Show Life Ufe T Terms for Governors NO NO ONE has proposed that the tenure in of office office of- of j I fice flee of state gover governors ors be for life and if someone should get the idea over there surely should be a good behavior clause insisted upon But in Governor Sennett Conner o of Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mis Mis- there seems to fo be the sort of man man the people will support for many years to come We c confess to n not t knowing a great deal about him what sort of apPo appointees chooses chooses he how he re regards regards regards re- re gards the wholesale liberation of convicted felons felons felons fel fel- ons by pardon boards boards' and numerous other im important important important im- im matters matters but but he seems to be a governor governor governor gover gover- nor with the interests of f the taxpayers at heart During every year of his four years in of office office office of- of fice he has required the state to live within its income Moreover it finished each year with cash on hand A deficit of bequeathed to him by a former administration has been wiped out Bond issues have hae been reduced and nd no new ones have been floated At the end of this year an estimated will be in the thesta sta state te treasury Now that is not all by any means Governor Gov Gay Conner tells the Mississippi legislature that this surplus should be returned to the peo peo- pie He thinks the state government has no moral right to spend it A treasury surplus he says represents just that much money moneT extracted ex ex- ex extracted extracted by the state from the taxpayers in ex excess excess ex- ex cess of actual government needs He lie has an another another another an- an other pretty sound tax philosophy The state has no right deliberately or purposely to impose upon its people a burden of taxation which will take from them one dime more than the requirements of actual operating necessities Those views are radical but not red They reflect a homespun honesty that is so unusual in politics and public service as to tomake make Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- Conner a newsworthy figure |