The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-01-14
SOY. BREWERS TERM
MOST SUCCESSFUL ONE.
70 Down In History as One of
NsslssIppI's Great Governors. :.

After four years of unselfish devotion
- the public interest as the Chief Ex
Z Ntutive of the State, Governor Brewe,
{ VIII soon turn over the reins of govern.
4 ment to other hands and retire to pri.
n x4te life. A brief resume of his ad.
Hlqtstration would therefore seem al
& tnle time to be appropriate in the in.
fsrest of the future history of the
State. 4.tta
The fact that he enjoyed the unique
distinction of being elected without OBJ
position appeared at first to be happy
augury for the success of his admin
istration, but subsequent events demon
strated that this was unfortunate rather
than happy circumstance, for had he
been elected after warm contest he
would have gone into Office with a ma
jority of the legislato's devoted to his
policies, which unfortunately for the
best interest of the State was not the
case.
At the very threshold of his term he
was met by strike on the Illinois Gen.
tral railroad which practically put out
OF business one of the main arteries of
travel and seriously crippled the COM
merce of the State. This matter he
settled with consummate ability, to the
entire satisfaction of all the people.
He was the first candidate who ever
denounced the nefarious bucketshops,
which were causing widespread de-
bauchery throughout the State, and to-
! day the State is free of that curse.
In his first message he earnestly ad-
.vocated the construction of good roads,
and while the bills which he had intro
duced before the legislature failed of
passage, his advocacy created senti-
ment which has resulted in the building
of more good roads in Mississippi in
the last four years than in all her pre-
vious history.
He found the business interests of
the State was being conducted in many
departments in i slip-shod way, highly
conducive to public plunder. and he in
augurated system which has given
the happiest results.
He found corruption rampant in some
of the departments of the State and
without fear or favor to friend or foe
he did his best to send all guilty parties
to the penitentiary, and while some of |
the guilty parties escaped, he purified |
the public administration for a genera
tion to come. These prosecutions in |
the interest of the people raised up
many bitter and powerful enemies, who
slandered him in private and abused I
him in the public press. and subjected
his every act, public or private. to the
calcium light of bitter and relentless
scrutiny, but the arrows of obloquy
havs fallen blunted from the shield of G
spotless life, and the people at last are
beginning to see that while he may have
made some mistakes, his every public
act was done with an eye single to what
he believed to be the public good.
1t would nave been easy for Goy-
ernor Brewer to have shut his eyes to
The cancers which were consuming the
body polite and done nothing, and thus
BY making no enemies, have drifted
lpon the tide Of popularity, but this
lid not comport with his idea of the ,
pledge which he has made the people ,
% clean out the Augean stables. He ,
believed that what be had pledged as q ,
candidate he should try to carry out as (
Governor, and in spite of threats to >
himself personally and politically, in
pite of the fact that he was denied /,
Inancial assistance by part of the >
legislature and had to spend his own y
money, he did his best to uphold the
interest, the honor and the good name
Z Mississippi.
Governor Brewer has always been|
furteous and polite in the discharge of '
n official duty; easy access to his
sence was denied to none. With a !,
taFt as tender as woman's, the voice
he unfortunate always found in him =
kmpathetic listener. He has been .
|Nicised for too free use of the par y
Ming power, but he has always be- :"
ed in tempering justice with mercy -
the high and lowly have Jared y
;e at his hands. If this be a fault, :"
ely when the recording angel shall
ite it down he will blot it out forever :,
{th . tear. s, a.
r am told 'teat Gevernsr Brewer has ~
) desire for further political Donors at
le hands Of his people. If this lie true n.
lis great pity, for the people can Of
afford to lose one who has honestly, ar
lithfully and fearlesaly served them. M
Our grand old Ship of State decked ali
ith the splendid achievements of her tn