Connecticut western news., 1891-11-12
CORNWALL AFFAIRS.
Charges and Denials.

Under the heading of Cornwall Bridge" the Torrington Register of Oct Is, published the following charges in regard to Cornwall town affiars. or the manner of transactipg the towns busi- ness:
 Five hundred dollars was voted at town meeting to be expended on roads in tbe north part of the town In excess of the road contracts Several roads ln the south part of the town have been so poorly worked that travel has left them and they are now grown up to brush and grass till they are practically useless. There seems to be poor supervision of highways in town. Parties having road contracts and leaving their roads almost impossible and not approved by the road inspector have been paid as promptly as if they had worked out twice the amount paid them. Our town reports are made up SO no one can tell the actual expeu- ses of tho town, although the Selectmen are directed by vote of the town to make them up after certain form, and men have been chosen auditors who could hardly read. The town deposit fund has been used up and the town Is getting badly in debt. The town has been run by 8 ring, and jail birds, Sab bath breakers and drunkards have been elected to office. But very few men of means and responsibility attend the primary meetings, and 1t is the belief of your correspondent that many more men than sheep are bought in the town every year The moral part of the com munity are following old party lines too closely, and should unite and nominate and elect good men to office. l would say to men of all parties, scratch the name of every immoral man on your tickets.
 The foregoing charges have drawn forth the following letter from resi- dent of the town of Cornwall who in- forms THE NEWS that he voices the sen- timents of all the best people and that he will back all assertions made in the following letter:
 Cornwall, Conn, Nov 2, 1891 Editor of Ne,os:
 Although not town officer of Corn wall. 1 desire to express myself. briefly regarding an anonymous article which appeared in the Torrington Register of Oct 18th, from the locality of Cornwall Bridge.
 The writer of that article must have belonged to the class vulgarly, and per haps dissgreeably, called ''sore heads. :" It would seem that he Is one of the few who have banded themselves together in this town under the name of "Pro- hibition." Such being the case, and having seen his name In print on tick ct. but never having been elected to an office. he has become dyspeptic,-more sore headed-and has launched fourth invectives in an article which he caused to be published in a paper having little or no circulation in this vicinity.
 He says, 'sThe town has been run by 8 ring, and jail birds, Sabbath breakers and drunkards have been elected to office.p I would impure who of our list of honorable town officers the cores pondent of the Register meant? We have among cur town officials to-day the best business men of the town ;care- ful and experienced men, men "of means" honest and upright, in fact the best citizens of the town fill the offices
 It has certainly not been the policy of the voters to elect men to transact the business of the town who could not successfully transact their own business and we have never been humiliated by seeing elected to office 8 man who would treat his family cruelty, or who z had to be forced by the State officials to send his children to school. We have no use for such men for office
 Again, he says, ''our town reports are made up so no one can tell the actual expenses of the town" He must be terribly ignorant of the vote of the town under which the reports are made out The reports for the past year were very full and concise, and they were accept ed by the town without 8 dissenting vote and without a question.
 It Is to be regretted that any persor can be found who would write such un truths for publication in 8 newspaper Surely tue correspondent of the Regis ter must belong to the select- few who would make friends by means of the mammon of unrightiousness, and wht would vote For license" to get vot, for the candidate on the prohibition ticket