The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-11-20
All He Wants is Time.
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All t1e warts is llIuo. 2'
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Myers is a remarkable man. We
allude to Myers Of Natclit"ches.
Give Myers time and there are few,
If any, things within the range Of
human possibility that he cannot do.
Our readers will probably recollect
that about a year and a half ago there
was painful .rnn'or current t"nching
Myers. Myers was then a Jndge-a
District Judge not the sort Of a Dis.
trict Judge that Shannon wants to he,
hut one for which no., was Just ahont
as tit as Shannon is for the place lie
bankers after. But We digress. N.Y.
yers' was At that time q District Judge,
and there was an unpleasant rumor.
The rnmOr said that during Myers
Service at the far,sl. School Board lie
had improved the shining hours, a. it
were, to the extent Of gobblipg some
ten thonsand dollars ~ tile pifNflt
money. Myers was busy then, and
he paid no, attention to the i,jnri"ns
gossip. He was u Judge. as We have
explained, and, beside that, he had
very pressing business If a personal
nature outside If NatclIitoches par
ish. Myers found it necessary to flee
to this city, 10 fact, and, as y co.se.
queuce, had no leisure to attend to
this cruel, though ridiculous story ot
the $4,000 school funds. Neither
was Myers any better off as to time
further along in the year. AS late as
January, Of 1875, one cold and gloomy
night, we find him appearing to poor
little Phil. Sheridan ~ a refugee
from home and friends, a scared ANU
haggard martyr, q llairbreadth sal.
wage fiOm the assassins of the swamp.
Myers had then been living quietly
in New Orleans for about six months,
but Sheridan knew 10 better, and the
story had the pleasing effect of show
ing him of as political victim rather
than a fugitive Treasury grabber
Oh, yes; Myers was very busy ID
those days. People accused him o
seNoping the school fund without 4
word of denial being heard. II be-
came public opinion aud CONNER
MINOR, and though Myers WAS he,t
in town with no visible occupation
save that Of giving ghastly tertimouy
before the Hoar Committee, neither
he nor the Organ ever found time tt
notice the injurious accusation. Why
We almost began to believe that dis
agreeable story about the ten tlI0us
and dollars. '+'
But as we said before, Myers IL ,
remarkable man. We did not tli6i,
truly as we appreciated him, fatl.nq
the resources Of his great nature. W.
little imagined what Myers could an,
wOnld do rs soon as he got time. W.
little suspected that after the burden
of craftsmanship were lifted from Ny
yers' shoulders, and after the excite
n,ent IT those tremendous episode
had subsidized in Myers midriff, an,
at u time when everybody had. give
up the $4,000 for lost-we littl
dreamed, we say, that under sucll cir
cumstances Myers would some dr.
csme forward and say, "Gents, yol
misunderstood mes did not ba
that $4,000. Here is Browns Ger
tiicate. You know Brown mic
man, Brown /; Superintendent Of Pub
lie Education, you know. Well
here's Browns certificate dated
whole year aud q half after the tran
saction, showing that l gave up tn
money like a man and BROTHER w
were not prepared for this, even fror
Myers, and yet this is inst what h
has done. Myers has come forwar
and shown on Browns testimony, tina
. he did not steal, or at least did nu
keep the $1,000 Of school None
that disappeared SO myste.iously !
the spring Of 1874. And anybod
who wants to believe Brown aud NJ,
ers can do 60 without molestatio'
3 That's the best Of il, Oh, certainl!
. Myers is q remarkable man. Civ
Myers time and he asks not'Iin
more. Let Myers get any give
amount Of public money fairly INF
his .bag, and then give him time, an
some day or other he'll show up
certificate If not from Brown, fro'
Smith or somebody else-that make
everything lovely. Like all gre'
I men Myers is modest. He don't as
much. Time is all he wants. Gi,
hin, time aud he'll get the money /
himself. That's the kind Of ma
Myers is. @ a sfl'i -