The Little River news., 1922-08-05
TO THE YOTERS:

more than twenty thousand dollars down practically nothing at the set clement for 1922. After that settle ment there will be no bridge indebted i ness against the county as there was : when I went into office. At that time : there was about eight thousand dol !. lars bridge accounts against the g county.
 Vote for the man that has put your -. county scrip on a cash basis. There f will be no more speculation On coun- V ty and road scrip as long as l am Judge after the settlement this year. If you don't think l can stop the speculation on our scrip just watch , and see. I have got the county in shape so that I can do that now
 Vote for the man that has been the means of establishing one of the best , road systems in the state of Arkansas, and through the establishment of this road treasury an additional sum of over nine thousand dollars in the years of 1920 and 1921, and the same regulation will De law I think in definite.
 I saved last year over a thousand dollars for roads and county, by hay ing car to use while in the disGharge of my duties as county judge and ex- otficio road commissioner. 1 saved the county roads about fifty dollars last Friday by going to Texarkana and buying dynamite and delivering it to four different oTerseers and that was one of the many ways that I have saved the county money by use of the car.
 Now, 1 know, better than anyone else, about the unjust criticisms that have been piled upon me, in various ways, and the most unjust criticisms is that, that come to me through the establishment of special District No. '. Now I will give you some regulations that govern county courts in special road districts:
 "The legislature in establishing special districts takes away the pow CT of the county court in the man agement of special districts and places the management of the distric absolutely in the hands of the com- missioners.
 "The supreme court ruled net more than thirty days ago, that the com missioners did not have to make an annual report of the condition Of their districts. The law is such that when a set of commissioners step in- to the county court and ask for cer- tain things to be done. relative to the , advancement of their district, if it is , necessary for the county court to endorse any of the commissioners the law says that if the, county court does not act upon such papers as the com missioners present to him, the law says that the circuit judge in vaca- tion can mandamus the county judge and make him take such action as the commissioners ask for
 Now, listen folks, the county coart has some jurisdiction over the Alex ander Road Law, but not a single dis trict under the Alexander Law has been organized under my administra- tiCn.
 The assessment, the bond sale of Mo- is not what hurts-it is the few miles of road that was completed in the expenditure of so much money.
 When you go to the polls to vote nexo Tuesday, are you going to vote for the man that is thoroughly ac- quainted with the duties of the office or are you going to vote against me just because I haven't done everything that you or someone else thought ought to have CT have not done? Beware folks, there are some false reports being put out by some sneak about various reckless expenditures, One is. that I had bought carload O. slips, and the fact is that l have bought twenty Mo- slips to be dis tributed out among the various over seers of the county. Some of them need one, some two and some none.
 Now do show me the courtesy to in yestigate to your satisfaction any and all reports that show bad faith on my part in the discharge of my every duty. Don't criticise.
 Yours for a square deal,
 P. M. McCORD.