The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-07-14
THE INVESTIGATION.

THE INVESTIGATION.
we wish to say that in the invest
cation which has been before us, W
have failed to find any signs of graf
Or transportation Of funds by an,
of cial whose Office we investigated.
This sentence from the report 0
efhe joint investigating committee
which has so earnestly and painstak
ingly looked into the affairs OF thu
county and the road commission
LIQUID and doubtless will be highly
gratifying to the people of MaurN
MOunty, IRRESPECTIVE Of political afflia
aion 1t is pleasing to every good and
patriotic citizen, concerned for the
honor of his county, to know that no'
a single dollar of county funds has
been grated or Incorporated. From
the first, The Herald has insisted that
Maury county is well governed coun
ty and this report, coming with the
endorsement of the men who sign it, is
a vindication of the course of this
paper.
The Herald has no interest in gov
arnment, except that which comes
bom the patriotic desire that it shall
be honestly, faithfully, efficiently and
progressively administered. It has in
sisted and does now insist that the
officials of Maury county will measure
up to the highest standards; that while
some of them may at times in their
zeal for the public service have been
technical violators of some technical
rule of law, that their intentions have
bsen good and that they have given
always value received for the service
Tor which they have been paid and
more often have given more than that
'Hpr which they have been compensated.
The investigating committee had a
hard task before t. The members are
busy and capable business men; they
received nothing from the public treas.
ure for the time sacrificed. Not a
single member Of the committee want
I'd the Job. They served simply and
purely from sense Of duty. They
did the very best that they could. They
did not shirk anything. Though often
8erely tried, they never once deviated
from their purpose to get the facts.
may made an honest and earnest ef-
-1ort to do this and The Herald believes
ithat they succeeded.
The county is TO be congratulated
upon the very nigh personnel OF the
committee. Men who know the citi-
xenship OF Maury county know that 1t
would be exceedingly difficult to find
in the bounds of this county six men
who hold in a higher degree the con.
fslence of the people than the six gen.
BemeA who served upon the joint COM
ittee. To call their names is to dem
enstrate the truthfulness of this as
Eortion. John M. Davis has grown gray
Ia, the public service. No man in his
neighborhood, however much he may
{ fer from him in politics, will ques-
ton his integrity. For more than ten
years Charles S. Jackson has been a
N amber of the county court and is one
,Oi the foremost members of the court,
"a worthy son of the honored ancestry.
Col John S. Brown, of Kedron, is a
gentleman Of the old school, whose
! n sense of honor will not be called
IA question. AS someone has remarked
if there is hundred per cent man in
Naury county that man is William p.
Ridley. He measures up to every re-
quirement of the good citizen. Thomas
FL. Taylor, because of his fidelity to
any trust, holds to an exceptional de-
gree the confidence and the esteem of
his neighbors. The auditor, w. H. Pur-
year, has capably filled many positions
of trust and is both efficient and hon,
est. Taking it as a whole. no commit
tee of the kind ever appointed in Ten
nessee was of higher personnel than