The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-06-01
mat Ewing Cas-.

That Ewing Cas-
Bates, or the man he is trying to
make The people Of this county h.,leve
= saint, Stated in the Democrat %:
May ll;h, that Ewing never made
delinquent last. for ra;ifu;;;' taxes for
1887 ;n'i 1883, but tll. county court
:cleHscd Elm. though S4i geo OF taxes
we're uncciier,td. - The, So, hat The
bcncl'ls OF The election of 1886 Was
that tic county court, thlou-:, i4no
rance of law, gave Ewing 81 2uu To-
loose the COUNTY &4l .0nn NJ editor.
bat hirhy. Moore or Bates. could pub
list, such Il fabrication nf a lie. Now.
john L. Moore was attorney for the
county ami made lis suit against
Ewing cost the people of the :.,,;iut,
"out;, $ ,o't3. Why did Moore pros
ecnte tn suit against Ewin-. if it wa,
true that the county judges the ven
cradle man Judge Hl.iul> Con. SIZE,
IN heaven. where he will never see the
writer 0! the sianler n til. Demo
,':a'l Judge Thompson and Judy..
Barnes, had given r allowed Ew,n4
81 POO too much. VIII, did lie want
t" put the c"t.!ity to the useless cost
OF as much more money. when he
should have known rs Az attorney. il
the Supreme Court is correcs, that the
money could not be collected. The
Facts are that the judges of the couu-
ty court had prosecuting attorney
who was their legal advisor, and who
advised the court what fees to DAY
Ewing. That attorney was John b.
Multi, and if any los, 10y mistake, OF
law, ignorance or otherwise. he is The
legal advisor and is responsible for it,
and the Democrat is responsible. for
wlilfuIiy charging the respolfsibiii,,
where it does not belong. Mr.. Nude
is Il member of the Democratic ecu
tral committee and one of Ewing at
torneys in defense against Moore :
suit against him and We would advise
| hlm to put Il muzzlc on Bates and
Moore. or else have the party reor-
gained, if such thing were possible.
The facts are that the election at
no time had an, thing to ito with fees
allowed the collector 1t was done by
advice OF council whom the people al
this county had said al the polls was
good. We deny that Sil 900 was los,
10 the county We assert that ti..
ST, nsf' referred to was saye,! to til.
county; that it was in accord with til,
resolutions of every political! Harty i;
the county for the past fifteen year,
repeatedly made at their conventions
That the Ben Bou:n injunction WI.
III the interest Of Ben Brurn and tn,
collection OF the tax Oft Of the peoI,!,
for the hondholder; that that injunc
ton was in harmony with the thcor,
of collecting the bond interest tax
and had no foundation in equity. no
never had, but was urged anJ stages
led for the sole purpose of maxim.
til, people pay the bond tax in tbs
face Of every resolution and p'c,y'
b.; all the parties, that they would no
pay, and had elected men pledged I.
do all n thei: power to defeat ii; an;
the injunction itself. Intcnlc to pro
tect Bourn at that time from dom.
WA Ewing had been forced to do :.
successfully for the people III i3si
:,n'. 1888; i. G. from showing his iia:!t
as Ewing had done. and Tor the pa.
pose OF collecting the tax, IS after
"aia stated became the corner s,rn;
for Hughes IL build u structure in il.
federal courts by agreements to get :
double levy upon tie people Of III.
county.
Every dollar Of tax. which has beer
FcoI!ected to pay railroad bonds or in
trreot, Or winch may in the future u.
collected, is against the vii! of til,
people, against justice, procured Il,
conspiracy and against law. and i
Just so much money lost to the pcopI,
Of this county. Aud the man VIII.
asserts that the county has lost sil.
coo hv failure to collect such sui:, =.
a tax is either ignorant, uEtru,iicul
deceptive, interested i'll the Claims q
:, hirelng for some good 10 self.
Hcu'n delinquent list return Il
G ,l!ector Was the same rs Ewing :
and any statement to the contrary, f.
political effect, has no foundation il
fact and Turner so decided. in the ,,e,
s"i,al tax suit: and | say that Will,
Turner never once mentioned BOurn
name in his comments on deinuuen
lists, and slas!ed him over Ewing
back. as it wer,'. and made two juu.
ments conflicting upon the same T..
: turn. "iil was not aware of transa.
tons which brought it about: vet |.
held Bourn's delinquent list retur
not good. the same as EwiEg's.
Those delinquent lists and return
made without thought at the tim,
+ perhaps. acre in accord with the view
: of the rank and file of trne men .
the county, irrespective of polite:
D party. and none have ever question:.
G or opposed such results. save too
Il put on the editorial staff of the D4n
> ocrat and their advisors
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