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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 88, 16 April 1915, Page 4

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[To Tub Editor Stratford Post. 1 Sir,—Your correspondent, Mr Henry Wilson, states that but for my obstinacy the loan proposals of two years ago stood a good chance of being carried. Possibly this is true. However, it is as well that the minds of tho burgesses 1 should be--refreshed and the whole of the story told: not only that part of the story that suits Mr Wilson’s case. My obstinacy, if it may be called so, consisted in strenuously opposing Mr Wilson’s pet scheme of building a costly concrete bridge, the full width of Broadway, across the Petea River. This proposal, together with other loan proposals, was put to the ratepayers on separate issues and fearing that the bridge proposal would he thrown out, Mr Wilson did his utmost to get a block vote for the bridge proposal and advised lua friends to vote against all the other proposals. This is the gentleman who accuses me of being the, cause of the defeat of the proposed loans. If my opposition to the bridge scheme had anything to do with the defeat of the loans, then the direct cause of the defeat of the loans can be laid at the door of Mr Henry Wilson, who still has this mad scheme of wasting public money in senseless bridge building on the brain. A Mayor who would fall in with his idea would get his support, hut not otherwise.. Why does he not stand for the Mayoralty himself? He has done a.lot of criticising, but has not yet given any services to the town. It takes an artist to draw a picture, hut any fool can put his foot through it.—l am, etc., W. P. KIRKWOOD,