The Parker post., 1913-02-22
A FLIMSY DEFENSE.

The Yuma Sun, in its issue Of
February 16, defends the county slt-
peiI:sors for their neglect to spend
ally CT the county funds in repairing
IT,, roc ds of northern Yuma county,
especially those leading out of Park
er The article goes on to state
that the editor of The Post has a
Crouch anu Is very much mistaken
in many of the statements set forth
in a recent article criticising the
supervisors attitude in the matter.
However, Brother Westover fails to
specify the alleged mistakes" and
we are at loss to know wherein we
erred.
We made the broad statement that
Yuma county has not spent a cent
toward the improvement of the roads
III this vicinity for four years; that,
when making his campaign, Super
visor F. E. Elliott publicly declared
in a sseeCE here that he would see
that ample money would be forth
coming to keep the roads in this
section in gcoG repair, if he were
elected and further, that Mr.. Elliott
has not kept his word to the people
of Parker and of northern Yuma
county
Now, will the Yuma Sun please
tell us wherein these statements are
untrue?
According to the Sun, the reason
why there is no money being spent
in this part of the county for road
work is because the county has no
load fund, or at least the amount is
so small that it doesn't amount to
anything, practically. Who is to
blame for this, may We ask? Why
hasn't the board of supervisors pro
vided a sufficient road fund to take
care of needed repairs on the county
rcads? That is what they are draw
ing pay for-to look after the coun-
lies necessities, and if they have fail
ed to levy sufficient road tax they
are open to criticism for such neg
ligence.
Here is an excerpt from the Sun
article:
"Mr. Elliott informs us that the
board stands ready and willing to
spend some money in north Yuma CO
unity and will do so just as soon as
it can be determined what roads are
needing repairs the worst. The road
fund is small and it must be spent
judiciously to do any good
We wonder when the board will
determine what roads are in need
of repairs. And when they do ar
rive at a conclusion, they will prob
ably be relieved to find that the
citizens and taxpayers were compell
ed to do their own repairing, hav-
ing gotten weary of waiting for the
board to determine.
Concluding, the Sun says
Parker may not be able to get all
it wants from the board of supervi
sors, but we feel assured that the
board will deal with the northern
end of the county in just and gen
erous manner
AS yet Parker hasn't gotten any
thing from the board-not a single
thing-not even Jail, which the
board promised us so faithfully, a
long, long time ago. 1t is very kind
of the Sun to feel assured that the
board will deal with the northern end
of the county "in a just and generous
manner Thus far, the board hasn't
dealt with us at ALL On the contrary
they have left us strictly alone, not
paying the least attention to our re-
quests, except to refterate what they
are going to do when they deter.
mine" to do something after they
get the money to do it with, ETC.. etc
All of which is bullconite, given out
with the belief that they are the
Smoothe guys to jolly along the un
suspecting and long-suffering tax
payers in this end of the county