The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-12-10
A THANKLEsS TASK.

THE MayersvIe Spectator and the Groenvle Democrat
their desperate championship of the Levee Board OF ts ds
undertaken difficult and thankless aso task in which 20
supported by the endorsement of the public na N when
they labor under the great disadvantage Of Advocating mea aud
methods which distinctly and dcseryedy obnoxious TO te mass
taxpayers.
They alone among newspapers of the district IN une'
ing to apologize of this bodya board of comm
er created originally by people simply their Representatives
handling their funds conducting the business Oh protecting T.
district from floods The board is merely an eXpeGeAs Only
cse for being is that the agents of the people N
have selected them representatives tod work which could
done by the whole body of taxpayers acting concert hat IS stem
was the original in creating the board Unfortunately a
power choosing their agents has been taken out Of the hands he
people themselves and by most unhappy chance has fallen TO
tho vena and inscriptions individual who by still e
unhappy chance occupies the seat of Governor Of M
When power selecting representatives of tie planting ae
District to the was never oonep
plated that high would be occupied by person OF like
caibre with the present incumbent
The absolute subveson of the whole political machinery Of the
to schemes unbushng personal greed and the mtheanee OF
ambitions of incompetent and unavailable persons W
dreamed Of
The Tcvee Board of this District as it at present exists is rot
representative of the districts chosen by e
themselves een sympathy with the pee PIC
Of the district any respect Individually, TIE TIMES would Is
claim any disposition ccise the members of the board Doubt
their private personal affairs they men OF honor no
probty charged is that being placed in aoort' b. 81
interruptions power inimica to the district and selected ter te
fidelity the governor Mississippi and relationship u each oe
the the taxpayers subsevien to those
Mr. Mcaurn and his faction They have permitted themselves To-
be subjected to his influence and governed by his poY h nave
arroganY dsregarded and oerrdden the wishes Oh the people, up
parcny supported and encouraged this presumption by the power
behind them Processing reform the Methods and retrench the
expenditures of the board which preceded hem they exceed
body ntoeran and avorsm with whc 1t
charged while expenditures have increased aarmn ~
only for such purposes damages rights OF Wy etc. 5u
unwarranabe salaries and Offices that instead Of one dollar
being used build eye the caset s almost certain
the present rate years dollar twenty-five a
leve construction That such state OF afurs
provoke and protest and bring the board into raj
dsreputs and dsavor quite natural Were the attacks made upon
confined to one newspaper political clique they would
little significance and require apology But the
test against the encoachments and assumptions Of the board is
loud and general ushe by anything but radical change chang
which will wheu the state relieved from the demagog
which infocts every vein Of its body and makes public laugh
ing stock and vonderment