The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1915-03-05

IdlT. Inc McSScllBSi gives ~. TA' w VA'6"S
space for the following reply to the
communication of NJ. C. Doyle, publish
ed last week:
Editor Messenger:
''THE KING CAN DO NO WRONG. DOES
TWO WRONGS MAKE ONE RIGHT?"
1t is not with much pleasure that
have been reading the articles in your
paper because they are all on the other
side of the pavement proposition and
the most of them are misleading and
untrue am not very much impressed
= with the slurs and abuse that have been
forced upon the four men that asked
for this injunction by the business men
of Clio. Because they undertook to
protect their own and other taxpayers
Interests in the village of Clio. Now
in answering the letter of M. c. Doyle,
that was in the Messenger of last week,
| will endeavor to state part OF our
side of the question In the first OF the
tlrticle ! want you to take notice of
where he says when they went before
the people with gravel ticket and
this is true and little farther on in his
article he says they come into office
with pledge that they would repair
Vienna Str6et in some way, which is
not true They were elected on a
gravel platform and the men elected
ought to have been men enough to
stand by their platform. And want
to say right here that because these
men turned traitor to their platform
and party and come across and built
the kind of pavement was in favor of,
will not line up with that kind of a
bunch and try and cover up their un-
lawful and illegal deeds. A little far
ther down in the article you will notice
ne says the reason that we lost out on
the second election was because the
people did not turn out to vote, which
is not true as there was more votes
cast the second time than the first.
The reason it lost was because some of
the taxpayers had been looking around
and had found out that in all other
cities and villages they always assessed
the greater part of the cost of the
Npaymenr on the abutting property, so
they got out and worked on this
grounds and beat us out. Next you
will notice that he says in the election
of 1914 il was made an issue by the diff
ferent parties to assess so per cent of
the cost of the payment against the
abutting property and the balance on
the village at large or any old way to
get the work done | want to say that
this sur Of any way to get the work
done is not true, as the former council
had already passed a resolution to pave
Vienna street, and assess so per cent
Of the cost of, the pavement on the
abutting property and the balance on
the village at large and they did this
under the direction of the village at
torney And they wanted to get re-
elected so as to carry it through. |
want to say in this connection it would
have been good deal better for every
body if they had been reelected as the
village would have been out of debt
and money in the treasury and the pave
ment just the same. Again Mr.. Doyle
says that gravel would cost nearly as
much as a good pavement, now want
to cite you back to the articles that M.
c. Doyle and H. F. Bodine had in the
Messenger the first of last year. You
will remember that Mr.. Bodine pre-
sented figures that it would cost SO, 900
to gravel Main Street; the former coun-
ell had bid from contractor that he
would build an 8 foot gutter and curb
of concrete and put put in sewerage
and catch basins the same as we have
now and gravel the center of the street
for Sc, 000. 90 and this pavement cost
over $1O,OO0.0O. Mr.. Doyle states the
village owes 81, $50. 90 on the pavement.
which is untrue and misleading to the
taxpayers of Clio. First. they owe the
Saginaw Paving Brick Company, 81,
500. 90. They owe the Clio State Bank
$4,000 and will have to borrow ST.,
450.00 more to run the village from
now until next July when we collect
our next tax. This makes So, 500. 90
that we still owe on the pavement
Now they will tell you that the last
two items, is not for the pavement.
Now ! want to ask you the difference
whether they borrow that money for
the pavement and saved enough to run
the village in the general fund or used
all of the money in the general fund
that they raised for that purpose and
then turn around and borrow it back to