The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-06-18
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tHo| Inc chairman SAID,
All you people will have to get out
OF here. This committee will not have
MI. Boyce catechised by the gov
ernor."
There VAS a young man there who
come from the piney woods Of the
poorest OF the poor. He had walked
into the University In a hickory shirt
and asked for any sort OF work to
earn an education. He mopped floors
and scrubbed windows and earned a
living. He had zone out into oxford.
and a kind lawyer, Mr.. Stone. gave
him a Job to clean his office at ten
dollars per month. The people of his
county elected him to the legislature
while he was yet a student. This man
was then a representative sitting in
the chamber. and he rose up and said
to the chairman, 81 want to say, sir,
that II you will let the legislature zeal
this testimony it will end the investi.
cation. | am in favor OF an open door.
free ballot and fair count" and they
put him out. and SEN old Hobbs
around to see him, and he said, I'VE
will see you when you want to run
for an office again" Jim Mcclure
said. When you attempt to attend to
this young man. watch out that the
people do not attend to you" This
young man returned to the University
and tried to complete his education;
nnd SAnn+Ar D-. IT. A..
paper In the town. denounced him as a
villain. He came to me and asked
what to do about It. | said. Tell 1t
to the people, run for lieutenant gov.
ernor and beat him And he went
out and got IN an old grey horse and
went from Gulfport to Alcorn county.
He Is doing something. He told me
that he went one whole week on ono
dollar and eighty cents. Senator Rus
sell accused this man of being a thief,
and every man. and child in
the house picked up and left him as a
single a | turned on Senator Rus.
sell and said, You are trying to do
stroy this young man because you
cannot control him. You may destroy
him. but before you do it You will have
to rumple all over the governor from
Yellow Rabbit to Vinegar Bend. /
love to help a young man of that kind.
Let's see them get off with it if they
can.
Joseph Norwood asked him a ques-
ton, and then he said. Gentlemen.
am ready to vote" Boyce and his
attorneys prepared a speech and Sen
ator Donald read it to the house as a
part of his speech. They ordered five
thousand copies printed and sem all
over the State of Mississippi for
Boyce & Company.
Those are some of the distractions
I have been up against as your gov
ernor.
Let's take some OF these slanderous
things up for a minute. They say
that Governor Brewer has gone back
on the people.
Representative Sisson sent a bill tc
the Representative of Carroll county
NlilAl L lAol ~ WI "
should ever be organized for owning
farm lands, and that they must dis
pose of it in five years. They could
take a deed of trust upon the property
and buy it, but must not farm it, and
could not own it for more than five
years. Don't you see that no bank
could lend money on this. They could
not rent it out or lease it,. Therefore
we must consider the business inter
ests of the country. | said Mr.. Sissor
said that bill is not written to pass
but one to howl demagogery about me
| took this matter up with the Farmers
Union of the State, and they got Mr.
Oscar Johnson to draft a bill. Wher
it got to the Senate two amendments
were inserted. One was the time il
was to go into effect, and the other
was hat nothing shall prevent a cor
poration from ~loaning money on lands
and taking this land and leasing it fol
five years. | said, Il will veto it,"
said. Let me show you something
now" We have a statute which pro
hibits a corporation from owning more
than two million dollars worth OF farm
land. If they own more than this it is
forfeited to the State. In South Mis-
sissippi if the corporations should loal
the owner that amount on the proper
ty, and then make you notes payable
four hundred years hence. and ther
take possession. and use and farm il
for four hundred years and then hole
1t for five years longer. SO, they hat
it amended; and the Lieutenant Gov
ernor got busy and said put it up tC
the Governor. They said, we dom
want that; We want Legislation proper
He then whirled around and fought
the bill. 1t then turned out that the
bill had been written by the lawyer
for the Edward Hines Lumber Con.
pany, the greatest land grabbing con
Germ in the country, They are alsC
putting up campaign money for hin
TO make his tour for office of Governor
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