Delta chief., 1883-07-25
CORRESPONDENCE.
A Correspondent Reviews the Action
of the Comm tssioners.

TONGUE CREEK, July 20, 1888.
To the Editor of THE CHEF
have been waiting and watching" of
late to see if some wouldn't be kind enough
to give you few lines from Tongue. 1t will
be remembered that in the first division of
this county into voting precincts and COM
missioner districts, our worthy County Com
missioners saw fit to decree, as understand,
that about one-half of the voters of Forked
Tongue and Surface creeks, should vote at
Delta, and the other half could, if they
wished to do so, ride over to North Fork and
deposit their ballot. In either case it would
have entailed both loss of time and unnec-
.essary expense on account of the distance re-
quired to be travelled 1t was only last fall
we were debarred the privilege of voicing our
sentiments at the ballot-box by the election
coming off when we We're busy garnering in
the golden grain and while we could not af
ford to lose Il full day, we would have gone to
a ballot-box located anywhere near the center
OF the community. We claim to be true
patriots, and want at all times voice in
everything that pertains to our county's in
terest. Now in order to obtain this we found
it necessary to take such steps as would most
likely prove etfectual. A petition was circu-
lated accordingly, duly signed and presented
to that worthy body asking that they not only
create for us voting precinct, but a commits
sioner's district also. Ourpetition was tabled
until the next meeting, which took the I'd of
July, that we might organize, choose officers
for appointment, etc., which was done at
meeting held at Pierre Settles ranch, at
which time and place we selected A. C. Bots
ford as delegate to appear before the ''pow
ers that be, and urge upon them the import
ance of granting our request, which was done,
for they spake unto the delegate saying, ''thy
prayer is granted, go thy way is peace ~ and
the delegate exclaimed with loud voice,
Behold you have this day made my soul re-
joice within me-" And, Mr.. Editor, we are
all rejoicing, so much so that | can but agree
with the poet when he said everything is
lovely and the goose" is considerably elevat-
ed. Now that the Commissioners have grant
ed our request. they have simply performed
duty which should and would have been
done in the outset had they suffered them
selves to be governed for an instant by the
slightest knowledge of either the extent of
the country composing this district, or the
number of voters resident therein. In the
first place the Commissioners had no right to
let their actions be so characteristic of lcth-
argy, for we had the country and the voters.
and this seems to me as all that should be re-
quired. At present we owe that worthy body
no i'll will, for they have done their duty
well; but will say that we can account for
their kind and considerate action in but one
way, and that is that some one of the trio
must have had call prior to the Fourth to
read the Declaration of Independence, and
while perusing it let his eyes rest for mo-
ment on that part wherein the writers thereof
spoke so favorably and pointedly in regard to
that right of suffrage to which each and every
male citizen over the age of twenty -one years
should be entitled. Perchancc they might
have stumbled on the passage where it speaks
of all men having been created equal in the
beginning, and sought by the course of action
pursued in the outset, to firmly impress us
with the belief that we really did belong to
the rfi-raff, rag-tag and bob-tail, slathergag
est at stake, not entitled to any of the rights
embodied in the constitution, and living in a
neck Of woods where the gospel would never
be preached, where the owls hoot in the mid
die of the day, and Ark's cub would forever
roam at will. Yours in the flesh,
GEORGE THE FEARLESS.
sud Death.