The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-01-14

20 board hy the tax collector
I pay your taxes 90 the col
9TH Your aotea Take tho de-
/ the preceding treasurer, and
tie transaction and 10 looked too
and required o new legee board,
It Is not all, | hold In my band a
bed copy uf deed OF trust-too
20 insert ia speech executed
the 3Oth day Of November, ls92 by
Iares Scott 10 bis brother Hon. Geo
Scott, trustee, 30 secure TO 4. l.,
ones, easurer of Bolivar county,
sll, 1928. 60, nearly twelve thousand dol
lars, due and payable then but eN-
tended 20 January lst 1898. After
wards Mr.. Scott entered on the margin
OF the deed record that IL was extended
10 the 9th day OF June, 1896, three
wears and half How came he owing
the county treasurer this large sum of
money, / inquired. The reply was
that while Mr.. Jones was treasurer
Mr.. Scott gave attention TO the dis
bursement Ut the county money, and
that when he failed in business he
owed the county this large sum OF
money.
But may be that was q little debt
OF taxes on which he was getting a
little extension Of three and a half
years? The treasurer and the board Of
supervisors must have been extremely
clever to him, No wonder people
thought he had undue influence over
them,
SCOTT OPENS WAR.
l did not appoint a levee board sub
seryient 70 Mr.. Scott, and he at once
commenced the war on me. And Mr..
Scott is an attorney for the Y, & NJ. V.
K. h. company, and that intensified
his opposition.
There has been no scandal connected
with the new leyee board. The old
board paid discounts aud commissions
on the sale OF per cent bonds. The
new board has made arrangements TO
refund at 8 per cent interest, at a pre-
MUM, the bonds issued by the old
board at per cent interest, and at a
discount.
The old hoard left a bonded debt of
over q million dollars, on which the
new board is paying per cent inter
est. The money collected is being
faithfully applied for levee purposes.
This is the report to me and l be-
lieve it to be true.
at least | appointed good and capable
mer comm issio ners, and that was all
governor could do. The governor does
not have control of the board. APP
pointed DR.. Darden, who was working
his way from obscurity to high rank
In his profession; Hon. H. l.. Foote,
OF unquestioued character, an eX-s'ate
senator, and son Of that eminent lurIst
Judge Foote, of NoxuOee county
Capt. Harris, an ex-coniederate soldier
who gave four years Of his life to his
country in war, and to the farm ever
since the war, the sturdy and clear
headed farmer, W G. Boyd, Of Bolivar
county; the Chivalrous yet gentle
Capt. j. NJ. Montgomery Hon. J. M.
jayne a lawyer who stands in the hrst
class Of the profession, whose fidelity
to the leVee interests all admit; and
Hon. Fred Clarke, an equally eminent
lawyer, and faithful official, the son OF
ex-governor Clark whose shattered
nbs testified to his fidelity to his
country.
There is nothing of which to is
ashamed IN the personnel OF Tn !,
board, and yet for appointing them
received the i'll will Of Mr. Chas,
Scott, who, Mr. Smith said never told
an untruth in his life. | therefore beg
to read an extract from the pen OF
Mr., Scott, in June, 1893, in the Bon,
var Democrat. 1t speaks Of me, but l
hope | will not incur the charge OF i'm
modssty Tor reading it, Listen
CHAs. SCOTT QUOTED.
1.-THE subject Of this sketch is with
out doubt the best known and most
universally admired gentleman III the
state Of Mississippi He is man oil
keen perception, shrewd Judgment,
bright intellect and penetrating obser-
walton. AS a lawyer, he stands near
the head of his class in the state, as a
man he is loved and esteemed by the
people of Mississippi with the eXcep'
ton of a few chronic Office seekers,
who harass him with jealous hatred,
because in their shriyeled mind u
cherished the idea that were be out Oh
the way they would secure some
office. " 4 LAS senator be
stands unrivalled and at the head Of
the list of representatives, from the
various states, in the halls Of congress
When appointed to fill the uneXpirec
term of Gen. Walthal, he was com
paratively unknown outside OF th'
boundaries of his own state, but whsr
his term expired last March his namt
was familiar to the reading pubic
from ocean to ocean, and from tn
treat lakes to the gulf. 10 the hlstor!
American congress no othe
n. gained such widespread
o. or been accorded sucf