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SECTION TWO- /lAiirrviTTT A HPT AIT Ar i the conspirators alone can tell us. CONTINUATION OF ! The County Commissioners were m .-n, nnrrnii nocent victims of the conspiracy niiNAhAN SPttlH d ° not char^e y° u with being one of J the conspirators, but if you were not, ~ | then you permitted yourself to be- Remarks of Democratic Coun-'come a tool and helped to put; over V ty Chairman in His Debate j conspiracy the banks bled Euth er. at Rutherfordton Mon- i erford County, and Chimney Kock day, Sept. 22. Mountains, and those who would in- vest there bled the banks. Such a The following is a continuation of situation could never have occurred the speech made by Mr. S. P. Duna- . n community with disinterested H^mrick^ 1 Rutherfordton j Monday attorneys representing the County of evening, September 22. The first part Rutherford, of this speech appeared in last week s issue of, The Courier: I am charitable enough to say From all the facts I have in handthis, that I believe that Mr. Hamrick, I charge that there was a conspiracy the County Commissioners the bank * m.* ers anc * everyone connected with the to aid in the development of Chim- development of chimney Rock Moun ney Rock Mountains and this enor- were sincere in the belief that mous sum of money placed in circu- the development would be a success, lation in Rutherford County was and, feeling that way, did not con solely for that purpose. Whether this I dder the serious consequences -that ,v , , } would result, conspiracy existed before the bonds t were issued or as an afterthought, Did you have the Interest of the LAST CALL AND FINAL WIND-UP Fire Sale! OF STEIN'S DEPARTMENT STORE We are moving away from the temporary location. In order not to have anything left you can buy this merchandise at almost YOUR OWN PRICE. Every thing must go! This is THE END, XHE FINAL WIND-UP. Now located in the Building next to Forest City Courier Printing Office. Temporary Location and Remodeling SALE BEGINS FRIDAY, OCT. 3,8:30 AJI Remnants, yard 1 1_ 200 Pairs Childrens' Shoes and Slippers, worth up to $3.00 a pair !___ gj £ Men's High Grade Work Shoes values up to $4.95. Your choice of any pair $1.95 Ladies Slippers and Shoes, values up to 112.50. Your choice of any pair One big lot Sweaters cq« Full Fashioned Ladies' Silk Hose, values up to $2.00. Your choice only .... Men's Hose, pair o_ Men's Shirts, SI.OO value Childrens' Hose, o. Octagon Soap 2*» Piece Goods, yard Ladies' Silk Hose, a real value at only pair lgc Underwear, jq, Childrens' Shoes, pair 23c $5.00 Men's Dress Pants going at |J One big lot Ladies' and Men's Sweaters, light and heavy weights, values up to SIO.OO £2 gg Brass Pins 2c. All kinds of Buttons 2q *doz 1 lot Boys' Suits going for |J Men's 50c Sox, seconds at 1 A~ $4.00 Ladies' Shoes rn„ SI.OO Men's Ties c. SI.OO Boys' Pants |2*» 100 Washable Dresses, Ladies' and Miss es sizes, your choice 47c 53.00 Work Shoes , pair ... gq„ Rugs, Carpets and Art Squares at half price and less. Ask to see them. FIRE SALE OF STEIN'S DEPT. STORE Forest City, N. C. PAGE TWO THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1930. taxpayers at heart, Mr. Hamrick, when you spent eight days in the city of Washington and charged ex penses for hotel bill and taxi fare $105.00, more than $13.00 per day? at the time you were living so lux uriously hundred of taxpayers of Rutherford County and I may say thousands have been forced to cut down on their food and clothing ex penses in order to pay taxes and save their homes and farms. But Mr. Hamrick says that the present Board of County Commissioners, (two of whom are not on the ticket for elec tion,) have fallen down completely. You know this present board of County Commissioners went into of fice with a debt against Rutherford County of more than $3,600,000.00. I am frank to say to the people j that under the conditions and cir-1 cumstances, while they have made some mistakes, as a whole they have accomplished much for Rutherford "County.. The first year showing an entire fiscal year in road and bridge work they spent approximately $74,- 000.00 as compared with the pre vious Board's expenditure of more than $199,000.00 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and $243,- 676.05 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927. It seems that they have very much reduced the expenditures of the County in that respect. And the record shows also that the total bonded indebtedness of the county as shown by audit of June 30, 1930, shows a total indebtedness of $3,- 149,149.08 —more than one half a million dollars less than what the indebtedness was when they went in office. So, Mr. Hamrick, they could lose the $300,000.00 that was on deposit in the banks of Rutherford County and still the county of Ruth erford would be $243,000.00 better off than you left it. The mistakes made by the present Board are mis takes that any conscientious individ ual might have made under similar circumstances and conditions. Tax Fees. I understood that you are com plaining very much over a contract with Mr. Jones to receive 15 per cent for handling the foreclosure suits. That contract also provides that all fees allowed by the courts for handling these suits shall be paid to the Treasurer of Rutherford County. Therefore the 15 per cent is the only fees that Mr. Jones will receive and for your information I will state that he has filed more than 200 tax foreclosure suits. The at torney s fees based on the minimum fees charged by you would be $25.00 in each case. Therefore 200 suits would bring into the County Treas ury $5,000.00 to offset the 15 per cent. Personally, I think from Jones' standpoint he is the loser and but for j two particular collections made by, him, namely, Chimney Rock Moun tains and Carolina Mountain Power Company, he could not have made expenses out of his contract. When your firm handled the foreclosure suits you charged the County per diem and expenses. The amount ac tually expended by Rutherford Coun ty in paying you based on the a mount of taxes collected by your office amounted to 22 53(100 per cent. In addition to that I am reliably in formed that you had the taxpayer to pay you a fee, the minimum of which was $25.00 in each case hand led, and that amount is not consider ed in arriving at the percentage stat ed for the reason that there is no record in the Treasurer's office to show the amount of those fees, but I would not be at all surprised if figured all up together the percent age would amount to more than 50 per cent. Furthermore, during the time that you represented the Coun ty you refused to make your clients Chimney Rock Mountains and ££ lma Mountain Power Company pay their taxes. Perhaps you can explain to the smaller taxpayers of Ruther ford County whom you filed suits a gamst why you picked them out but let these corporations ride, so to speak If your office had performed your duty in that respect Jones, in stead of making more than enough to pay his expenses and a reasonable compensation for his time, would to day % occupying a room out at the County Poor House in order to com ply with the contract made by him. Republican Extravagance. In spite of all of the extravagance of your administration there was T; fa ' nt ho P e even for the banks ; tL r I C ° Unty - If Ruthel " ford County could function normally,! the industries operate and payrolls' continue m circulation; if o ur farm ers could get a decent price for their produce especially the money crops, the banks would have pulled through and m spite of the extravagance people would be able to pay their taxes? In 1928 the Republican Party ! talked about the prosperity that that party had given to the nation; the i spell-binders all over the country proclaimed that they, and they alone, ha'd the power to give this prosper ! ity; that they had done it for the past ■ several years and would continue to do so. President Hoover in his ac ceptance speech, speaking of the prosperous condition of the nation says: "At one time we demanded for our workers a full dinner pail. We have gone beyond that concep tion. Today we demand larger com fort and greater participation," etc., —a direct promise to increase the prosperity and conditions of the working people. He likewise prom ised great relief to the farmers. Personally, I doubted whether the Republican Party was responsible for the conditions existing before and I am frank to say that I do not be lieve that they are atogether res ponsible for the conditions existing now. However, they made the prom ises and assurances and went into office under false pretenses. Instead of doing anything whatever to bet ter conditions, as one speaker has said, there has been a 100 per cent failure to do anything promised by their spokesman. I do know this, that today the mills and industries all over the United States are cur tailing or are at a standstill; that the farmers are enjoying a situation where the farm produce must be sold for less than the cost for production: that there are some six or seven million of people out of employment and instead of the comforts promis ed by the Republican Party the peo ple today have even lost N the full dinner pail which /the Republican Party has talked of for more than thirty years in campaign times, and they feel lucky if they have a suf ficient amount of food and clothing to give them sustenance. Unless con ditions change materially during the coming winter months millions of people will suffer from cold and hun ger with insufficient clothing, etc. Realizes Mistakes. The Democratic Party in Ruther ford County has long ago seen their mistakes. In 1927 the Party discov ered the situation—and it acted promptly—cutting off the political heads of its officials who were a party to the extravagance. Those of ficials acted in good faith as_ they were mis-advised by you and others. I personally know them to be good men, and they I believe will do as much as anyone to aid a re-organized militant Democracy to put Ruth erford County back on a sound basis. # Will the people of Rutherford Cotfnty folow this re-organized De mocracy pledged to every great prin cipal of that organization; or will it follow that other political party dominated by Mr. Hamrick, who I J say again is more responsible than anyone else for our situation. I wish I had time to go over all the records. With never a word of protest—and actively ,advocating and encourajg ing (1) Nearly $3,000,000.00 of in debtedness was added on our citi zenship. That debt together with the taxes collected made the average ex penditure of Rutherford County dur ing his connection nearly a million and a quarter dollars each year. (2) The credit of Rutherford County was loaned to the banks a mounting to more than a million dol lars at times—greatly inflated the finances of the county—gave the banks too much money with which they made unwise and unsafe loans. These were the seeds planted that wrecked the banks—even though the crash didn t come 'til nearly two years later. He, I say is responsible for our county being as he himself says "flat on its back with its hands and feet m the air—practically bankrupt." Does he still deny the policies he dictated caused this condition? The old board of Commissioners had been in office before this period and under the advice and counsel of a good Democrat, this same board gave us a good and economical ad ministration. Therefore it was not the policy of the board No other but Mr. Hamrick ever publicly advocated these wild ex penditures. You did advocate them at the road meeting and other pub- ! lie places. The other institutions re- ' fered to followed the same kind of wild extravagance. Therefore, in your public appearances, you'v.j ! furnished the people the evidence i to convict you of any charges—and ' to convict you on every count. Bank Failures. On rebuttal Mr. Dunagan answ ered Mr. Hamrick's attack on the banking department of North Caro lina, and showed that during the eight years of Democratic govern- ment under Woodrow Wilson there were only 77 national bank failures; whereas under the Republican admin istration from 1920 through 1929 there were 689 national bank fail ures. "If the state banking depart ment is rotten, as Mr. Hamrick says, what would you say about the na tional banking department?" Three cars of fat hogs fed by Cra ven farmers topped the Richmond market at 11 cents a pound net to the growers and brought them the tidy sum of $3,635.34 last week. _________ Sandhill peach growers encourag ed by prices for their fruit this sum mer are giving their orchards bet ter attention this fall, finds farm a gent J. L. Dove of Richmond county. NOTICE! LAST CALL FOR DELINQUENT TAXES I I have been appointed town tax col lector and have been instructed to sell property for unpaid taxes. The list is now being prepared and will appear in the For est City Courier, October 9th. You are urged to pay your taxes before the above date and save expense of adver tising. J. E. CALDWELL, City Tax Collector. ANY DAY Your auto may any day meet with an accident or some disas ter—the fist of fate may strike you a grim crushing blow. You can never tell when this may happen. Yet complete auto mobile insurance from this agen cy will keep you out of trouble — and save you from serious finan cial loss. Phone today—you may be glad you did tomorrow! For safe and sure'insurancc, call 64 ■ SECURITY Insurance & Realty Co. G. B. HARRILL, Sec^-Treas —s PHONE 64 % Forest City, . R AVONDAI.F £jf East Avondale, Sent Lucile Nanney seem Rutherfordton with' W . Miss Amanda Hay„ es night a t her homo i„ Mr. Robert Well, attend school at Mr. and Mrs. B. p p rlJ ' Beth Caldwell, jf.. jj j; were visitors at th» \ ' H - W' Z. O. Jenkins Sunday ° f \ Mr. Charles Dalton „ , s. Hall attended ih" JS I afternoon. dil Tu eS( j Mr. Roy Corn was i vi ; t Haynes House Sunday. ° r Mr. and Mrs. Grain.,, w visitors of the former/ Mesdames J. M. t ~.n „ l ent>' M. Owens were hosted »♦ an , d & bridge party Wednesday J H __________ a ' te moon
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