Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-18
Judge Watson
Discusses Election
C. B. Watson in Ashland Record.

To the Editor: 1t would seem al
most unnecessary at this time to urge |
the people of Ashland not to abate
their enthusiasm until after the cleo |
ton to be held on the twenty-third |
inst
More eyes are now turned toward |
us than ever before, and all on ac-
count of our magnificent action on
the mineral springs bonds. We have |
not finished, however, but must now
provide the machinery necessary to
handle this splendid enterprise and
make proper application of the funds
which the people have so generously
and enthusiastically voted. The vote
on the charter amendment which pro-
vides in detail the management OF
this fund is in every way as impor-
tant to full success as voting the
bonds, and the election thereon ought
in every way to correspond with that
enthusiasm that was shown on the
ninth. The vote ought to be as large
and if so ought to be more nearly
unanimous for the amendment.
The splendid vote by which the
funds are provided ought to be sup
plemented by even larger and more
nearly unanimous vote creating the
commission and directing them in
their duties.
The splendid work done by the
committee in their preliminary ef-
forts has aroused the admiration not
only of this community, but also OF
the Southern Pacific Company, who
| have gone farther in their encourage
ment of this great enterprise than
! they have ever before done in sup
port of any community undertaking.
! In this we have our greatest assur-
ance of it's success. The confidence
reposed in and emphatically ex-
pressed for Messrs. Greer, Dodge and
Minkler by this great railroad COM
pany ought to find an enthusiastic
response in every voting man and
woman in this city. 1t is deemed en-
inently proper that the city council
should name these gentlemen as the
commission to carry to a successful
conclusion this epoch-making enter
prise so splendidly carried by them
to its present status. These gentle
men were entrusted with more than
$4,000 in money by the business men
of the community, with which to try
out the preliminaries of this great
work They were trusted implicitly
and with no other guarantee than
their known integrity, business acu-
men and fidelity to the interests OF
this city and valley. They have sue
ceeded far beyond the most sanguine
expectations of their most loyal ex-
ponents. They have gone about 1t
in such manner as to make friends
of the most skeptical, and have en-
listed the earnest and attached enthu-
siasm of one of the greatest chemical
engineering institutions on the con-
tinent, who after the most technical
and critical analyses are so enam-
ored of the great possibilities that
they offer to give bonds for its sue
cess. No such thing has ever before
been known and the great Southern
Pacific Company, with more finan-
cial strength than many of the gov
ernments of the earth, express their
emphatic confidence not only in the
project but in the Smith-Emery Com
pany and, as well, in the gentlemen
named as commissioners.
l. The people who in this last analy-
sis have the say ought, with greedy
enthusiasm, express at the ballot box
on the twenty-third their apprecia-
ton of this great offer and their con-
fidence of the men who have brought
1t about.
Personal jealousies ought to be
laid aside and every man and woman
having a vote ought to go to the
polls and cast ballot for this char
ter amendment and the commission
ers named therein There are always
some who are possessed with the
spirit of the perverse," but the few
remaining ought to be made to feel
very lonely when the vote is counted
and then should be consoled with the
charity and good will of the COM
munity, for they are not without
pride and patriotism.
We have everything to hope for
and every reason to expect full frui-
tion. II has not been often. perhaps
never before, attempted to build
from the stump a great resort. In
that aspect Ashland stands and will
stand an unique example, which OF
itself Is one OF its best advertising
assets. Let every man and woman
dream dreams and see Visions" by
which enthusiasm will be safely car
ried to the polls with a fuller vote
than was cast on the ninth, and then
be prepared to aid In shortening the
time when our great mineral waters
will be delivered in our beautiful
} park, and ratified by the greatest
jubilation ever seen in Southern Ore
| 0on and narticinatad in NV avery
hamlet and village.