The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-10-29
APOUT OUR HIRED MAN


ABOUT OUR HIRED MAN
Not SO long ago Mr.. Turner gave ex-
preston in forcible terms to his feel
ings respecting the Editor of the News
in which Mr.. Turner is a stakeholder.
His explosives needed an asbestos
wrapper and doubtless it would have
been badly singed. The trouble APP
pears to have been fixed up and we
find the News boosting it's w stock
holder candidates, Mr.. Turner included.
That is what you would expect from
their OWL paper, isn't it? Mr.. Turner,
our hired man, wants criticism. Upon
stationery paid for by the county he
invites criticism. He has even admitted
that all we have said about him is
true, but he say that it is rotten. The
trouble with Mr.. Turner and his fell
low stakeholder candidates is that
they are always four-flushing. Of Mr..
Turner, his W paper says that he is
a thorn in the side of the old gang
and many of the well oiled plans of
the Court House Crowds" political
machinery to disburse the county funds
have been interfered with. Is Mr.. Tur-
ner a thorn? We really thought from
his attitude toward people generally
sine we began to show up his en-
tangling alliances with banks, mis-
takes in distributing the taxes, etc.,
that he is a %porcupine with it's quilts
sticking out. Mr.. Turner, a thorn ?
Lord, no, Mr.. Turner tells us that he
has reformed the world while acting as
treasurer. He has "dug up" items.
says his paper, amounting to $1,000 or
$15OO.O0 that his predecessor over
looked or didn't keep track of. Well,
Well come across with the items and
details. Let's talk in real language.
For the year ending Nov. 80, 1918
according to the annual statement the
expenses of the Treasurer's office were
S5,46O.90. This was before Mr.. Turn
er's incumbency. For the year ending
Nov. 30, 1919, the expenses were
$7.O95.41. Salaries alone increased
S155O.54. This was while Mr.. Turner
was treasurer 1t cost $1634.51 more
for him to do the work than it did his
predecessor. What good did the
mythical $1,000 or $500 do the tax
payers? Mr.. Turner's DELINQUENT
taxes are APPALLING.
Who is the cold gang?" Is it not
time that you voters were told some
thing tangible about the cold gang"
The stakeholder candidates have no
other argument. This is to conceal
the family job and raft of deputies
which causes his office walls to bulge.
lie complains because the board of
county commissioners we're unwilling
to let him increase his deputy's sal
airy from $4,000 to $137.5O per month.
DO you really blame them? One good
man like "Sky" Small would run the
whole office and not have to work more
than half the time. He did it. Come
with some other line of bunk, Mr..
Turner. Oh, yes, "and other things
have beer done to handicap the work
of the treasurers' office, says Mr..
Turner's paper. Well why did you let
them be done? You are our hired man
are you not ?'Why are you not looking
after our interests? What were these
things? Who did them? When? Who
handicapped you in following the law
relating to the distribution of the
county monies? VINO handicapped
you in collecting the taxes so that such
a large sum would not be lost to the
county? By staying in the office and
working instead of peddling your
views of your own record on the
streets of Glasgow you could reduce
taxes. Who has handicapped you in
such course?
1t is a mighty safe bet that if any
farmer or group of farmers insisted on
his running for office two years ago
they have been praying forgiveness
ever since. Who were the farmers ?
Why did they want you to run? The
political gang want a more subser-
Went and truculent individual, saws
his paper. This is indeed laughable.
Who compose the political gang?
s~ubservient and truculent, Ell?
What everybody in Valley County
wants is a real, capable and efficient
county treasurer who will stay on the
JOB and run the office economically as
all of Nh. Turner's predecessors did
a treasurer who will collect the taxes,
pay them into the right fund, reduce
the cost of operating the office and do
the peoples work without everlast-
ingly footing his own little horn, The
taxpayers of this county can save
themselves several hundred dollars
Der wear by electinp WaItor T. Ero,;..