Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-03-09
Snowman Bridge.

ises hs seen by himself on the ground; and now
comes Parsonage considering himself and many tax
payers with propositions impugning the motives and
entirely derogAtory to the statements Of Tax Payer
which places both parties on public trial for candid
statements, logical reasoning, truth and yerAeity and
somebody going to be convicted in this trial Of
very reckless assertions, say the least and moth
ing short of anAyzaton Of the statements Of both
parties can be valid testimony in this trial. and to
putthe mildest he Is badly mistaken.
NOW TO ASkLYzE.
My asssilant starts out by ing that opposition
had been awakened by those directly interested.
Allow me TO ask who is not directly interested that
have share Of all these expenses TO pay? consid-
er myself one who is directly interested in economy
Of county management, and act accordingly with
the best information at hand, when acting He says
Tax Payer signed the petition after which time cir
cumstances changed and SO did Tax Payer. l deny
that circumstances facts of individual interest has
changed in the least, charged or that now or at
any time owned asingle dollar to be affected by the
proposed change, except tax payer of the county,
hence that charge falls harmlessly to the ground
The petition was presented to me with certain rep
resentatons land no doubt henesty) accepting as
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and have sought to disabuse, in public way, the
minds of those who signed said petition, and under
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tho, has sorDe,ir,a hoo,, 900 and ro, .oo,,. a.,
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he trus but IN r,,or do,,,,,oss co, coo No
tion Of sucb nroh,sm NOW for his assortion. a
1ourss comnarad v,th ,bo ro,.ed toctv tr al, 20 soo
xbo yilI intarast thon,sa,yos ororoh 70 40 - ,ho
c-nurd uo sors tb..o 4, hri,,, -, .to ,r.o,,,,, =,
opging to the Smith Pridoo "a and NOT 70 tho cor,
tv what will tba rsodor infer bv srcb 0s.ort,or
OF course that the brdce s there vithout order or
obloation Of the conrty To Isav if o-doro5 ~,
the authority tha hrfdpa filia tha
law IL belongs to the county inst the same as though
IT stood on the abutments and accented. Now vha,
becomes of that assertion If there ia no fault o this
part of the Smith Bridge Co. He saws the cost of the
bridge is s2,5OO: am informed bv parties who
think they know that the cost is ten dollars per lin
cal foot the length about s5 feet which aggregates
$3.50. Now comes the climax to friehten the people
into measures, and if he has set mammoth bear trar
to catch the people in and gets his own foot in it
he must bear the pain. He boldly asserts las though
it was true) that there is grading to be done at the
present location fthe bridge that will cost So 600
while the fact is the grading was done last season
land If am not misinformed) at cost Of IA cents
per yard, amounting to about $50, and accepted
and paid for. He can't catch old birds with sucf
cha as that and the whole S3 900 drops out Of sigh
and his capital stock is gone. He furth er says i
will cost 81 a00tC repair the ahutments. Now if hi
will strike off the right hand cipher he will be muct
nearer the mark, andI believe In good faith that bu
one needs repair, and that can be done for S50or
all events the repairs can be done in good shape fol
less than fourth, not one tenth Of the cost o.
removing some distance and digging deep down fol
new foundation and building all new Can anybody
stock in the argument. Every dollar of his $4,000
grade yet to be expended has proved myth. If the
bridge cost but ten dollars per neal foot he loses
81 $50 there, and say 800 for repair Of abutment
away goes 1900 more out of his OO0 and he is drv
en- into his hole and had better draw 1t in after him
Now for nv preyous statements that both sides of the
case NAV he seen at one gIsnce.
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