Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-04-24

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specifically indicted for the helm.
Gus crime of bribery.
Could anythingrbe more horri.
BILE or more CALLING to the pride
of a proud, spirited. self.respect.
ling people7
4 What sadder commentary can
be made upon political conditions
in this State than the mere reci-
tai of the admitted facts in the
case, when Governor Brewer
gave to the Senate, at the Sen
ate's request, and to the public,
the names of the certain persons
who, with larceny IF lowest de-
gree in their hearts, had ap-
preached him for the purpose Of
securing his intercession in be-
half of Lieutenant Governor
Theodore Bilbo now under indiet-
ment for attempt to be bribed or,
in other words, soliciting a bribe.
Think of it! And, as you think
of it, bear in mind the disgrace
full facts admitted before the
Senate by the chief actors.
Those admissions, if made in
the happy days gone by when
valor and virtue and patriotism
ruled in Mississippi and she sent
only good men to the fore. would
have eternally damned the pub
lie men making them, were re-
Gently unblushingly made and
made so frankly, and with such
an assumption Of ndiDete and air
of unconscious ingenuousness
that the friends of "the blessed
innocent" occupying the chair
Ia seat once made glorious by
VIM. H. Sims, the scholarly gen.,
tleman, eminent lawyer and citi-
zen without fear and above re-
proach, and later also adorned by
the spirited. Intellectually strong
and brilliantly resourc e full
Stands; promptly gave con-
science a vacation and proceeded
to white-wash the offending in
dividuals much to the satisfac-
Itinn of the whited sepulchaA. pres
siding over the celebrating and
to his hypnotized satellites
throughout the State.
The resolution of "white-wash"
passed by the Senate is simply
inexcusable; and furnis hes
shameful evidence of the evils Of
the trafficking age in which we
are living. The cdcoethes dc-
crescendi is playing havoc with
the good name and fair fame of
the State abroad, while at home,
it appears, dishonesty in efforts
to accumulate is winked at, and
even applauded. when the perpe-
traitors hold positions of honor
and trust and back up their
wicked designs by arrogant pre-
tension and impudent defiance.
The Jupiter >Toreans of the ugly
situation, when characterized not
long ago by the Chief Magistrate
of the State as being crook Of
very low degree and one he in
tended to use his best efforts to
bring to justice before the bar Of
public opinion, seemed to rejoice
in having his infamy brought in
to the limelight and pleased at
the opportunity it would give him
to disseminate lies and ISLANDERS
under the plea Of defending his
record.
With bullying insolence he an
swered the challenge of the Gov
ernor in the spirit of a braggart,
and subscribing himself Yours
for the fray" signs his name.
That Bilbo will have a strong
following in his race for Govern
or may be possible. but it ought
not to be before an honest and
self-respecting people who love
the State. its honor, its glory, it's
renown for valor and vir-
tue, and have the intelligence to
see Leyond the hollow pretence,
the shallow tricks-see beyond
the snowy tinsel, the rounded
periods, the prettiness of speech
and glittering generalities in
dulged by demagogish declaimers
masquerading as orators. That
he will be elected | do not, for a
moment, believe. Already, the
signs of the times pointing to his
overwhelming defeat are in the
Heavens, and fast accumulating.
His followers are steadily falling
away from him-'growing small
er by degrees and beautifully
less" as the days wear away.
But my pen is running away
with me. Let me dismiss Bilbo
with the remark, Every dog
has his day." He has had his,
in my hope and more than that,
my belief: