The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-20

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July when Austria demanded the
right to participate in the trial of
the assassins of the Archduke and
his consort, which occurred in Ser
via. The latter country denied
this demand, the world applauded
her stand, international lawyers al
most without exception agreed that
Servia was acting within her legal
rights, and-Europe went up in
smoke.
Tennessee Did Not
Enforce Law
In measure the fight between
Arkansas and Tennessee-or, rath-
er, the fight between Upton and
Mississippi countless similar,
though Arkansas does not concede
the property upon which Crum's
Joint was located was within the
territorial survey of Tennessee.
ITdulluSy hoWSNCly III tiiS oAhS Va
argument, that this hell-hole had
been across the border, the situa-
ton is not changed, for Tennes-
see, through it's lawmaking branch,
has said to Arkansas: you may
assist us in the enforcement of
law along the Mississippi river.
Your officers shall be permitted to
make arrests at any point in the
river. You have given our Off
GERS permission to do the same
thing, and we are but returning
the courtesy" Concurrent juris-
diction over the river has obtained
since the last session of the Ten
nesee legislature, and so far as
Mississippi county is concerned
there can be no question, except
upon highly technical grounds, re-
garding her right to send officers
to any point of the river touching
Mississippi soil. And yet, when
the raid ending in Mauldin's death
was made, Upton county protested
in such a remarkably short space
of time as to force reasonable
minded people on the opposite side
to conclude that the Memphis
sphere of liquor influence held COM
plete sway all along the Tennessee
shore, and that the protest of Tip
ton county officials and their en-
deavors to secure the prisoners were
but evidences of sympathy eXerted
in favor of this lawless element.
And when, in the face of all this
turmoil; while Osceola stood hor-
rified and appalled, at the thought
that civilized community such as
Mississippi county hopes to be had
so long been slaves without seri-
Gus protest to these elements OF de-
bauchery, the Commercial Appeal
carried column after column of
slush carefully written and edited,
as the people of Mississippi county
believe, for the purpose of justify
ing the officials of Upton county
in their policy of negligence, and
condemning Judge w. j. Driver
for his assumption that the sheriff's
deputies who made formal demands
for Crum and his cohorts were not
in earnest sympathy with law en-
forcement, but, in reality, hoped to
defeat the ends of justice. lnflu-
encing this opinion upon the part
of Judge Driver was the knowledge
that only a few weeks before the
raid on Island Thirty-seven, Dave
Wells. an alleged or real deputy
sheriff, had been deliberately kill
ed on this island by the notorious
Bob Kenton, who also claimed to be
or was a deputy sheriff. And Ken
ton, murderer, was carried to TIP
ton county-to Covington, the
seat of government in that social
ed law-abiding strata of civiliza-
tion-where he was arraigned be-
fore an Esquire" Then he was
turned loose with a bond of just
fifteen hundred dollars hanging
over his head, a pistol in his hip
pocket, collection of dice in his
jeans and a gentle admonition to
go and sin no more. Tennessee
claims jurisdiction of the island
and defies Arkansas to arrest and
try violators. Yet Tennessee COM
missions Bob Kenton as deputy
sheriff, and Bob Kenton sells liquor
for Andy Crum, sleeps with negro
wenches, debauches and diseases
white companions, then aids and
abets the murder of Sheriff Maui
din. Truly this is law-enforcement
with vengeance-and is it little
wonder that Judge Driver, with
these facts fresh upon his mind,