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

IN mass this bill, but you cam
q over the governor. said come
on and I will promise to meet you at
Phillip before the people to aiscuss
the matter. From that moment .he
sc,, v,.s on. This man was loauea
with booze; this mai has pla!eo WIN
the rights of this State; and he was
= Giant in power and | said there Is
something wrong with this institution;
and they reared around and talked 70
Won about shooting me with a Two
Lo1ed shotgun" They filed a two nun
dred thousand dollar damage sun 10
break me up. They have tried DIAM
maiI-threats and blackmail to put
mo nut. I have been on the job for
the taxpayers of Mississippi, n am
in business at the same old stand.
The arrows of blame have dropped
at nv feet as the arrows fell al Llo-
ertv's feet a hundred years ago.
After | exposed them to the gaze OF
the people those men melted hh d
snowflake during the rays of the noon
dav sun. This man came to me IN the
presence of witnesses, and SAID
.Tf YOU will quit this, We will get De-
hind you and we will send you TO the
| United States senate, and viii make
il so hot for him that he will not be
= candidate" speaking OF Williams
7 said. ''That will be a nice thing for
me but not for the high oath took
and for the people, who are my PEG,
ple." said, Il have but M answer
and that is. get thee behind me,
Satan" said, 81 don't want any
office or anything else, but | am gong
down the middle of the road attel
YOU" He said that they would make
me unpopular; they did it, all right
Let's look into this business and SET
what they are doing, went over te
Parchman and remembered that the
law provided that the board OF trus
tees should provide every sergean
with a we'll bound set Of books, ant
in these he should keep an accurate
account of what was produced on tn
farm and what became Of 1t. dis
covered that the board OF trustee
had never furnished this. | toun'
that FIVE out of fourteen OF the ser
f geants kept a little book in thel
pockets for their own information.
was impossible to find out what wa
! raised on the place. You had to fin
out at jackson. ! found that the LAY
=. required that they should have a boob
I keeper at Parchman plantation VIII
4 should keep an accurate account OF a
2 the goods purchased and brought in
= and | found that they had furnlshe
5 this bookkeeepr with the books an
find that in five years he had tW
entries on it, and they were for pos
2 age stamps. | also found that the
0 had sold the States cotton to Boyt
+. in October and did not collect tt
money until in February, or abol
. that time, thus doing business on II
g States credit while the State carrie
the insurance on their cotton.
ii | looked around to find the numb
- Of bales of cotton reported and Il
/ number of bushels of seed report
o and see that if you could trace the
entries through the books, that in 10
II they got about nine hundred poun'
u of seed out Of a bale; in 1910 they G
about seven hundred; in 1911, the We
before | went in office, they got abo
y six hundred pounds out of a bale; a
" in n more year there would ha
y been less seed than cotton in a ba
Suppose you should turn over to 20
III manager a bale of cotton weight,
about fifteen hundred pounds, and
AZ returned with a five hundred pou
bale of cotton and six hundred poun
III Of seed. You would ask him VIII
'e became of the balance of the seed.
asked this question, Where is t
II balance of the seed They sa
II There is no balance | knew bett
than that. My common sense | got
% Carroll county, on the sand hi
IN taught me better than that. l sa
Us where are the gin books" TIL
NJ sent the gin books off down to Ja'
son, They sent them by express, til
- stated. | could not find them the
They said they just wanted to inve,
gate them. We could not find a 81
of them having gone by express.
don't think they went by the expr,
I. route; they went by the fire rou
We found mi behind a box in I
:. commissary. | asked the oil mi
"a that had bought seed in five years
let NE have statements and send
the return vouchers for the paymeI
for the seed. And | found that
money had not been paid into
wa treasury. This fellow and the otl
began to plead guilty of it,
lid said, we will look into the cot
DIV business | set down and wrote
letter to every cotton buyer that /
Ext bought a bale of State cotton in I
If years and asked them to give me
ng amount of it. and furnish me the
tn. turn vouchers, and every single n
He did so, except one certain conce
i'd. And don't think there was eve
he higher or cleaner set of cotton n
he anywhere than these. with one exc
ny ton. There was one concern OF
be- They said We will appoint one m
VII you another, and the people anot
to at the polls. Then | decided to
he them into court. anyway. / called
'ou attorney-general's attention and