The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1902-04-12
SOME MORE ABOUT III.

/. caving and had been for yea
and to secure liberal appropris
tion for the revetment work,
y thought that by arousing til
board and planters to full SEMI
. OF duty through such an article
large meeting could be had her
: and a proper committee selecte
to go before the committee an
3 secure the appropriation.
81 To this article the Democra
took exceptions in a three column
editorial on the ground it woult
unsettle the labor of the country
bring about dire disaster, ETC., all
OF which proved to be rot, for nc
one has left or even though of leav-
ing as far as we know. The only
object the Democrat had for writ
ing this gush was to take issue
with the Times, whose criticisms
or endorsements of men and meas
ures of its crowd excites it like q
red cloth waved before bull, and
causes it tc strike, whether 1t sees
anything to strike at ornot. 1t also
announced'that.a meeting of tieLe-
wee. Board was called for Monday
when this matter would be dis
,ussed and presented to the COM
mission in ITS proper light. What
vas the result of his slow and ieal-
'us pollcys 1t was complete ,
OF lhe whole plas and had 0
: not been for Engineer West, r.
Tho unassisted and alone met the +
here as they passed n
atlrduy and laid the matter be- Il
IRE them, nothing at their hands {
'uld have been expected for this 2,
eeded work. a,
Now, we will admit after the al
1mmission had passed there was di
tie use of meeting Monday ca
ght called lby the Democrat ra
we said in the TIMES, Of las Sat ne
day. In this we were again up of
Id by the planters of the district be
when President Jayne called CT
Board to order, Maj. Helm,
! 1.-TWO other gentlemen, who tn
re there on other business, and
editor of the TINES were the
y persons present except mem ~ :.
s of the board and it's officers q
'ur surprise the editor of the =
was absent himself, AS ,.
N it was his paper that pub %,
ed the call but we guess he, -
like President Jayne, who was
'ent, but who had also realized rs
representation, put off pol 80
aad robbed the meeting of the ~ -
< before it, and stayed away. =
1t content with its first out -
of nothingness the Democrat -.
ties another colu IN to us I'm ~
bo hoad - ,.Nath;n r -, Berl
h is criticism on a supposed c.
view we had with the Clarion 49,
,er, q thrashing over Of old "
7, which never actually oc- "A'o
d but what is strange to us "o.l
It the same sense Of duty as a win
jouralistthat prompted him niee'
bl;sh tb;s shonld ~ 49, passe
pied him to have reproduced ance
Glow interview given in the piissl
democrat, which we know niill
s bound to have seen if he GOV y
he Mississippi column OF the DuSll
upon
Meml
I. Crosby, of GreenvilIe, is arrive
city to-day. When asked -. !:
be present condition of the out ~
md the outlook for high Official
his season, he said that just home
ere is no serious alarm to thew 4
by the planters throughout me-, q
ievee district. AT - =
lille the water has beenl compa
Y falling, and when he left That b
stood about "a feet ON the sion in
Of course, if there is to be that III
cessive high water it will e. ~
ae until later. A strong ef- ~ ~ :.
now being made by the Cnocta
Board of the district to pro- by his
om the River Commission BILE pll
'opriation large enough to done a
o. 1re ~ - . tbe e mosn snas tary at
chief engineer in January, noid oV
The Ievee is not threatened the lal
eatlY at present at the low though
If Lake Bolivar and what d;scnss
n as Choctaw Bend, but ,s
'een slowly caying for a - = -
of years and there is bound Wered I
I'M this source considerable that we
'ss among the planters. he thou
e e. " 'nls .l pace Is one Of ing the