Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-02-20
81 SIS 1900.
Mr.. YANnEF0RD c0aES A6AIR.
He Calls Attention to Several Irregularities
Our Municipal Affairs.

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Salisbury, N. c., Feb. 10, 1907.
To THE CITIZENS OF SALIsBURY:-
It has been circulated that I op-
pose the further improvement of
the City of Salisbury, and that,
unless I am elected, I will oppose
the further issue of bonds.
l wish to say that these state
ments are without foundation. I
l am now, have always been,
and expect to remain, i'll favor of
anything that looks to the up
building of Salisbury.
l am in%favor of a bond issue,
to be disposed of as needed for
use, TO GIVE EVERY CITIZEN
ALIKE. THE BENEFIT OF
GOOD STREETS, WITHOUT dis
elimination, in favor of one aec-
ton and against another; to give
the City of Salisbury a better
water-supply to extend the sew
ers to the river, and thereby re-
move a menace to the health of
the people on whose land they
now empty. (and who are now
threatening to u the City, to
buy, for the betterment of our
present fre-department, a steam
engine, and provide a place to
keep it. and give the City an up
to-data fre-alarm system; and,
last but not least, to prrvide
funds for carrying out the violated
pledges made to the people eff the
S nth and East wards, that they
should have a school, by purchas-
lug a lot on the South East side
Of the Southern Railway. and on
Inniss St. and erect thereon a
creditable public school building.
Three lots, viz, the Raney lot,
the Blackwelder lot. and the Bea-
yer lot, were bought for public
school purposes, on Fisher ST.,
the three lots costing about Sc, 1000.
This money came out of a $4,000
bond issue, and the people were
to vote the bonds upon
the promise of this public school
for these wards.
The Rarey lot was sold by Mr..
Boyden to a negro named John
Mowery (recently deceased) and
Bis family still live there, aud
cannot be bought out, thereby re-
ducing the value of the surround
ing property, n man having sold
his adjacent property for 5000 less
on this account. Mr.. Boyden
was urgently requested by white
citizens owning the surrounding
property, not to make this Now:
cry sale. l say that the remain
ing $4,000 and the prol erty on
Fisher St., still owned Ivy the
City, should be made the basis of
a fund for the building of the In
Miss St., school, ana the balance
needed should be provided for by
a bond issue.
To do all this work, and make
all these improvements, will re-
qulre considera BILE time and mon
ey; and, while l am in favor Of
issuing bonds f,r these purposes, 1
do not favor issuing them all al
once, nor do I favor a careless ex.
penditure of the money. The
people should know what the
bonds bring when sold, and the
expenditure of tie money, espe-
.cially as the work progresses.
l am opposed to the past. loose
system of paying out the City's
funds upon vouchers passed cpop
and signed by the Mayor and
the Clerk. If I am elected. it
will be s" arranged that for ever,
CENT Of public money pad out,
there will be a receipt giving the
name of the payee and the pur.
pose for which the money was
paid out the books and vouchers,
will be open to the inspection of
the public, and Twill comply with
the law requiring. yearly state
ments to be published showing
the nature and amount Of public
,-nc~If,r RAG A,rI L.,