The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-05-07

BoycE & Co. IMAGINE THE IMPRESSIONS THAT SUCH PROCEDURE GRE
ArED IN THE MINDS OF THE COTTON BUYERS who were passing upon
the samples. This by the way of parenthesis.
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The Press should know. and we presume does. that the State of
Mississippi now has pending in the chancery court of Kinds county
a suit for s3oo,ooo.oo against Boyce & Co. 1t also knows that this
firm has resorted to every device and subterfuge known to shrewd
and able lawyers to keep the case from coming to trial. 1t is true,
whether The Press knows it or not, that this firm secured by devious
methods a duplicate of the states cotton books.
Four men were tried and sentenced to the penitentiary for steal
ing from the penitentiary and one who was being Investigated COM
mitted suicide.
One man confessed to taking s3oooooo
There was over $4,000 spent of the states money in one year
for whiskey and it was no uncommon thing to find a quantity of
whiskey charged on the books as "sundries."
In place of the state getting from 1850 to 400 pounds of seed
out of a bale of cotton it got returns on from 500 TO $50 pounds.
AS to Charley Smith, we have no disposition to add to his
shame. We pity the man. He did buy a n automobile. one that had
been in use for severayears, and kept it for a good long time and
then palmed it off on the state for about twice what he paid for it,
in the meantime getting himself a new automobile by the trade.
That may sound like straight. square dealing to The Press but to
most people 1t is crooked business. But the automobile deal is not
all of the unfortunate penitentiary trustees wrong doing. He got a
carload of cotton seed which he forgot(?) to pay for until the Gov
ernors investigation, and much other stuff, too.
The Press says that the Governor got ashamed and pardoned
Smith. Yes, he pardoned him but not for that or for the other
cause which The Press names. The Press knows that some of the
best doctors in the state examined Smith and certified to the Gov
ernor that he had tuberculosis and that to conhne him in the peni-
tertiary would not only shorten his days. but would seriously endan-
ger the life of other convicts, so the Governor being the true Chris
tn hearted man he is, let him go. Brewer had it in his power to
keep Smith in prison and it will be recalled that in issuing the par-
don the Governor wrote that he believed Smith guilty of Just what
the IL grand jurors and the IL petit jurors had said he was guilty of.
Had the Governor been actuated by personal spite or malice as The
Press companions have said, he would not have liberated Smith.
The law had been vindicated and the highest dictates of humanity
prompted the course the Governor pursued, and yet in the face Of
his manly and noble deed, Smith has continued to smite the hand
that saved him from prison stripes ever since he was given his
freedom.
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isns sf governor has ma" made Of Of lis Office sa. and i. III n eS the 0s1 = Of sf'! law o; .n SS.s .
He had convicted an old Confederate soldier. COL A. Mont
gomery," and this statement too, in the face of the fact that Gov.
Brewer was out OF the state during Col. Montgomery's trial and was
in New York City the day the jury rendered a verdict in his case.
When facts and the records are out of harmony with the wishes Of
the crowd The Press is backing, they throw them overheard and in
their stead make allegations to suit their purposes. Nobody has
ever heard the Governor charge Col. Montgomery withidishonestv
But to The Press parting shot:
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AS to the chartering of land corporations, that was lust a n hon.
est difference of opinion between the Governor and the Attorney
General. There is none that will deny that Gov. Brewers legal
ability equals that of the Attorney General, and certainly he has had
a much larger and mere varied experience. The difference in a
nutshell between the Governor and the Attorney General m N.
land corporation bill was this: The Governor believed that a law
to become effective sx'or eight months later was NOT INTENDED
TO BE AND COULD NOT BE ENFORCED until then. wh;lr The
Att orney General took the opposite view.
IN distinguished editor Of The Press readily admits that he is
an able lawyer" but he has read the books amiss if he is Of the
opinion that Gov. Brewer vetoed "the elective judiciary bill" The
Governors veto held that the legislature had bungled the lob in
submitting the elective judiciary proposition to the people and that
the ne act had not been submitted in accordance with what the Consti-
tuition OF Mi isissippi required. believing this, and being regardfui Of
the oath he had taken as Governor ITO faithfully support the Con.
stitution, there was nothing left for the Governor to do $ an hon
est mau except to place his stamp of disapproval on the matter in
the form it was brought to him. Gov. Brewer believes that oaths,
promises, obligations and contracts mean what they say and are nor
to be twisted or bent to suit the time and the occasion. or the pur.
poses of men or factions. The Press has. perhaps overlooked, toe.
nat III Supreme Nourt IN nnaly passing upon the matter held that
the Governor was clearly right in his veto. The courts construe The
laws and are supposed to apply a reasonable amount of elasticity to