The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-05-22
GREENyLE WASHINGTON COUNTY MISS SATURDAY, MAY % 1897
CONCERNING THE IEVEE BOARD.

AAAh ANN HH 0VhhD.
IL ls rather a low-down play to at
tack fellow when he has no friends
The TINES has suffered n few com
FUNCTIONS on this score, for It ha be
gun to suspect that there were none
so poor to do the Levee Board reyer.
ence; but fate has raised il up a
champion In the Greenville 1--WE had
almost written the Gubernatoriar
Democrat, which, after more thau 8
week of cogItalon, consultation and
collaboration, brings forth a veritable
broadside-a whole editorial page
to prove,-well, to prove. In other
words, to say that the governor Of
the State can represent both its evee
districts before the commission OF the
same time, and that Judge w. Il
Trigg, Hon. r, B. Campbell, Hon
Joshua Skinner, Judge j. II. Wynn
and Hon. Charles Starting might also
have gotten up petitions which would
bave showed that it was the "practi.
cally unanimous desire of this district
that its interests should be looked
after by them" No doubt the gentle
men named are delighted as well as
astonishcd at the honor 60 unexpeCt-
edly thrust upon them, 1t was pret-
ty compliment aud being entirely
unsolicited, must be intensely crafty
ing. Certainly, if the Democrat and
the board are correct in their surmise
that any one of the gentlemen men
toned, or the list of names proposed
as delegates would answer the pur,
pose equally as well as the man asked
for by over 500 of the people Of the
district, why then, of course, the peo-
pie are wrong and the board is right ,
but, If the board and its backels have
such confidence Ia the ability of oil
their Honorable represenI atiVes, why
go to the expense of sending four
teen of them, when any two, chosen
at random, would do the work as
wellf
Concerning the "mass of opacity"
the TINES forbore to specify. 1t left
that tssk to the people of the district.
Ifprivste opinion, publicly expressed
counts for anything, they have not
been slow to do it. The TINES cannot
draw invidiCus distinctions. Let each
Que or the Honorable host lay the fat
tering unctlou to his soul that be is the
bright particular star. They are all
Honorable men, and possibly, too, they
are ambitiOus, Some of them have
never gazed on the statue of Liberty,
or ridden on the trollery cars or
looked at the animals in the park.
Surely it doe seem rather small III
the generous people of this district 10
grudge them SO innocent an amuse-
ment "ShouId they secure about
million dollars for our people we do
not think they will complain Of the
expense, nor term the effort aJunket- a
lug expedition.
The above shows that the editor OF
the Democrat is serenely UNCONSCIOUS
(probably owing to utter absorption
In The work of preparing his editeriai)
hat the effect OF losing the Berry
amendment in the House will he 10
give the Commission only $5OO,0OO to
sllot, in addition to the allotment made
last Summer; and unless this allotment
is 10 be credited to this committee 1t is
difficult TO sec how the rosy anticlpa-
tions of The Democrat are to 0e re-
aliSed.
The Democrat says the present
board is "a poor thing" because 1t Is
all that its predecessors let of it, The
errors of those who went before oller
no excuse for their continuation by
their successors. The board surely
will not undertake the condone any
Of their actiona by citing such pre-
cadents aud must remember that
bIackeniug another will never make
ones self clean.
The Democrat says it took the
Times long time to wake up TO Inc
fact that the board belonged TO 'he
people of this district. Beg PARDON
but that's mistake The ZINES
thought it belonged to the people al
the time, but has just walked up to inc ,
fact that 1t belongs to Al. McLanrin
and his clan instead