The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-04-02
IAUVERTISEMENT. |

see James j. Kaylor ventilates himself
again in your columns. Whether he, has
given satisfactory answers to my questions
leave the public to Judge. The shallow de-
vice Of getting the names of his accom- Dlices
at Johnstown to vouch for their honesty and
his is indeed rich while the statement Of
Mr.. VIM. j. Buck proves precisely what |
charged. The sac lie is scarcely worth con-
tradicting. My charge was only S2, besides
expenses.
Kaylor don't know Coons, but Eoontz
knows kaylur. So far from going to kress
and Hart to do what Kaylor had done, | as
certained from them ho,o Kaylor made his
J per centage, ami if Kaylor dares prosecute
am prepared to establish the fact precisely
as | have stated it.
In this matter of per centage some people
may think that am making a mountain
out of mole hill''-that at the worst it
/ could only have been trifling source of rev.
enue to yOu-perhaps netting you but few
/ dollars in the aggregate. If such 4 belief Is
| entertained by any one he is mnCh mistaken
in his reckoning. for | have reasons for as
/ sertiug that in comparison with your income
! from this source your regular salary was but
| a secondary consideration, and that between
/ the two you were making more clear money
/ than any public servant In Cambria county,
( to say the least.
1t is poor excuse for taking what was
not your own, that Col McDermitt was in
charge Of the Poor House when you took the
hogs away. What right had he to know
they were not yours? This is only equal to
| your coOlness in saying that [ had no right
/ to speak of your taking the chickens because
! | saw you do it. That is the very reason 1
/ do speak of it. --.-.
| But the coolest of all is his reply to the
| charge that he imposed upon the Directors
| at his own prices cattle they had never seen,
/ that it is too silly for notice" This is a
very cheap way of getting out of transac-
! tions which no man could explain consist
emily with honesty.
You say zone Director cannot do bust
ness" During your reign business was done
not by one Director. but without any for
| blank orders were left by the Directors, ready
signed, and you filled them up to suit.
You say the assertion that you ever charged
anything for grain cradle els a deliberate
lie" l repeat, grain cradle vas bought
| from Mr.. Huntley, on the 18th of August
last, and charged to the county. That era
die yoa tool; Hon:eo
! But you do not like this controversy with
the half of Ebensburg" Why did you
| seek it, then l should willingly have ''let
you side" with all you have done, if you
had let things alone. Neither am | urged
on by any one, but simply actuated by a
desire that the people shall know the truth.
1t is not the iusinuations you are afraid of,
but the plain, blunt questions, which you
have not, cannot, and dare not answer. |
had a few more of 1.-THE same sort" to put,
but as you arc weary of the controversy you
have sought, I forbCar.
Your character and mine are perhaps OF
little consequence to the people, but such as
mine is, would be sorry to exchange it fol
yours. have not yet been In the Sessions,
and l trust shall not soon be.
You are now a private citizen, and [ de-
sire you no harm, but you will remember
your former insolence and tyranny. scheR IN
poIrsr. You can easily call to mind your
threats that l should yet "feel your power
l hope that your long lease Of power, whicl
might have spoiled better man than you
and your official tyranny will be repented o
in your new Home
JOHN D. THOMAS.