The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-02-27
PUBLIC OPINION.
Editor Morning News:

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am glad for the oportunity to
| again answer the communication OF G..
w. Palmer of Lake, Ohio, of Februa'
ry 18th. He is certainly mistaken re-
garding the culls remaining in the
| front part of the woods. All the good
and suitable timeber has long since
| been cut and placed upon the mark
! ct, but few sapplings and old stumps
still remain in the back part for the
crows to rest and build their nests
on. l am surprised at Mr. Palmer not
having sufficient knowledge to know
that three-fourths. of the townships
Of our county have no gravel to fill
mudholes. Probably he would suggest
more mud for their territory. He
can thank Providence for the deposit
! of suitable material in his township
| for road building. He says he wishes
! he had more farm product to market
! over the present roads. l believe he
would have, if he devoted more time
! to farming than to public questions
which he seems TO know nothing of,
! How you secured the number of miles
of roads in Stark county, / am unable
| to say, but | desire to inform you
| that Stark county does not take in
Summit county, and instead of having
| 1850 miles of road, we only have 1900
miles, and taking your own figures,
as you have quoted them, that 1000
miles of good gravel road can be con-
structed in Stark county in SO years,
under my system, arc under your
system with the same expenditure,
! you would leave the roads in the same
condition as they now are, and each
! year eXpend the public money in fill
ing 100000 mud holes, and at the end
of the next SO years find ourselves
following the same ruts that your
| father did. Mr. Palmer, you claim
you have right to antagonize any
public question that concerns the
taxpayers. Right you are. But al
low me to inform you that the ques-
tion Of Good Roads in Stark county is
in the hands of the Republican voters
of our county at their primaries, and
should the Good Roads candidate be
nominated, then, and then only, viii
| IT become a public issue to the Dem
ocrats. If you have changed your pol
itics since last fall, when you were a
candidate for sheriff ON the Democrat
ic ticket you have a right to express
your opinion as TO who shall be nom
mated by the Republicans. You say
the picture on first page of nv litera-
ture is an insult to the people of
Stark county. So it is, and SO is the
actual conditions of the mud roads OF
our county. l wish you would travel
few miles from your home, not in
an electric car, the way you came to
the Good Roads convention, but over
the wagon roads OF our county. !
would suggest trip to Pike, Wash
ington, Tuscarawas, Marlboro town
ships, which would remove the cob
webs from your eyes, and the hay
| seeds dropped on the Good Roads
question would be sowed over your
/ fields TO furnish product for market
over good roads 365 days year. Al
low me to submit the funds collected
in Stark county in the year 1905:
State and County Road fund IS, 1893 AZ
Township Road Taxes :. :. :. SO, ,415.6
For County roads and bridge
purposes. ...... -. Z, 81 .69l .54
Two days labor in County, Or
Poll Tax. ..,-.'. 30, 10000
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