The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-03-17
TATE COUNTY MAN
ON STATE POLITICS
Dissertates on Some Recent Relations
in Regard to Lee Russell-Tbe
Levee Board Deal. The Text Book
Scandal. Russell got Kick in A. &
M. College and Birkhead Matter

Coldwater, Miss, March II, 1922.
Editor Grenada Sentinel:
Much water has passed beneath
the bridge since | have written any
thing for the columns Of The Senti-
mel. many things have happened. some
! pleasant and some not and history
has been made and is still a-making
Oklahoma and Mississippi have both
! been disgraced by the baseness OF
! their Governors. the one for gross
immortality and the other for grating.
! Ours IS calling loudly for an investi-
CATION that he hopes will Whitewash
HIM. TIE other engagin" i'm tistcutfs
with his constituents who refuse to
shake his hands and very lively
row with the county attorney to get
before the grand jury. hoping for
bath of immunity. Two beautiful
birds, | do declare AS low as he is
he struck the man who called him
that unmentiOnable name which al
ways mean fight in the South, God
bless her. If our Governor, would
fight every time he was called that
name he would have very little time
for Investigations or anything else
except fight
Wonder what the Governor thinks
Of the committee who investigated
the Levee Board, the members of
which Board, as | understand, are his
own creatures and whose waste ac-
cOrding to the legislative committee
reaches the enormous sum of $780,
10000 a part of which was spent in
taking Nardaman, BilbO and the
Governors own eXcellency-pardOn !
me ! meant 'nastiness"-on junket-
ing trips to Washington and other
other places,
the wine was red, the sons ranks and
Expect he thinks /
that comm ttee was made up of lot /
OF brutes Who did not and cannot |
tho eternal fitness of .
things N the words eternal
fitness, lou know? He took
special e in slandering old !
Corn { NTH and the editor of !
This pap lie the one was serving +,
as the President of the A. & NJ. Col
ege and the other as Secetary Of the
Board of rTustees and | guess he has
I very poor opinion of the committee
Who after a full and fair investiga-
ron brought IN a report coHapletelt
them. He knows how
title the eXonorations has amounted
o when made by him and the Board
If Trustees who are also his crea-
ureS amounted to and in all probabi-
ity he is measuring them by his own.
Now he wants an investigation bv
he legislature as he says to find if
he fiendish Insurance apents are not
he inspiration behind the charge of :.
Hiss Birkhead. | have no idea that
hey were so inspired, but what if i.
hat proves to be the case? Will that !
lear him of the infamy of the /.
harges if proven true? What his
riendS and his enemies want to :
now is, are the charges true or q
alse. If true no matter who en- (
outraged her to bring the suit it will .
orever damn him in the estimation d
f ali decent people and | am per-
uaded the majority of them are de- i
ent in spite Of the evidence given II
t the last election when he was 6
hOsen our Governor. He is evident Il
7 hoping that some evidence may !
rOp out during the investigation II
lat will show or tend to show that {
)me one of these numerous agents II
ad either spoken word of encour-
cement to her or a word of con-
of him and then some it
ilbo. under another name perhaps, Il
i'll arise and carry the news to the h
,mOtest corners of the State that O.
Ie damned Insurance agents having b
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