The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-05-06
TATE COUNT|AN ON
JUDICIAL ELECTION
Poke Fun at Lawyers and Some 9th
ers. Enthusiastic for Greek L. Rice,
The Successful Candidate.

ColGwater, Miss, r. +. D. 81, 1921
The Grenada Sentinel:
Your warm friendship for Greek
Rice and your interest in the race
prompts me to write this letter and
to make the observations which fol-
low
The battle of the ballots was fought
TO a finish in the 18th judicial dis
trict of Mississippi April 30th which
said district IS composed Of tire coun-
ties of Desoto, Tate, Pamela, YalC-
busha and Tallahatchie Il was lost
by the man who seemingly had the
best show and won by the man who
start with. But this sometimes hap
pens, in fact has happened in the
past and will happen again in the
future. The defeated candidate had
held the office for two months by the
appointment of Gov. Lee NJ. Russell.
He had, as he and his friends boast
ed, the UNANIMOUS support Of all
The Ears" of the district, except
that of the winning candidate, and
limited that they could have had that
if they had asked for it. He had a
large family influence as well IS the
support of the leading officer Of the
church to which he gives adherence.
Looks like he should have won, but
he didn't.
THE Bars" Of the legal kind prov
ed 20 be about rs popular IS the bars
of LIQUID kind would have been to the
late lamented Carrie Nation or a
convention of the w. c. T. U. BY the
spoken work, by the written words
and by every means known to smart
lawyers, they tried to whip the vOt-
ers into line but all 10 no purpose as
far as getting them to vote for their
man was concerned. Serenely conf
dent Of their mighty power, they eX-
perienced a rude shock when the re-
turns commenced to come in and they
found, like Napoleon At Waterloo.
that all Was lost save honor
Besides this. an attempt was made
to make it church fight in behalf
Of the losing candidate and this move
viii account for the large vote polled
by the loser in certain localities. At
one precinct in this, Tate cOur-
tv. know that every member OF the
church to which the loser gives his
allegiance, voted for him. vs. this
an accident think you? Not bv
means. Nay, nay; the head Of the
church in this district had been
mighty busy and his efforts won more
votes than all the bars" in the dis
trict were able to win. Personally,
as a supporter of Rice, i dreaded this
influence more than anything else
that we had to contend with. And
my poor fOrboding soul" YVES right.
The Sliding Elder was there with
the goods all right. Bully for him.
He is big man and | o1ly wish We
had had him with us. II that had
been the case, we could have made
il almost unanimous for Rice. AS a
rule when a preacher gets into the
political game the fellow on the side
which he is opposing begins to howl
about "preacherS meddling in dirty
politics" while the fellow on the side
he is aiding talks about what "a
broad gauged man the parson is". So
there you are and what are you go
ing to do about it? Huh? But Rice en-
tered no protest against the minister's
attitude.
If l were the Governor, l would be
mighty careful hereafter as to whom
appointed to judicial positions. ThlS
is the second appointment that he has
made within a year that has been re-
pudiated by the people at the polls.
He was not ''inveigled' into making
the other appointment to which | re-
fer by 1.-The bars" as he perhaps was
in this case; but exercised his person
al choice, and appointed his former
law partner, q. budding young lawyer
from Oxford. But a man who had
Just had the socks beaten off Of him
in Chickasaw county the year before
for County Attorney, turned around
and beat the socks off of the budding
young attorney aforesaid whom the
Governor had made Judge. All is
not gold that glitters and the people
do not always vote as they are told
even by Governors, bars" and Slid
ing Elders" Selah.
Well, let's take out and go home
and rest and pray, thankful for what
few blessings we already have and
With a lively expectation of those yet
20 come. Amen.
M A McKINNON.