The daily sentinel., 1912-11-01
PEOPLES MONEY WASTED UNDER
REPUBLICAN RULE IN THIS COUNTY;
THOMPSON TO Be CHAIRMAN IF THE
REPUBLICANS ARE IN CONTROL NEXT YEAR

The Tribune has been asked why this paper is
tavorng the election OF democratic board of county
mSsoner against the election of the gentlemen who
running the Taft-Roosevet tickets We glad
the question has been asked directly and since it fair
don't object giving the reason, which believe
is shared in by large majority of the people of this part
OF the county and if numerous reports be by very
large ma Jorty of the entire county
The to this query involves the printing again of
statements that laid before Tribune readers last
Spring-the in which the affairs of this county
up that time by the present board of county
missoners, the dominating member of which hodover
for years and the logical candidate for election
.arpan cs hesrt Thsedter of this paper has reson
believe that he is vocng the Sentiments of large number
of the taxpayers of this section when he emphatic
protest against any procedure of that and believe
the people do not to stand for that Vigorous
being made that such be adopted but
there lot of people who from Missouri that
point
During the fifteen months that George Thompson was
member of the board of county commissioners, from Jam
uary IA, 1911, April 9, 1912 drawn in
his favor according copy of the records which be
in this office the of $s62o5 MIR Dwyer
drew 81 and Mr. Bessre $I,oI99o The law pro-
vdes that these gentlemen entitled draw $500 per
year and mileage, with the exception of the chairman Mr.
Dwyer) who has charge OF the poor fund for which he
receives compensation One bill found in the records
for last March, that paid Mr. Thompson, for
mobile hire presumably his OWN and amounted SOFAS
The investigation made by the only grand jury called
in Mesa for than twenty years developed these
facts and the exercise of and greater
the management of county affairs recommended,
Indictment of the board members being narrowly averted
many we'll remember An attempt was at first made
that the members proposed ahead in the
but public sentiment too strong against it, and halt
called.
The taxpayers of the county we'll remember all these
matters, and they recalled this time that they may
be overlooked when voting administration of
county affairs This is published reflection upon
either of the gentlemen who candidates the Taft
Roosevelt tickets, but merely refresh the peoples
les that they may decide whether Mr. Thompson the
man they want chairman of the board of county commits
SionerS during the years.
In I9o9-Io Mr.. Thompson director of the Mesa
County Irrigation District and actively in charge Of
work An audit of the of the district show
during that year there expended 81 ,S4S 81
S2I4SI oS of the previous year. The report also
that Mr. ThompsonS personal bills that year amouf to
$I,65S6o fully three times greater than any rece by
any other person who had occupied the same pos lr
previous years, according the report The peo
well remember the express charges piece of md nery
alone which amounted $I,296-and they will be paying
these bills for time
The evidence produced above-al of which easily
be confirmed-shows that the methods employed in
the management of the Mesa County Irrigation District
affairs being injected into the county affairs when the
report of the grand jury and the subsequent publication of
bills that had been contracted compelled halt.
In view of the above facts the Tribune wants to put it
fairly up the people this section and whether the
position of this paper in advocating change of county ad
mnistraon is You weigh the evidence
and do you pease.-FrOm Today's Paisade Tribune.