The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-06-18

president Of the high educational insti-
tutions of Mississippi today, | have OBJ
served that there have been more boys
expelled from this and that institution
in the past three and a half years for
stealing and such crimes than were
ever put out before in ten years. In
Hattiesburg | discussed this matter
with the president of that college. Mr..
Brown OF the Mississippi Heights
Academy said that 81 have expelled
more boys In the past two years than
ever before in the history of the insti-
tuition" Mr., Provine OF the Missis-
sippi College, also says this Is true
of that great institution. There have
been more boys convicted OF this kind
Of crookedness and sent to the peni-
Tertiary in the last three years than
ever before in any twenty-five years
Of the States history. 1t is my duty
as the watchdog on the tower to tell
you about 1t, and | must tell you to-
night. The reason is patent. and one
man who is not q candidate for office
will tell you what It is. Just as long
as Mississippi will elect a mar who
took six hundred and forty-fve dollars
as a bribe for his vote. and with it in
his pocket, he voted as he had agreed
to %vote-just as long as you worship
at their shrines and make gods Of
them. as certain as the night follows
the day you will follow the harvest.
II 0pu continued Gbaa-ipy
You may want a Job on the levee
board you might be a mar who would
vote for Al Jennings if you lived in
Oklahoma, you may hate ms because
| come out and talk plain to you. Let
me leave this with you: The time
will come in Mississippi history when
you will rise up and call me BLESSED"
for It. (Long continued cheering.)
Let me tell you something else. my
friends, Suppose the gentleman over
there goes home tonight to his little
boy and the boy says, Father, I got
an inspiration tonight; l want to be
governor of Mississippi" You say.
You are not qualified He says. Il
know, papa, but | am as much so as
Governor Brewer when he was my
age" He says, Tell me what to do
that I may become governor Of Mis
sissippi.' You will tell him. son.
first, qualify yourself that you may
be competent to discharge the duties
OF that high office. Second. live that
true and honest life that will entitle
you to the confidence Of the people OF
Mississippi Then he says that,
Don't you think it would be better
to follow the shorter route as Al Jen-
nings in Oklahoma and become a bur
glar and highwayman, and then run
for vindication? >" What would you al.
wise him to do, in that light? Sup.
pose he says, Papa. let me get a
little newspaper and play upon the
credulity of the common people, and
get mixed up with all kinds of bribe
heels like a poodle dog and hollow.
PERSECUTION?'" What are you go.
ing to tell him? If you are going TO
be honest with your own child. be
honest with your neighbours child
Don't tell him one thing and then
vote another way.
| don't believe the time has come
in Mississippi when We shall return
to the scrap pile and the CROOKS Of
the State. | believe the time has come
when the bold and chivalrous people
of Mississippi should stand up ami
beat back the aggression like the
rock at Gibraltar, beat back every
wave that PUSHES against it. As they
did in the life of the carpetbaggers.
In church and state, in peace and
war, Mississippians have never fol
lowed but where greatness led. When
the times called for great men, ike
the storm at sea for a pilot, when the
life of the nation is jeopardized. Mis-
sissippians have unfailingly respond.
ed TO the demands OF the hour. Call
the roll as she has done in the past;
the young manhood of the present
will not be run over.
| thank you.