The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-10-05
COMMUNICATIONS BY s. C. JOHN
SON

A COMMUNICATED by s C. johnson
headed "A Reply appears il another
column. For proper understanding of!
the communication we VIII state HAT :
c. Johnson brought The cnmmunica'i@n
into the Office and asked -pulllatjp,,
without any nano Snb>cFi1@d 70 that
we replied t!iat to#~acnreNs pllblration
his name must be $ul,*cIibrl3as5 hut
that We would advise h,m MT 60 fave III
publishcd, for it was untrue, anI, }:ub-
ished, We should point out is untruLh
fitness. He then subscribed ai~ name to
it and left it for publication,
sc Johnson says: "Because you claim
to have al unpaid account against a
member of the Methodist Church, you
uncork. the walls of your Editorial wrath
against an unoffending church, instead Of
the offending member" This statement
is entirely untrue. We made no claim to
have IN unpaid account against member
Of the Methodist Church or any other per
sen. The claim was that the representa-
tive OF the Methodist Society got Notices
published and Programmes printed for
the benefit of the Methodist Society with
ou5 paying FOR them. After pointing OFT
the flseness in the abovc quotation from
$. G. Johnson, we need not notice what
he says in the remaining part Of the
same paragraph about meanness.
After saying you have 10 Legitimate
unpaid account against the Methodist
Church of this place. s. c. Johnson adds,
''You never asked the Church to pay the
account you claim" II asking the repre-
sentative OF Church OF Society who
made the account for payment is not ask
ing payment of the Church OF Society
what is it? and how could Church or
Society be asked to pay?
S. C.Johnson says: Nv hen Mr.. Cheney
asked me to do his advertising FOR him,
I referred him directly to you and pro.
ceeded with him to your office. This
with what follows in the same paragraph
as to Mr. Cheney transacting all necessa-
~ business with the Foreman would
make the advertising Mr. Cheney's and
not the Methodist Society's. This we
have reason TO believe to be untrue. 1st
1T contradicts what Mr. Cheney said that
the Methodist Society was to be at all the
expense and give him half the gross re-.
ceipts of the lecture. Cd. When this con-
tradiction was pointed out to s. G. John
son when he left his communication, he
admitted that methodist brother, call
ing him brother and by name. who was
present when the agreement was made
with Mr.. Cheney, understood it as Mr.
Cheney did, that Mr.. Cheney was to have
half the gross receipts. 3D.. Others so
understand the agreement. Such being
the case we submit that the communica-
ton of s. G. johnson is Intentionally un.
truthful in this respect. AS to what is
said of the boy or any one else going after
tickets,we have only to say that the hands
in the office are employed and paid for
labor performed for us, and not for run
ming after tickets at Tue solicitation of
others. One written ticket on scrap of
paper to admit seven, no two of whom
resides or boards at the same place, was
in keeping with the rest Of the transac.
ton. Is
What S. G. johnson says about present
ing his bill last January and calling at
our Office and asking for our bill is part.
ly true, unless it may be as to time, and
partly untrue--but mainly untrue. 4 His
bill was presented, but SO illegible that
it required much time and effort to read
it, part of which we never could make
out. In what we succeeded in reading
there were charges for articles which we
never had, and for others which we had
long before paid for We called on S. G.
johnson and informed him Of the facts