The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-01-02

THE TICh'SB URG TERDICT

The action of the Jury which rendered the verdict in the Hobbs
case at Vcksburg does not change the facts. What was true before
the trial and before the rendition of the verdict is true today. No
whitewash brush can make clean that which is inwardly black and
corrupt. There is court before whom Hobbs must finally stand
who knows whether he is guilty or not. We have seen red-handed
murderers freed by juries when every honest mar and good citizen
knew that the verdict that said mot guilty" was a lie. We have
known all classes of crime to go unwhipped of justice. Truth has
wept many, many times before in our court houses and the mantle
of purity has been put to shame by being placed on the shoulders of
a culprit.
There is no decree of any court, no edict of any king. no plot of
any clique or clan that can substitute the truth for a lie, purity for
pelf. or virtue for bribery. What has been done has been done.
Men may flourish their trumpets and juues may say that that which
is. is not, but the eternal hills will continue to echo the truth. The
ephemeral fats of politics are only heeung. but there is a record
that is Interchangeable and which has never been touched by the hand
of passion or prejudice.
The state of Mississippi alone is put to shame; it lis her cheeks
lat will blush and it is for her that the honest citizenship of the
late must shed their tears and acknowledge her dehlement.
The cry OF "poEtics' was raised as soon as the Warren county
grand Jury returned the indictments. In the name of all that is
high and holy, is there anything sacred about Hobbs and Bnbo that
they should be allowed to transgress the law, that they should be
given a trial different from any other men? Are they and their CO.
partners. the leg stature. the law-the whole thing2 Who made
them the sacred guardians of MissisJgp's ark of the covenarr, =,
Hay. u,ev me III" great o'o! ..yNhe DC" pie taat they
should pay tatu h'."-er
Governor Brew. is d brave nan. He would have shown cow
ardce had he not brought thu mater to the attention Of the courts.
He sci 40 trap anti Hobbs began to decker with Castleman. Gov.
Brewer was substituted in everything he did by dictograph rec
ords-vhich are not partisans. by Miss Matte PIunkett and by ev-
FRY other witness in the case. If Hobbs and Bilbo really meant to
catch Castleman, as they try to make the public believe, why is it
that they did not 60 to As room that night at the Royal Hotel and
strap" HIM wh-n he had the $1,000, and actually shook the money at
Hobbs? Bnbo. according to the photograph records, according to
all the witnesses. as well as the testimony of Hobbs himself, was in
the hotel at the time and it would have been such a dead easy thing
20 nave caught old Castleman! 1t IS indeed singular that whenever
there is bride floating around that Bilbo is close by Is he such a
looking object that the'brbe giver always spots him a his prey?
The buzzard rarely misses locating the carrion.
Says the Commercial Appeal as to the action of Gov. Brewer:
His duty, then, as chief executive of the state, or to put it bet
tel. it was the duty of the Governor, the chief executive, having
such a belief and having evidence which he considered to be prob
ably true. to proceed, and the Goyerno6 would have been a coward
IL racraan+ 70 his oath if he had ~ messed the caSp into a la,
court, regardless o. the result and the effect of the result on his per-
sonal or political fortune
The editor o. the Memphis NewsScimitar observes:
The Mississippi fashion is to claim that you were merely try
ing to trap bride giver whenever you are caught accepting a bride
1t is an easy way out of it, but there are times when this expedient
will not suffice
Brewer will continue to do his duty as he sees it.