Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-07

80 to heart? am thankful that the
law compels you 20 act on this petit
ton, as fear II Il did not, II might 90 1
the same road that the petition Of 4
thirty-five out of forty-one did; and |
again II you or rather the court should |
call this election, at the general .
election on ten per cent. petition there .
would enter In the optional feature .
sponsiblity on you
QUESTION OR STATEMENT 9. f.
In regard to what ] tell the people. .
ANSWER. / simply tell them that
we wish TO abolish the Office OF High /
way Engineer; and they need To-
further argument, for they are pretty
thoroughly convinced that the Office
Is useless and unnecessary and a
large expense for very little return.
STATEMENT 10. In regard to con-
crete culverts.
ANSWER. God hasten the day
when we can get n few wooden Gull
verts in West Audrain. Come up
Judge and we will show you roads in
West Audrain that are simply a dis
grace to the Great County. We have
begged and pleaded with the court 20
give us a few needed bridges on our
mail route, one in particular, which
was half way promised but never
built There is not a dozen sound cul-
verts I'm all West Audrain; boards
rotten, CulyeTts too small and the cry
always is no money to do with; | can
show you roads that have not been
touched for six years; roads with
great bitches down the very center Of
the road; and when Mr.. County High
way Engineer has been called upon to
see to same, all we got was promises,
if we got even that much, and again
| fear that if the work of building con-
crete culverts should begin, it would
start in the vicinity of Mexico, and
reach our end of the county about the
time that Gabriel shall blow his horn;
don't talk about concrete culyerts un-
til YOU can give us enough money to
fix the direful mud holes temporarily.
Now Judge a few questions: II
you are so anxious to save the county
money, why don't you stop making do
nations TO county fairs? Please sight
US to your legal authority for such do
nations?
Did not the County Surveyor form
ally do the Highway Engineers work
and his own work too for less than
$500 per year; and was our roads
and bridges in better shape then than
now?
You state that your only objection is
the special election and that you are
willing to have the people vote on the
proposition. VIII you sign the petition
If it is presented so that you can set
the date at the Primary, and thus
show your willingness to let the
people vote or will you refuse, and
thus show that you do not wish to
give the peOTle n chance at the office?
You say that Mr.. Wakefield pays his
own expenses. Did the court not pay
certain telephone expenses for Mr..
Wakefield and did you not tell him on
one occasion, in my presence to 90 to
Centralia, hire rig and go to the
country; and when Mr. Wakefield OBJ
iected. you ordered him to go on the
first train, hire a rig and the Court
would pay the expense?
Why do you select me for your
open letter; why did you not write
Mr.. Sites, who signed the statement
in regard to you as well as myself
or why did you not address us jointly?
| hope Mr.. Sites will not feel sighted
and did you not select me because of
the very soreness that you accuse me
of?
Did not Mr.. Wakefield pay $3.50 per
hundred for lumber at Rush Hill,
when as good or better lumber was
offered at $3.50 per hundred?
Did not Mr.. Wakefield use water
oak lumber in the George Dean bridge
and when the citizens of that vicinity
made complaint the County Court
ordered him back to take it out at
IH1h1a IN the pnnntN2
Did not the citizens offer to pay half
the expense of a steel bridge at the
} George Dean bridge, and yet was II
not built partly of Water Oak lumber?
Did not citizens of the west end
, offer to contract to grade one and one
, half miles of road for S1.00, provided
they were allowed to use the grader
p and to give a $4,000 bond to keep it
; up satisfactorily to the Highway En-
3 gineer for one year and was not the
: proposition refused?
% Does the Highway Engineer look as
carefully after the roads in the Easl
and West ends as near Mexico? And
/ if not might not the fact of his paying
e his own expenses, have something tC
;, do with the same?
2 Now the censure of your letter
A seems to be directed solely to me
Now / am simply an instrument in the
t hands Of many good citizens, to make
t the attempt to get this matter before
e the people and it is solely my desir'
r that the people may say what the!
@ want. If the citizens of Audrain wisl
T. to retain their Highway Engineer,
d am content; but I believe they will 81
It record themselves when given an op
s portunity and l can see no reaso'
e under Heaven why there cannot b
t held an election in conjunction wit
Il the Primary without expense to tn
" county and then let the verdict b
! what 1t may.
it Respectfully,
% S. ]. Bovine, Jr.,
p Sailing township Audrain county
I'd Dear Sir
L l. YOU consider this worth space