Mexico weekly ledger., 1910-03-31
S. ]. BOVINE WRITES
ANnIHER Communication

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deceive anyone?
ANSWER-The only attempt in
that article to deceive is, by infer
enee In that communication you
talk as II the County Court had been
and was anxious to submit this pro-
position for tie people to vote upon;
now II they are so anxious to give
the people a chance to vote at the
general election, why have they not
done SO before, when it Is we'll
known fact that the people have
been dissatisfied with the office
since it was established. Do the
people OF Audrain think that the
County Judges would have ever Civ
en- them an opportunity to vote on
this question, had not some one
started petition?
| QUESTION 2-Why did you not an
swer my signed communication in
, place of the one where | was mis-
quoted?
ANSWER Simply because there
was nothing especially obnoxious in
your signed communication, while In
the other there was, and as | had
no way of knowing that You had
been misquoted I took it for granted
that you had been correctly quoted
and hence answered accordingly.
QUESTION 3--Why don't you come
out from under cover and tell the peo
| pie what your grievance is?
ANSWER don't exactly know
what you mean by this, as every
thing ever did in my life has been
open and above board. In all the un-
pleasantness that have had with
the county court, and l suppose this
is what you have reference to.
have been open and free telling you
to your face, what had TO say; MAX
| ing all my fights in the open; taking
victory or defeat, whichever came.
like man. / am not pushing this
because of any grievance, but be-
cause some one had to lead out; and
since / started the first petition,
hundreds Of Audrain's best citizens
have taken up the cause, simply be-
cause they think the office a nuis-
ance.
QUESTION 4--In regard to Mr..
Wakefield.
| ANSWER have no recollection
of being of tho opinion two years
ago, that Mr.. Wakefield's appoint
ment was a mistake, but If | was of
that opinion then am not now,
as Mr.. Wakefield has probably done
as well as anybody; and as to me
making any suggestions to the court,
lit would have been useless as the
court is SO prejudiced against me
that thirty-flve out Of forty-one Of
the taxpayers in my road district
signed a petition for my appointment,
the court turned them down, regard
less of the requests of this large
majority; however, l am not af-
ter Mr.. Wakefield's scalp, but the
office of Highway Engineer.
| QUESTION 5--Are you afraid the
lpeople will change their minds after
considering the cost of operations,
with the office of Highway Engin-
leer abolished?
| ANSWERING, Sir, have no
fear that the people will change their
minds after investigation, and
wish them to have from now until Au
gust 2nd to investigate, and I hope
they will take the trouble to investi
gate for themselves and not take any
body's word for it; and after the
people have had such an opportunity
should they then change their minds
1t will be all right with me. think
the good people of Audrain County
know what they want. also think
they have plenty of brains to in
vestigate for themselves and to ACT
for themselves without the tutorshir
of their learned Presiding Judge.
QUESTION eff it is money
consideration, don't you think YOU
, could better afford to pay your small
proportionate part, than to devote
your valuable time getting up this
question:
: AFNSWER-The American peopl'
. could have afforded to pay the
English stamp tax but they Tough
r the PRINCIPLE; now, Sir, it il
the PRINCIPLE of FASTENING {
USELESS OFFICE upon the people
which followed to its conclusion
) would permit the endless fastening
of useless things upon the people
= hence we intend to kill the Hydri
Headed Monster in its incipiency.
" QUESTION 7--If 1t Is for the fl
: nancial welfare of the county, VIII,
Y did you not think of that when yol
were causing the county all of tina
VI expense, in those lawsuits you wer
having with the county. Are yo
. not Just a little sore toward the Coul
ty Court?
a. ANSWER have had no rea
:, suit with the county, simply dh
= not think their settlement just am
hence appealed and when the cas-
i was called for trial, the county cour
; took me up at my proposition for
compromise, and paid me what ash
ed, and also paid the costs, thu
showing that they were in the wron
= and that was in the right. If any
:, body put the county to expense,
!. was the court, by their failure t
!, give me Just settlement; and $
acknowledged by their settlement @
the appeal. No, / am not sore a
the court, but don't 1t look like tn
court was little sore at me, whe
they turn down thirtyfive out of fol
- ty-one petitioners and they fail t
: give me a just settlement, and afteI
wards by their actions acknowledge
1t?
'p QUESTION OR STATEMENT 8 =
have no interest I'm the matter el
cept for the good Of the county; tn
:, only objection / have to your NOV
- is. that l am opposed to a specia
:, election. stated in my commur
/, lcation that the people have righ
= to be heard, etc.