The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1923-08-02

TT pLnmel the state into insensibility
land to hold its bloody form up tc
other states as a warning to those
which might undertake to enforce
their laws against them
OPPOSITION, TRUSTS AND
DEFAULTERS.
The opposition to me and the active
support given to my opponent is COM
posed of the following four groups
and those whom these groups have
been able to deceive by specious and
untrue arguments.
I. The fire insurance trust.
2. Certain timber syndicates which
have stolen timber belonging to the
school children of the state.
8. A railroad lawyer whose rail-
road client ! have forced to pay
taxes justly due.
4. State Insurance Commissioner
T. M. Henry, from whom in the dis
charge Of my duty as state revenue
agent, have collected for the peo-
pie of the state up to date $685.
1924 of the peoples money i'm.
properly withheld by the said Henry
from the state treasury, some of 1t
for from one to three years, and
against whom am now prosecuting
suit for an additional amount of
$15,o0o.oo improperly withheld by
him from the state treasury.
The fire insurance trust has en-
listed against me every one of It's
agents and attorneys Who are suffi-
GENTLY subservient to it to do it's bid
ding. Be it said that in this con-
nection to the everlasting credit of
some of these agents and attorneys
that they have refused to become
party to the nefarious plan of this
arrogant trust to throttle the state
and enslave it's people.
The chain of newspapers doing the
bidding of certain thieving timber
syndicates, (guilty of the worst pos
sible form of theft, that is, stealing
from children yet unborn the only
means of obtaining an education, the
timber of sixteenth section and lieu
lands) are constantly belching ven.
omous falsehoods with reference to
the revenue agents office and my &C.
tivities as revenue agent.
ANSWERS JUDGE eRIFFITH's
q OPINION
Recently the Insurance Commits.
sioner, a daily paper edited by his
kinsman in the city of Jackson, and
daily paper espousing the cause of
certain timber thieves and the fire
insurance trust, has charged that Tin
a suit by the state land commissioner
and by me as revenue agent against
the Knapp-Stout Lumber Company OF
Schanton, Pa, the ]. J. Newman Lum-
Der Company of Pennsylvania, the
Sage Land and Improvement Com
pany of New York, and the Blodgett
interests of Michigan to recover for
the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege thousands of acres of land in
South Mississippi and the value of
commissioner and l had alleged that
the former trustees of the college had
been guilty OF fraud and collision in
the sale of these lands. The untruth-
fulness of this charge is conclusive
iy shown in statement from the at
torney representing the land commits
sioner and myself and directed to
Gus Harmon, the editor making the
charge. From this statement of this
attorney, I quote as follows:
at is nowhere charged in the suit
that these men were connected with
or had any knowledge of the fraud
and collision complained of. All
charges of fraud and collision are
lodged against the four purchasers:
Knapp Stout & Co., ]. j. Newman
Co., Sage Land & Improve
ment Co.. and The Blodgett Inter
ests. The bill of complaint express
ly disclaims any intention to connect
the state officers and college
trustees with the fraud and collision
charged in the bill, as will be seen
from the following quotation from
paragraph Is of the bill dealing