The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-04-10
PRESS COMMENTS.
Views Of Mississippi Editors on Poll.
tiCaI Affairs in the State.

II. T.. Blakeslee has come out in a
letter in which he states that he might
be a candidate for governor. We be-
| lieye Ed. as we call him, would make
| the state one of the best governors she
| has ever had, and if he enters the race
/ he will be heard of before the cam
paign is over. Marion County Times.
Hon. S. Joe Owen. editor of the New
| Albany Gazette and member of the
! legislature, in a letter written his paper
from Jackson about the time legislature
| adjourned, has the following to say
| relative 10 the failure of the state SEN
ate "a majority Of whom favored the
| proposition but were kept from voting
on it by the Lieutenant-Governor thru
| a parliamentary ruse) to vote to paw
| the expense incurred by Gov. Brewer
in his graft investigation:
IL am sorry that we failed to pay, in
| full. the expense of Gov. Brewer in the
matters of penitentiary investigation,
which. but for political reasons, would,
in my opinion, have been paid without
| objection. 1t is not sufficient to say,
by way of excuse. that the amount was
not sufficiently itemized. The work has
been done. and should be paid for. l
raised no objection when Gov. Varda-
man and Lieut.. Gov. Bilbo caused to be
paid out money. to detectives, in like
manner-that is to say. without the FL
ing of vouchers to show the exact work
performed every day during employ
ment-and did not make an exception
in the present case because Gov. Brewer
! and Lieut.. Gov. Bilbo are at political
outs. A few days before the session
closed | introduced a resolution propos-
ing to allow the Governor to pay this
debt out any money recovered as a con-
sequence of the penitsntiary irvestiga-
ton, and it was very promptly passed
by the House by a vote of more than
two to one. but it never got out of the
hands of the committee in the Senate.
For the life of me / cannot see how this
would have been unfair to anybody, or
the state. ! yield to no man in my ad-
miration of our worthy and beloved
United States Senator, James X. Varda-
man, and, more than once, because l
believed in the man, have l proven my
friendship for, and confidence in Lieut..
Gov. Bilbo, but this relation has not,
nor shall it ever come between me and
my duty to my state. A blind partisan
sentiment shall not control my public
service. 1t is to sacred a thing to trife
with
Some of Lieutenant Governor Bilbo's
friends are already charging that the
resignation of Judge Birchett and the
appointment of Judge Brien was a de-
liberate "frame-up' to secure the con-
viction of Bilbo. Viewed in the light of
the past events this was of course to be
expected; and yet when Bilbo is ar
raig.ied if Judge Brien will make a few
rulings favorable to the defendant those
same parties will promptly Iaud him as
the most just and learned Judge IN the
state. Marion County Herald.
Hon. H. Blakeslee has written to his
friend, our towrsman, Mr.. Lloyd Sadler,
indicating that he may enter the
ace for Governor. Well, we hardly
see how the department of agriculture
and commerce could get along without
Farmer Blakeslee, but we know he
would make Mississippi a mighty good
Governor, and lots of people in this
meek O. woods will be glad to vote
for him if he offers for the place. We
know Blakeslee up here. New Albany
Gazette.
No nan with a character or reputa-
ton, chosen to represent the public, can
afford to engage in it as Mr.. Bilbo
should have learned from his experience
at the time of Senator Percy's election.
AS a friend has suggested, a legislator
can as little afford to solicit brides to
entrap as a woman can afford to solicit
men for immoral purposes to entrap
them. A public man can no more af-
ford to toy with the confidence of men
than a woman with her chastity. -Itta
Bena Times.