The Russellville Democrat., 1888-08-16

; the author of the articles in the Mai purporting to be written by other par ties. This sounds very modest and gen tlemaniy, but no, that was not wha Jimmie said in his tour of the county
 He then said the editor DID write those articles. Speaking Of the Mall ht would denominate 1t as . "dirty, con temptiblc sheet" But we cannot men. tion the epithets he did apply to 1t fol the citizens of the county with whom he talked upon the subject know whaI and how much he said. Yet he ssmadt no fight on the Mail" Oh, no; inno cent thing.
 He says that on the day of the prima " we showed him that other parties had written those articles at our tiiction Mir. Potts knows that there Is not [ shadow of truth In that assertion, and for what reason he says that we do mol know, unless to vent his debilitatcd spleen. But, Mir. Potts bold falsehood never clears anything longer than the truth is known. Neither did we show him that others "had written them from our representations" The truth Is, the article from "An Old Democrat, 2 we knew nothing of until it was laid on our table with the request that we pub. fish it if we saw fit. "Fair Play" and "Who" asked us if we would publish articles from them on that subject, but said nothing of what they intended writing. We knew they intend. cd writingarticles on that subject, but knew nothing of what they intended saying. No, Jimmie, you know well enough that we did not show you or even INTIMATE to you that those articles were written at our diction or upon our entations, for the truth is as we have stated.
 Next Mir. Potts admits what he has always heretofore denied. He admita promising us the publication of the list of delinquent lands, and two other nO. tices, besides some other promises which he says has been complied with. This is the very thing hs has been de- nying all the time-promising us any of the legal printing. How is 1t that he now remembers it 70 we'll. He told some of our best friends on the day of the primary hero that hs never promis- ed us any printing. Yet now without our mentioning 1t, he owns up to three items, besides others. There is an old and very wise proverb which says that persons who frequently tell something else besides the truth should have good memories. Mir. Potts should paste this in his hat. In admitting promising us the delinquent land list and the oth- CT two notices he mentions he tells "another one of them things" Mir. Potts never promised us the delinquent list. We never had talk with him about it before the publication. And as for the other two notices about which he is so concientious. we do not know what they were.-know nothing what ever of them. Yet he thinks to show himself as very honest by owning up to them and remitting to us the amount. even calcul lating interest on it for 45 days, amounting in all to 61 cents. Oh, the sweet little saint! His honesty Is indeed marvellous. He says he pr0mis- eI us the delinquent list and two other notices. He further says that by not giving us the two other notices the Mail lost 8l cents and he remitted to us that amount. By his promising us the delinquent list Gas he says) and pub- fishing 1t in the Democrat we also lost the amount of that, just the same as on the two little notices. Yet does his sx- ceeding honesty lead him to send us the amount of the delinquent list too, WhiCu oOCOtotuS eO Ai5 OWu oeotCuaOiss was as justly due us as the 61 cents Oh, no. That pure tender conscience of his lets him on when 1t sees several dollars due. He don't think of the de- linquent list when he is counting up what we have lost on account of his failure to comply with his premises. He don't remember that, because, 1t would cost him few dollars.
 We returned him the 61 cents be- cause az he had not promised us tho ad- l vertising, and we had not done it, it was not due us, and we do not want money that Is not due us.
 | It was last August that he promised us "an equal divide" of the county printing. It may be that the 6l cents was the halt due the Mail for the year ending July 3I, if this was the way he intended 1t we congratulats tho people of Pope county upon their public print ing costing them only $l.22 per year. Mir. Potts promised the Mail an EQUAL division and he has just shown feat of his remarkable tender conscience that he could not but comply with his prom ises, even though they were never made.
 Mir. Potts calls the writers of these articles "henchmen," which means 'servants.' The authors of those three communicati tions are three of the most honorable citizens of Pope county, and this is an coithet we did not look for from Mr. Potts. He asks upon what we base our claims for division of the county printing. We answer upon his promises for ian equal division." made us last August. But since that time we have found that eur claims had very poor foundation in fact mono at all that could be re- lied upon, since nothing has ever come ot that promise.
 Mir. Potts says we have used eight columns of reading matter in the Mail on this subject We measured very closely and find that we have only writ ten two and one-fourth colums on that subject, while our correspondents have written two and three -fourths columns, making in all nearly five columns, in- stead of EIGHT as Jimmie says. Yet this is nearer the truth than he might have been expected to get.
 He further asks If we charge that he violated any provision of law. And again says that we intimate that we might critIcise his official acts. We will let our issue of June 2l answer this false statement. Beginning in the 47th line of our article in that issue he will find this: "Our county never had an administration that was more har. monious and satisfactory in every par. ticular than the present one. Except ing the little unfairness In question the present administration has been 80 far as we know, faultless." This Is all we hava aver aaid on that liue Yet he speaks of our criticism of his official acts. Gets very mad and fixes up lot : of bad things he would make believe we had said and then brands them as Gut. terly foundationless, malicious and false" Let our readers follow uI closely this sly little personification ol cheek and they not always find things ! as he would have them believe. No Mir. Potts knows we have never criti cised his or any other officials acts ex |, II. md ho