The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-10-26
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treasury. You VIII note the assertion
made by the secretary, as follows
The office of the supervising ar
chitect takes up the drawings for the
various buildings in the order in
which the sites are acquired by the
government
This has been explained before
through the columns of your paper
1t is an invariable, iron clad rule
which was never known to be over
ridden except in extreme emergen
| cies such as fire, or other disasters
destroying adequate quarters for a
post office.
Nothing can be done by CON
grossmen, senators or any one else
| to advance one project before anoth
er. Each item must take its rank
and precedence from the date on
which the title to the site was COM
pleted.
Il secured the public building for
! Ardmore in the act approved June 90
| 1910, and the title to the site was
not completed until May %. 1912
twenty-thre months thereafter. Sc
| the delay is no fault of your CON
gressman, for the negotiations for
| completion of the site must necessar.
lily have been conducted between the
people of Ardmore and the treasury
department. The treasury depart
ment officials inform me that the
project was given its rank the very
moment the good citizens of Ardmore
were able to complete title for the
site.
THE statement that own any
part of the building now being rented
for the post office, and am therefore
interested in delaying the public
building, is too utterly absurd to
merit reply.
Il feel sure my friends and neigh
bors, to whom not only my public,
by my private life, has been an
open book, would not think me guilty
OF such double dealing as this.
Il own no part, share or interest
in the present post office building
If | were called up to testify this
moment, | could not, under oath, give
You the name of any person owning
an interest in this building. If,
however | did own an interest in
the present site, | am sure | would
be very anxious to have my rental
contract with the government can
celled, for | doubt if there is a
single Investment in the city of Ard
more that brought such little profit
as the post office building did when
| owned an interest in it. Indeed !
am informed by the post office
department officials that it was
only by persuasion, pleading and
pledging the completion of the pub
lie building at the earliest possible
moment that the then owners of the
Ardmore post office building agreed
to a temporary renewal of that con-
tract, when the contract on the build
ing expired something more than a
year ago.
at would be well for us to re-
member that | secured the authorize
tion for the public building for our
city without the aid, or even sug-
gestion of a single man in Ardmore.
Whatever has been done toward
securing a public building has been
the result, solely and alone of my
feeble efforts, and | doubt if any
of those criticising me now for what
they term delay" ever mentioned
or even thought of a public building
for Ardmore before | secured it.
81 have realized for some time
lhdI lut pOlltlCdl tAlStlClcS require
my presence in my district, but with
the suffering cotton producers of the
south in their present deplorable !
l have not felt justified |
in leaving my post of duty until
every particle of my feeble energy |
and time were exhausted in their |
behalf. We expect to get a vote !
on the amendment for the relief of
he cotton states this afternoon. If
we do, l shall start home imme-
liately, but if we tail today, l shall !
EEL obliged to stay on the job until
We do get consideration.
VERY truly yours,
&C. d. CARTER.
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