Tombstone epitaph., 1900-07-22
COUNTY GOVERNMENT
By Whom Ideal County Coy
 eTnment Should be Run


 cal purposes.
 In some states the cousties are re- garded as corporations, in others a' "quasi corporations"
 To cor situate county. something more than law defining it's bound aries.-a local government must be proyitet. In all the states and organized territories there are political divisions called counties which brings home rule, and local government near to the people in fact to their homes; and it necessarily follows as sequence from the premise, that the people are directly chsrGeable with what sort of county government they hays-wheth CT good ts be spplsuded. or bad to be regretted, as they set in motion in so small territory AS political division called a county, the entire machinery by which it Is to run and it should be borne in mind all the time, that ,very office is considered public, the duties of which concern the pu 5lic. There is not and should not be any politics in county government mat ,srs; such matters should be attended to upon purely business basi-, by thorough business men. upon busi- ness principals Each man attending to the business in any capacity. should be capable end honest.
 This was the primary purpose Of county government; acts.
 It must be admitted however that county offices hsvs decsnded into the partisan political scramble for the places, and iussmuch as this IS true i, would be well il the different pirty conventions would nominate the most capable. honest aod best citizens 10 the places, 30 that the people in any event would be sure to have hon est and capable men to fll the county ffices such at least must be desir- able.
 We think it would be good policy on the part of the peopl, to get he Legislature to pass law dividin z each county into three slpsrvisor,al districts and one Supervisor to be elected from each district, and requir- ling the Board Of Supervisors ,o divide the counties into such districts, not a t) size of territory, bu. A proper divis- ion into th,ee equal parts as near as may oe Of the population of the coun- ties. By this msthoi there will be equal fairness to all and injustics to none, and all parts of s county would be fairly represented on the Board.
 Under the present system all n. Supervisors may came from one part Of county, where the population i. largest, and all the remaining parts c . county go unrep.esentsd sxcsp. by those that are elected from the par, where the population is large. Thi, is not the policy or intenticn o county government acts; itis rather ' the puIpo'e and intention oi such acis that as all property holIsrs ir the counties no matter in what part of the county they live, must pa, taxes in support Of the county gov. ernmsn.. It follows tha. all psrts o the county should be represented ca the BoIrd, that regulates the am oun of taxes that .hsuld b, paid an j passes on the proper disbursements O such taxes when paid. In other words that taxation snd representa- ton should go together and this is the primary object of local government and home rule.
 True, there are smaller divisions in counties Of which we may treat in an other article.
 The most important of all iht county ofiicss to a county are tho Bosrd of Supervisor', for they deal with questions that afec. the entire people Of a county. Their duties are various and responsible. for they can exercise all the power givea ihsn nI by statute and great deal of discretion, ary power in equitabls manner, hence 1t follozsG
 That they ought to be and should be three of the very best citizens of g csunty, regardless of their political sffilistioDs Sound practical bushes, men, men of affairs. men of at leas, reasonable eiucstioo, capable ani honest, men who conduct their owu aG.irs with diligence and prudence, and who could De depended upon tc conduct the Afairs of county in the