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

| with this phase pf the Subject:
Compliments aver that they do not
charge that the land commissioner or
the other state officials or the
trustees of said college were aware
Of or had knowledge of the afore.
said conspiracy. The conspiracy
referred to Is that alleged to have
been entered into between the above
named purchasers prior to the sale
of the college lands whereby they
agreed not to bid against each 9th
.r, but that one of their number
should purchase the entire tract ant
the land would be divided amonL
them after the sale"
lJUpGE GRIFFITH PLEDGES VOTE
FOR ROBERTSON.
| Chancellor V. A. Griffith, who
ried this law suit, and decided the
same against the State, recently
| 1oticed in the press the effort of
the Insurance Commissioner and
Gus Harmon to make political CAPT
tai of his decision. and this Chan
| ellor, without solicitation on my
| part. voluntarily wrote me stating
| hat, while he did not approve az
| nal / nave uOut Sliltt nave DOoi
| tevenue Agent, my record has been
| uch as to merit another term in
,ffice and that he Is going to vote
| or me. He sent me copies of let
| ars written to Insurance Commits.
| Toner. Henry and to Gus Harmon
md from his letter to Harmon /
iuote as follows:
"Of course, any judge would rath.
,r his court opinions would not be
lsed in a political campaign; ano
his case peculiarly illustrates that
| or the manner in which it has beer
handled Just now would be calcu
| ated to leave the impression thai
/ am out fighting Stokes Robertson
md had gone out of my way to
.trike him through a court opinion
whereas, in fact, am supporting
him both on personal and, what
regard as patriotic grounds. ! think
he was right all the way through in
his insurance suit, both on mora,
and on legal grounds, and as that
case stirred up all the big fight on
him, am necessarily for him for
that reason, If for nothing else. But
there are several other reasons why
am TOT MIN WHICH CdUtlot tdkS
space here to state"
BISHOP GALLoWAY's RELATIVES
ENDORSE ROBERTSON AND SAY
THAT FRAUD NOT CHARGED
AGAINST BISHOP.
A relative of Bishop Galloway has
written me voluntarily as follows:
Hon. Stokes v. Robertson,
State Revenue Agent,
jackson, Miss.
Dear Sir:
have, with other relatives Of
Bishop Charles 3. Galloway, read
the original and the amended bills
in the suit by you and the Land
Commissioner against the Knapp
Stout Company, recently tried in the
Chancery Court of Perry County, in.
voIvlng the validity of the sale Of
the Alcorn College lands.
1t is nowhere charged in the suit
that the Trustees of the College, Of
whom Bishop Galloway was one, had
any connection with or knowledge
of the fraud charged in the suit
against the purchasers of the lands.
There is absolutely nothing in the
suit to which | and the relatives OF
Bishop Galloway could take offense.
am writing you this letter because
have read statement in the
press to the effect that you and the
Land Commissioner, as compliments
in this suit, had charged Bishop
Galloway and the other trustees OF
the college with fraud and collision
in the sale Of this land.
..I. L.
there is nothing in this suit to re-
fleet upon Bishop Galloway and the
other Trustees of the COLLEGE. but
take this opportunity of assuring you
that heartily support and endorse
you in your race for State Revenue
Agent.
Yours very truly,
ALFRED D. GALLOWAY.
Insurance Commissioner Henry, in.
censed at my requiring him to pay
the State Treasury more than
$S5 100000, improperly withheld by
him from the Treasury, has issued a
statement and is spending thousands
OF dollars mailing these statements
to the people. in which he charges
me with entering into plot to de-
stroy him. The poor, deluded old
fellow does not seem to realize the
opinion the people have of him.
They look upon him as being too
to perform the duties
Of the office entrusted to him and
too careless of the peoples money.
I am not concerned as to his fight
against me. He has $4,000 reasons
for being against me with dollar
mark in front of each reason, and
when the suit in Chancery Court,
which I am now prosecuting against
him, is tried, he will have $4,000
more such reasons with a similar
mark in front of each reason. He
of course, wants the law changed
with reference to the office which
has made him disgorge and If he
cannot get the law changed. he
would like to have his political bed
fellow and erstwhile deputy, who is
my opponent, elected to the office
be dismissed. I have no i'll will
toward him. My attitude is like that
Of the farmland, who finding rat
in his masters corn bin, impales
the rat on the pitchfork. He expects
the rat to squeal. He does not hate
the rat, but must stop him from the
business in which he is engaged.
OTHER STATES HAVE REVENUE
-ILLINOlS SUES FIRE
COMPANIES FOR $125, 1000, 10000.
1t has been argued by my oppon-
emit, and the fire insurance trust, tax
dodgers and defarlters who are sup
porting him, that many states do not
nave a state revenue agent. The an
swer is that most all states have back
tax collecting machinery, though in