The Little River news., 1922-07-01
10 THE VOTERS
 OF LITTLE RIVER COUNTY:

office of County and Probate Judge. Now this office does not belong to any one person, it belongs to the voters. l have some reasons for asking for re-e.ection. My life has been dedi- cated thing in every undertaking in which is and has been an open book. In asking for reelection I know that have made some mistakes, but it was an error of the head and not of the heart. From the experience I have had in the Judges office l feel that can lessen my mistakes as natural consequence and give to the people better service than I have in the past, inasmuch as I am much better ac- quainted with the conditions of the roads and bridges and with the gener- 'al management of the finances of the County I have made it possible for all kinds of vehicles to travel many more miles of our public roads the year around than when I went into office. I have opened several miles of new road, and have worked many many miles of old road that hadn't had any work done for many years The |odds have been against me in my efforts to accomplish what I expected to do by this time, on account of ex cessive rain for the past two and half years. Don't take my word for it but go look at the roads all over the county and see for yourself. I haven't pleased everybody, and could not if l bad tried. I have tried to be fair and honest and impartial in the discharge of every duty in the office. I have heard it rumored in some localities that there has been some money squandered, which is LIe as black as black can be. Political dope. Now listen reasonable thinking people, the books in all the offices in the County are open for your inspection all the time. We have three men who are called commissioners of accounts that are appointed by the Circuit Judge. Their duty is to check every piece of scrip, county school and road, com pare them to corresponding number registered On the County Clerks rec ord, and of course they have the right and i, is their duty to pass upon the legality of every claim and warrant hat is issued during the past year.
 Ex-doctor Bishop. l say eX-doctor, because he said, he had quit the prac tice of medicine. I have been wonder ing if he had quit the practice, or the practice had quit him, as did the vot- CTS when he ran or reelection to the office of Representative of Little River County few years ago. The doctor has such a scornful idea about the Count Judge spending the peoples money for car to look after the roads with, it seems like he would have got ten into the car case fight and tried to help out in some way to show to the court that it was not the practical thing to do. Now if you knew what l do, you would feel as I do that the ear case was the outcroping of preju- dice. Now as to the evidence in the car case, there wasn't single ioto of evidence to show that it was not ecOn- omy for the county to furnish car for the road commissioner to use in road supervision. But there were seven or eight overseers' testimony in- troduced and their evidence was to the effect that the use of the car was 6 saving of from fifty to two hundred dollars to each district that they rep resented in road work and bridge building, and to extend the same con- ditions over the entire fifteen districts that the price of the car had been saw ed during one year. Your County Judge in the selection of his 0verseers, would naturally appoint, as he thinks,
 best men in each district for his
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