Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1906 — AND MANLY TOO! [ARTICLE]

AND MANLY TOO!

Next Wednesday, April 18, is the Becond anniversary of the McCoy bank failure, and neither of the bank wreckers have yet been brought to trial. S. C. Dwyer of Lowell has been nominated for joint-representative by the republicans of Lake and Newton. Dwyer was pledged to the Hanlyjpolicy and was nominated by acclamation. The work of abolishing football from the college sports still continues among the more progressive colleges of the country. The Mississippi college is one of the latest institutions to do awnv with the deadly sport.

Governor Manly, as was to have been expected, has declined to pardon ex-auditor of State David E. Sherrick, and takes occasion in giving his reasons for not issuing the pardon to enlighten the public a little more on Sherrick’s rascality. The statement generally published by the republican press of the State that Sherrick did no more than his predecessors in office, both republican and democrats, had done, Manly says is a blank falsehood.

The present State administration seems to have been made np of a s*-t of gr ifters from start to finish, if we may believe the report made by Gov. Manly's committee, appointed to audit the books of several >f the state offices, etc.

In addition to the exposures already made, the committee repor s that Robert A. Brown, clerk of the Supreme Court, had made a contract with a law publishing firm to furnish them with copies of decisions at a rate less than that fixed by law, and that there is 15,430 due from him as a result of such contract. The committee also states that, in the matter of the appropriation for the governor’s house rent, the Mull law requires that all money’s expended be given out only on itemized statements, but the law has been disregarded, even to the _ present executive. This appropriation lias been construed, the committee states, ‘do not only cover the actual rental but such other incidental and accessory charges as may be necessary to provide the governor a home suitable to his high office.” It looks as if the only thing for the people of the state to do is to make the bouse cleaniug.tborough by displacing the party in power in the State house. Too long a lease of power breeds corruption, and there seems to be plenty of it in tbe official conduct of our State officials.