The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-03-11
MANITowOC, MARCH. s, 1869.

| 10 the EQl6Or OF the 1anltOWOc lrlDuno
Sir you have thought proper for
some time back to use your paper
as a medium for attacking my per-
sonal and official character and so long. as
your villiications and abuse was confined
to my official acts as a county officer and
| plainly partook of party malice [ was
content to pass over whatever you and
your llbelous gang saw fit to publish with
out personal public notice But as you
last week maliceously made a garbled
statement concerning business transac-
ton of mine | demand that you allow the
truth of the matter to appear in explana-
ton which is as follows-Mrs. Gleason
owed me an account of long standing.
[ asked her to pay and she refused the
amount was $99,92. [ sued her before
Esquire Sibree she did not defend the
suit. After the suit was commenced
and, after Judgment was obtained she
paid me the sum Of twenty Dollars and
stayed the Judgment for four months. l
gave her credit On my books for twenty
dollars but neglected to have the Justice
| endorse the amount upon the Judgment.
At the experation of the four months
she paid the Judgment in full, when the
Judgment was paid [ was in the hurry of
moving took the money and gave her
credit for it. But did not balance the &C
count and therefore did not discover the
mistake In a short time afterwards she
came to me and told me of the mistake.
[ then looked the matter over and found
she was right and immediately gave her
back the Twenty Dollars. There was no
interest charged on the account, but,
there was interest charged on the Judg-
ment for the time it was stayed and in
stead of my charging her forty six cents
more interest than | was entitled to-
really gave her several Dollars interest
which | was rightfully entitled to. This
is true history of the private matter
which you have dragged before the pub
lic Your motive for so doing is best
known to your sef-Howevera you have
constituted yourself guardian over all
the Dem ocratic merchants and general
inspector of the official conduct of all
officers both past and present wish you
and your correspondent Tweezers, would
let us know if any Republican official OBJ
tanned any share of what is known as the
five per cent fund or if any of the county
property such as stoves or other fixtures
has been seen emigrating from the Court
| House south in charge of such Republi-
cans A little effort in this direction would
be in your line and might afford employ
ment for both you and Tweezers.
Yours &c. NJ MAUoNEY.
P. S.-Tweezers. Give us your true
name aud we will try and satisfy the tax
payers that you Done all the stealing that
| has been done
REMARKs.-Th foregoing letter was
handed to us with request to know how
much it would cost to publish it. Being
written in such gentlemanly terms we
concluded at once to publish it, uerbatin,,
gratis. But we propose to consider it
briefly
Mr.. NJ says so long az we attack his
official acts he was content &c pass the
matter over without personal notice. but
when we speak of his business transac-
tions he demands that the truth ap-
pear. Its just that same we are after,
Mr.. Mahoney, but there are few who
will believe you want to tell "the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth, y in regar to the transactions of
the past year. Content" were you, to
have it shown that thousands of the peo-
pies money had been squardered during
your official administration, but when
charged with retaining 46 cents you de-
mand an explanation! The complaint is
made, that we have published "garbled
statement. We would say well known
citizen handed US letter, duly signed by
a reliable person, with arequest to publish
We made enquiry and found the woman
was deserving person. Had it concern
ed any other merchant, we would have
published it, for it is our business to de-
fend the cause of the weak Mr.. NJ
gives history of the Mrs. Gleeson mat
ter, in which he shows that the money
was paid in the hurry of moving. and the
mistake was not discovered, as the ac-
count was not balanced. This looks all
right on paper, but in view of all the
charges against Mr.. NJ, we say, as VIC
said last week, we do not believe he is
such fool as not to know within 500
how much woman was owing him. In
regard to the interest, the woman gives
US to understand that suit was commend
ed when the trading terminated and con-
sequently there was nc interest due on
the account. Our motive for dragging
before the public these matters is to put
an end to some of the rascahty which has
become bold in our midst. we have
many hundreds cf paying subscribers who
expect that their paper will watch over
their interests, and we do not mean they