Cleveland County herald., 1918-05-23

discuss the merits of the bill and
every voter in the county will
have chance to put his name
down either for or against the
proposed bill and when the chair
man of all the Township Legis-
lative committees have taken
this vote | will know what the
majority of the voters of the
County want and cast my vote
according to their wishes in the
Legislature. | will always give
the chairman of the various leg
islative committees my own views
on all proposed bills that effect
Cleveland County for the con-
sideration of the people.
The County paper each week
during the Legislature will con-
tain as full report as is possible
on what is going on in the Legis-
lature and every voter in this
county shall know how | have
voted on all important bills in
the Legislature. | think that
every voter should take an &C.
tive interest in the welfare of his
county and cooperate with his
representative as the State furn-
ishes the members of the Legis-
lature a daily allowance of pos
tage stamps for this purpose and
that is the way will use them
and if that amount furnished is
not enough | will furnish them
myself.
After a meeting has been held
of the voters in each township |
will then call a convention of all
the legislative committees from
each township for a convention
in Rison, the county seat at
which meeting we will discuss all
matters of interest to the county
at home and in the legislature
and frame a policy of action for
my use in the Legislature and
in that manner | can know abso-
lutely what the voters want done
and it will be my business to
fight in the legislature for the
interests of Cleveland County,
and you may depend on it that
you will not have to be ashamed
of my work in the Legislative
hall of our Great State.
| am not in favor of a lot of
useless laws and the fewer laws
we pass and confue ourselves to
vital matters the more goo d
sense we will show.
GOOD ROADS QUESTION
This was the nightmare and
stumbling block in the way of
every candidate for every office
in Cleveland County during the
campaign just before the first
Primary from County surveyor
to Representative,
There has been a lot of spec
ulation as to what | would do if
elected about the road question
and from the language of some
of those opposing me you would
think that if | were elected that
some morning when the people
woke up they would find a con-
crete road over every cow trail
and log road in the County that
was put there the night before,
and when they asked how it got
there some one would say that
Tom Blodgett put them all there
last night and our farms are all
mortgaged to pay the bill and
we will all lose our homes.
The false impressions circula-
ted about what l would do about
Road Bonds and improvement
Districts are an insult to your
intelligence. While have made
speeches in favor of good roads.
| have never lifted a finger to
force Road Districts or Bonds on
any part of Cleveland County
and | frankly state that it is
about all | can do to pay the
taxes and interest on what land
we control and if | had to have
the added burden of Road Bonds
| would have to sell out at a
sacrifice and go out of business
a ruined man. | believe in
the best roads that we can pos
sibly afford but NEVER will |
use my vote or INFLUENCE
AS YOUR REPRESENTATIVE
TO CREATE A ROAD DIS
TRICT UNDER THE BOND
SYSTEM OR ANY OTHER
SYSTEM UNTIL A MAJORITY
OF ALL THE LAND OWNERS
ACCORDING TO LAW SIGN
A PETITION FOR NE TO DO
so, and that is the true spirit of
Democracy, for the majority in
terested to rule. | am positively
opposed to Special Road improve