Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1917-10-12

road from the Agency 10 loleuo
100000.
The people largely, through a
misleading article in the Leader
on the eve of election, inspired
by Judge Miller, and the further
cry of "Aw, its a scheme to take
the County seat from Toledo to
Newport" saw fit to kill the
proposition. The Leader says it
was a rebuke to the originator
of the Good Roads plan. I ac-
cept the rebuke in the same good
spirit that the people gave it.
This being their will humbly
submit, but as a free born Ameri-
can citizen, / still claim the right
to my opinion and will ever as
sert it.
Independence and Dallas in
Polk County fought over the
County seat for 20 years and
every time either town suggest
ed anything for the Good Of the
county, some people in the other
town would start the county seat
cry, and the county never pros
tpered until the people finally set
tied the county seat question for
all time and built a good stone
Courthouse, after which Polk
County soon became the blue
ribbon county, and the people
all stood together for the up
building if the whole county.
Therefore since people of Toledo
and Waldport have raised this
issue let the matter be settled at
the next general election in No
vember 1918. The old Court
house at Toledo will soon have
to be replaced by a new one.
Then the question of County
!, seat Location will again bob up,
If 1t is not settled prior to that
time. If after the November
1918 Election Toledo still re-
, tains the County seat, let a good
; permanent rock or brick Court
house be built; if upon the other
: hand Newport should land the
| persimmon let such a Court
, house be built there, then the
! county seat question will be a
5 thing of the past.
:, Now since you have again
e raised the road question after
the people have settled it by a
t large majority and that too be-
e fore the ink had dried on the bal
|. lots, pardon me if l ask the
a County Judge a few questions
: which / hope he will answer
d through the official paper while
y upon the subject of good roads
v it is this:
p The County Judge being the
l. Chief Executive officer of tht
County, and residing at tn,
e County seat, and having nothin,
It to do only to look after the af
l. fairs of the county, the Count,
j. Commissioners residing man,
y miles east and South of tn,
o County seat, and who only visi
TX the County seat every alterna
tive month or six times a yea
~ when the County Court is il
m session transacting a large vol
IN ume of County business, is tn
reason that | direct my ques
at tons to the County Judge.
Up Will the County Judge tell tn
Id people if he knows, what person
n al property the County owns, es
pecially in the way of road ma
ne chinery and where this road ma
ut chinery is? Is it in the count
ed warehouse at Toledo, or if a
er it has been said, some of it ha
ey been loaned out for three or feu
e. years and not kept under shelte
r. but standing exposed to the wiz
MS ter storms? And will the coul
as ty Judge tell the people why tn
C. Otter Crest road on Bald Moul
in tain has been accepted ana I'll
ad contractors paid in full withol
ot Inspection BY the County Judg
m and that too in the face Of ii
Ie- Iact that a number OF the cit
ot zens Of the County protested an
advised him that The road w,
1t not completed under the col
ITS tract and that too in the face
the fact that the County surve,
at or surveyed the road, and repor
ed ed tothe County Judge that Il
bv contractors had not complete
nd the road as to plans and speci!
M cations? And that too in IL
he face of the fact that A. l.. Port,
Ter the County road master had a,
les vised the Court in open sessic
1ly in the presence of a number
or taxpayers when the bids we
Ia opened that the lowest bid W.
lot $1,000 lower than the road cou
De- be built for, and urged II
pe- County Court to require a CT
Iet edged bond.
nd II is estimated bv tho Conn