The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-06-28
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WHEHt NOOHNe- VIZ
The Southwestern Automobilist pub
lIshed In Joplin, MO, and devoted to
the good roads movement editorially
pays the following compliment to Sid
ney Suggs, highway commissioner of
| the state of Oklahoma, and president
of the Ardmoreite Publishing Com
pany That journal says:
"Vioe President j. |. Wolfe of Kan
sas, paid a well merited compliment
| to Highway Commissioner Sidney
Suggs when he introduced the big okla
homa road enthusiast to the Four
state convention at Tulsa, okla, May
1927. saying: 1t gives me pleasure
to say that Sidney Suggs Is the grand
daddy, the daddy, and the nurse of the
good roads movement In Oklahoma.
Suggs has been fought by corrupt in
nuences ever since he went into the
position he now holds and the com
piment was doubly appreciated be-
cause of the fact that the good roads
men outside of Oklahoma believe Sid
ney Suggs Is being misrepresented
and double-crossed by tools of those
who cannot use the old warrior to fur
ther their own interests, and to graft
on the road funds of the different
townships and counties of the state.
Practically stripped of money to car
ry on the work of his department, Sid
ney Suggs has made n loyal fight for
better roads against great odds"
Sidney Suggs has not made war on
legitimate concerns and upon manu-
racturers of standard material, but his
fight on the leeches has resulted in
running some of them from the state.
Thirty-seven counties in Oklahoma
have adopted his plans, thirty-seven
counties refuse to buy the trashy
stuff that has been sold in Oklahoma
since statehood, that has resulted In
robbng the people in the name of
good roads. His labors have resulted
in the expenditure of "A million and a
half dollars n year for home labor
and home material that has heretofore
gone out of the state for materia'
that was mere makeshift, that was
made to sell and not made to last and
TO give service Where certain inter.
ests cannot destroy the usefulness of
public men by friendship, by false rea-
soning and even by purchase, they at
tempt to destroy by fighting. Sidney
Suggs hua withstood that fire, with
courage born of right convictions he
stood firm when it seemed the whole
state was against him. One by one
the counties began coming to his
plans, they began to see and under
stand his objects, and now more than
half of the state is with him. 1t means
better roads for the same money, 1t
means that permanency will be the
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means that economy will be practiced
for the reason that n dollars worth
of material will be had for every dol
ar expended, it means greater pros
uerity to the state because home labor
and home material are used and all
the labor and all the cost of material
Is saved to the state, and there Is
not one individual or company to
make more than legitimate proii'
on material or on contracts Right
will prevail. There is an unseen in
auence that makes right prevail anc
within few more months of agitation
every county in Oklahoma will adop'
the plans of the state highway com
missioner These things have been ac
"omplshed by the state highway com
missioner without one penny of money
from the tax payers Of the state.