Show extravagance that em hat pays pi latys republished Republish td by request from issue df aug 13 1014 in an effort to discredit the county commissioners somebody prepared an article for last week weeks advocate that shows how hard the tile opposition is straining to put the corn com in bad with tho people while many charges of extravagance are made in the aforesaid article about the only thing that Is i shown is that tho commissioners have been trying to have liquor and laws enforced in carbon county count yand and when they became convinced that the sheriff and county attorney were not enforcing the laws nt tempted to have them impeached the first charge is that the commissioners ini paid J W edmunds for auditing the county books this is true and needs no apology ae aa the he law provides this must be done then the commissioners are condemned for allowing mr edmunds for court expenses this was in the jones and snyder embezzlement cases and resulted in the county recovering from the bondsmen of the former county treasurer was that a waste of public money the next charge is 15 that the commis spent in trying to remove sheriff kelter and attorney ncy from office the commissioners felt that the county would be better off if these men could be removed from office and their only regret is that their witnesses for some reason failed to testify on the stand to tho the most important facts they had told the commissioners As they acted in good faith the com ers say they are not ashamed of their actions in this matter even though they failed to convict either of the accused the bringing of the cases for a time put a damper on tbt the activity of the lawbreakers law breakers and it is believed the words of judge christenson in directing the jury to bring in a verdict of not guilty will make the officers mentioned a little more careful during the remainder remain dei doi of their terms of office if this is true the 1643 was well spent the advocate critic calls attention to the fact that Attorn attorney oy S it thurman was paid as special sti lt orney yei mr thurman was hired to assist in prosecuting jones and snyder charged with embezzling county funds and assisted in securing from seders bondsmen and it is possible that even a greater sum will bo recovered from the bondsmen of jones that vas as money well spent after mentioning every item it thinks the commissioners should not have spent the advocate gets a total of less than the news does not believe a cent of that money vas was wasted now here are a few things for which the county commissioners deerve deserve credit but it is a safe bet they will not get it from Braf feis official organ during the year 1913 the county commissioners commissi onera replaced in overdrawn funds the sum of 33 that had been pent spent by their predecessors in ofick as follows harper school fund district court fund witness I 1 and jury fund emergency f fund anu unu court house ground grounds fund total in addition to the above ble showing the commissioners hare haye during the same period taken up old warrants issued by their predecessor to the amount of they have without raising taxes built more roads during the first year of their administration than were ever built in carbon county in a year without the issuance of bonds in addition to the money they collected and turned over to the state road commission under the 5 mill levy for last bear ear they also allowed allo ed several I 1 thousand dollars of founty f funds to be expended on roads by the tile state road commission indis if his were more all the present county commissioners hid done the newa news believes they should be forgiven if they had thrown the 1000 they are accused of waiting into the river but they did lid not waste the money and this is not all they have done by making the coal companies pay a more equitable tax on their town aites ites they hivo have added almost to the alua tion of the county and expected by this means to bo be able to reduce the levies lovies consid considerable r able but wore were partially pie prevented vented from ao so doing bi bv tho the state board of equalization reducing tho valuation alua tion on the output of thy mines anu commissioners did their part but those higher up undid it for thorn at the beginning of tho the term of j the present board tan jan 1 1913 county warrants were sere selling at 60 to on the dollar any bank in carbon county will nill cents on we dollar for any is issued aed by randolph slurp and hamilton the news Is mighty might proud of the record made by commissioners randolp sharp and hamilton and und this ie is the only reason it has gone to the trouble of noticing the attack made by the official organ of the law break ere ers of carbon county believing that all laws on the statutes should either bo be enforced or repealed the commissioners have themselves vea attempted to keep within the law and they have spent some public money in trying to make other people respect the law laws if the people of carbon county ao not want the tile laws enforced let them say so at the november election by defeating the progressive ticket for real ivee all believe in law enforcement equal opportunity to all and privileges to none the advocate under its present handicap of gang control does not approve of law enforcement in all cases which may account for its hostility to three of the best commissioners carbon county ever had the news will have more to eay say during the campaign concerning the record of the present board and it is quite probable that before the um carn laign is is over the advocate editors will be sick and tired of quoting figures |