Imperial Valley press., 1910-01-15
WATER eLocKADERs
 HEAR STRAIGHT TALK
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 fence to keep out of a dog fight, made an eloquent plea for union and broth erly love.
 Dan Holland said he had asked for
 he reasons of the two trustees for refusing to vote for the first step toward issuing water works bonds, and he had heard n~0o satisfactory to reasonable r .. ~tc question was whether or not the people of the city would support the men chosen to represent them. Eight of the ten representative of the people were ready to proceed. Should two men block business and say to the citi- zens that they shall not have a water system? He introduced and moved adoption of resolution demanding the resignations of Pearson and Blackinton.
 N. w. Conking (retired politician) announced that Blackinton and Pear son would not resign but would tell the people to do something the peo- pie would not like to do, if the res olution should be passed. He charg- ed the Chamber of Commerce with putting in and causing defay, insinu- ated that the Advisory Committee had not acted in good faith but was try ing to hand packages" to Blackinton and Pearson, to do political engi- neering and to favor the townsite company. and generally attributed to all concerned the kind of motives that naturally occurred to his mind. He concluded with a plea for concessions to Blackinton and Pearson to bring them into line.
 w. F. Holt said: The whole trend of MT. Conkling's argument is that we should bribe someone with con- sessions to his personal interests to vote for what the people want The people are not going to stand for any thing of the sort. They are going against that and going hard. I have offered to sell the old water system to the city if it needs any part of it, to give it to the city if it prefers. or to throw the whole thing away. I am putting up $10,000 to get a railroad built that is not a cents worth of interest to me, and it makes me tired to see men, for the sake of paltry private interests, holding up it1r'c Ac tA hn south part of the town, I think pro- vision should be made for pipes to serve the people living there, but there is no sense in spending money to run pipes to the east where there is not a soul living. These men are looking at the matter from a narrow ly selfish point of view. They have no more right to do as they are dO- ing than a director of private cor poration has to block the will of the stockholders and a majority of his fellow directors. As director of company, if 1 cannot agree with the majority, I'll get off the board. If these men cannot conscientiously work with the majority of the board and the citizens, they should get out of the way. This. is not a question of plans and engineers, although the board has right to select any en- gineer it pleases. The question is shall the people have a chance to say whether or not they want to build a water system.'
 Phil Swing-"This Advisory Con- mittee was appointed at the unani- nous request of the board of trus- tees and the selection of members was approved unanimously by the citizens. It is composed of men who are not to be charged with political motives or with serving any private interests. We are going to abide by their judgment, and anyone who stands in the way or tries to block the wheels of progress will be run over. The trus- tees must remember that they are public servants, representing not themselves but the people that elect ed them. MT, Conkling's declaration that two members of the board will not do certain things probably is well founded No doubt he is in a posi- tion to know their intentions"
 MT. Medhurst made a speech about politics, which is his obsession, and moved an amendment to the resolu- tion to the effect that the Advisory Committee and the Board of Trus- tees get together and arrive forth with at a satisfactory conclusion. Conkling proposed to add that leach side should give up something to the