The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-01-01


country no man should force him
self upon the public and by an i'm
proper use Of a great function de
fly the public will. If the goo,
people of Washington county d,
not want Mr.. Jayne to reprcsen
them on the leyee board the highe
sense ofpropriety induce hin
TO refuse to serve them. We admi
the spirit of loyalty that causes
Gov. McLaurin to stand by hi
friends. That is all right. Nc
one loves a true friend more thar
the writer. But we have no pa.
tience with, or do we believe il
right for a man to prostitute the
function of a great Office to the
payment of his private debts or to
reward his personal friends. This
matter should have been submitted
to the people and if fair, Just and
honest expression of the white
Democratic voters of the county
had been obtained then their
wishes should have been law to the
governor. That is all there is in it.
Greenwood Commonwealth.
There is going to be more del
Ia mud throwing from Washington
county in the next State camgaign
than was ever read about before.
If there is a McLaurin on the
ticket or an appointee of Nc
Laurin, or anybody that looks,
tastes or smells like a McLaurin.
Washington county will cover him
with delta mud from the crown of
his head to the corns on his toes.
In short, Washington county is up
in arms against the governor. 1T
is not saying much, because the
governor knocked it dumb in the
first round, but it knows full we'll
who threw the brick. 1t has its
eye on the governor, its teeth are
grating like a twenty-four inch
file on a circular saw,
"It came around in this way.
The executive committee of Wash
ington county, in convention as
sembled, telegraphed the governor
asking that if the people of thai
loyee board district held primary |
or convention and recommended |
their choice for commissioner on
the leyee board, would be appoint
that man. The governors reply |
was a clincher. 1t was a cyclone.
1t was a Texas tornado 1t was
an avalanche and volcano in one,
for he said no.
1T happens that our constitu-
ton gives the governor the exclu-
sive power of appointing the mem
bers of the levee board commits
sion. The property owners Of
-he leyee districts pay the taxes
% keep the levees, but they have
no voice in the appointment or
Ielection of the commissioners, and |
when the people of Washington
county, one of the richest and
argest tax paying counties in the
lelta, asked the privilege to name
.he commissioner the governor
with a sudden outstreteh of the
lhe arm kaocked all their fondest
hopes into the Mississippi river,
Therefore that is what caused
rs to remark when we spoke the
irst time that there would be hot
Did times and mud-ball battle
when the next State campaign
opens if there is three scratch of
pen of the name of any McLagrin
On the ticket er anybody or any
hing that looks like a McLaurin.
The governor had a perfect
right according to tho State con-
stitution 10 act as he did, but if
svery other chapter in the consti-
.ution should say to the people Of
Washington county that they
must whoop it up for l6 to free
liver MoLaurlns there would be
i revolt, a secession, and such a
war that the Cubans would have
% como over here and recognize
he belligerents. .'-Hattiesburg
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