The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-05-02
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
REFUSE INFORMATION
Advise Good Roads Association THAT
1t Can Secure Information From
Books Or Wait Until 1t Is Rub-
lished

| At the meeting of the DorcheI Istel
/ County Good Roads Association helC
| at the Opera House Wednesday, at
: ternoon nearly every district ini the
| the county was represented. THE
! County Commissioners did not exGep1
| the invitation to attend the meeting
! nor did they send the information
requested but instead sent a letter
declining the invitation to extenC
and refusing to furnish the infort tma
ton County Treasurer Matthews fur.
nished the information requested and
attended the meeting.
After the addresses by DR.. Ell l.
Lamkin, DR.. Seele, Rev. E. l.. HI tub-
bard and others a motion was made
F., TO adjourn the meeting to the CoIun-
ty commissioners office and inf6rm
the Commissioners that it was jthe
unanimous opinion of the GPod
i Roads Association that road zen
gineer be appointed and requesting
that provision for the payment | OF
such an officer be made in the Cot IN
ty Budget. The Association offer
ing to raise $1,000 to be added to Ehe
county allowed by the law.
The letter from the Commission
ers follows:
Cambridge, Md, Apr. 27, III.
Dor. Co. Good Roads Committee, (
Cambridge, Md.
Gentlemen:-
Your letter inviting US to attend
your meeting on the 27th.7|also ask
ing for certain imfE5Tmation is ac-
knowledg
THE information you request will
| be supplied you by the publication of
our annual Budget which will appear
shortly after May the 1st, 1921, and
by the report of auditors when the
required annual audit is made, lit
tie later. Any other information
not supplied through these sources
is to be had at the office, and is
available to anyone who will take
the trouble to seek it and always has
been. We will not attend your meet
ing on April 27th. for the very good
reason our public duties require our
continued presence at our office IN
order that the business, always ur-
gent and pressing at this particular
time, may be properly and promtly
handled. To be entirely frank with
YOU we may add that we have very
decided aversion to attending any OF
YOUR meetings whatever. Our rea-
sons for taking this stand are many.
A few will be mentioned here. First
the purpose of the propaganda your
organization in attempting to spread
is indistinct and somewhat clothed in
mystery, but with faint evidences OF
rabid partisanship appearing now ana
then, The evidence Of this is con-
tanned in the fact that you are dl-
resting your criticism at the County
Commissioners entirely, attempting
to blame them for all the ills the
people of Dorchester County are heir
to. Your organization was supposed
to have been promoted to create a
sentiment for a road engineer, vet
the scope of your agitation spTsxa
out to every conceivable angle SEEK
| ing to convey the impression that an
unusual amount of money is Delne
wasted and that the County Com
| missioners are responsible for 1t all.
| You are not attempting to inform the
ueople in reference to the large de-
| felt that the present Commissioners
| found when they assumed office, nor
| that large percentage of the money
| levied is not spent by the Commls-
| sioners at all but is passed to other
organizations to be expended as seen
fit, You do not mention the fact
that more than one-third OF the peo-
pies money is spent by the Schooi
Board. You have not requested
them to supply you with anw infor-
nation, nor are you seeking infor-
nation from any other source OF ex-
penditure. Your Chairman has as
serted that he started several years
aeo a similar movement with salts