The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-10-27

The Gubernatorial race is waxing
warm, but in the excitement of it, we
must not overlook the issues that con-
front us here at home. There are is
sues at stake right here at home that
are just as important to the people of
this community as who shall be our
next governor
The Record has no desire to, nor will
it champion the cause of any individual
or set of individuals, for the city coun-
ell we have no choice among the various
candidates, personally, but this is a
time when principles and the interest
of the community and the general well
fare of our town and county must be
placed above personalities, politics and
all else save the questions involved,
when prejudices, likes and dislikes must
be lain aside and become subservient to
the general good.
A great question, or at least one of
vital interest to our people, will con-
front the incoming council, it matters
not of whom it may be composed, the
same question that has confronted the
present council, and has been rejected
by them, namely, the sale of a tele-
phone franchise. The franchise which
the present council was asked to pass
was Objectionable to them in many re-
spects, principally in that the rates to
be charged were not fixed, and that
there We're no provisions therein pro-
tecting the patrons outside the city.
The people of the town owe a duty
to the people of the county in this re-
gard. 1t is their duty to protect them
from exorbitant telephone charges, and
to make every effort to secure fol
them equally as good service and at
proportionally low price as is paid il
town, and We believe that the town
people will perform this duty.
We believe that if telephone fran
chise is eyer sold in Lancaster, that it
should be an equitable one for both the
people of the town and of the county,
that the rates fixed therein should gov
ern the lines throughout the county as
to tolls and other like restrictions, that
there should be insured to every sub
scriber the free use of the entire phone
system within the confines of the entire
county. and not that we should grant
franchise that will give protection to
the people of the town and leaves our
neighbors in the country to the tender
mercie' of the telephone people.
AS far as the water works question
is concerned, it is not an issue in the
municipal campaign, cannot by any
means enter into it. That is a ques-
ton over which the council has no con-
troll, they have no alternative, they
must obey the will of the people. and if
the people at the polls on November 7th
say that bonds shall be issued, then
the council must go ahead and ex-
tend the water works in accordance
with the expressed desires of the people.
1t behooves the voters to look well to
whom they are casting their ballots for
in the coming municipal election, to see
that they are right on this subject of a
telephone franchise, that they have the
welfare of the community in general at
heart, that they are in favor of the
continued peace, quietude and good or
der which we have enjoyed in the past
few years, and that they are not max
ing the race i'm the interest of any indi-
yidual, or corporation, or through any
other motive save the good of the com
munity.