The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1951-08-23
THROUGH
HAZEL
EYES
by Hazel Brannon Smith

county voters Will go to the
nolls and elect a sheriff to
q serve for the next four years.
The character, integrity and
disposition of the man Sc
1 lected will determine to a great
4 extent what kind of county
Holmes county will be for the
next four years. The ideas and
/ policies set forth by the new
sheriff will determine whether
! we have a wide open" county,
j or whether we will have law
enforcement.
II is not my intention to sug-
gest to any citizen of Holmes
county how he or she should
vote for sheriff - or any other
office. The only intelligent
way TO vote is to find out
what every candidate stands
for and then vote on the basis
of that candidate being able to
deliver the kind of government
YOU may want. B Tut re-
member this: YOU, the PEG
PIE OF HOLMES COUNTY,
are responsible for the type of
government we have the next
four years. You cannot escape
that responsibility.
/ still believe the majority
of people in Holmes county
want law enforcement.
There are a few important
facts that should be known by
every resident in the county.
I shall try to make this sum-
mary as brief as possible.
Whether the people of Holm
es county realize it or not we
have in this county a collection
of gangsters, would-be gang
sters, and just plain hoodlums
who are taking an active part
in Holmes county politics.
Some of them taking an ac-
tive part don't even live IN
Holmes county - and many of
those who do live here have
been run out of other Missis-
sippi counties.
These lawless elements are
coming in here from surround
ing counties and are doing
everything they possibly can
to elect a man of their choice
to the sheriff's office.
While some of you are busy
taking care of your own per-
sonal business these crooks.
are coming in and trying to
take over your county.
Please don't dismiss this as
an editors nightmare.
Investigate for yourself.
You'll find these laWless ele-
ments. don't leave anything to
chance - they only gamble on
a sure thin While some of
our good citizens were not
concerned enough to pay their
$500 poll taX last February
some of the lawless crowd
were paying not only their
own personal poll tax but the
tax for many o. their friends
as we'll. Anyone simple
enough to believe the boot
leggers didn't dictate some
votes - many Of them, in fact
in the First Primary, just
doesn't know what's going on.
One of these paid poll tax
for rs or 80 Holmes county
citizens in February. Check
with the sheriff's office on this
they'll verify it. AS a mat
ter of fact it's public informa-
ton.
These aren't just country
bows gone wrong - they're po-
tential murderers and gang
sters and they are organized to
the hilt. They will do any
thing for money or power -
anything they think they can
get away with.
These are the type of people
lowering around Holmes coun-
ty like vultures. If they can
get a man friendly to their in
terests in the sheriff's office
then they will really take over
and run the county from now
on.
Any man this element helps
elect will be as helpless as a
new born babe when it comes
to controlling or doing any
thing with them.
Under Sheriff Ellis E. Wynn
the past three and one-halt
years we have not had in
Holmes county slot machines
and open gambling. These two
vicious evils have been stamp
ed out - and the writer is
vitality interested in seeing
Sheriff Wynn's policies con-
tinued in this respect.
These slot machines take in
thousands of dollars weekly
all money that should go tc