Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-07-08
PERSONAL STATEMENT TO PUBLIC.
BY oHANcELLoR POWERS.

1871. 10 the People OF MlSSlSSlppl'
When the papers carried the news
that charges rejecting upon my
character were to be made by a
University Professor, | promised to
answer every charge that might be
made. have kept this promise in
letter and in spirit.
| went INTO the school-room when
a lad of eighteen years and walked
among children, seeking to teach and
inspire them to become high minded,
Christian men and women, AT the
age OF thirty-eight years, after TWEEN
tv years of service as a teacher in
the public schools, was promoted
to the office Of State Superintendent
OF Public Education, where | had the
honor and privilege of administering
the educational affairs OF the state
over period of nearly eight years.
Seven years ago | came to the exalted
position | now occupy. If there had
been, through all these years, thirty
four in number, breath OF suspicion
against my character as a man, |
would never haye been called to the
responsible positions have filled.
| am tifty-two years of age. My
life has been an open book to my fell
low-citizens. After | had reached
this ripe age, University Professor,
r. W. Rogers, sought, as you have
seen, to ruin my career and blast my
reputation. On more than one oc-
casion, a compromise was attempted
to keep any charges against me from
being made public and to hush them
up. | scorned these efforts The
venerable University of Mississippi
seeker after the highest ideals, expo
nent OF all that is clean and noble,
was beng slaudered through it's
Head. Its good name linked with
my own, was at stake. There was
only one way to answer this Islander
and remove this stain, and that was
to submit to the ordeal through
which have passed.
Ia the dali of Representatives, in
the Capital City, before the full men,
bership of the Board of Trustees of
the University and colleges and any
citizens who might care to hear the
evidence, with full opportunity given
this Professor to press his charges,
| answered fully and completely every
charge made. At 90 time during
the trying ordeal was | cast down.
Cheerfully | submitted to this test
of my character. Conscious OF the
rectitude of my conduct through the
many years of my service to you, |
had from the beginning not the
slightest doubt of the result.
knew just God would not permit
the efforts to ruin me to succeed
The stain has been removed from tie
proud escutcheon of the University.
My name is as free from faint as it
was before the foul calumny was
heaped upon it. God S hand has
guided. sus tained and conferred me
through it all.
| have an abiding faith in all fair
minded, Justice loving Mississippans
that my work in the future will not
be impeded or circumscribed because,
willingly and.even cheertully in the
sight of God and man. / met the SUI
preme test of my fitness for the high
position | hold,
To the scores of friends who at
tended the hearing and to those who
have sent me messages OF comfort
and good cheer, l tender the pro-
found gratitude of my family and my
myself.
| shall continue in the future as In
"a in the past to walk among you
seeking to do my full part to promote,
through my work as an educator, the
welfare of our great State.
Very respectfully d gratefully yours,
]. N. POWERS.
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