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LTBIOT. KOBTg^yffitgroORO. N ._C.
1. How many of you know that you are disfranchised
when you come to the election of your County Com
missioners? Do you know that you can only vote for
one Commissioner and that next year three as usual
will pass upon the assessment and the tax rate to be
placed on your property and that this was SPECIAL
LEGISLATION forced upon Wilkes County by outside
representatives and for political purposes? Are you in
favor of it?
2. —Are you in favor of turning down the Board of
Commissioners who with the lowest tax rate in recent
years ($1.05) has paid during the past year $43,500.00
on the bonded indebtedness of the county and has con
ducted the other county affairs in an economical and
efficient manner?
3. _Do you know that next year is the time to revalue
your real property and that in accord with the record
of the fomer Board of Democratic Commissioners,
should they be successful in electing two on the next
Board, that you may expect to have substantial in
creases? Have you forgotten that three years ago that
many of you had your property raised 50 to 75% and
some of you were raised more than 100%? Are you in
favor of taking a chance on a similar board again? If
Messrs M. F. Absher, Dave Mink, and Grover Hamby
are elected County Commissioners, we guarantee Lon
McNeil and A. A. (Dick) Cashion will not assess yom
real property as they did in North Wilkesboro township
in 1937.
4. —Are you in favor of your school teachers who have
gone to great expense and through years of study to
prepare themselves for their jobs and for which they re
ceive meager salaries to be assessed a part of their sal
ary by a political campaign committee and have their
jobs taken from them if they fail to pay such assess
ments?
5. —Are you in favor of a state school system that taps
you to build and maintain Teacher-Training institu
tions and then accepts your children as students and
prospective teachers, taking their money and your
money as tuition and other expense for four or more
years of preparation for such job, and then when they
have finished the course be denied the priviledge to
teach unless they register and vote as members of the
Democratic Party? This requirement is now being so
rigidly enforced that there are no longer any Republi
can principals and almost no teachers of that party who
register as such? Are you in favor of this?
6. Are you in favor of an election law that will pro
vide for the use of the absentee ballot in general elec
tions where it is used to the great disadvantage of Re
publicans but which is not used in Primary Elections
where Democrats no longer wish to be found steal
ing from each other? Are you in favor of this sort of
election tactics?
7. —Are you in favor of a law passed by a representa
tive from an adjoining county in which the Welfare Of
fice of Wilkes county is selected by the Welfare Board
only, while in 99 other counties in North Carolina the
County Commissioners help make this selection? The
County Commissioners in the other counties help in this
selection because the counties put up part of the funds
for welfare purposes. It is a known fact that two years
ago the people entitled to old age relief and benefits
were intimidated by threat that they would have no
chance to obtain this relief if they did not vote the Dem
ocratic Ticket. We are glad that despite the passage
of this law the Democratic organization has been de
feated in its nefarious purpose because we now have a
Welfare Board which is determined that the Welfare
Officer shall not control the expenditure of relief mon
ey for political pu^oses. It is a sad affair when any
party would intimidate the unfortunate citizens for po
litical purposes. We want to insist on every one who
is receiving these benefits to go to the polls and vote his
sentiment and we assure you that the present Welfare
Board, notwithstanding the power of the Welfare offi
cer, will see to it that no one is taken off of the Welfare
list regardless of how he or she votes.
8. —Do you know also that this same legislature passed
a Special Act for Wilkes county granting the sheriff
certain authorities regarding jail fees not allowed in
the general laws governing such matters? Do you fa
vor the sheriff of Wilkes having additional authorities
not allowed in the general laws?
9. —Do you favor the disfranchising of men and wo
men who have previously been voting but who cannot
read and write; and further do you favor the disfran-
drfsfng of young men who are ifi the process of being
drafted for the army but who are unable to read or
write satisfactorily to the registrars of Wilkes county?
10. —The Republican Party offers the citizens of
Wilkes county candidates for County Commissioners,
Mr. M. F. Absher in District No. 3, Mr. Dave Mink in
District No. 1, and Mr. Grover Hamby in District No.
2. All three are hard working business men of high
character and sound judgment. H elected they will
serve openly and see to it that no citizen is discriminat
ed against in the matter of property valuation for taxa
tion purposes. If elected no one will sit behind their
backs telling them what moves to make regarding the
affairs of Wilkes county. If elected, every citizen re
gardless of his political affiliation, can depend on
these men serving every one fairly. In Professor T. E.
Story, a candidate to the State Legislature and Mr. C.
C. Sidden, as candidate for Register of Deeds, the Re
publican Party offers two men whose many Democra
tic friends attest the fact that they are men who put
good government first and politics second. It behooves
every citizen to vote for the best men and the best rec
ord in local matters. A vote for these candidates is a
vote for good government. For many years the Repub
lican Party has guided the affairs of Wilkes county. No
mismanagement of government has ever marred that
record. In nearly all our neighboring counties in which
the ^publicans do not have control of local affairs the
tax rate is much higher than in Wilkes county and some
times mismanagement of local government breaks out
The people in Wilkes county have never been told why
a law was introduced by a legislator outside otOTk^
county and passed over the Representaltive efect^by
the people of Wilkes county which would take the con
trol of the local affairs out of the hands of the majority
of the people. We ask, was this for good government?
We say to the people of Wilkes county, “Play safe.
Vote for men who you are certain to stand for good
government. Vote for the Republican Candidates.”
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