The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-07-21
PERSONAL.

| Founded during onehf the mos'
critical periods of the history %
the Southern states, an era marked
by exhibitions of political deprav'
ity such rs to constitute an ordea
through which but few of the
worlds states have been called
upon to pass born into the very
| hot-bed of this scene of social
wreck and disorder, the career OF
The TIMES has been marked by
more than the ordinary vicissitudes
which track the footsteps of the
unpretentlous country newspaper.
| Its editorial columns, during these
more than thirty years, bear testi-
mony to the life it has lead, and
declare that from the very storm
period of its first days, the trials
and struggles of those with whom
has it counselled and advised have
been its oEn, apd prove that its for
tunes, good and bad, have been
but the common lot of the people
among whom it has lived.
Beginning with the struggle fol
the overthrow of carpet bager-
ism and the recovery OF self gov
eminent, through the fight for a
new constitution, to make secure
the fruits of the reconstruction
victory, on down to the advocacy
first of governmental assistance
for, and then OF governmental
control of the levee system, its
course has been consistently lden-
tiled with the interests of the p0o-
pie of the county. district and
state; it has shared with them the
anxieties incident to early trials,
and has rejoiced with them in the
advent of better times. Neither
the founder of The TINES nor he
who, as ita editor for nearly a
quarter of a century, established
for it the record at which we have
briefly glanced, is any longer
connected in any way with the pa
per,-hence we may be pardoned
for indulging in what otherwise
might be self-laudatlon. The ven
cradle Jno. w. Ward is still
following the vocation OF his
youthful years, while Capt. Nc
Nelley has made Of the Vicksburg
Herald one of the best edited pa
pers IN the South. So much for
what has gone before. In a day
SO strictly unitarian as is this In
which we live, we are apt to ask
ourselves "What profit is there in
looking into bygone years" 1t
would be justitiable to trouble the
past if for naught but the gaming
of an inspiration for the future
but in beginning new year, under
new auspices we have the further
excuse of appealing to it as an
earnest of things to come, in lieu
of other promises.
We shall at all times advocate
those policies which we consclen-
tiously believe to make for the
good of the people with whose in
terests we know ourselves to be
identified. AS u citizen and tax
payer, to do otherwise would be to
90 counter to our own selfish i'm
terests, even had we no higher in
centive to the seeking of the pub
lie welfare. 1t shall be our aim to
conduct an honest paper, free of
hypocritical protestations of indy
ing devotion either to any man or
set of men,-or to any dogma or
ism merely because it happens to
be espoused by one man or con-
demned by another. While exer-
cising the right of criticising that
of which we do not approve,
whether IN public bodies or pub
men, we shall endeavor to do so in
a dignifed and decent manner
not using newspaper criticism for
the venting of personal Spleen
and, in discussing public measures
or men, in being Independent we
shall yet be fair.
The TINES owes allegiance to
no political clique and is controlled
by no ring, and shall endeavor to
do equal and exact justice to all,
SO that at our hands even the
Devil shall have his due. We are
a candidate for no public Office,
and no man connected with this
paper holds any place of public
emolument or desires any.
Our columns shall at all times
be open to every citizen, down to
the humblest, who wishes to dis
cuss, within reasonable limits, any
question which in our judgment
will be of interest to the public,
but under no circumstances will
we pay any attention to anony-
nous communications.
We hold that no question, state
or national, can be of such vital
to people situated as