The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-08-27
MISSISSIPPI TRAVELLERS MEET
HERE SEPTEMBER 4TH.
Various Committees Named to Provide for Entertain
ment and Everything Being Done to Make Day a
Success. Barbecue at Spring Lake. J.
Henry Harris to be TOaSt-Master.
Press Comments on Election of Hlhs

Press Comments on Election OF Bilbs
The election Tuesday passed off quI-
etly. 1t was fight between the vot-
ers who believe in honest government
and those who believe in the bribe
taking Lieutenant Governor and his
crook ed policy the latter class winning
by a small majority. -Eupora Progress
Warden.
Bilbo will no doubt make a fair Coy
ernor, but it won't be because he wants
to. but rather because he will have to.
Those 10 or more thousand voters
who cast their ballots against him will
ever keep their eagle eye on his every
official act, and for this reason We are
inclined TO believe his administration
will measure up TO that OF men OF
small caliber
The election of Bilbo does not in the
least vindicate him of some of the
crimes with which he has been charged
so far as this paper is concerned. We
are Just as firmly convinced as We ever
were that ne IS crooked Moss Point
Advertiser
The people of Mississippi have called
TO the Gubernatorial chair puuy dema-
gogue, man unworthy of confidence,
self-confessed bribe-take and of we'll
known immortality His only hope of
t winning was to array the rural citizens
I against the town and city folks. and
many town and city folks followed IT
i bis train because they saw ne 0as gain
ing favor Will ths ftlral people. TIE
biggest part u tho totd that brought
Bilbo to the front ;sss fryri seopla who
do no thinking for themselves They
have an unjustitiable prejudice 1toase1
by some leading politicians or such pa
pers as the Issue, one Of the most abus-
! i've, yituperous papers that ever had an
existence in Mississippi. You may call
this growing. but it comes from the
heart of a patriotic citizen who has
never bent the pregnant knee" to
demagogue or a shyrter A patriotic
citizen who endeavors TO exercise MS
franchise according TO his own judg
ment. after examining the evidence be
fore mis- mind. Personally s. he is not
prejudiced against Bilbo: be mas never
met nor does he know the man or
sight, but the evidence against MIN az
a characterIesS demagogue is too strong
for unbellef. The Ledger is no fawu-
ing sycOphant. 1t has no favors TO ask
of the incoming powers and its friends
1t would not sacrifice one lota of its
; political independence for all the pat
ronage of the president Of the United
: States. much less of the Governor Of
! the STATE. West Point Leader
After all Mississippi long delayed, is
=, taking = medicine and the stout heart
. ed old commonwealth car stand it.
, uauseous as 1t Is. Virginia North
20 I,
, Arkansas. and a number of other tates
, have seen the bottom rail on top ana
= gone through with this terrible ordeal
: South Carolina. having Just been re-
lieved Of the incubus in the iisplace
ment Of the wild and woody Bless
4, Although all these states have been
forced TO acknowledge executives unwor
: thy OF their prestige and the lofty tone
Il, OF those who actually shape their des-
tlnles, IN not another state, save Mis-
=, slssippi has any man been called 70
, high leadership against whose personal
Il character there was the slightest impu
:, tatiou or of whose honor or honesty
: there was question or doubt In the
instance of MIR Bilbo two grand jurie9
: had heard the charge of bribery and re-
8 turned indictments. though these bodies
: were politically affiliated with the BilbO
| fdctlon. IN thlrd instance. the prose
=. cutting witness and the only one by
- whom the charge could be sustained
= claimed and maintained exemption or
: the ground that he could not testify
> without discriminating himself To be
= sure in these trials, Bioo obtained ac-
), quittal. but it IS well known that of
all charges in the criminal code the
hardest to sustain are those of bribery
>. That while the case is known to all meu
:, and the guilt of the culprit generally
II recognized the trial almost always al
- mlts of a reasonable doubt in proper
q ton to the cunning and secrecy dis
q played. Aberdeen Examiner.
Il Only two things remain to be done II
Il recognition of the new era We are en-
tering The blow has fallen, the die
: has been cast. At the very moment
u when Theo G. Bilho takes the oath of
= office as Governor of Mississippi we
< should substitute carrlon crow for the
5 proud bird Of liberty on the Great Sea-
of the Commonwealth and remove the
great golden eagle from the dome OF
our capitol and place a pukug buzzard
in is stead. j Jackson News