Williams news., 1906-04-14

the Oenent or the town, put to snow the voters how I have robbed the town. will make anyone a pres- ent of $1O that will show me one man out of the bunch that was working against me that has ever put up five cent piece for the ben eft of the town.
 Nor did they elect man on the council that has ever done anything for the town, or that pay but very little of the taxes. Remember what 1 said in the start-I don't wish to cast any reflections on the present council, for I consider each and every one of them a personal friend of mine. Now, if I pay more taxes in the town than 200 of the men that voted (which I think I do by picking them out), had not my in terests in the town be more than all of theirs? Now, if I have given more in the interests of the town than 245 out of 25O of the voters (which I have done, and can prove it), ought I to have anything to say as to how the town is run and how the money is paid out? Two hun dred of them step up and say no.
 Now, if I thought the principal taxpayers of the town said SO, would not waste my time writing this article. Since the election l have found out what defeated Jake Salzman. It was all on account of him turning Gerard down for prin- cipal of the school last year. If the people of the town want to raise any money for the benefit of the town, who do they call on? Yes. Salzman. And if you need an ac- commodation there is where you go to get it.
 Now, there is Joe Johnston, one of the first council, one of the best we ever had, and, for the interests of the town, one of the best it will ever have. I know, for I have been right there with Joe. But, then, Joe and Jake do not pay taxes. That is the way it looks to an out sider.
 They said, Ego way back" 80 I will start in when the town was incorporated about five years ago. What did we have? Streets that were almost impossible in wet weather and hardly a crossing First we had to have an attorney to draft ordinances; then we had to pay for the printing of them. Then look at the grading, ditching, cross ings and levees we have put in; look at the lights, and what it cost to install them. Then comes the we'll. They tell you we threw away a thousand dollars of the towns money. Let us see how we did it. We paid MT. Gilson $500 for the option; then we spent over $2OO more in developing it. Now, after we refused to put any more of the towns money in it, some of the business men of the town got to- gether and put up two or three hundred dollars of their own money and spent it on the we'll. What would they have said if we had not taken hold of the we'll? Nellis owns the water works; he has bought the rest of the council and don't want the town to have the we'll. It would have been easy, for MT. Buggeln said if the town did not want it he was ready to take it. However. MT. Gilson and MT. Buggeln both acted very fair and gave the town the first show, when Mir. Gilson could have done better by letting MT. Buggeln have it.
 The next kick is made on tha purchase of the celebration grounds, which we bought from MT. Cauf- man for $7O0. Now, let us see what the town has thrown away in the last twenty years on race tracks and celebration grounds. There has been five race tracks built, besides