The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-06-29
SAMPSON LOWERS TAX RATE.

to 30 Cents on the Hundred-ThAs
County fs Out Of Debt and Has
Over $4,000 I'm the Treasury.
Republicans Practice Economy.
Clinton Sews-Dispatch.l
At the last meeting Of the Board
OF Commissions they reduced the tan
levy OF Sampson County from % 2-3
cents or the hundred dollars worth OF
property down TO 20 cents. Sampson
is the first and only county IN the
State that has reduced her tax levy
from % 2-3 cents dowu TO 20 cents.
II will be remembered what an effort
was made during the last campaign
TO misrepregent the financial condi-
ton of Sampson County. Democrat
ic speakers and newspapers were
never 80 happy as when they were
circulating some lie about the Il
nances Of Sampson County. They
perhaps may have fooled some little
shallow headed fellow who hasn't
sense enough to get out OF the rain.
but they did not fool intelligent peo-
pie who read for themselves. They
could not fool the most ignorant
voter In Sampson County because ev-
cry one knew that such condition as
they represented to be here never did
exist in Sampson County since the
Republicans took charge Of the coun-
~ seventeen years ago. But Demo-
cratic papers and speakers tried 10
make the people in other counties be-
lieve that the Republicans had just
about bankrupted Sampson County.
They said that the bad management
of the Republicans had ruined the
county, but at that very time Samp-
son County was out Of debt and had
more than ten thousand dollars in
her treasury, something no Demo-
cratic county in the State could boast
of, but they continued to make false
statements about this county when
they knew they were false. Now
that Sampson County has several
thousand dollars in her treasury,
saved up through economy and good
business management of Republican
Commissioners she finds herself able
to cut down the county levy, but we
have heard of no Democratic county
reducing the levy.
This is not political year and We
are not writing this for political eff
feet because Sampson County will re-
main in the Republican column until
Gabriel toots his horn and says come
up higher, but we are writing this ar
ticle in order that the public may un-
derstand how Sampson County has
been misrepresented and slandered.
AS soon as the Republicans were able
to pay off the Democratic debts that
they fell heir to when they took
charge of this county, they began to
make permanent improvements, they
built more than dozen new bridges
across the streams of this county and
then proceedd to tear down the old
delapidated courthouse and erected
the handsome new courthouse which
Is the pride of the county, and the
prettiest thing about it is, that it is
paid for. The next move the Repub-
licans made was to build good roads
in this county which has been going
on for about four years, and we have
built many miles of sand clay roads.
The people now realize the great ben
eft derived from good roads and this
work will be pushed as rapidly as
possible until every public road in
Sampson County has been built.
These are some of the things the Re-
publicans of Sampson County have
been doing, and these are the rea-
sons why they have been misrepre-
scented and lied on. With all the
permanent improvements that Samp-
son County has made under Repub-
lican administration it is very graft
flying to the taxpayers that the con-
ditions Of the county are such that
the commissioners are able to reduce
the tax levy. Now, if the State gov
eminent was managed as we'll as this
county, the State could also reduce
the State levey, but instead of reduc-
ing it they are doubling and thrilling
thetaxes in order to get every cent
out of the people that they possibly
can. The Republicans of Sampson
County are reducing the peoples taxes
and the Democrats of the State are
increasing them.
Choose We this day whom you will
have to rule over YOU"