Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-04-29
SIN. DUNLAP
MIXED Up In
ROADSCANDAL

49, nli,ois state Federation Of Ia.
- News Letter says
-, twisted the road system out
rs normal course over the Egyp-
e I'll and diverted II towards
lin properties in which Il Is
'z#l,s3 nat Senator Henry NJ. Dun
90 ~ champaign is interested? The
.ez state Federation of Labor IS
i..i5 ........sssston of letter from a cor
ll ll...3snf whose name is withheld
,be nresent Pin which Mr.. Z. b.
- - secretary of the Egyptian
- association. expresses some in
l - views on the twisting of
-. .raii and senator Dunlap's alleged
'-. ..actisn with IT, The following is
- of Mr.. fuckers letter:
rus EGYPTIAN TRAIL ASSN.
CHICAGO TO CAIRO
General Offices
Nation. H.. March 25 1921
...r Sir: Your letter OF March IN, al,
1z4 - Or. l. a. Lumpkin. president Of
ars-se1 - Trail Association. Who Is now At
- hhi Wis Tex, for the benefit Of his
Vine 81 = forwarded to mC here Tor reply.
H. 49, writer having been IN the south Tor
-..a ks finds your letter here on ms re-
-. -. This in explanation OF delay IN replying
g YOU ~ information. secured by CONVERSE
II :. ;,b members Of the Legislature and the
{"n that Senator Dunlap. who was chair
semi hsiieye Of the Roads and Bridges Com
N m. NJ the Senate, Was the man who d.
na9AsS = Fgvutan Trail. known as bond Is
" r,rte No. 25 from ktfingham south 10
55s ,bepcc west to Salem, instead OF the
f+=@ -ieinqlly routed from Etiingham
tfa.5 - The line generally Of the |. {.
- p Through the towns of Watson, Mason
God ~ LaClede. Farina, kinmunds and
= IN small towns, 1t Is true. but entitled
=, one road. They have none. me pn if
sbich he got on the bond issue bill At
- minute before its passage by the Leg
- runs southeast from Etiingham, IN
- If southwest, IL should. IL strikes the
s9 I'm L,o,,n wears ago TolliVer, although
- !; hut one house there. Its next place Is
3.;lIe and the next Flora, in which II
= "a on good authority that Dunlap mas eN-
- orchard lands. Now. then, his action
ssiz,., hing this road for his own personal
"a II he did il for that reason, and IT looks
- much like he did prevented us having
-, road from Chicago to Cairo, thence IN
- IN the Gulf of Mexico, making one take
- southeast from Effincham to pass his
bards or west 80 or 40 miles to Vandalia,
W tben south The peoRe between Effingham
- Alma through a good and prosperous
,5,trv were thus cheated out OF any chanee
Lta,,sr 10 get state road. IN order To ae-
,,,,odate one man, who was in position TO
- . oOay from them. IL is said on good
atborih that Governor Lowden realized that
tbis Dunlap road was great mistake, but the
bil had passed the legislature, and was up
e, the vote Of the people. So. you can see,
"a road from Savoy to Flora. connects the
Saaa,or's interests very nicely. But the worst
= .hc whole matter is that the Bowden High
,-av Department put this Dunlap ROAD from
FSf,rgham to Flora on the preferred list and
=, roptracts for grading and bridges, etc, on
= probably in an effort to push 1t to compile
tion before the "nigger IN the woodpie was
discovered so to speak. as 1t was apparently
IL. .aaA oil
- eyerv effort was apparently made to give
4 ,raferment before public sentiment could
demand its elimination. or postponement until
speh time as other much needed roads could be
built. IT,, II,
.on,e done on this proposition, this circular
being s.nt cut lust preceding the November
election last fall 1t is self explanatory as 10
IRIS nropostion Ii You viii take a map oil H.
ms and follow the route of the ]. c. r. X.
rom Effngham south. you will see where this
trail originally as laid out goes. by securing
A map Of the $50, 001,0 900 bond issue roads, you
can see how these people from Effingham 10
Alma. we're eliminated entirely from the pro,
posed hard roads passing far to the east ana
west Of them. =,
In addition to this road matter, there are
people unknown enough, perhaps. TO say that
the Senator not only desires TO have TINS pro-
posed road built at state expense, but also
wants to provide through the Police Constsba-
larry Bill for the patrclling of these roads, ad-
Jacent to his different pEopsftitS' NJ S'iee -
pense.
There is Just about much reason Tor a
Police Constabulary in Illinois. as there Is
reason for this Dunlap road from Ettingham
To Flora and that is practically none at all,
in the opinion of the writer.
Why. outside of politics. the State Highway
Department would put this Dunlap cow-path
on an immediate bodybuilding program, and
let road like the Egyptian Trail that serves
state Institution at Kankakee, serves Chi
eago and Cook County, serves the University
Of Illinois at Champaign-Urb serves the
whole southern part of the state as far south
as Cairo and serves as Illinois portion OF
lakes-to-the-gulf highway, so by default and
leave these important towns and state insti.
tutions in mud-holes SO to speak. is beyond
reasonable comprehension.
The solution of the Dunlap proposition IN
our opinion is the election of capable sue
eessor TO him. And in this you and your or
PLANTATIONS can be an important factor, not
perhaps by putting up a man against him
Of one faith or following or iron-bound to
walk in life, but one whom all classes OF
people can vote for in good faith with the
belief that they will get square deal.
Thanking you for your letter, l am,
Very truly,
E. II. TUCKER,