The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-08-25
TATE COUNTIAN WRITES
OF JUD6fSHIP RACE.
Has Decided Preference for
Knox and Discusses Can
didates from His View
Points Rather
Spicy.

Coldwater, Miss, Aug. 21, 1916.
Editor Sentinel:--T first pri-
mary is over, and as we farmers
would say, the. crop of candidates
have been about reduced to "a
stand" "The fittest survive" but
very few of US can pick the "fit-
test" in advance or be made to be-
ieve he is the ''fittest" after the other
fellow has picked him for us.
Grenada County did we'll in the
firts primary. She stood Loyalty by
Judge MCGOWAN, although the bet
ter informed must have realized he
didn't have show; but he was your
friendly neighbor, is making a good
judge and will be heard from again.
One defeat does not ruin a man, but
often helps him.
DR.. Ward, Vardaman and all COM
bined could not save 'rlittle Willie. "
Sen. Franklin is a good man, but like
Judge MCGOWAN, his candidacy was
ill-timed and ill-advised. What fine
opportunity was presented for some
man of towering ability to break in
to Congress when the brothers-in-
law, Willie and Tommie got scrap
pin! The Doctor put up good
fight for Willie, and in his anger told
some tales out of school, that for the
future peace of the family had better
been left untold.
Tate county, God bless her, polled
less than one-third of her normal
vote, and divided them as follows
Knox, 1877; McGwan, 1856, and Sykes,
155. Pretty impartial, don't you
think. The lawyers and their fol-
lowing and all those identified with
or sympathizing with the corpora
tions, voted against Knox; the cor
porations because they knew out of
whose crib they fed, and the lawyers,
either because they loved MCGOWAN
and hated Knox. Some Of the law
yers alleged that Knox knew no law,
although seven years ago at the COM
mencement of his first term as Dis
trict Attorney, he held one week of
Circuit Court at Senatobia, and put
every lawyer at our bar who had
cases opposing him, hors du combat,
and those who survived are still hob
bling around on crutches. No won
der they don't like him To say he
knows no law doesn't speak we'll for
them, does it?
The common people are or should
be for Knox, because he is a mans
ann with good red blood in his veins,
and because being raised on the
farm, the son of lame Confederate
soldier, he has experienced all the
privations Of this class, and yet had
the courage and ambition to fight his
way upward and onward, to the place
he now holds. AS District Attorney
he has played no faovrites, prose-
cutting black and white, the rich and
the poor all alike, seeking only for
the punishment of the guilty, regard
less of who he was.
The people should be for Knox
liances with the railroads and other
corporations, because of previous
employment by them.
Personally, I have nothing against
the corporations, and l want them
treated fairly and given representa-
ton when proper, but | am utterly
opposed to stocking the Supreme
Court bench with them If the cor
porations didn't hope to gain some
advantage, why do they always push
one of their hired men for judicial
positions?
Against Eugene Octave Sykes
(God what a namely personally,
have not a word to say, but l don't
like his previous employment. Until
a very short time ago he was the
paid attorney for the Mobile and
Ohio and the Aberdeen branch of the
Illinois Central railroads, the Cum
berland Telephone Co., and the Sou
thern Express Co. If he forgets his
previous employment, his recollec-
ton will be worse than that of the
ass, which the Good Book tells us
never failed to remember his owners
crib.
Eugene Octave's father-in-law
the Hon. Charlie Scott, of Bolivar
county, Miss, is alleged to have said
that he would spend $4,000 to elect
Octave and defeat Knox. Let Us
see! Is not this the same Hon
Charlie who ran for Governor nine
years ago, spent mint of money
made horse back ride in khaki anC
morocco boots from Grand Junction
Tennessee to some point on the Gull
of Mexico, called "Gitoff," meeting
his "fellow agriculturalists," as hi
called them? Yes, indeed! the same
fellow. Now, l come to think of it
he ran a poor third or fourth in thai
six-horse race. But in spite of hi
own experience he is going to spent
ten thousand dollars to elect Sallie'i
hubby, Eugene Octave, to a place OF
the Supreme Court bench. Well
he may do it, but it is going to taxi
two or three times ten thousand, t.
do t.
We fooled the Hon. Charlie nin'
years ago. Let's do it again. Let
put Knox on the bench, man BIZ
enough and broad enough to see tn
L.