The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-07-17
A LITTLE HISTORY AND SOME ANALOGY.

n Ii l. F1SlONl AMI OOtIE NALO1
We accept the verdict OF the jury in the Bibo trial at Jackson
for what it is worth, that much and no more. Seven of the jurors
said that they believed him guilty but under their oaths, the reason
able doubt theory OF the law would not allow a verdict OF guilty
If the defendant was guilty before. he is no less so now that the
has been indicted ard tried. and the fact that he was tried does not
qualify him for any office. If all men who are tried on felonious
charges and acquitted are to be rewarded with office, then we shall
have to begin the creation of new offices.
rebels at anything the least malignant OF harsh in the way of edito-
rial utterances We have nothing persona against him whom the
overzealous and misguided would make a hero. Personally we
would dc him a kindness rather than an injury and we trust that
Judgment bar of God; nevertheless, the very condition which he and
his coPartners have brought about t9mpes us to speak plainly
and vicious names and that is patriotism and yet when these an
swer back and focus the hot rays of the sunshine of truth and right
eousness on them, the baby act of persecution and abuse is
plead.
They have set up the false plea of politics" The cry has been
echoed and reechoed that Gov. Brewer has been trying to destroy
or more nnreasonable? GOV. Brewer could not succeed himself as
Governor if he would; the constitution fixes the tenure of that officer
Rrewef to have done, had he been pIaying politics" and we're Blbo
as strong q politically @GM ayI as u" a Jew assert was to have made an alliance
defensive and offensive with Bnbo The opportunity was offered
him; it was offered a b. number of his friends for him. But the Cover
nor chose to tread the path OF duty, thorny as tho he might know
The Governor believed that the state was being swindlcd in the
management Of the pententlary. He set to work to locate the.
will have the harLihood to say that the Governor was not correct
and that the state has not pro6ted by what the Governor did? Had
the Governor been looking for life on easy street. had he been in
but in doing so he would have been untrue to his oath and to the
people. Naturally every man who was caught, or whose graft was
disturbed, by the Governors penitentiary probe, was incensed at
turn all the dogs they could loose on the Governor. They even
went so tar a. to blaCKcn his name by connecting 1t with a social
der@hot but TINS fell at the feet OF his calumn'ators and the charge
proved to be bastard there was no one to claim it.
But all this aside. If the bribery charge against Bilbo is untrue
w q n ,PPG 9G IN t 'hr .rre IS @M' oi his "a associates N He :" has p Gone more NC a. as
the trapping business than all other high officials the state has
ever had altogher. 1t does seem that every time there is a bribe
hanging out, he or some of his pals are the first to be noSng around
Let the honest man ask himself, Have ever been offered a bribe ?"
An insulting proposition is never offered the lady who conducts
official honor as the lady is of her virtue. Would the peerless Wal
thall. the great commone, George, or honest lin Stone have ever
been a app by BRIDE giye1, Let their records answer
Dulaney was tried for offering Blbo a bride and the jury that
fried him balieVrd AZ he time with Rlbo DOltiCalv vet IT said
Dulaney was mot guilty" Blbo was not disposed to accept the
Dulaney verdict as the correct one; running the sam analogy on
the Dulaney verdict that Bilbo now applies to the Jackson verdict,
"Dulaney was the object of persecution and is therefore entitled to
the greatest Office within the gift of the people" 1t would seem to
be Dulaney's first turn at the governorship. Mind you, we believe
same time that we believed Bilbo 60. the coin with the intention of
keeping it. But this is all past history. Our purpose in mentioning
it is to refresh the mtmo1es of those who would close the gates on
yesterday
We have no criticism for those who see matters differently from
what we do. We are only exercising the inalienable rights of an
American citizen in expressing ourselves and shall continue to dis
cuss public matters from our view point. We are not answerable to
any individual or set OF individuals. W re living more than tor a
a single day. The act OF one day never completed history. The
people OF Mississippi want to do that which is best and right and
when their acts show otherwise i IS because they have not taken the
time to study the matte from all ITS angles. Inc people are honest.
they are so honest that they are EASILY hoodwinked by the dema-
gogue and the time server. fortunately in the ages past there has
been some man to stand oH' tor those hgh and noble principles
which were born in heaven and first handed down on Sinai and
which have been a refuge for the people when they could find no
other place Of retreat. Inc people have the right to demand of
their leaders that they sacrifice nothing that belongs to the state and
such is the case OF Gov. Brewer at this time. He is not a candidate
for any ofce and perhaps will never be again. His only motive is
to be true TO the people and to keep the promises made to them
when he was a candidate for Governor Read his platform declara-
tons and II ne has not kept them, then no man ever did That he
has mace mit4e he recognizes, only dead men make no errors,
but be nas been headed IN one direction at ali times and that is to
anchor the shD of state in clearer waters and to leave her cleaner
and purer than when he took hold of it.
Let IS illustrate: y man applies to a Jackson bank for a posi-
ton as b~ookkeeper or assistant teller but it is found that he was charg-
but his guilt was not established; he then got a place in a bank
at Greenwood and a like charge was made but his guilt could