The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-02-19
PUTS US ON THE HONOR ROLL.

Having occasion to be in Jackson on Monday afternoon of last
week n personal business. we were asked to attend a conference of
some GENTLEMEN. and, knowing from the source from whence
the invitation came that there would be no SELF-CONFESSED
BRIBE.TAKERS or BRIBE-TAKERS POODLE Or confeder-|
ates present. we saw no reason for not accepting the invitation
When we entered the conference we found our surmises entirely cor
rect-that it was a gathering of honest men. That it was gather
ing of men the backs of a majority of whom had many times bent
under arduous toll in the MONDAY sun and upon whose brows drops
of sweat had told of the muscular effort they were making as tIIersI
of the soil. While their days OF manual toll do not necessarily make
them av better men. certainly they do not make them any worse
nor dothey disquaify them for the graver duties OF citizenship. Yet
such a gathering IF gentlemen is referred to by the Issue the Jack
son organ of beclouded morals and perverted vision, as a menace to
the best welfare of Mississippi
Had we not been singled out for special reference by the organ
the mouthpiecc of more men who have made running for office a
business and of more politicians than any sheet that ever got access
TO the mails under the false prctense of being a newspaper we
would have had occasion to ponder lest We had descendedt to depths
we had never heretofore trod. The stamp of its disaPproval is a
badge OF honor and but adds our name to the loag list it has con-
demneda and makes US sure that our cause is Just and our faith IS
steadfast.
As to what The Sentinel published in the 1911 campaign our
files show that we had very little to say editorially about Senator
Vardaman. While we have never been a special admner OF Mr..
vardaman. yet we have recognized in him a man OF some extraordi-
naryq qualities and since his election We have been disposed to treat
him as our senator.
What The Sentinel said about the other name which the organ
persists in linking with Nardaman Is a matter o eooru Ee' nc
record speak for itself =.
space in The Sentinel during the 1911 campaign-good men otter
buy space in reputable newspapers mo Art S""e"" oes"eu NV
buying it in others
ence. In our judgment a railroad aUorhcyshlP o MAKE "ei '
FORGET that which is good any more than a doctors connection VIII
a railroad as surgeon makes him untrue to his other patients
The truth is some of the best men we know are attorneys tor rail
roads Take Grenada county for instance: The local attorney here
Mr. Covles Horton, is man of the highest honesty and OF unques
TONED integrity and enjoys the confidence of the public to a marke'
degree. !,
1t is what is in the man rather than what any connection dc
ve,ons out of him No OFFICIAL CONNECTION can make a CKOOkEl
nan straight nor will it CROOK a really STRAIGHT man.
But accepting the standard of the Jackson organ we would re
mind it that what is sauce for the goose is also sauce tor the gande
T., the neiohboring county of IaIahatchie, Hon. Hal SANDERS is
railroad attorney and he will admit that he is one OF the leadin
sachems in the organs councils. He even states that he would lea
men to DEFY the courts to carry out the organs purposes Aga
,.Le , look a the Hon. Dan Scott of Clarksdale. There are b
few who have fought more battles for corporations and tor railroad
than he. While Mr.. Scott no doubt climbed or" because there ="
M other Mace upon which he could climb, nevertheless ne occupl
n of the highest seats on the political cheese wagon. He is NO
interested in a big corporation suit against the state OFT MISSISSIPPI
The gang is s getting uneasy. Time hangs heavily on them. /
clouds of dust which they have been able to kick up are settling a
the honest thought arr seeing things as they really are and not