The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-27

I to the indisputable fact that the great ! est number of these are situated on their little homes in these sections be- tween the railroads, many of these railroads were built. and these people are too poor to abandon these homes and move to the railroads or the city, as did the writer of the article, and by government aid, in order to give them egress and intercourse with the world they must remain poor and un- progressive. Our old time friend would arsaay asn Ssped Ss faes while counsels the Board to withhold aid from those most in need of it. Why contend that 1t is impracticable, to i'm Zion and that little side track. by path," the Pettus Road which is now causing you so much worry? Good l road building Is yet in an experimental have the necessary materials along l some of these roads for their improve | ment without hauling gravel four | miles. But this county has hauled l gravel more than four miles to build roads and no citizen of our county will today gainsay the wisdom of such ex- pendftures on roads so built.
 The people of Crenshaw. Lowndes and southwest Montgomery Counties have been travelling over Pettus Road to Montgomery for fifty years and are still doing so. notwithstanding its dreadful plight, and the declaration of the gentleman that 100 land owners travel over his route where any one will travel the Pettus road thither. is as silly as it is ridiculous and he knows 1t. and he knows of a truth that this statement of his magnifies the real condition about 200 diameters. We county who stands ready if desired to make affidavit that during twenty years observation as superintendent Of roads in this section of the county, em- bracing both roads in question, the Rocky Mount and the Pettus, the travel over the Pettus Road has been twice as heavy as on the Rocky Mount. You say that you are working for the peo- pie, etc., and that we know it." Now of you are CD If you are. you have recently undergone a miraculous change in habits. All this hot air comes as result of your failure to get son John" want done. viz: the build ing of gravel road by the railroad along the Crenshaw County line from thirty to thirty-five miles from Mont naturally goes to the city already as water flows down hill You mention the road from Ada to Ramer through a mere pretension of liberality in your views and we venture the prediction that if the Board should undertake the gravelling of this road before yours from Sellers to Highland Home 1t being already graded and nearer the city, another howl would pierce the air. Old men sometimes instinctively follow old ruts and you have followed this old rut down through your old tramping ground from Strata to Highland Home so long, a part of two centuries, that you are blinded to the importance of any other road or to the interests of any other people. You pertIy remark that if in "slinging facts" you gather up some mud it would be d mistake, but the mistake you make and the pity is. you sling paore mud than facts You boldly charge littleness and sell fishness on the part of ourselves and our representative on the Board while you exonorate yourself and disclaim tenuation of your arguments the fact that you have a little farm a mile from the Pettus Road Why didn't you go further and be fair and say that this little farm Is almost as near a couple of railway stations and splendid gravel road to Montgomery on the opposite side, the side you enter. and that you have another plantation about Strata and another about Ramer You scare at your own shadow.
 If our representative on the Board has been dismayed at your scathing criticism we are not aware of 1t; State officials along decent lines not calculated to prejudice and deceive is customary. We have the, utmost con fidence in him to do what Is right as he sees 1t by all and from an intimate knowledge of his character we believe he has no objections to criticism, but invites the closest scrunity of his of ficial acts. No, no brother, we favor criticism, 1t brings our shay" to the front Our views somewhat coincide with those of an eminent divine of Chicago who recently wrote that criti- cism of the ministry is sometimes per II G. of restoring that dignity and purity which should characterize it under all circumstances.
 You ask if we knew our representa- tive voted against the work done at Sellers and all other down this way except Pettus Road, etc Most em- phatically no and neither do you know it, and we challenge you to prove your merely dropped little pebble here?You could easily have gotten the facts as to how he voted by consulting records of Board at your door and thus been saved the trouble Cor pleasure) of misrepresenting him. He has never voted against the work at Sellers nor against any other work that has been done in this end of the county in the that at Sellers once when the petition was tied on by you as & tail to your scheme of petition to gravel to La Pine.
 Our representative on the Board is the tool of no man. Because you can't lead him about by a ring in his nose don't try to fire him off the Board and out of the county.
 Certainly brother we'll keep in a good humor and we are glad to see you so jocular.
 W. A. Guy.
 B. c. Poole.
 R. A. Brady,
 N c. Poole.
 J. w. Bonham,
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