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

irving 10 Ett ~
this bill week after week. anu NM
after month. On the last uay Vi 'm
term the legislature passed the ohi'
| On the last day Of the session II was
sent to me and | was urgeu u .uin
4, hack TO the legislature. l saiu W
- aooretarv that we will let it dry as
havo time from now until three days
IN the next session to look INTO IT,
said. "Put 1t in the safe. Inc pres
,aon, of the board and the lieutenant
aovernor tried to get me to sign the
hill said, There is somethins
wrong with this department. saio'
81 want to look into 1t hrst, IL may
be that you will have to sue these men
and their bondsmen." said, "lhero
&c q leak somewhere. l don't want
~ tic the State up until | see where
II IL going" The acknowledgements
again urged me to sign the bill. dld
not know him as well then as l hno"
him now. Cheering
So nv fellow citizens, the next
thing he said was this: Governor, II
YOU don't sign that bill you are gong
70 get crossways with Charley smith,
and Won know he is strong here He
s,id "Co ahead and sign it.. | said.
"yvben 7 was a candidate | told the
neonle I was not going to wear the
collar of any political gang or of any
one" | said | was not going 10 pc
long TO Vardaman, or John Sharp Will
,;ams and that | was not going to q
swallow Sandy Bayou. That is the
wav I came to be here. l tell you
that this State has been rent In po-
itical factions. | am free; | don
belong to any of them. ! pay no more
attention to factions than | do to the
) blowing of the wind. My only star Is
| IN follow that which is right. The
/ president of the board came back. n
he had had a drink or two-MORE-
i He begged me to sign the bill. told
, him | was busy. He said, you houlo
i have said so before now | have been
here lobbying for this bill for weeks
and months, and there is going to be
something doing here | said, That
is not going to get anywhere here,
as II might perhaps-as 1t would on q
negro on a plantation He said, Il
! want to tell you we're going to tend
: to you il you ever run for any other
office" He said, THE back OF my
{ hand is to you" Now. | said let me
! tell you something: that there is two
II hundred and fifty thousand dollars OF
Ii The peoples money going out through
a leak somewhere, and you are the
: head OF the department through which
= 1t is going. You have drawn out OF he
, State treasury a lot of money to buy
whiskey to pass this bill, but you can't
put II over the governor. l said come
on and | will promise to meet o at
" Phillip before the people to discuss
. the matter. From that moment the
- fight was on. This man was loaded
,o with booze: this man has played with
10 the rights OF this State; and he was
- a giant in power; and | said there is
something wrong with this institution;
and they reared around and talked to
YOU about shooting me with a two
s. holed shotgun" They filed a W hun
a bred thousand dollar damage suit to
TX break me mp. They have tried black
n mail-threats and blackmail to put
me out. | have been on the job for
t. the taxpayers of Mississippi, and an
Of in business at the same old stand
ID The arrows OF blame have dropped
a at my feet as the arrows fell at Lib
lie ....'. Co., ~ l,,nlraJ arc
OF After | exposed them to the gaze OF
lie the people those men melted like 9
s snowflake during the rays of the noon
day sun. This man came to me in the
nj presence Of witnesses. and said
IN IF you will quit this, we will get be
he hind you and we will send you to the
pi United States senate, and will make
a 1t so hot for him that he will not bs
a candidate" speaking Of Williams
rd | said, THAT will be a nice thing fol
l me. but not for the high oath | tool
and for the people, who are my PEG
ie pie" said. 81 have but one answer
10 and that is, get thee behind me
IN Satan.'" | said. 81 don't want an,
he office or anything else, but | am goinf
- down the middle Of the road aftel
ig you" He said that they would max,
OF me unpopular; they did it, all right
n Let's look into this business and Sc,
rs what they are doing. l went over tt
ID Parchman and remembered that tn,
81 law provided that the board OF trus
y tees should provide every sergean
with a well bound set of books, ant
lie in these he should keep an accurat,
ne account of what was produced on tn,
~ farm and what became Of it. | dis
10 covered that the board of trustee,
III had never furnished this. ! foun,
he that five out of fourteen of the ser
ls geants kept a little book in thei
to nockets for tbe;r our ;rsoruouon T