Henderson gold leaf., 1911-09-21


people? Did not the Legislature
again show it's lack of confidence in
the Board when it authorized the
$4,000 bond issue, and named q
special committee to spend the
money!
Will you please tell us what you OF
any other satisfied member OF the
board OF commissioners, or the town
government has contributed to-
wards the success of this school.
. You, Mr.. COntented Commissioner
boast OF the fact that we have just
outside the borders several hundred
thousand dollars worth of buildings
and machinery. The public would
like to know what, if anything, you
and your satisfied crowd have in
vested in these enterprises, and what
you or the town have done to encour-
age and help them?
Isn't it fact that you and your
satisfied crowd have discussed seri-
Ousl y whether or not the town would
allow the fire company to respond
to fire alarms outside the corporate
limits, notwithstanding the fact that
these manufacturing plants are fur
nishing labor for the towns citi-
zens, and it is their pay roll that
keeps the town going?
| would like to call attention of
the spokesman for the happy, con-
tended and prosperous town that a
near relative of his has for the past
several years conducted a manufac-
| turing business near the borders OF
the town, and that both the dissatis-
fled commissioners are stockholders
and directors in this concern, and /
would like to ask him if he OF his
cOntented crowd have ever put dol
lar OF their money in this or any 9TH
er manufacturing enterprise in or
near Henderson, or il he has ever
| done one thing on the board to en-
courage new enterprises to locate
with US? If he has, write out the
name OF the corporation together
with the amount of stock he has
taken or any service he has rendered
them, insert the same in the Gold
Leaf as advertising matter and will
pay the bill.
L too rejoice that Henderson has
made great progress in the past two
years, and will state for the infOrma-
tlOn of our cOntented contingent of
the commissioners that the two dis
satisfied members of that honorable
body have directly and Indirectly
built and assisted in building more
than thirty houses in and around
Henderson, and are now preparing
to build four more residences at
cost of about $4,000. Now will our
satisfied friends kindly tell us how
many they have built, or helped to
build; or give Us any other act of
theirs that has added to the progress
of our good town?
| am glad that Mr.. Powell ap-
proves and endorses our fire depart
ment. May | ask you, Mr.. Powell,
when this great change has come
about. and what is the cause?
Haven you atevery meeting fought
every movement of the fire depart
ment tending towards progress?
Didn't you vote against buying the
new hose? Didn't you vote against
buying the new wagon? Didn't you
delay for several months the pur-
chase of the horses, although you
were on the committee and instruct
ed to buy them? Didn't you vote
against buying the town clock?
Didn't you oppose building the fire
and municipal building, and state
numbers of times that it was too
expensive a stable? Now will you
please tell US why have you reversed
yourself so suddenly and thereby
admit that you have been wrong all
the time? Now, Mr. Powell, l like
you, and as a citizen you are all
right. | think every town of 10000 |
inhabitants should have one man
like you, but as a commissioner you
are all wrong.
Your argument confirms my state |
ment, that Henderson has pros !
pered and progressed despite the
board of town commissioners and
not by any sid or encouragement
the town has received from them. |
AS you say, the town is growing
and rapidly becoming great man.
ufaCturing center, and while the
town is progressing every other way,
the town government is standing
still, and is twenty years behind the
times. The present board of town
commissioners trying to run the
town reminds me of a yoke of steers
trying to propel q $4,000 automo-
bile on a level road. The commits
sioners are about as much in the way
OF the towns progress as the yoke
of steers would be in the way Of the
machine.
Now to answer the three questions
you ask: First, What did the town
horses cost? | will answer that by
quoting you on the first page OF the
Gold Leaf where you say they cost
500. That is a pretty good guess
for you. 1t is 800 more than they
cost F. O. B. Baltimore. That is
about as close as l could expect you
! to come at it.
Second, who bought the horses?
| Silus Powell, Geo. A. Rose and r. S.
McCoin were appointed committee
and instructed to buy pair of fire
/ horses. You delayed the action OF
/ the committee until Mr.. Roses term
OF office expired. Then at the urgent
request and the demand of the COM
missioners and the citizens of the
town, you asked your friend Robert
Brame to go with me to Baltimore
and represent you In the purchase of
these horses, stating that you had
! full confidence in Mr.. Brame's iudg-
ment, and whatever We did would be
satisfactory to you. Upon their
arrival in Henderson, you approved
of our action and said they were all
right. | therefore say that you and
| bought the horses, and | am proud
Of my part OF it.
! What did the town buy them for2
will state you were on the commit
tee for more than six months to buy
+booa borsos that durinp this time