The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-12-21
WHICH ONE WILL YOU SIGN?

The matter of /making $40, 600 or S12,OOO
of JIM provements on the court
house ~ creating quite a good deal of
interest. Two petitions are being circu-
lssted. The petition asking for the inn
provement is as follows:
NO EXTRA TAXI
LEXINGTON, Mo-, Decembey, 1895.
To the Honorable County Court Of Lafayette
County, Missouri:
Your petitioners, the arder.igned tax.
payers and citizens Ut said Lafayette
county, being desiaous of having our
County Court House placed in q condition
adequate to accommodate all Of our
courts, as we'll as to accommodate our
citizens who may have to attend said
courts, would respectfully ask and urge
you to make such additions and repairs
to our present Court House at Lexington,
as /your judgment will meet the neces-
ST Requirements.
. We would call your attention to the
fact that only very recently your honora-
BILE body had to hold some of your sittings
outside Of the Court House, 80 as to allow
our Circuit and Criminal Courts to be
held in he Court House. We would,
therefore, recommend that voc makes an
addition on the south end Of the present
court house, 20 as to enlarge the present
court rooms, and also make more room
for wider stairways to the upper court
rooms, d MAKE the means Of lngress
and egress safer and far more convenient
than they are, and to conform to the laws
ABOUT public buildings. We would also
recommend that you add a wing to the
Court House, % as to provide q room for
the County Court, and make more Office
room about the building, and such other
additions a. you may think proper.
This petition does not contemplate a
cents extra tax. 1t does contemplate
using . surplus In the treasury for the
purpose Of undermining the court house.
The old court house il not large enough
nor commodious enough for b TRANSACT
ton Of the county business. It's a dis
grace to the county, and by all means
should be improved. This can be done
now without extra assessment. and we
believe the taxpayers agree with US that
the present building should be made to
accord with the wealth and prosperity Of
The county.
The demonstrated" being circulated to
counterfeit the petition for the improve
msnt u in words and figures as follows,
to.wit:
1--WE, your petitioners, being taxpayers
OF b county Of Lafayette, earnestly aud
firmly enter our protest against any
appropriation by your honorable body for
making additions to the court house at
Lexington, without first submitting the
proposition to the vote Of the people of
the county. The burden of taxation is
too great In these times to do more than
keep the present county buildings 10
proper repair. The present Indebtedness
OF the county alone 10 t671 800, besides
township. $751; 400; total, eo24,200. This
remopstrance II brought ont In opposition
70 . petition presented to pour body by a
have an appropriation made by you al
pour last session, for building additions
70 b court house ct Lexington, under
title Of repairs."
These two petitions are now before the
people. 1t would be assumption 10 say
that either one 10 circulated In bad faith.
It's b prerogative OF the taxpayers to
petition the court whenever they want to.
Let both sides OF. this matter be correctly
represented. Let animosity be buried and
the two petitions circulated side by side,
In the best of feeling. There is no use of
misrepresentation. Friends OF either side
can't win friends In this manner.
The INTELLIoENcRR does NOT believe
that thsb burden Of taxes lie heavy, or that
It will be made heavier BY an appropria-
ton to repair the court house. This is
our opinion, and we ask for it that charity
which We are willing to give to others.