The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-11-20

The following viii appear in the
regular issue of the Ellis County
Mirror next week and is printed in
this paper by request OF Editor Mid
/ 1leton, to give those affected an op
portunity to reply If they desir" to
do SO;
One of the Lights correspondents
asks: When town has progressed
as far as it's means will permit, how
will 1t progress more without the
means? This seems to be the issue"
If the Mirror might be permitted
to state the issue, this will not be
considered an unfair statement, es'
lpecially in view of Mr.. Langsford S
failure, thus far, to make specific
reply to the Lights call on him to
lexplain his part of the action of the
,council in removing restrictions
from the block opposite this office;
I"When town has progressed as far
as it's means will permit" how may
it scotch itself from going back
ward-until such time as it can pro-
gresS some more?
For eighteen years this paper has
been issued from Washington street
and the writer can not now call up
the name of any one who has been
in continuous business on the street
so long as himself.
He recalls the time when the
lground on which this Office stands,
was the yard of the late Judge Kem-
Bile, and he watched the progress to
iconlpletion of the brick building
thereon, and very soon, now more
THAN fifteen years ago, moved the
mirror office to it's present home.
Some years after coming here the
little one-story frame just across the
street burned, the heat breaking the
windows of our office, and this, of
course made us watchful as to the
future.
Some time after the burning of
the little building the block came in
some way under the councils con-
troll as to the building, and we
thought no more of that until some
months ago when we heard that the
Ellis County Loan and Commission
; Co., had leased it for their business,
and were to occupy it with their Of
fee and other business. They weri
then further down the street, and
as they were feeding vast quantities
of hay, the report scared up the oc-
cupants and owners of this block in
to movement to get the council to
reconsider its action before building
was begun.
There was a compromise, and hear
ing several times that the company
was going beyond it's agreement the
editor has asked Mr.. V. II. Shelton
for statement. Mr. Shelton says:
r. Vickery. w. E. Coleman and
myself took steps to stop the Ellis
County Loan and Commission COM
pany from erecting on the Davis
: wagon yard buildings that would en-
| danger the property across the
street from the wagon yard Said
company, in order to avoid trouble,
furnished said property owners with
iplans of the improvements they were
to make on said lot and agreed to
: furnish them with an agreement
, that they would not make any i'm
= provements further than was speci-
fed in the agreement without the
iconsent of said property owners
They failed to furnish said signed
/. agreement and did erect sheds and
{ buildings that were contrary to the
:, agreement
Now what is Mr.. Langsfords re-
[ lation to this transaction, for we
} find him in it Ill more ways than any
! other member of the council, and
in view of his candidacy it is fair tc
discuss him. We find him in three
different places that we know of: He
2 represents the interests of the town
t as its alderman. He is the oldest fire
insurance man i'll the town, having
| the advertisements of some of the
greatest companies in the world
2 like that of the Liverpool and Lon
don, and Globe hanging on his office
, walls. He is also a member of the
corporation that has secured long
lease on the block by the action OF
! himself and other members of the
' council
Has his vote in this case helped
the town forward? We do not be-
lieve any one will contend that it
has and here we offer this sugges-
ton: After the lease had. been Sc
' cured, bids We're received for a fed
eral building, and the site OF all
others in the town, the most eligible
: by its location between the depots
: and hotel was prevented from com
Y petition by the lease and wooden i'm
:, lprovements. True, the friends of this
: site might not have been able to Sc
cure its adoption, so great is graft
e but Mr.. LSngsford and others of the
g council should have saved them the
n opportunity We sincerely believe i
y would have been chosen in a fail
i race, and surely it would have been
! a feather in Washington streets cap
h Next, how has his vote served the
4 town in the matter of insurance
This subject is coming, more ant
more. of late, under public control
i land it is fair and legitimate here t
|. discuss Mr. Langsford S service Il
=. insurance considered, of course onl!
in its public features. He certainly
has done the general cause no good
! and TO one should understand thi
+ matter better than himself. 1t il
n quite likely that he has set THU
back along with other things.
Proctor Knott said the weathe
, would have been colder at Duluth l
the thermometer had held out. ant
If insurance is not now increased IL
e this block by the councils action /
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