Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1893-01-24

o. u cO0N u00S0 anu " u 4u0 btouy
act hls business and return on the nsxI
train. And my brother frye-both Of
them good lawyers and honest. slncers
meu-wants 20 DO accommodated In tn
Same way. Possibly some Jurymeu may
come down that way and b better 90.
commodated. When you consider the
question In all lts bearings, and strip u
from thu desire Of Norway and South
Paris TO get the county seat down there,
10 has resolved Itself int0 the single
question, not Of necessity, but OF COO
venience. Can you submit 70 the peo-
pie Of Oxford County simple question
OF convenience! IL that what you mean
IL that what the petitioners mean! And
that Il all there ls Of their case.
Now, let us zee about the convenience.
We In the east have something to say
about it. We belong to the county OF
Oxford. We have q railroad, and We
have enterprises and Industries there In
our section, and we trust they are going
to be successful. We do not ask you to
come on to our railroad with the county
buildings, because it would be conyen-
lent TO get of the cars Into the jail. Not
at all. We do not ask you to build your
county buildings at Rumford Falls, the
foundation Of = great city possibly, and
the nucleus Of all the people OF the earth.
Almost every nationality II now repre-
sented there, the Italians being In the
majority, and have no doubt but that
some OF them are upon these petitions.
They have got men from China, from
Boston and from Maine.
But what IL the convenlepcey have
placed upon that map Of the County OF
Oxford, hanging upon the wall, q small
piece of paper. placed Il where South
Paris IL, aud I covered the whole of
south Paris by that small bit Of paper.
Now there IL where they say the couven-
lence Of the people Of this county re-
quires the county seat to he located.
When they ask you to move the county
seat Of the county Of Oxford and to
build such buildings as shown here, Of
brick, stone and cement, Il means q
building for century. II Il an impor-
tant matter, not only to the people Of
the county a. Taxpayers, but IL Is I'M
portant upon the question OF conven-
fence, In all the years to come. The In
dustries Of South Paris may dry up. In
Norway they they may 90 out OF exist
ence. They may wash on by the break
ing away OF the dam at Pennesseewassee
Pond. We don't know. The stream
NAV take the course Of Main Street there.
IN you locate at South Paris, you will
then locate within seven or eight miles
| from one county line and within six miles
of another, and you will flnd the county
of Oxford running from Hiram and Por-
ter on the south nearly 100 miles on the
New Hampshire line. Can my brother
Wilson saw to me, can Brother kimball,
with his honest democracy, say to me
that, for the next hundred years, South
Paris Il to be the centre OF convenience
for the county Of Oxford, and that you
are thereby obliged, In your official ca
pacity, to designate II as such Tor all
years TO come. IL IL were to be for two
years, or five years, there might be some
propriety In L.; but you are to act for
all time to come. The arguments pre-
septed TO you must be the arguments not
only for to-day, but the arguments for
century at least. Now look at the sit
uatlon. IL Il within six miles OF Andro-
scoggin county and within seven miles
Of Cumberland. Who knows but that,
plantations lying on the Canada line and
along the New Hampshire line, and over
on the east, towards Franklin, may be
populatedt Who knows but that the In
habitants Of Maine may creep up Swift
river and over the mountains on the east
until the balance Of population Of Oxford
County will settle down theres Who can
tell anything about iti And to say that
we should travel to Mechanic Falls, go
through one county, out OF the county,
TO get back to our county seat just to take
the railroad convenience, and to come
clear to the southern limit OF Oxford
County, L. presumption. I say IL IL pre-
sumption, aud Il has all grown out OF this
desire, IL has all grown out OF this little
pebble which Brother Wilson threw into
the water, which our lawyers over at
Norway kept stirring up until you find
the circle Of their influence marked just
as plainly by their petitioners rs you
can see the noon-day sun. They said To
Brother Herrick over at Bethel, "See
what YOU can do. You don't want To
climb that HILL" And Brother Iierrick
replies, III am provoked almost every
time ride up there; will 20 to Bethel
and will get mp a petition, and Brother
Frye will join me-"
They went to work In Bethel with
their petitions. Who will not sign a pc
titiont IL there a man In this room who
will not sign a petition, no matter for
what purpose, IL were to ask him, even
u Il were to exile this honorable Board
Of County Commissioners and send them
across the scar As q personal favor
they will Sign any kind OF q petition, no
matter what. Brother Herrlck IL the
treasurer OF the savings bank, the head
Of the water works and president of the
creamery-you always lind the lawyers
where there IL Greenland he says to
these petitioners, ~ want you TO sign
this petition" and they signed Il. In
the town Of Bethel, with all their water
works, savings banks and creamery, out
of the 635 voters they have got rs pc
titioners. In the town Of Paris, with all
my Brother Wilson could do, asa men,
Der Of this important committee, organ
lied down there to build up South Paris
village-and I do not blame them;
have got little interest down there, as
I owe the bank down there something
and belong to an Institution down there,
with all the influence they could bring
To bear to get this county seat removed
to that place, they only obtained 3li out
of 9i5 voters.
Now the town Of Norway doesn't
.eally want the county seat at South
Paris, unless IL Is mighty near the line.
They would like to have the jail at
South Paris aud the court house In Nor
way. They are all good people In Nor
way and like them, and, politically,
they are Of my complexion, with very
few exceptions like my brother kimball.
Now, out Of 733 voters In the town OF
Norway they have got on their petition
235. How does Paris standf Paris SAYS,
by Its protest Of 3l3 against 81, that the
bulldings are good enough; let them
stand where they are. Now how do
these three or four towns who would be
so greatly accommodated by having the
county buildings on the line Of the
Grand Trunk railroad stand on these
protestsf have taken occasion to fig-
ure IL, and find that, by leaving out
Norway-that IL not on the Grand
TRUNK, but q spur-in the towus con-
tlguous to the Grand Trunk Rail-
way, where the people have expressed
their opinion and desire by petitions aud
protests, they fall to get q majority Of the
legal taxpayers In the towns on the
railroad, from Gilead to South Paris,
and from Oxford up. Now, what Il the
convenience I say that Il has re
solved itself into simple ques-
ton Of convenience. What IL
the convenience to the easts What