The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-03-17
VIGOROUSLY HAR-
P0ONS GOV. RUSSELL
District Attorney Browning Applies
Blister to Russell. Reminds Exc
cutive that he Has Ruined a Young
Woman. Hasn't Much Opinion OF
Governor Integrity or Ability.

/ Gov. Russell is in the fix Of the
fellow who was pursued by an angry
bull and who sought safety in a hol-
low stump which opened into a sink
hole. When he landed in the stump.
bear from below made for him and
as he jumped outside, the bull rushed
for him again.
Russell has been harpooned; he has
sworn by the pint Of his knife that
he never saw such a legislature be-
fore in his life; he has invoked the
wrath of the fateS on the insurance
companies, and among his last stunts
was to charge that the suit filed by
district attorney Browning against
the life and casualty companies doing
business in Mississippi was done to
injure him with the view of brow
beating him on the fire insurance
litigation, while almost in the same
breath, he charged that the Birkhead
suit was filed at the instance of the
fire insurance companies, and the last |
named charge caused the lower |
house of the legislature to name a |
Committee to give the Governor |
chance to make good his charge or |
brand himself once again an Annaias. 7
But district attorney Browning's |
letter to Hon. Aft Stone, relative to
the suits filed by him, was rare
document and if Gov. Russell's cpl
dermis had any places on it that were
not already well peppered by red hot
verbiage fired by an outraged public,
Browning's letter found them. 1t
was caustic in the extreme and if
Lee did not vince. it was because
that he had cricked his neck by
lodging.
The following are Just a few of
the salty paragraphs from Mr.. Brown
ing's letter:
Governor Russell has written sew
eral open letters, even a Christmas
letter, to the officials of Mississippi.
urging them to enforce all the laws, ;
and in labored and ungrammatical
expressed great concern .
about this all important subject
Il want to tell you, that while the
governor was travelling the primrose I
path of dolliance,' and being accused !
Of sending to despair. Mississippi !
, ri, whose love he had won and be 7
,rayed, while the little barefoOted !
Boys Of our state were paying pos +
lbly ten dollars or more for school +
books for a session than was being q
)aid in any other state in the union, :
md while he was explaining or at :
empting to explain broken promises :.
o those, who had made possible his
election to the high office he holds,
nd bartering and trafficking in those 7
hings gentlemen hold sacred and :
wen politicians revere, | was down !;
here in the 'piny woods performing !!
ny duties to the best Of my ability,
rying to enforce the law. lead
ecent life, be true to my family y
nd my state, and the people who d
lected me, and that no shadow of n n
educed wOmanhOod has fallen y
thwart my pathway. no avariciOus II
reed of money has influenced my of y
cial conduct, the imprecations of -
o betrayed friendship echoes in my w
ars, and no conscious guilt of of '"
cial misdeeds terrOriZes my dreams, "i
or in the sight of God and man,
ave performed my duty, and Gov. a
rnor Russell is pOwerless to destroy al
le, for ! am a man-nOt a woman OF
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Governor Russell cannot hide his n
ching palm, his lechery, his hcen- r.
Gus intrigues, his personal venom, n
IS mental paucity and official delin- tr
lencies behind me and a law suit In
fought by me in the discharge of tb
Y official duty" tn