Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-03-21

Stanbarger and in favor of Dull as two TO
one; then when we sum up the endless travel,
heavy hauling, and loose stock of Dull in the
use of the bridge, in connection with his farm,
it will amount to hundreds of dollars per
year, in favoring Dull in contrast with Stan'
barger. This is not all. You say in the
5000 toll against Stanbarger, the families
of Stanbarger aud Neice are included This
is incorrect. Neice is not included. There
the privilege is extended to Stanbarger and
wife alone. As an offset DulPs family all pass
over for the $500 toll as the book says, or
SIoUO II you choose as You say. General,
can you understand all this mixed up arith-
metlc! Well, this is one case clearly made
out of your favoring democrats and 0ppress-
ing republicans.
In order to justify yourselves in refusing
to give Stackpole the bridge by the year last
fall, you allege that you have had a standing
rule not to give the bridge after the FIRST six
months 70 any but taborers and that by the
month, Daniel ICder, vino is q man of un
doubted VeracIty, and has been director for
several years, says there is no such rule that
there is nothing of the kind on the book. that
there never was, that the frst he ever heard
OF such thing was when Stackpole got the
carrying of the mail. 1t was then, Just
A
shadow Of foundation, if Mr.. Yoder is true,
but for the sake of argument, admitting your
position to be true. | say you broke that
rule when you contracted with Isaac Walls,
carpenter, long after the first six months ex-
pred, not by the month bat so cents for the
ralance Of the year. Thus proving in cit er
view OF the case the fa.se position You YOUR
selves have assumed.
The case f b. Y. Ahl proves nothing lie
was stranger herc-e1 pected to he here
only while he was moving his metal, which he
must take over the bridge to get it away, and
had you not done as you did you would have
been highly culp pable.
At the commencement Of the disturbance.
you say you called on StaCkpole and entreat
Ell him to pay by the trip-40 cents, being
81 cents per day for two mouths, unit the
new assessment, aud you would do so and So
Well, 1t was just three months, less three
days, from the time Stackpoie commenced
carrying the mail, instead of two mouths.
You would then have him pay 80 cents per
day all the time while you pass Kline at )
cents per trip. Modest request that
You were all harmonious 10 the board, we're
you? Were you harmonious when you, the
DullS and the R0sses strUVe to make Stack
pole pay 81 cents per day, when c. BrattOn
President, directed the toll collector to pass
him at % cents per day? Were you harmo-
nous at the meeting on lith October, when
the Dulls and Rosses voted, solid, to make
Stackpole pay 10 cents trip, when every
republican member present including Harsh
barger. as he says, voted nay? Strange har
mony this
You charge me with being the cause IF all
this disturbance. by my medding at home
Not so sir. You began this disturbance by
your imposition on Stackpole; at the first
move, by closing the gate on him-by sueing
him, and by your persistent persecution Of
him In all this transaction, and now findcg
yourselves in your present predicamcnt, you
want to shirk the responsibility by saying the
whole is tissue Of falsehoods, and that |
was the cause Of it all. YOU sir, can if you
will, this day settle all the trouble, If Won
will 60 before the board and move that Stack
pole and Kline be put on the same footing in
the paying of toll, your motion will be
adopted and peace restored at once. | have
proven every prominent charge against you
! true, and in your letter. you have, by your
ignorance Of the english language, advanced
arguments to prove yourself innocent, which
has proven the reverse. In your defence,
you have shown how utterly untenable your
position is. You have proven more against
yourselves than dozen communcatons from
an outside party could do. The charges are
true. You know they are true You are all
| ashamed of yourselves, and we'll you may be-
You attempt TO escape responsibility By sub
terfuge, and every step you take involves you
the more deeply.
Being goaded to desperation by the expos.
ure of your course, you are ready for anything.
You and your associates meet and c0ncoct
your plans to be executed at the proper time
On election day, you 60 stealthily to work and
marshal your forces-With profound secresy
you keep your ticket to yourselves, and let no
one outside Of your clique know for whom
you vote. | being from home most part of
the day, did not know Shur secret design un,
til within very short time before the polls
closed. Then the work is done. You and
your subordlnates, with the secresy Of the
midnight assassin, elect me constable. If
this had been openly done by the respectable
part of the community as token of disap-
probation for doing dishonorable OF unwor.
thy act, | would feel mortified at the result,
but considering that it was done by you and
your associates, that it was done, as much
other dirty work is done in concealment,
accept the result as the price we must some"
times pay for telling truth on such men as
you, and in view of all the circumstances, |
can face an honorable community with
cOuntenance you uare not assume III this con
nectiOn.
Now, General. as your co director, Mr..
Dull, was within a few years, promoted by
the sutfrages Of his fellow citizens to the
same place Of honor you have Just conferred
on me, | can recognize him as my illustrious
predecessor.
If the court decide that assume the du.
ties Of this responsible position, promise
you, if you should ever get out of law and
order. las men sometimes d") will do you
full Justice 10 returning Won to the r.rnner