The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-11-22
TIA r ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR OEFER
FROM ONE TONRpHl,N or AFT

1HAT ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR O(E6Je
FROM ONE JOSREHUS CRAFT.
Dr.. j. Craft. NJ. D., las published q
letter making dodRing and evasive
denial of the fact that he offered us
500 in cash for our support. Even
Craft dare not deny. it squarely. His
letter is mostly taken up with state.
ments that are UNANIMOUSLY false. For
instance. he starts out by saying:
Since A. r. Miller las denied that lie
offered to- sell out Miss Graves for 500
I will say that after the cos vpntiOlls
were ever, and was regularly nO,ni-
mated by the independents, Miller,
without any l,esi, alton Or mental
reservation, did 1T the foot of his stairs
say, that ''he had the thunder that
would scare her off the track" and in
ti,natpd and imsinnatel that lie would
sell her out for m"ney.
Now, this whole statement, from
beginning to end. is u willful, malic-
ious, deliberately y.concoctrd lie. There
is absolutely not one word ut truth in
it from beginning to end. All the con
versxtisn Ne ever Ind mn, titis maH
Craft was about the eligibility Ut Miss
Graves and about what we claimed
hrst. last and all the time. viz: That
the foreign element of Mobiles county J
would not support 4 woman fol
office. That we ever limited or init
mated to Craft "r any one else any
thing abt'ut selling Miss Graves out. o.
selling any one else out. is all from firs
to last IL malicious, devilish, willful
Deliberate lie.
This man Craft says further in hi!
lying and d"dging letter:
This talk If lis about my trying Il
bril~ him is all swash. This talk wa,
certainly three months ago, l..f.'re a,l
nominal ions We're made. "A lady WA.
present when the talk took place WI.
VII" will not falsify.
W. were Informed that "A lady wa.
present and heard Craft offer us SIN
tor our support. We called on the lady
Il few days ago to ascertain what sll,
knew about it aud what she had said
She informed us that the only co 'ver
sation she overheard was on the street
when Craft said something about
''raising the standard of the schools. >
AS to Craft having Offered US $40,
We make the following sworn state
ment:
That ON or about the eth day of A
gust. 1883. DR.. J"sepi,us Craft. Super
i"ten'ir'.t 1T Scho Is elect, came Int.
the ADVANCE office just after dinner
and then and there deliberately. ant
without any solicitation ar hint what
ever ON my part, sat down at my tabl,
and said, rs nearly rs can rememl>+l
Ills exact words. ''Mill-r, I will Civ,
you 500 IN cash TO secure mp the nom
inatiUn for Superintendent of Schools. ,
A. p. MILLER.
Sworn to bef1rc me and subscribed
in my presence this Nov. 20. 1883
[SEALl GEO. w. WILSON.
Notary. Public, Mobiles Co.. Min,
We have heretofore made the charg'
in II general way that Craft offered III
500 for our support and that is true
The definite, Specific offer was tn secmr'
him the nomination. This was nearl.
Il month before the Republican conve,'
ton was held and Craft wanted th
regular nomination. The exact dat
when the offer was made is not ma
terial, but we arr positive and sure tia
it WAS on or about August 9th, for j
was at the time when Craft handed j,
his announcement as a candidate ant
that appeared first in our issue O
August 80.
We say again that what Craft SHOULD
have done was to have come out like
man and stated that he did try to bu
us and failed. But lie was not mia,
enough for that. Besides, he wante,
t" i"jmre us and charge us with ''bein
bought" And when Craft says th:.
we ever limited or intimat+d to hin
that We could be bought, or that "
ever had any conversation about buy
ing or selling. other than the bar
blank offer If 500 from him which "
refused. lie willfnlly, deliberately All
malicious'y lies.
THAT ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR OFFEI
EDITOR ADvANCE:-It is amusing
to disinterested spectator to see u,
Craft wrlgvle and squirta and writI,
AID try u smooth over that humdre
dollar offer he made you for your il,
fluent . to SECURE him the ,ol,ininati0
hr 10. >upt. 1T the R-pmbllca,. count
G. nventiO,,.. 1t there never had bee,,
Wori s:'id about it outside If himself
very careful Reader Nf Ills article on Il,
subj"ct before and after the electiO,
would know that lie must have mad
that offer. His guilty cDmsci-nc
prompted him that there might L
sonnet hing said in ti,e ADVANCE befnr
the eI+cti"n about tina: offer III. mad
t." its tditor and il anticipation Of sue
an ex,"'s,lie makes statement il, n
gard to it in the dirtiest Sl,' 1t tl,;
ev T. was printed in Mobiles or any Otl,t
county. IL that statement lie say
that he did say that lie would ratl,t
give one hundred dollars than, gO int
III election cam nl'Aign, 1T the same tiAi
launching himself into the lr,litic:
arena by announcing himself AZ u Cal
Il jdat- for Superintendent and il mos
pit iab;r lai guagr appeals t" the syn
lathi- 0f TIE people on account Of
co"tnyi".s sore eye. Having alrrati
secured the g""d will If tn dirty RI
above alluded to, it was perfectly na,
nal for him I" try and SECURE lI'.. Al
VANCE also, So rs t. avoid y polite;
fight. Aud rs y reason for offering Il,
hundred dollars. hr says he w"uI
rather give that than gO into u p"lil
ical ca .laigH. After the el~c,i"n h,
memory seems ~ have failed him.
Notwithstanding n he WAS Informed b
he ADVANCE 1T the amount. time AZ
place that such offer was made, @ 81,