The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-03-05
A CARD FROM E. c. MCLEOD.
lie Writes Concerning his Selection for
County Commissioner.
TO the Citizens County Commissioners Dis
frirf M

County Commissioner.
! To the Citizens County Commissioners Dis
trct MOI:
I write this to say that | will not
offer petition to the people until all
who VIII have signed the Glover Mil
Ter and parson Porter petition are
heard from. don't care to have any
one on nay petition that could per-
suade himself to fix his name to that
document. have been told by some
that have signed it that they did not
do it on personal grounds; so, | sup
pose, ii was done for political reasons.
That means that am not the right
kind Of democrat to suit the sensi-
tive financial principles involved in
this contest.
live in Precinct No. l., This COM
missioner's district extends from north
of Lowell to five miles south of Ocala
from Cotton Plant to beyond Silver
Spring. This takes in q large popu-
lation Of country people. Let me ask
the city Of Ocala has it ever had
any representation on the board of
county commissioners outside the cor
porate limits of Ocala? Has not a
town man held this office since it
was an office? Do you mean to deny,
as this petition states, the right of the
country people outside the incorporate
limits of the city to hold at any time
a place on the board of county COM
missioners? Are we to be debarred
the right of office because we are
tackled on to the city? We have miles
of road that come directly under the
supervision Of this board, the improve
ment of which is important to us and
should be to the city. Has the city
any roads, that come under the eye
of this board, to look after for their
improvement? Not a mile. We pay
the same tax rate as you do for county
purposes. Take a fair and impartial
view and see if we OF the country in
this commissioner district have not
an interest equally as important as
our city cousins IN this Office. Come
out on the roads north Of Ocala and
see if you think they are turnpikes.
How often does our city county COM
missioner ride over and look after
their condition? Last fall ! was often
told how unfair it was to preach
country against town" in politics.
How does this petition, with its aim,
show up for our city cousins in this
particular? As long as the country
people let them have their full sway,
we are nice folks, and come to town
to spend our dimes. AT the same time
you don't want any country jake"
representation, even if ii is his right.
Howl and petition the governor to
relieve You from the Odium of the
least shadow Of country rule. How
consistent! "Weare opposed to coun-
try against town talk from country
people,"
"Town against country" is another
view Of this subject. came by the
endorsement of this place in regular
way. / am not going to be downed
and mean to fight it to finish on the
principles Of the contest and not for
the pay Of the office. Will promise
my people that l will know no section
but will vote and work for the good of
all, and will promise not to vote away
the peoples money only when know
that they have received the full re-
muneraton of one hundred cents on
| the dollar. | mean to work for the
| improvement of our roads. Better
| highways | conceive to be of vital im-
| p0rtance to this county, am not in
favor of county bonds under any con-
dition. The improvement of the roads
can't be done or paid for in one year
But let us take what money our peo
pie can pay in that direction and eX
pend it in a judicious and permanent
way, year after year adding few
miles of Coos roads to our county. Ii
the course of time we will accomplish
our object within our own means anC
not have q bonded debt to place OF
the shoulders Of posterity. In the ad
ministration of the county's business
will take my own medicine used il
my private affairs, viz: close atteutiol
to my work, economy and retrench
ment. Respectfully,
+. G. Mcleod.