The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-12-31

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.rHr FAIR NAME AND CHARAcrER
OF BEN"
Relieving the custom OF small lry
newspapers and small fry editors our
interesting contemporary recogniIinB
its mistake in supporting the desplcaoie .a,5
conduct of Ben Kuntz it turns WIN
fnrv ON the CARBON ADVOCATE and IN
~ mad anger struts about with the
noise and pomp OF a turkey go6oier
All this is so much folly. Ihere Is
practically no living issue between the
Iehiqhton Press and the. CARBON
ADVOCATE. We never did and we never
will stoop to the methods OF gaining
livelihood that characterizes our con
temporary's efforts to maintain fairly
decent appearance before the puohc,
Init at the same time we pride ourseh
an our manhood sufficiently to keep
us from attacking the moral caliore or
/. man whoif he but continues to toilow
in his previous paths, will soon enough
be but too we'll known to our people.
He knows this and this is what Is no"
troubling him. As we said before there
is no living issue between Mr.. watson
andMr. Mortimer or the Morthimers.
and for that matter is there an issue
between TIE CARBON ADVOCATE and
Mr. Ben. j. Kuntz, further perhaps
than this, that we will never stoop so
low as to compliment dirty, CON
temptible piece of work and herald II
forth as the doings of a saint when we
know it to be the reverse. Mr.. watson
has placed Ben Kuntz on a pedestal
and three times day bows in homage
to his supporter" and protector rms
blinds him to ali else but the"fountan'
of his existence. But there are none
so blind as those who will not see.
While Mr. Kuntz was serving his
first term as Burgess we complmented
him time and again on some excellent
work that he was doing. From all ap-
pearances he made a good, faithful
official. Then he was re-nomlnateu
and the ADVOCATE editorlally said that
he should be reelected and inthe same
issue Mr.. Kuntz himself had puohsheu
= lengthy communication, WRITTEN By
HIMSELF, and anonymously signeu
telling why he should be reelected e
This latter article was paid for at the
rate of Aye cents per line" the same
price as is charged for similar articles
BY the Mauch Chunk Gazette, Times,
/. Democrat, Weatherly Herald and Lans.
ford Record, and which price is now
and will always be charged by the
CARBON ADVOCATE for similar articles.
Mr. Kuntz was re-elected-he had
large maiority-and then followed a
severe case of swelled head which has
only lately been reduced. During this
last term as the highest officer of this
town has he played the demagogue
pure and simple and the only reason
why we will not praise Mr.. Kuntz when
he only deserves the strongest censure
Fortunately we have been in a position
recently to learn this great apostle OF
purity as we never knew him before
At the election of last spring Mr.
KuRtz sold out mis- party to encompass
his own election. He was ready and
willing to make deals with anybody
That was the first. After he was bur
Eress he commenced his bull-dozing.
Among the famous things was the hose
house when he "didn't care d-n but
he wasn't going to be beat" no matter
for the peoples interests. Then he
tried to set down on the fire company
then he wrote petitions for people and
hypocritically presented them to
Council, he favored the reelection OF
policeman Ed Raworth when it served
his purpose; then he would tell people
who had been notified by Council tc
lay paVements that they didn't need tc
bother about it that it was all right as il
was; he delayed apparently legal action
on the First street muddle; he seeming
ly acquiesced in the selling of beer al
the Fair; he apparently acquiesced il
the gambling at the Fair;he acquicisec
in the drinking of beer on Sunday. Ii
fact everything went because he was q
andidate for the Legislature to which
high and honorable Office he was de
feated by through, as the Lehightor
Press, his own organ, has openly ad
mitted, the efforts Of the CARBON AD
VooATE. Nov then as a climax "to thii
open and pure life" of our moral bur
CESS, he sinks still lower in the estima
tion Of all honorable people by playing
the part of the squealer, this too, aftei
telling the individual who I1n the "poo
wheel" at the Fair that it would be al
right, that he would see to it, or word
in similar effect. No apology can b,
made for him, he has sunk almost a
low as "Kerrigan," he has POSITIVELY
shown himself to be unscrupulous anC
totally unprincipalled, and now in fact
Of these indisputable facts we ar,
called on by our contemporary t
herald forth "Ben's" great moral anC
mental purity. Bah, such hypocrisy i
despicable, The ADVOCATE wants nom
Of 1t. What matters it to US whethe
Mr.. Kuntz was instrumental in the es
tablishment Of the Press or not w
a. NnI II fHaIa in
opposition to Mr.. Kuntz who is onl.
"squealingn through extreme Yindict
iveness which is the controlling facto
in his makeup. Had Mr.. Kuntz mad
these exposures Immediately he woulI
have beencomplimented and applaude
by all people, the ADVOCATE include
but now, three months later, it onl
plainly demonstrates what we hav
said, viz, that he is an unprinciple
demaRogue. The Press attempts
feeble apology for Mr. Kuntz's lat
"squealingn by saying that the col
stable was in attendance at court an
\ that there was no council meetin
since the fair until the second Tuesda
Of November, which is extremely sill
when it is remembered that the bu
gress is vested with power 10 ca
special meetings whenever he so d
sires, and that the constable only a
tended the session of court on the fir
day. There may be some who wi
swallow this, but there viii be NIGH
lew who will look at it otherwise tina
the outcome Of pure and simple spit