The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-09-17
GOV. BREWER Will
RETURN A l0SfR
FINANCIALLY.
Ills Income Before Becoming Cover.
nor and What Other Executives
We're Earning.

jackson, Miss, Special.
When Gov. Earl Brewer leaves the
office of Governor of Mississippi on
J January l8, he will be a poorer man bv
about sgt, 000. This indicates that It
is expensive to be Governor. and re-
calls the fact that few, if any. chief
executives of this state have been able
to save even a lonely dime out of the
salary of IS, 900 a year.
In the case of Gov. Brewer it has
been a real financial sacrifice to be
Governor, for it is well known that his
law practice netted him between $780,
00O and $50, 900 a year, and that in 1911
his law fees reached the sum of about
$28, 600, this being in addition to money
earned in interest on investments and
other business connections.
The sun of SIS, 200 has not paid quite
half of the expenses of Gov. Brewer
and his family while he has been chief
executive Of the state, and the Cover
nor will admit it. This loss of about
81, 1000 a year has not been made up
on the outside, as some may suppose,
for Gov. Brewer has almost wholly
neglected his private interests in look
ing after the affairs of the people of
the state, as their executive head. As
a result he has found his salary as
Governor much too small to pay his ex-
penses, in fact, expenses have been
about double the income.
1t is interesting to recall what in
comes are popularity supposed to have
been enjoyed by some Of the more re.
cent Governors of the state, before
they went into Office, and all Of whom,
it is said, found their salary as chief
executive inadequate to meet expenses.
Ex-Gov. Stone, it is understood, re.
ceived a salary of about $1OO a month
as depot agent at Corinth, prior to his
election.
Ex-Gov. Lowry is supposed to have
/ earned from So, 900 to SIS, 600 a veal
practicing law at Brandon.
Ex-Gov. McLauriu's law practice il
said to have Melted him approximately
$40, 600 a year.
Ex-Gov. Vardaman boosted that he
never had 80 days rations ahead"
Ex-Gov. Noel is said to have earned
about S., 600 a year in the practice o.
law at Lexington.
So it appears that being Governor
means that many personal sacrifices
nave u De iQdue. ~ is tue LOLOI, dlIel
all, perhaps, that is the magnet which
attracts ambitious men, for certain i
is that out of a SIS, 600 salary nothing
can be saved.
The cost of keeping house in az pre-
tcntious a Governors home as Missis
sippi boasts would make the averag'
housewife gasp for breath. If Their
are prominent guests in the capital
quite naturally they are invited to tn
governors, and upon state occasion
bills for refreshments alone run up t
figures that would stagger a man on
moderate salary.
When Gov. Brewer leaves the mar
sion in January he will 60 to Clarks
dale, whefe he wiifresame the pfactie
of law. His family will reside Their
for some time, but the Governor plan
to erect a fine country home on one Q
his delta plantations some time With
the next few years. 1t is his ambitio
to get out into the country, next
natures heart, and there enjoy pur
air, golden sunsets, the joyful songs Q
birds and witness the effects Of chang
ing seasons upon field and forest.