The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-04
SOME OF MR. LIGHTS
STATEMENTS INCONSISTENT

IAAto- STAR he IIaIClaI state
ment that Mr.. Light wants publish
Ell would simply waste about $4,000
Of this county's money The state
ment itself, is dreary waste OF
fgures-a list OF warrants issued
and outstanding and there is already
on file IN the clerks Office and of
fee OF board OF public instruction
every item that IS contained in this
financial statement I say with all
emphasis, that there IS a record in
the clerks Office of every dollar that
this county is Spending ana Mr.
Light or any other citizen can see il
if he wants to. The county COM
Inissioners have never objected &c
publishing a summary of this finan-
cial statement. And this is exactly
what the comptroller has decided &c
do in the matter. He tells me that
the cost to us will be say $50.
Mr.. Light wants us 10 publish the
whole fool thing at cost of about
$4,000 year, with the county owing
an immense sum Mr.. Light
neighbors in the country who help
pay for this can decide whether they
would prefer Mr. Light to give the
newspapers of Ocala $4,000 for pub
fishing lot of warrants that nobody
would read. or have the comptroller
meet the wishes of the commission
ers and spend, say $50, and publish
in a short summary all that they
could possibly learn from the whole
statement. And l leave the neigh
bors and friends of the differen,
commissioners, and Mr.. Lights
neighbors, and citizens generally, tc
draw their own conclusions as tC
whether the commissioners know
what they are doing or Mr.. Light
knows what he is talking about. A
matter of fact and of law, the COM
missioners have nothing to do with
the publishing, but the paying Out
of the taxpayers money to the Ocala
newspapers. The comptroller directs
the publishing.
1t seems little strange. in view
of the enthusiasm of the gentleman
at Reddick in this matter. that long
after he was back from Tallahassee |
he did not know anything about the |
law requiring this statement-passed |
by his very own legislature. | know |
this TO be a fact because | asked Mr.. |
Light about this very law, in Ocala
myself, one day and found from his |
own lips that he did not know any /
thing about it.
As TO the $500 paid me, want tc
say with all emphasis that that worl |
cost me in actual cash paid out O
my own pocket $165: that | made { |
profit of $35 in the matter and that
the amount paid me was wholly
legal, absolutely square. we'll earned |
and very moderate, and the comp |
may possibly know even as much "a |
Mr.. Light, told me what amounted |
to this, few days ago in my Office |
in Ocala.
There is, however, one thing about |
Mr.. Lights article that | want tc |
call attention to, and that is, that |
while there is no direct statement OF
wrong doing, the tone of that article |
is such as might lead some one who |
did not know that there was some
thing wrong. and against that tone
/ protest as not being just No man
is justified in building his political
fences, and l presume that Mr.. Light
is going to be again a candidate for
the legislature, simply from his get
ting in the lime light, so to speak
in doing any injustice to anyone, and
hardly think that Mr.. Light is fail
in this matter
Respectfully.
P. H. Nugent, Clerk