The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-09-24
COMMISSIONERS
INCOMPETENT

Vic Vi Iuc CHleI ISSUES vi ILLS
campaign relates to the manage
ment of county affairs by the COM
missiOners. 1t has been officially
charged after an investigation that
the work of the present board has
been marked by incompetence and
extravaganza. In the minds of tax
payers who have watched the trend
of matters in the control of the
county board there have been many
questionings. The queries have
grown into assertions of reckless
acts-acts which have not been
creditable to the members of the
present board and which have been
antagonistic to the interests of the
public at large.
1t is not necessary at this time
to discuss the several elements
which go to make up the extrava-
gance which has marked the trans
actions of the present board, or
which is the result of the many
cigar store conferences of the two
man majority of the board. 1t is
sufficient just now to call attention
with emphasis to the fact that the
commissioners control the purse
strings of the county and dole out
the largesses to it's favorites. 1t
also supervises the expenditures of
every department Of the county ma
chlnery. The board is the ultimate
disbursing agent Of the county
funds. I.axity In watching those
expenditures, carelessness in incur
ring bills, readiness in graft and
r'ecklessness in ordering what is not
absolutely necessary for the proper
carrying on of county business-all
these, and even more-rest on the
shoulders of the county commits
sioners.
1t then behooves the taxpayer and
intelligent man of affairs to see to
it that no inefficient man be placed
in the chair of a commissioner, no
schemer, no CRATER, no man actu-
ated by other than a high regard
for the best interests of the whole
community. He should be man
unmoved by personal considera-
tons. one not to be cajoled, one not
to be swerved from first principles
of official integrity. Such men the
democracy of Spokane county has
nominated. Each knows the needs
Of the community. Each under
stands perfectly the faults which
have been committed. Each con-
siders the amounts which have been
squandered. Both are determined
to rectify errors and give the PEG.
pie who pay bills full value received
AS TO CANDIDATE sEEHoRN
Charles w. Seehorn needs no in
PRODUCTION to the public. In the
two decades of his residence in this
county he has maintained a posi-.
ton of unassailable integrity In the
community. BY his personal en-
doavor and by his individual abil-
ity he has proved himself to be a
man Of those qualities which make
for the best in the administration
of public affairs. He is nearly so
years old, a native of Illinois, and
the product of her educational train
ing. After leaving Chaddock col
lege at Quincy, Mr.. SeehOrn was a
successful school teacher for four
years. He relinquished that work
for the pillow, and started his pillow
here in 1886. With his pillow and
his natural abilities he has got to-
gether by hard work and strife at
tention to business a comfortable
competence at Mount Hope. Now,
at the half century point in life he
has every qualification for furnish
ing to the county the benefit of
years of experience in business ac-
tivity and the knowledge of what is
wanted by community in which
he has lived and grown during a pc
riod of 20 years. Mr.. Seehorn has
never held public office, but he has
ever been watchful of the manner
in which public duties have been
discharged by the servants of the
public AS a farmer he knows the
burden of taxes and he understands
the demand and necessity for bet
ter transportation of farm products
fro mthe point of production to the
point of delivery to market The
matter of county roads is of direct
and extreme interest to the farmer.
MIR. Seehorn believes that farmer
who pays road tax should have that
tax expended for the interests of
that farmer and not for some far
mer in some other part of the coun-
ty. In addition to standing ON the
democratic county platform, Mr..
Seehorn has also personal plat
form, which he has written as fol
lows
If elected to the Office of com
missioner of Spokane county, shall
insist on an honest and economical
administration of county business.
| shall see to it that each road dis
trict receives an amount of road i'm