The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-05-07
ANDIDAT FOR EUT GOVERNOR SWATS GOV. BREWER
THROUGH HIS NEWSPAPER

The reading public will bear testimony to the fact that there
has been a contingent in Mississippi politics, of which the Issue pub.
lshed at Jackson has been the mouthpiece. that has for the last two
years barked at the heels of Gov. Brewer. Little that the Governor
has done has been right and almost all that he has done has been
attributed to chicanery and base motives. BY ins,nuation and in
nuendo the people have been told that the Governor would hesitate
at nothing that he thought he could get away with; he has been
charged with all sorts of high crimes and misdemeanors, in fact,
notwithstanding the Democratic party of the state has made him for
the time its head and leader. treason and strategem have been laid
at his door. Fhe Governor has borne all this with patience and with
the forbearance of a statesman and a highminded man, but during
the past few weeks he has seen proper to go actively on the stump
to answer his caluminators' and 10 his accusers skulk away and COM
plain that he should undertake to speak in his own defense. 1t is
not the first instance that false accusers have insisted that those
whom they have sought to injure defer the day of adjudication
But NOV is the accepted time"
We have before US an editorial which appeared in the Lafayette
County Press, of April IS, published at Oxford, and edited by Hon.
Lee M. Russell, who is coattaning it over Mississippi for the office
of Lieutenant Governor. The caption of the editorial we refer to
was, Gov. Brewer IN Defense of His Administration" In order to
be fair with the gentleman who edits The Press, and to show our
readers the line OF attack of the Governors enemies. we are repro
ducing the editorial in full but shall direct attention to its weakness
and to the fact that it proceeds at right angles to the record.
The opening paragraph of The Press article reads:
For the first time in the history of this proud old commonwealth do we
1.-THE states governors having to do that" 'AAO'"-" =" any 0"e
The Press and ITS cohorts. W are we'll aware, are people of ex-
ceedingly convenient memories, and they have SO often drafted upon
the unthoughtedness of the people that we are not surprised that it
should say lust think of a Stone, McLaurin or Vardaman going
about the state in defense of their administration. 1t is we'll re-
membered that Anseiem J McIaurin, then Governor, said when he
became a candidate for L. S. Senator, Had nv administration as
Governor not been misrepresented and received that support that |
think it should, would not have become a candidate" The Press
may not think that Senator Vardaman undertook to defend his adj
minstration as Governor but there are thousands in the state that
think otherwise.
The question is is our governor sincere when he claims that is his mis-
sion! II 10 why do ne lot begln Tasty year and if not last year why at this
time just before the coming electon?"
Again The Press shows a lapse of memory, but when we recall
that Mr. Russell met the Governor in Joint debate las wear ar
Winona, we do not wonder that his mind wanders; he is not to be
censured for wanting to forget it. The Press memory again shows
a zero about the Governor addressing 5000 people last summer at
the Neshoba county Fair and very nearly al equal number of people
IN Leake county.
These questions are answered in the governors public declarations when
he said: 4 AM n lot telling the people WHO they should vote for for 0overnor
but will tell them Who Nor TO VoTE for and that is Bibo. Wbv his hatred
of BIbo?'
In a speech delivered at the State Fair at Jackson in the fall of
1913, Senator Vardaman, in answering an inquiry from the audience
about whom to support for Governor, said practically the same
thing; he said, "be sure you vote for an honest man."
The Press continues:
There is always a reason, a motive, for doing a unusual act If TN pow.
ernor were acting in good faith; if his conduct in the persecuto o. Ruho enid
be defended from any standpoint then when the cases against Bib and Hohhs