| Show MR RECORD owl V 11 during the period of fourteen month months from the middle of may 1913 to the middle of J ly 1914 the records of the county clerks office show commissioner i sharp Han hanilton Ha nulton lilton and randolph to have ava appropriated money to the stevenson lumber company aggregating gre gating more morp corp 00 chiefly for lumber cubed in connection with bridge eona for T the he stevenson lumber company haa charged the county on an average approximately per thousand higher than other lumber companies companes in writing offered ag to furnoh the identical materials to the county for the quotations of J C weeter lumber company compan y and the smoot nixon lumber company are in sa file in n the clerks office and the foregoing statement may bo be corroU rated by any citizen or taxpayer mr stevenson is chairman of tho the party and is conducting the campaign for the election reelection re of the progressive ticket being successful in which would mean wean ft a continuation in office of commissioners sharp and hamilton whose united vote rendered his extortions from the taxpayers possible how does it lok to you mr Tu taxpayer payer go up to the court house and examine the padded claims of stevenson for yourselves county clerke clerk E S horsley L vill show you claims of stevenson lumber company referred fn n in this article if you will call for them they are numbered as follows 2184 2186 2096 2095 1069 1088 10 34 SOS 88 43 1166 1167 1168 1167 1153 t your attention is particularly directed to claims nos 1069 dated may mar 8 1914 for claim no dated december 9 1913 for 27 claim no dated november 17 1913 for claim no 88 dated august 8 1913 S for and claim ro 1153 dated may 16 1918 for these are oaly a few but they reveal upon their face div df the moat most systematic and mid outrageous leech lee chinga ings ever perpetrated perpetrates upon tipon the taxpayers of this or any other county examine them and then determine for yourselves whether or not an hone honest t man inan interested in the welfare f ia re of his co county tinty can do other than vote against the perpetuation sa is office 0 such faithless officials ciale 4 jt it Is e the duty of the to pur purchase chasa county sup P JAI aliee to the best beat advantage A comparison of the prices paid stevenson with the prevailing prices 0 his competitors reveals that approximately has ben pad to his concern in excess of the offers of lite competitors a ahe the cannet sulk ilk 1 t their ignorance Igne rance for the reason that the prie of weeter lumber company and smoot nixon lumber company v were ere made in lit W wring and fw with the eler clerk who directed the same to the att attention of the hoard board J ag 1 mr iehl lem I ehl jasen obtained one load of bridge timber from the weeter lumber company for which ho he was quoted a of 26 25 per thousand and thi bill in accordance with such bid was filed with the bourd of county commissioners a paid by them tt fitly steven enson aon bps charged ahe dounty for the same character of materials 4 on one occasion 2830 per thousand and on numerous oc callow pa 32 00 pw per shousan tho usan this wanton and shameful looting beof 0 o the county treasury has been going on systematically ever since sharp and hamilton were seeto in office as 3 taxes in carbon county are higher than in any other county of the state and annece rily eg 89 if graf grafting ting of this type is stopped on september 9 1914 mr stevenson furnished one bill of lumber delivered at the fair gro grounds linds at 23 85 per thousand lumber of the same character dimensions and value for which abich the claims above bened rp ried to show that ho he had ben charging carbon county at al his yard an average of 32 00 per thousand taxpayer do you wish the election reelection re of progressive commissioners who have such a com conception eption of their off official lelal autv the situation es beyond all doubt that the progressive salve commissioners j have entirely disregarded their obligations to the taxpayers as well as us their oaths of office or that they are entirely incompetent to be charged with the responsibility of handling public money or affairs airs thousands upon thousands of dollars have be been n wasted by these men in payment made to concern stanley price 0 C nelson alien allen 1 sanford J W edmunds and other pets who constitute the noise makers in the present campaign many of these claims were not detail ca in compliance with the provi provisions slona of law and in many instances evidence upon their face the most unconscionable extortion it is high time that malice and incompetency should sunney sunn surian dy dox the reins of government tol toa competent and square business busi nesa administration some ashes affect to believe that corporations should not riot be interested in carbon count politics such persons should look at the clatie allowances of the progressive commissioners showing overpayments to the steven stevenson concern aggregating more than 1000 00 during a period of fourteen months for lumber and supplies furnished from that house and then if they are honest with themselves they will concede that the corporate interests and all other taxpaying interests intel esta have not only the right but it is their duty to clean this ive crowd by assisting in the election of a business administration who will honestly and economically expend the trust funds placed at their disposal by the taxpayers what wonder is it that the people of carbon county are appalled when they contemplate the spendthrift policy of the bull moose commissioners who have the stevenson lumber company during a short period of fourteen month mont lis 11 to 0 pad paid claims to an extent which constitutes their administration one of the most disgraceful in the history of the county in this state or any other fifteen thousand dollars put in a pipe line from price above alove the arh of helper that would help some c J F t A 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