The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-05-16
LONGING ON PEN
ALIZINC COUNTIES
WHERE MOBS OCCUR
URGED TAXING PUBLIC TO PAY
FAMILY OF MOBBED PER-
SON AND REMOVING THE
SHERIFF AND THE CON-
STABLE FROM OFFICE


The discussion Of the fitness and
adaptability of the several candidates
for Governor is getting to be more
frequent and more in earnest as the
days pass by. This is to be expected
because the candidates, are shelling
the woods and every day brings near
er and nearer the primaries which
are to name the man who is to sit
in the Governors Offices after next
January.
Quite a deal is being said now
about message that Ex-Governor
Longlno is reputed to have sent to
the Legislature while he was Gov
ernor touching the advisability of
penalIzing the counties where a per-
son is mobbed. Some of the form
er Governors friends saw he sent no
sach message. This paper feels sure
that no Just complaint can be made
ny any one about the publication of
me vi truth, the facts about anv mans
HE or his. public acts. indeed II ;s
aiso sure that Gov. Longino was dos
IL
perately in earnest when he nroaa
the necessity of dealing with mobs
on the Legislature and il is fa;,. -
say that if he believed in what he
sald then. that he also believes in
tne same treatment Of counties where
mobbing occurs now, and that no
still believes in removing the Sheriff
whenever prisoner is taken from
lall and mobbed and in removing a
Constable when prisoner is taken
from his custody and mobbed.
Had Coy. Longino's ideas been
Incorporated into law, Capt. r. ~.
hall, Messers G. B. Jones. John
wright and other good sheriffs in
TINS County would have heen ra
moved from office.
immediately on the heels of Gov
.one1no's message to the law.maL.
ing body, January .16, 1900 q hill
was introduced in the leeislatnrs
winch sought to fix the damaI.a -
$5,oO0.00 that the family of the ,roh -
Dsu man could collect from the peo-
PIE OF the county in taxes.
Inc message containing the .Ey-
GOVERNORS recommendation as to
'noos begins on page SO and CON
ciudss on page 10l of the "House
journal Mississippi 1900"
After discussing "liberal;tv IN
capital seeking investment" comes
1ne paragraph under the "Suppres.
sion OF Mobs" on page 90 of the
house Journal above referred tn
The Governor then seeks to applv
The Remedy" for mobs which mav
be found on page 81 of the Journal
already spoken Of.
Under the head of 1.-The Remedy"
Gov. LonpinO said:
''The fault lies in defective or
inactive public sentiment on the
subject, and hence the remedy must
come from the people. The law has
all the while been ample and rigor-
Gus in its penalties for crimes; the
judges have done their full duty
toward the suppression of mobs,
while appeals to public opinion in
their behalf have been made by at
least three of the great religious
denominations Of the State. re-
spectively in conference. synod and
convention. and by the press also as
a rule: but all have failed to bring
beneficial results in that
regard. Since. then, moral per-
suasion fails to sufficiently arouse
the people to the danger and enormi-
ty of the evil, which is yearly grow
ing, resort seems necessary to some
stringent legal method to arouse and
move public opinion to more vigor-
Gus assertion of it's influence in the
premises. / WOULD THEREFORE
RECOMMEND TO THE LEGISLA-
TURE THE WISDOM AND EX-
PEDIENCY OF PASSING A LAW
GIVING TO THE FAMILY OF ANY
ONE WHO MAY BE HEREAFTER
LYNCHED A RIGHT TO RECOVERj
IN THE CHANCERY COURT A
FIXED SUM IN DAMAGES A.
GAINST THE COUNTY WHERE
IN THE LYNCHING occurred. Lett
the amount of said damages be made |
sufficiently large to engage public
opposition to the payment thereof
and let the right of recovery be
predicated alone upon the fact that
the lynching was done in thes county |
where the recovery is sought. It'll
is not unusual that prisoners are
taken by mobs from Jail and from
the custody of the officers without |
resistance and lynched. i CON-
MEND TO THE FURTHER SERI-
GUS CONSIDERATION OF THE
LEGISLATURE THE EXPEDIENCY
OF PROVIDING BY Law THAT
THE OFFICE OF SHERIFF OR
SHALL BECOME VAL
CANT. RSO FACTO. WHENEVERl
ANY PRISONER rs TAKEN FROM |
THE JAIL or THE LAWFUL Gus
TODY OF SUCH OFFICER OR HISl
DEPUTY AND MOBBED. In myl
Judgment the time and occasion are
here for some such stringent meas