The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-23
TO THE VOTERS AND TAX.
PAYERS OF CARTER COUNTY.

importance of this office. Tho salary
of the register of deeds is set by the
legislature according to population.
The population of Carter county is
25,000, and the salary as liked is
$l62.50 per month. The number OF
deputies and their salaries is also
fixed by the legislature according
to population. They are appointed
by the county commissioners. The
first deputy receives SIS per month,
and the second deputy receives $50
per month. Every dollar received
at this office is turned over to the
county treasurer, and the county
commissioners allow the salaries of
the register and his deputies.
Since | have had charge of this
office | have turned over to the
county, after deductins my salary
and the salaries of my deputies and
paying for the typewriters and all
incidental expenses of the office,
thirteen thousand, six hundred and
seventy-one dollars. ($13.e71.oo)
Do you think any other office in
this county has netted anything near
this amount? will say to you
frankly that it has not. The first
term that | held this office l was
paid a salary and a commission, and
l had to pay all the expense of the
office. The first year, l employed
four deputies; the second year, three.
Since the county has been paying the
deputies, | have done the work with
two deputies, but during this time l
have been compelled to have addi-
tional help, for which I have paid
out of my own salary.
Now, do you believe the amount
of work required in this office and
the thousands of people who have
to be waited on, that ! or any other
man could do the work absolutely
correct with but one deputy? L do
not believe there is man living
who can do the work absolutely
correct and give you the service
that you are entitled to with one
clerk, and further believe that
when any man tells you that he
can and will do the work mentioned
above he is telling you something
he does not believe himself, or does
not understand and is making bid
for your vote.
On the 9th of this month the coun-
ty commissioners cut out several
clerks in the different offices, and
they cut this office down to one
deputy, and | tell you, as ! told them,
they have not cut out one of my
deputies, but have cut my salary the
amount it costs to pay the second
deputy.
The state examiner and inspector
says Carter county has the best set
of records in the state. I am proud
of them, and | believe if you knew
what you had. you would be proud
companies or any citizen who has
had occasion to examine the records
of other counties what he thinks of
Carter county records compared to
other counties. If you were to buy
home in town or farm in the
country, you would want your deed
properly filed and recorded, and for
that reason utmost care must be eX-
cised in recording it. If one let
ter is left out or one figure recorded
wrong, it may cause to to lose a
home, or it may cause you or your
children a law suit.
claim, and l honestly believe,
| have saved the citizens of this
county thousands of dollars by ex-
amining their deeds, mortgages and
leases before they are recorded, and
have returned hundreds of them
to be corrected before I would le-
cord them. A great many people
have asked me why did not recor
them as l received them, and l have
told them, as l tell you, the people
put me here to look after their in
terest, and that I am going 70 do
as long as I run this office.
Some of my opponents say hav ;
made q fo; time Out d, the office anu