The Mena weekly star., 1916-10-19
Phil. I. Stevenson
 Candidate for County and Probate Judge

nraor fo Suus & ar letter to The Star he uses the same old ae
 as he falsely accuses me of empoyng an attorney = i my writing glad however Una. ne snnAs can write a letter that would pe eauS " W w pest lawyers in this vicinity s,, 3,s ,.,
 o s,re that when he reads this one ne VIII thlnk was
 an L f those Shears-Sawbuek lawyers from Tennessee "fleu H S I ~ m on his hind legs he mail order man I s the out of couns money Tor campaign purposes Yo ndg am not going to hire campaign lawyer to out ~ make sneeches for most of the speeches you make are fo e interest of Republicans and oo me more good than anv speeches could make
 any t o not heinz dictated to- it is we-known fact that have bee dictated by lawyers as well as some businessmen & n,e of them leading Republicans at that who will doubt % ror vo notwithstanding they the Republican . Christian gene1nei well qualified to fill the office Some . ~ are located near branch office. who doing their bat o hwart the will of best Republicans in this county
 suppose that you forgotten that you would have paid rur Clarke large of the peoples money, had you no n nrevented by decision of the Circuit court As to Mr Fin ger heinz due the county the mail order auditors nave if can furnish adavts that the mail order auditors did admit that they and the Judge also admits letter to The Star he settled with the commissioners their report and paid that the mail order auditors claimed he owed matter of fact Mr. Finger only owed the county small sum- most which had been paid in by his undersherfs since he had his settlement and he has yet collect and if he was checked up Judge would probably report him short again. Judge if he settled by the Polk County Commissioners report their report must have been all and if was why did you spend the S2206li2
 You say Judge Prckett presided when Mir. Cunnnghams shortage We're not presiding when these o-ea shortages occurred and did not approve most of these counts?
 Now Judge you do not try fool the people with your air trying to make mountain out of molehi whereby you spent s5ooOO of the peoples money
 us YOUR nasmuch as you made your last campaign against the record of the county judges office you failed have nspec ted by mail order auditors spent S2206 Marvin Shields you trans ered S000 from the general road fund something near s0OO from the automobile license fund and of the warrants drawn these transferred funds payable to A. Wear This is the record from the county clerks office has right for himself Judge did you ever read Section H. Article 6 of the State Constitution which pro- vides that arising from tax levied for purpose shall be used for other purpose? Why did wholly the fhputb afha prosecuting attorney?
 Why do perform pocket the fee which is violation of the law? You say Wears admins raon has reduced the couny indebtedness from s0OOO s6390O Now this false the that the county was not in debt more than s 796 today round numbers about sl2ooooo Look at the ecordhey public property
 As to the poor just gone under repairs when Wear took office and today in bad condition fences need repairing buildings are down the soil has much of and no steps have been taken during administration Aeep the poor farm property in state of preservation
 The roads of the county deporabe condition because ne mas gwen them none of his time attention aud because he has taken the tax levy and other purposes contrary secuon 1850 Of krbys Digest which provides that shall be appropriated exclusively districts Kirbys Digest 55 55 directs that first class bridge repairs at pense of the county
 The county show that there has been but very little improvement In the financial condition way another talk ns into consideration the improvements which have been s we all well know that county scrip worth 75 the dol a ana men stood at the grand jury ready pay amount
 when wear went into office and he the price down by ng asehood to the people that the county was s VV III ueDL ana all the bankers city ad vantage oi ths and bought all the scrip thereby aphs rich harvest and today scrip only just as It was when he went into office 45s
 Every reasonable man will admit that if he does buy anything or make any improvements ought to accumuae money rom the revenue of his business until he has spend se sums improvements and rebuild his ruined business de- upkeep -
 It haS come to pass Polk county Judge wholly equity Tn assessments reducing those his friends and Mns ohers to remain too high appropriate as
 o the counys funds he chooses furtherance o ms pohca ends while little Lemue Reynolds poor little n- u ophan and other orphans crying for help
 usually refused by county judge He also refused o puly an old Confederate soldier
 duS ana bridges bad repairs have
 made except from funds taken illegally out other funds o violation of the law the three bridges built the one was built for private individual one man Mir o
 ihe oher two consist of small tresle built from proceeo @ oau und and the roads have been suffering herefrom
 ohc rom Davis did surveying the county and only SioV day very small price but the judge saw b Y uu'e IL o 70 cents because Mir. was not his poltca
 ne sought redress from the court which reverse
 uecson or Judge Wear This suit cost the payers abou
 put ne paid Jess phipot $500 for wood ihes ore Just lew Of the things he which give you to sho" "ne.hel ne IS competent to fill the office he holds
 ~ to wears remarks about Democrats will am ho surprised that most of them are sore"
 Respectfully,
 AuNertsement PHIL T. STEVENSON