The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-07-02
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1t was so patent that there was an imperative demand for what
was proposed in the bill that there was not a single vote against it.
Bnbo was presiding over the Senate that day, Feb. 20, 1912 and II
will be noted that Russell is recorded IN its favor. M Senate Dill
No 432, provided for a Secretary of the Board of Trustees OF the
Higher Educational Institutions of Mississippi Again, our name
was sent to the Senate for confirmation and still we find no opposi-
ton from Bilbo and from Russell. We were first appointed for only
two years and our term had expired when the Legislature was in
session in 1914 and our name was again before the Senate for con-
hrmaton and again we find no opposition from Bilbo or from Russell.
Do they not meet themselves coming back; do they not bring an
Indictment against their own sincerity and iaithfulness by charging
at this late day that the position with which we have been honored
is a useless one? Why were they asleep at the switch when they
had an opportunity to register their votes against our going on this
general Board of Trustees? The truth is when the law was passed
Bibo was then flirting with Gov. Brewer and hoping to get favor at
Brewers hands when he became a candidate. He was even then
trying to persuade Gov. Brewer to line up with him against Var
daman.
Another fact in connection with this law, Senate Bill No. 43a-
when it reached the lower house of the Legislature there were but
three votes cast in that body against it. Manifesty both houses OF
the Legislature were of the opinion that the bill provided for just the
thing needed for the Colleges of the State.-House Journal 1912
page 1903.
chan Aeheae Of the e un iSaa y. another I'll ~ usssss JOBS b. assistant secretary 70 ne
Our son is filling the place of assistant secretary at a salary OF
sex per month. He was appointed to the position by the Chancel
Tor of the University and not by Gov. Brewer, and we unhesitatingly
and unqualihedly assert that he is meeting the duties of the respon
sible position as well as any one who ever held it. Senator Russell
and Mr.. Bilbo both, no doubt, have forgotten that when Senator
Vardaman was Governor, and President of the Board of Trustees OF
the University, that his son held the position our son is now filling
in fact both of Senator Vardamans sons held this place while at The
University, and to their credit, we are advised, they met its du
Chancellor were necessary when Vardaman's sons were filling it, how
much more necessary s it now when the enrolment of students is
almost twice a. large as if was at that timer
Allegation 8. That a bIotherinlaw of ours is now Sergeant on m of thu
pace by Gov. Brewer. " |"N ~ -" "N "" :" 'pp"""' :" I'll
A brother in-aw OF ours is Sergeant at Belmont farm at twelv.
hundred dollars a year. The law makes it the duty of the Superin
tendent of the penitentiary to appoint the Sergeant and our brother
inlaw was named by DIR. J c. Gathings, the then Superintendent Of
the penitentiary, and not Gov. Brewer. 1t is perhaps proper here te
also state that our brother-in-law is serving as Sergeant at a salar,
more than two hundred dollars less than was paid his predecessor
Is not that good business for the state? He is a good farmer an q ~
celent stock man and, if Col. Montgomery and others who have had
to do with the penitentiary are TO be believed, he has shown himself
to be efficient, faithful and satisfactory. -
The statement or insinuation made by Blbo that we were in
Jackson during the sitting of the Text Book Commission, recently
adjourned, and that we had improper relations with any member OF
members of said Commission is just a plain, deliberate lie.
The charge or insinuation also made here by Bilbo that we have
in anywise reaped a pecuniary benefit from any pardon Or pardons
issued by Gov. Brewer is another black lie. We have interested
ourselves in securing but. four pardons since Gov. Brewer went into
ohce and those were tor two poor, unfortunate white boys and for
two pennless negroes. The petitions for these four pardons were
backed by many of the best citizens in Grenada county.
In thinking of pardons Bibos mind naturally reverts to the
$1,000 he got for pardoning. while Gov. Brewer was away, a man by
the name of Carter, who was sent to the penhentiary for 20 years for
killing DR.. Wendell at Aberdeen, one of the best physicians and
few months and has a rich, very rich father. 1t is difficult for
Bilbo to separate any act from the thought of what money is to be
gotten out of it.
These two strfe-breeders would have the public believe that
because of these several places already referred to, we are a friend
of the Brewer administration. Our friendship for Gov. Brewer is
not based on patronage or office but on the elements of honest man.
hood, sincerity OF purpose, loyalty to that which is true and noble
and his fidelity to his friends. We were his friend and he ours long
before patronage or official power was at his command.
AS a Trustee and as Secretary of the Board of Trustees, We have
had many important matters to consider, some of them involving
thousands of dollars, but we have SO conducted ourselves that no
one has ever thought we were open to a bride nor have we PLAYED
"bribe-trapper" in order to catch somebody else. We have never
descended to the point that those with whom we were compelled to
come in contact have had so little respect for our integrity as to
offer u a bride. We have never played the role of detective" for
graft. Neither have our nearest n~eighbors and associates signed a
statement that we were unworthy of unbelief nor do the records of
the circuit or chancery courts of this, or of any other county, show
that we have ever been charged with forgery or bribery. and our as
sociates in newspaper work, or any other calling, have never thought
that our conduct was s. reprehensible that we should be shut ot of