Show IS IT retaliation PUBLIC bodies look very small when they act from pettishness and do anything for spite we donot accuse the county court of such but a good many people think that the stop atop page of the sprinkling carts carte on certain streets and of all work except that done by poll tax smacks very strongly of such a spirit to suffocate people with dust duet because they would nt not vote a lot of money into its hands hand Is ie a poor way for the conaty court to show its ite resentment at the failure of the bonds bond election it if that Is in what they mean by it it will not add to the popularity of the selectmen nor will it the public to reverse their verdict we suggest that when the question obbon of bonding ing the county is again agitated the notice of the election be made more getheral ge ceral teral it should le published in the newspaper and it should contain specific announcements as to the qualifications of voters A great many people stayed away from the polls who had the right to vote as the statute stands but who supposed they were die disqualified qualified by act of congress Con gres or by local election laws the power of the county court to manage the election and appoint the election officers was also a matter of doubt and it ought to have been determined satisfactorily we do not think the county court or any of its members have just fust cause to feel fet 1 disgruntled because the taxpayers did not vote for the bonds the fault it any rests with their own party adherents who if they had been so disposed could have carried the election it to is evident that the majority of them did not vote at all but it was their right to vote or not as ai they chose and to stop sprinkling the streets is a childish sort of retaliation or miserable sort of economy according to the rep report of the county clerk toe the amount of revenue which will accrue to the county after the territorial and school taxes are deducted from the total of will be it if out of nearly one hundred bundred thousand dollars nothing can be spared for sprinkling streets which ought to be attended to and for road work which is needed to be done it seems to us that it to is very poor management we do not wish to find fault with the he county court unnecessarily public men seldom give public satisfaction and the criticism that to Is so freely bestowed upon them is in no doubt often very provoking but in this instance it really looks as though there was occasion for complaint and we hope the county authorities will reconsider the matter to which we have drawn attention |