Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-02-11
The Proceedings = Rspsrtse BY the Beacon

1aorssd. W AAs Ss1s1
In the 81 Mary's Eaferprias, Of the 9th
instant, Mr. Leo u. Wafhen publishes q
lengthy card which Is mainly perronal
communication aimed At Mr. Francis ".
King. Of the BEkcos. Indeed, though pro-
Tossing to represents non partisan Farmers
Club MT. Wathen seems to have special
grievances against live Democrats a. Wit
ness his remark. in his recently Published
minority report, in reference TO representa-
tive George II. Garner. The writer has no
personal quarrel with Mr. Waihen. As
stated before we noticed his statements be-
cause Of the good and worthy Farmers
Club he represented We show below In
parallel columns how Mr. Wathea sought
in last weeks EnserpTise 10 make ont case
against us. AS will be seen, 10 make point
he does not hesitate TO leave out a word
and when he quotes that 'S lines or less
constitute square" for the sake Of misrep-
resenting, he ignores the words ''Or less. -
We shall notice but few of Dir. Waihen's
/ |INs So. ABC HGybAttVaS tEtEA M W aiu
en- appear in the first column:
Mr.. Wathen quotes The BEACON said:
the BEACON az say AIR. Wathen 10 the
ing, "hr. Wathen TO apparent surprise, &.
the surprise Of thel-see paper.
committee said he
had minority re-
| port"
The BEACON adver Quotation correct.
tises, j square, in solid lines OF this type
seriion 81 each sub - a square.
s ssqaeR i;s 80 Less than 8 Of this
constitute a square IL square.
The County Space is charged for
leyyoi lS9Ooccupiedz whether type be in il
1888 lines; this dior not Different sizes
vlded by 3 gives $f73 Of type were used in
What docs the BEA-lthe levy.
cons account in the The levy was printed
Commissioners CT twice as instructed by
say. To printing Co. the clerk to Comms
levy, $3.50. / won
der where that other
$77 comes in at. =
The lawdoes notion When did Mr.. Wath-
template but inser en- become Judge Of
ton. the law?
lnei or said levy and Read what he said &
did not mean levy. Judge for yourself
gin the Beacon
As Mr.. Wathen seems 20 pretend to know
all about printing he, of course, knew that
figure and rule work is more expensive
than plain and that it is customary to
charge double for it, as witness the publish
ed rates of the Hartford -1Egis, Westminster
Allocate, Ellicott City Times. Annapolis
Gazette, Port Tobacco Independent, Rock
vile Sentinel, &c. The BEACON, however,
did not charge figure rates but printed the
levy tscice as ordered and charged SO less
than it came to at our regular rates for
plain work. The Enterprise did the same
work, charged the same price but, being
republican, Mr.. Wathen is ain no contro-
versy with the Enterprise"
Mr.. Wathen's card also contains the
usual stuff about the size OF Mr.. Francis
V. King and even few verses are written
on the subject. 1t is no fault Of ours that
Mr.. King is physically small man. Ii il
be crime, the Almighty is responsible for
it But this as it may, Mr.. King may be
permitted to console himself with the re-
Merchandising personal intended to our
big friends-that
DE dogwood bush though little am solid in
cherry part
While great big oaks and chestnuts are Of
ten rotten in de heart,
De wOrstest kind of rotten gifts in dc big
goose eggs
And de soitest kind of noddle often tops de
longest legs.
We would never Intentionally misrepre-
sent any man. We ever try TO truthfully
report whatever we have to write, and we
have asked opinions of committee mem
bers present at the meetings, upon the
correctness Of the report of which Mr..
Wathen complains. Here they are:
Your report of the proceedings of the
Taxpayers meeting was, so far as can re-
call correct, and by REORGANIZATION of it,
have found no error. j. +. DENT.
Your report Of the Taxpayers meetings
of January 23rd, was correct in every res
-pect. GILES T. DYER.
The taxpayers meetings were reported
correctly everytime. J. T. BALLENGER
see nothing in the report of the Tax
payers committee or convention of Jan.
23rd that did not occur in the two meetings
of that date. do not see how Mr. Wath-
en- could find fault of the BEACON report
of the proceedings of the 23rd. &c
JOHN PALMER.
The report of the proceedings of the Tax
payers Committee and Convention pub
lished in the BEACON of January 2S.h, ul.
timo, was correct in every particular.
Jos. II. kay.
These certificates are on file in this office.
Mr. j. b. Tippett gave us his endorsement
orally. Mr.. Cough has not yet been heard
fIom