The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-07-09
JUST A WORD OF EXPLANATION.

We know that some of our good friends have such tender. char
or his record put in cold print, their tenderness makes them incline
to sympathy. This is altogether to be commended as a sentiment
an injury to another, we do wrong; and when we promote the advan-
tage of one evil man to a position where he may DO wrong to many
1t has certainly been the case that one man, who is seeking high
Office at the hands of the public, has been greatly benefited by a
sentiment that he has been violently abused, and this is quite true; he
essary to use violent language to forcefully establish a simple truth.
1t is not necessary to use argument 10 establish an axiom. In
apply a prefix which has a violent, and to some even a profane,
s msa amin hot. 70 w w KIT Is, D of a Is do sse's o as s1 %So' apsn as being '9 say asked ed Is L
a teaspoonful of calomel would hurt, replied: mo. but 1t would be
w wasid OF ses somf %isl tsy s ss%s %sqs.et'' Two grams ''0'e''0''y used
So in speaking of the unworthy office seekers who have vexed
the state for the past four years some have used such harsh express
sions, though all conveying the truth, that some of our people incline
and many kindly natured people have let their hearts turn toward
the subject of criticism with pity and sympathy. This is not I'm
is not uncommon to see the cell Of a condemned teIon turned into a
pressed by speeious and ingenious stories of the accused. The
hear; runs riot and the Judgment 5H. is asleep. i, ;..oa-
as we can reach the public, against the evil character of some men
seeking 60, oa51 e. We v, have fh rsf.i q. ed hsrse d, ,ha, ws but Uat we have have
ming, a the simple, official language of the State Senate when, on
denim = n" his is i Bribery rye Charge %s,s and R ISIS statement u Of Vt the role played by
himself as detestiye and deeoy a a trumpet up falsehood utterly
honest, upright men in any decent legislative body
this serious utterance of the Senate i'll the same category as the
partisan criticism which has awakened their sympathy, and perhaps;
not not emerged merged into p the uoteretv which ih has since enveloned him n and an
which he fatuously thinks is fame. The Senate was considering the
Man, and the Man was bad, fundamentally bad and he cannot be-
come any better. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sows ear,
and figs do not grow on thistes, and honesty cannot grow from a
base root.
We think the public would do well to consider this serious ut
terance of the Senate. 1t was not provoked by any feeling of
jealousy or partisan politics. He va simply an unknown sensation
ahst WHO had taken a bride and soied the purity of the Senate. We
hope our friends will coldly consider this and ask themselves if they
have a right to raise aloft this dishonored head ard crown it with
the laurel wreath of victory.
Mr.. Bilbo and some few of his friends, very few, have been very
violent in expressing their dislike to us, using freely words and terms
peculiar to their ideas OF gentlity. but re want to be as polite as
possible in speaking of him. This much is due a decent public.
"Poiteness pays, remember that,
Said courteous Mike O'Brady;
And always be a gentleman unless
You chance to be q lady,"