Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1888-10-24
The Ring EDITORS RECORD.
Mr.. w. 8. Napier "Cracks a
Nut" or SO, Thus:

W. l>- MUN6ItetU, EUttOT wayne
Nevs,
SiR;-In the midst ofmy business,
that engages all my time, pause at
your request to begin the Earring"
of your record as n school officer in
Ceredo Independent District, as per
promise.
Now, for lack of spare time, from
my business relations, as well as a
due Difference to the refined tastes
Of the readers of the ADVANCE, Ill
give the "airing" in "broken Doses
for certainly "full dish" of such
unsavory carrion would prove
nauseating in the extreme.
Page 95 of the acts Of the Legs
laturc of West Virginia for 1879
contains the following:
at shall be unlawful for any
member of a county court, overseer
of the poor, district school officer,
or any member of any other county
or district board, or for any district
officer to be or become directly or
indirectly pecuniarily interested in
the proceeds of any contract or
service, or in furnishing any sup
plies in the contract for. or the
award or the letting Of which, as
such member or officer, he may
have any voice or control"
Any violation of this section of
law is a misdemeanor, and the Off
Ger or member found guilty Of such
misdemeanor shall be fined not less
than ten dollars nor more than fifty,
and shall forfeit for the benefit Of
the school fund, the amount of said
pecuniary interest in said contract
or service, the amount of said pc
cuniary interest to be ascertained
by the jury.
Mr.. Mansfield. take the stand,
please. w. l.. Mansfield, did you
not as an officer, participate in let
ting contract for work on Ceredos
school building!
! Did not the contractor abscond
with the funds before completing
the job and leave workmen, mer-
chants, boarding house-keepers and,
in short, everybody that had had
anything to do with the job, with
unpaid bills?
Then sir, did you not as practic-
ing attorney (pettifogger) take your
father-in-law's claim-a board bill
and the claim of Napier wv. S.
Napier) and Wagner Gas. p. Way
mer Jan account for things fur
nished by the company's store-did
you not, l say, take the above de-
scribed accounts for collectionl
Did you then sit up ! night in
the capacity of a constable, coupled,
too, with that of a secret detective,
to get service on member of your
own board of education for above
named district?
Is it a fact that you as an officer
had some funds in your hands sub.
ject to the payment of those unpaid
bills?
Did you, sir, in your multiform
character, as above described, COL
lect for the parties above named
their respective claims?
Ifso, sir, did you not by so doing
leave out i'll the cold other claimants
who were equally worthy?
Did you get fees for said collec-
tons or did you make the collec-
tons from considerations of the
love you bore for those favored
clientsI
Had you ever taken an oath to
perform the functions Of your office
in an honest and impartial manneri
Now, then, if you can answer all
these questions in the affirmative, go
back and read again the law section
cited, and then sit quietly down in
your sanctum ssnctorum and after
proper reflections and due and can.
did sober thought on the situation,
if you feel called upon to write an
editorial upon your own peculiar
fitness for molding the political
thought, of welding the sovereign
vote, and shaping the future final
destiny Of our country, give us in
full and entire the ebullitions Of a
mind as multiformous in its opera
tons IS the unique school officer
above described is complex and
varied in character and relation,
both to the law and the facts.
Such an article would be invslua-
BILE to your candidate, and be sure
Of a fling away as literary curios-
ity.
Only one thought more and we
sfop for the preSenf