The Colfax chronicle., 1903-10-24
Also full line Of Stationery and School Supplies.
Mr.. Harvey Should Be Defeated.

Mr.. Harvey Should Be Defeated.
The measure OF every mans fitness
for office is honesty, competency and
efficiency. In two of these particu-
lars Mr.. Jas. A. Harvey, candidate
for Assessor, has shown himself to be
entirely lacking, and for this reason,
if for none others that might be men,
toned, he should be repudiated in the
primary election by every Democrat
who has the success OF the party and
the welfare of the parish at heart.
Mr.. Harvey owes his four years po-
sition in the first instance to bit of
chicanery and political bad faith,
that should condemn him in the eyes
of all honorable and fair minded men.
In the next place he has proven him
self to be incompetent and incapaci-
teted for the duties of the Office for
the entire four years that he has serv-
ed as assessor. The assessments have
been done in SO crude a manner, that,
with all the help the police jury and
the sheriff and his deputies could rend-
er, the omitted list of taxpayers has
grown larger each year, until it has
now become huge monument to his
neglect or Incompetence. Mr.. Harvey
can make either excuse he chooses for
this state Of affairs, and the fact Of
his unfitness for the position remains.
His last glaring official act OF in
competence was the late enumeration
of children. On the 9th of June the
Chronicle called public attention to
the fact that Mr.. Harvey had failed
to make anything like a correct emu
meration of the schoolable children in
Grant parish, and we said that if the
school board failed to require him to
make the enumeration over it would
be recreant to its Duty When the
board met in July it rejected his emu
meration, and required him to make
it over. MIR. Harvey, seeing that the
board meant business, agreed to do
the work without waiting to be forced
by law to do SO. One month laterhe
turned ina report showing thefollow-
ing facts: The enumeration iu ward
one was raised from his first state
ment of 752, to 404S, an increase of
266 children. In ward two heincreas-
ed the enumeration 1876 children. In
ward six he also increased henumber
of children. Thus we have from his
own official acts that he had over
looked more than four hundred chill
dren in these three wards. At So per
child, for the four years that the emu
mcration would run, the schools of
those three wards would have lost
more than $4, 800, had We not made
a kick.
And, this glaring oversight, neglect,
failure, or whatever you want to call
it, bear in mind, was made in spite of
the fact that the parish superintend-
ent had printed and furnished him
with specially prepared blanks to en-
able him to carefully and perfectly do
the work that the law required at his
hands. In view of the further fact
that the people OF Grant parish were
especially interested and earnestly
demanded that this work be done cor
rectly, we regard Mr.. Harvey's failure
to do 80 as exceedingly culpable, and
it should cause him to be entirely re-
pudiated as candidate in the pri-
mary election.
Our hilarious but somewhat callous
and sordid friend, S. r. Lee, candidate
for Representative, being the prime
mover and arch conspirator in the
appointment of Mr.. Harvey, is enti-
tied to a double share of blame and
reprobation for his act of nepotism
in securing the appointment, and for
general injury to the body polite of
Grant parish. Healso richly deserves
condemnationand defeat at the hands
OF the Democratic voters.
Some peoplecan be bought outright