| Show to the people of juab county I 1 and eureka city in in particular culat april 1915 ed tor eureka reporter juab county in general and eureka city in particular I 1 deem this an opportune t me to render to you an accounting of 0 my steward sh p in pub lie lic office having graduated to my present proud position via the city council route not of govern na a cosmopolitan people of four thousand through snow mud rain wind and water but of guiding the tottering steps of one thousand children up through the various grades to sue examination and I 1 submit herewith to you shed every I 1 confidence you have placed in me the critics of my conduct standing and should sa d critics care I 1 for the gauntlet I 1 have thrown i it t down for their disposal one frank L frawley as ag on be half of this government through a painstaking and careful study of ev ery cry detail of the postoffice post office situation vindicated me my bonds and the gov eminent that employed him not uy by being wined dined smoked or bought in every town he had official business I 1 certainly queston quest on if at any time there was wag money enough in any postoffice post office in said juab county to make hm h m so far forget himself that the train postoffice post office and hotel w re not the limit of his operations and mr my editor I 1 would not at th a late date go into any controversy on th s or any other subject dectar ian an political or otherwise only for two tao reasons first in rendering an ac counting as aforesaid and second secona that one of the tour four doubting thorn thom ases one in a thousand might shil still have in bis his mind an idea that I 1 robbed eureka city the house of representatives eureka posto fice or eureka school district no 5 all of juab county state of utah and of which I 1 ana proud to belong I 1 have watched the growth groth of eu reka for twenty years with the greatest of pleasure and not always with aith profit to myself I 1 have taken p part art in our representative system of government because the majority of you people wanted me and I 1 defy anyone to carry the point where I 1 have double dealt shuffled an issue shot from ambush or acted actea the pol legerdemain artist that of be ing on both sides of the aenice at i once I 1 hue haie al helped to build land and again reiterate have never torn down I 1 noticed by your paper after my return from bait salt lake city that some changes had been made in the personnel of 0 the school board I 1 have no objection to any person on that board either elected or appoint ed it is only the methods employed to which I 1 object having been el acted for three years I 1 still have one year to serve and the retiring mem her ber appointed by that rule has taken the lace of I 1 your our cho ce that was el acted and d d fy again there are other reasons for objection to th s procedure first that some of the members were called into consul tation and the he voters and other mem bers v acre ere not considered yet in altah county and other counties mass and organized meetings were h id to make recommendations to county c commiss boners as to cho ce of who s should hould serve as trustees of new con Boli soli dated districts second that this slap or slight intentionally accidee tal or otherwise might be construed by the voters my friends or that I 1 ac in the deal and like my face slapped and was minnow enough not to feel see or hear it third the rollers were placed under me excuse the slang by an appo n tee who did not get the appointment through the organized channels of representative government and who is consequently accountable to no one should system be carried carried right through our whole free institutions from president down to village con stable the political and social tab fab nc of this the greatest republic of this or any other time would be in danger czar nicholas kaiser wil liam or king george or any other despot would be gentle cooing doves compared with aith any advocate of or anyone gractia ng this theory of gov eminent and if it carries in a re public of no equal it coughl to be dead easy in those places mentioned where rethe the ailers are monarchs of all they survey mr my editor I 1 have trespassed on your pace space but this being the first time 1 I kno v for the reason set out in the foregone fore forego gong ng you will forgive me I 1 remain sincerely HERBERT HOPES |
