Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1910-08-17

above sl7, 900, 900, county claims
are al a discount. With two and a
quarter million dollars valuation in
Union district, with an assessment
laid TO the limit, the district in
which the county seat Is located is
returned deliuquent-in other words
pauper dlstIict-that is to saw.
while state superintendent of
sch OILS furnished more than $500
to help out dclinquencies, vet,
teachers claims are al a discount.
unpaid and bearing interest. In
this same district, a Star Route
mail carrier, on horse. back, Is COM
PEELED to "lead and walk" over a
part OF his route, and yet the road
fund Is overdrawn and the district
Oadly in debt. In this connection,
we refer to the fact that the county
road from henova 10 Jennies creek
was frlttered away for a song
that is to say, as has been charged
In newspapers, and not denied,
sixty miles OF county road has
beer given To a railroad corpora.
ton for less money than would be
required to build two miles of the
road destroyed. This is undoub,-
edly without parallel in history of
road building in West Virginia.
We invite comparison with a
sister county, Logan county, to
show what we have lost. a few
years ago member of the county
COT rt, or county commissioners in
this county, received for his ser
vices about $4,000 per annum.
Look at the financial statement
today and ask yourselves the ques.
ton "Have the colors faded?p
Are our county cousins" salts
tied TO walk aud Lead when buggy
or road wagons would not venture
out and have county commissioners
appropriate twenty, fifty or one
hundred thousand dollars for a
boulevard for the wealthy auto
mobile owners of Westmoreland
and Huntington to take pleasure
and 10y rides upon?
The financial statement of Wvom-
ing county, West Virginia, shows
$4,000 as the salary OF the county
commissioners. Not of one, but
OF three men-sixty dollars apiece.
Please compare this with the IL
nancial statement of Wayne county
as published in Wayne News and
Ceredo Advance.
Look up your paper filed away
from last year and run over one
ltem-that of furniture for the
court house and softly ask yourself,
"Was there graft in that" Look
at the whole tuing for last year
stationery bill and all and ask the
fellow "a good democrat" who
lost the sale, and the county lost
S900--ask the fellow what was the
matter. Is it fact that IN contra
ven,ion of law, the court has given
double commission to sherffs?
Has the fact given the ten per cent
for tardv tax paying, which be-
longs TO the county according TO
law, TO the sheriff? Go and look
at the records. Have other ir-
regularlties and contraventions of
law been perpetrated upon a suffer
ing people? Go look at the records.
We, with commendable pride,
point to this fact; when the re-
publican party, in 1895, took charge
of affairs in West Virginia, every
board of every public institution,
} was made up wholly and entirely of
I democrats. One Of the first bills
prepared ahd enacted into "a law by
a republican Legislature, and signed
/ by a republican governor, provided
for bipartisan boards for all pub
lie institutions. From that day to
this, these boards all have a bare
majority Of one republican.
Is this right? Yes. Why? The
democrats contribute one-half to
the maintenance of these institu-
tions. Let them share in the re-
sponslbility and have as nearly as
I possible an equal voice in their
management.
Coming to Wayne county again,
Il 1t asking too much when we ap-
peal TO the honest, thoughtful, con
servatiye, tax paying democrats,
] and say give us one member of our
finance board. Let one republican
member have voice in levying a
tax and the distribution Of the tax
money, because we contribute one
half Of the money.
In this bad state Of affairs ex.
lstinghn our county we republicans,
IN conventions assembled, claim
and declare and charge, lamentable
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