Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1907-12-31
PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 81 1907

VI '"'"'es' and mott by follow
ing O'euents, as is nowl done by
SOM Of our dear oficerI
IL payers, did you know that
your County Assessor receives
'no' A'oAey lor tour months work
thar1 your Governor does for a
whoE years work, alid this not
"i'i'@'nong the Govef nor's ardu-
GUS uuties embraced in his pardon
ihs powers to say not hing of his
appdintiye powers that |are being 50
freely and cunningly Exercised, in
fact 1t looks as thought we have no
concern whatever abo,lt our State
ana county interests, only to walk
In and pay our taxes, simply this
and nothing more. for they most
certainly are now doing the rest;
think OF it, Pay YOUR Assessor
/ S3F500 to $4,000 for about four
months services, he most surely
should be an extraordinary man.
Your County Treasurer has drawn
from your treasury more for one
years services than is allowed the
three Judges in our district at the time
OF their election to the positions they
now hold Judge A. b. Grace, Judge
John VI. Elliott and Judge James
Gould did not in one years service
draw the amount that your County
Treasurer did for his one years ser
vices, for this same County Treasurer
drew Six Thousand, -Four Hundred.
seventeen Dollars and Fifty-two Cents
for the one years service. There is not
enough work in the County Treas
urer's office to keep a competent man
busy two hours a day; now, Mr.. Vo-
ter and Tax Payer, are you willing to
have your money squandered in this
way? if you do, all you have to do
! is to keep your seat and allow the fee
! system to remain just as it is now,
and then you may rest assured you
will be called on each and every year
TO make like and larger contribution
for the support OF these good and hon
est fellows Who are SO extremely
afraid that you cannot get good men
for these places if you put them on
salaries; they will tell you that it has
been tried in other counties and it
doesn't work. We have able and COM
petent judges that are working for
iron Two Thousand to Twenty-Four
Hundred Dollars year, and they have
to pay their hotel and travelling ex
penses out of this as they attend to
their work, Ii only you will stop and
Hook at the accounts OF some of these
county officers you will find that they
bring in everything conceivable into
their expense acf counts. and these
charges are. or have been. allowed
them Oh, wha. a DESCRIPTION. and how
the interest OF TIE widows and Or
phans are being looked after by these
officers: these officers that are en-
trusted with 50 great responsibility ?
business Men, stop and think: One
I of these days your. estate will pass
r into the hands Of these good fellows
9 and YOU can now readily see where
n your properties, rightfully belonging
s. 70 YOUR loved ones. will go; SO don't
J. Won fall to express yourself when you
! cast YOUR vote on the salary question
% onr present county Judge accepted the
W office he now holds for salary OF
va n 500 90 per year, and this after
having received The enormous amounts
allowed by the nanipulations of the
, foo system in the Sheriff's Office for
IS four years, and he is contented with
IS This. especially since the last legisla
he ture saw proper to increase the sal
at srv Of his office ito Twenty-Five Hun
n dred Dollars per year. call your
as ot,ontion to these facts to show that
lst these same officers will be ready
of y. sorve heg dear people, il
Use will not be much of job to gel
A. " ", 90. men for all Of the nowdifficul'
an n,oces that reliure such talented mer
:. p'N on +bem asS we now have. Vote
80 .han al ON salaries in keeping
" -, .ho services they render Have
~ au over noticed Mr.. Tax Payer an(
.h ,' 1 Voter that s'ch one Of these office
' tn. holders holder want e allot themselves -four
&C. , no in each office having no oppo
TO 'e" &c 10 the second term? If he
md ', ,au1d have opposition he feels tina
'n0e hoing almost outraged. He i!
Nc ..;0sed With four years of feast
I'M iio' 49, wants to perpetuate himsel
of IN in'' office until he has exhausted thu
the III .,sa venre ana then he concludes
en- e .ast i is his duty to start over again
i'm lna' .hsr words on the ground floor TO
- III w. ,sion that he has been drawins