| Show STEVENSON GOT THE MONEY during the past week since the expose of the fact that the prot gres resolve ress lve sive chairman mr C H stevenson has through his lumber interests fete mulcted carbon county pt t the rate of over per th thousand usand on all lumber furnished the county during the reign of sharp and hamilton amIlton ri the bull moose commissioners the apologists of stevenson have indulged in all sorts of contortions and squirm ing la in an iw effort to make a plausible explanation which might appeal to the taxpayers as some excuse for such ur unprecedented outrages VOTERS THERE IS absolutely NO explanation THAT CAN BE MADE OF THESE transactions TRANSACTION 9 STEVENSON GOT YOUR MONEY he got it by charging more than per thousand in excess of current local prices for like materials and he obtained it because job sharp and bill hamilton permitted him to obtain it these facts cannot be denied because they are absolutely fortified by the public records and by the claims presented by and paid to mr Steven stevenson soa mr stevenson drew the cash the bull moose commissioners borrowed money aggregating approximately and mr stevenson has never had to die discount count a warrant one cent the most outrageous falsehoods hava bavi been circulated by his apologists a an attempt to show that other lumber houses have maintained equally high prices in their with the county we have asserted that the other lumber houses by written bids offered to furnish the same material to the county at 2325 per thou thousand but that the commissioners directed the materials to bo be purchased from stevenson and steven sofi eon was permitted to charge the county an average of over per thousand for the identical materials THESE ARE FACTS they cannot be successfully denied because any person in carbon county can go to the clerks office and aee ee the claims and be convinced the most inexcusable negligence on the part of the con corn is manifest in permitting the county to bd fulcd by this man St steveison Steve eveLson raon if any of the republican or democratic nom nominees had been guilty of any such conduct every blatant progressive in the county would call them thieves we leave it to the voters to form their own estimate of the pretensions of C H stevenson and to characterize his conduct in padding these thede claims knowing as s ha ba did that they were more than in excess of proper charges on every thousand feet of material purchased by the county I 1 stevenson may bluff and bluster and his friends may hand sit aut t buncombe from now until election day but the fact remains the same bhatia that tween himself county progressive chairman joe sharp and bill hamilton county progressive commissioners the treasury aha ass na b been can sham and vy vote ej interested in obtaining an honeyann hone honest Yand and economical administration of county affairs Is in duty bound to exterminate his political machine in the coming election three or four small items are picked out by the carbon county news nei a in in un effort to show that stevenson has not at all times charged the prices complained about but the very claims cited by the carbon county news demonstrate that steenson Stew has done exactly what we have charged hIm with doing to alt it padding a vast aggregate of his bills by adding fo to his normal priced prices more than per thousand the e explanation of the new when analyzed our accusation beyond the peradventure of a doubt 1 the carbon county nov nev lies deliberately when it s says the weeter lumber company did not want the county business and thai that that company demanded cash the same lumber for which bt stevenson evenson charged 32 00 per thousand can be laid down in the city of price for 1900 no one is disposed to complain if 4 25 per thousand la is added as r profit and that is exact exactly what smoot nixon lumber company wid J C weeter lumber company made written offers to the board of county commissioners to supply the materials for stevenson was preferred and wr ada a given an opportunity to loot the treasury and he took advantage of the opportunity with the knowledge and consent of two faithless servants serOn ts joe sharp and bill Ty hamilton amilton we defy mr stevenson to deny these 1 we challenge him to attempt to re tue them ina in a court af justice 1 again we remind you voters that mr stevenson is discharging his hii obligation to tha commissioners by acting as tho the manager of the progressive campaign which h seeks to perpetuate his ring in power and if he should be successful please be reminded that these outrageous impositions upon your tm treasury abury will be continued stevenson got your money sharp and hamilton let him have it has he explained Is it ft possible for him to explain can there be any explanation except an absolute confession that our accusations are absolutely true and our inferences perfect lj loid cal the 4 is in receipt of a communication from county treasurer ball bull nger riger in explanation of details of charge and justification fi of expenditures connoted with the county treasurers treasure ei office during his incumbency wd ard in explanation of the relationship existing between himself and the several persons conn connected with A ith the various county offices as deputies and assistants A rending reading of the articles contained in the advocate with reference to the conduct of treasurer Ballin ballingers gees office will not discover any accusation either of incompetency or luck lack of integrity in that official the advocate simple simply tad t id of the tho appropriations made by the bull moose commissioners to relatives and reputed relatives of the ca county anty treasurer und ascertained the I 1 owl to be the relationship of ahe he various of oj county warrants so included was defined capt except in the case of E T who waa w as designated as a reputed relative of mr ballinger Balling cr mr sir ballinger advises the advocate that it was waz in error in its statement ement aa as a the relationship of mr but admits the other relationships tion ships to havo have been correctly stated ho ila not only admits the relationships bit b it ex expresses presse himself as being proud of each and all much w wherein ere n it al of them the advocate had anticipated as muc dudec to the family as a happy one there can be little doubt but that the only possible thing necessary to render the family happy was supplied aup plied by the board of county commissioners in their various warrant arrant iati lations ons there bisno is no denial in the communication of mr ballinger of any material statement contained in the of mr freyman Fal and we e ars advocate excel except t the relationship perfectly willing to make the correction as to him and that the moneys paid to him by the bull moose commissioners should be el eliminated I 1 inina ted from the grand total charged to have been absorbed by the treasurer and his relations |
