when
he did for the purpose of assaiing Teat.
There is no surprise at his being sick of what he attempted. He
is now endeavoring to play the crawhsh. He made a mistake and
he sees the force of his error. He acted upon the idea that the
voters of the district had to get some one else to do their thinking,
and he arrogated to himself that right.
Mr.. Bilbo is very much in the attitude in regard to the election
of a circuit Judge in this district of the man who set fire to a build
ing occupied by sleeping human beings. Eyes, l set fire to the
building but did not intend to burn up anything that was in it"
The incendiarys statement is. just as reasonable as Mr.. Blbos.
Beyond all question a dose was administer red to the Lieutenant
Governor by the voters of the fifth judicial district on August 18th
that is paining him very grievously and he is now taking the absent
treatment He aroused the manhood of our people and they as
serted that right set forth by the immortals who wrote the Declare
ton of independence, "ll men are created free and equal" The
voters asked, WHO constituted Mr.. Blbo the guardian and the d.
rector of our choice in voting?' The manhood of Mississippi have
never yet suffered any man to take them by the nose and lead them
around. and the election of August 18th shows that they ar unwl.
fling to desecrate the name of their fathers by letting it be done now.
AS proof of the fact that Mr.. Bilbo realizes that he has blum.
dered, why has he not come back into the district? There is to he
another election here Sept. Sh. He knows that his closest follow
es have told him to stay away"