The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-15
P~ascagoula, Miss.
August IA, l947

Three Times Sheriff and Candidate Again,
Pascagoula Miss.
Dear Mr.. Krebs:
believe the people and voters of Jackson Coun-
ty want to know where you stand on a vital issue in
this campaign.
Before the first primary, you and I and the other
seven candidates for Sheriff and Tax Collector
spoke together" from more than thirty public plat
forms. Several of the other gentlemen who were
candidates for the office denounced the operation of
slot machines and the operation of gambling dens
in jackson County and assured the whole people of
the County that they would not be returned to OPP
Grafton in Jackson County. You heard the slot ma
chimes discussed each time before you spoke and after
you spoke, but you lodged and evaded the issue. You
told the people from the public platform, in sub
stance, the following:
IL. Guy Krebs, am a native of your County
and have served as your Sheriff for three
times. / was honest and accounted for every
dollar of County money which came into my
hands. ] have had experience which adds to
efficiency, and, If you elect me Sheriff again,
l promise you to make the SAME KIND OF
SHERIFF and to render you the SAME
KIND OF SERVICE which I rendered be-
fore.
You made this nice speech from every public
platform. You also heard me state from every public
platform that | had experience and would answer
the call of duty and had never shirked a duty and
would not shirk a duty; that l agreed with the poll
cles OF the present administration of the Sheriff's
Office and that, if were elected Sheriff, | would not
tolerate slot machines or gambling dens to again OBJ
crate in this County.
Mr.. Krebs, you know, as does every man, wo-
man and child In Jackson County, that slot machines
and gambling dens cannot operate in Jackson County
unless they have the consent, permission, or CO.
operation of the Sheriff.
You know, as well as every other citizen of
jackson County, Mississippi, that, during your adj
ministration as Sheriff before, and particularly while
you served as Sheriff during the years 1910 to 1943,
both inclusive, slot machine operators and big time
gamblers, who live beyond the boundaries of the
County, operated gambling houses and slot ma
chimes almost everywhere in the County and that
such gambling dens and slot machines took hundreds
OF thousands of dollars out of. the hard-earned
money of County citizens, and that such operation
enriched only the slot machine kings, who live else
where, and the slot machine princes, who live in the
County. That such operation did damage to the gen.
eral business of the County, the merchants. drug
stores, flower shops, legitimate beer parlors, places
OF wholesome amusement and savings accounts and,
also, deprived families and children of the things
they should have had, and. also, created an atmos-
phere of evil and uncleanliness and a general dis
respect for law, while slot machines and gambling
dens thrived under your Watehful eye.
You know that Sheriff Newman had merely to
tell the big time operators in the County that they
could not run slot machines and gambling dens while
he was Sheriff and they closed up and moved to
other parts and that the tin horn operators also heard
what lne oneflf1 SAID, and understood 1t after he
raided a few times, and they too went out of business.
You and l both know that the citizenship of the
FOR SHERIFF AM
! CITY KRERS