The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-06-18

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to humanity to keep the facts out y
the courts. They want to hold In I,
til they get Brewer out OF office. VI
get Bilbo in Office, whose campsir,
funds they are putting up now. WIN.
they get him in Office this suit III
be nolle pressed. Take a man ~
is convicted Of a felony on his own
testimony, and he will tear the boot,
up and rob the %penitentiary Of hun.
dreds Of thousands a year, and the
people be burned! And they AIM
| going to do it until the people kuox
it from one end of this State to tbs
other il / have my health and ~strepgts
and retain my speech, with which IN
Lord has so nobly endowed me. W.
attached s~eventy-five thousand dollars
worth of their property. There woala
have to be a showdown. In the SCI.
sion of 1914 there was a combinatioa
there. / referred the question Of Tia l
! payment of Mayes & Mayes lawyers
fee to the legislature. The other side
knew it looked ugly, and they could |
not explain it. They employed car.
ruthers Ewing, a fine lawyer Of Mem.
phis. Tennessee; Dan Scott, Of clasiss
! dale: a firm of lawyers in Liverpool.
and a firm of lawyers in Manchester 4
and they were not doing that without
knowing they had a lawsuit in hand /
understand that they have paid
about ten thousand dollars in retain
) ing lawyers.
But the lieutenant-goyernor Of NIB
sissippi decided he would get some
campaign funds and go after me, The
bill for payment of this bill WI
passed overwhelmingly by the house
and went to the senate. A majofhy5
e of the senate wanted to pass It. buta
o the lieutenant-governor taking adEsf3
e tage of his high office, and using thal
J. high office in the interest Of the cot
e against whom this suit WI
d brought, put this bill in to the finance
e committee of the senate, but they di
e not pass on it. So it would take n
two.thirds majority to pass It when
they would not report it. So he ust
d this great power to defraud VOW
r These lawyers were performing hon
If est service to the State; the law pro
yided the governor could make the con
Is tract. and he did this with the advice
ID of the encouragement. The honest
debt of the State of Mississippi has
k been defeated with that kind Of ef
10 canery and treachery.
Well, about that time there VIZ
/; about forty-fve saloons running ~
I'd Vicksburg. The encouragement Say
i'd it will take a long time to stop Wy
and we have not the time, eEs
IT. ployed a lawyer. He got attachnens
issued, and could not get the paper
ce served. He went out himself. Fha3
he indicted a member of the board "
ut aldermen after a ten days ua4Ea
he These a%ttorneyse poured thousands y
ed dollars into the treasury. refers
the payment Of the Lawyers iee v
,er the legislature. It was two iunaM
ho and fifty dollars, and It was wow
od two thousand dollars. II passed w
house and went to the senate hnalcs
ms committee, and was never reported y
4. all. Was there ever a more nones
rat debt of the State? Your lieutenans
governor says, mo, | will take y!
,ut vantage of the power have ano "
nd feat it" To-day they are putllnt \
va the none to make his campaign. y!
Ia Pat Henry is backing him overs v
mr. State and cussing the State ao4!
NO istration and vilifying and slanoeis
he the governor. Why should this pesa
nd have been his friend in the past \
reason for it, except that he Is leps
40, senting the whiskey interests olssag
State.
10 Those were some of the opsas'
"A lions | encountered. ! found tha1 Il
tor certain man had run off a trernenuoss
/, amount of cotton, sold 1t In the ~
,ls time, sold it in the lame OF nesIus
IA | employed a Arm Of lawyers to nv;
cute these men. / referred tne "A
~ ment of these fees to the leglsihsa
and it met the same fate as tne w
,re two. There 1t died.
sti. Well. not only was that true X
the acknowledgement took q ~.
that he would turn out really ~
ess attorney of these people and ne ~
ito pull off a whitewash. Well, AZ,
The vestigating committee would NOV J
ills Why? Because a majority OF the y
n mittee would come from the ~
me and the speaker of the house ~.
nts gentleman. Would it do to les !
the standing committee on penitentials1
Tho fairs in the senate or house, OF 4
har combined. make this invesusaes
No, that would not do, because
overwhelming majority OF these v
Ton are gentlemen. Then he had y
, a vent a scheme whereby he can \
mad OFF a whitewash. One morning. WI \
nVe | arrived at the capitol, ! tonna 4
the a resolution had passed QUICKER 4
re- any other ever before. The rs''
nan ton was this: That the chairnl..
ern' the committee on ~penitentiary ~,
: a in the senate appoint three men'
men that the chairman of the sans I
cep- mittee in the house appoint v
My. men, and this committee OF eigas
Ian, Guiding the chairmen, should vlsA
.her State farms, have power to car
get nesses and compel them to give Y
the mony, employ a stenographef ~
inc ! pn~X A. c-.lf.-. qWA-H thn IpPtStHt