The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-06-01
A CAMPAIGN DODGE.
The Suit Against George Smith
instituted for Campaign
Purposes.

In the suit recently instituted in the
| circuit court Of this county by John
| Rowland as guardian of Hugh Smith
against Geo. w. Smith, the republican
nominee for sheriff, the plaintiff seems
to have overdone the matter. The
agony that has been torturing the
mind Of Mr.. Rowl md these many
years, seems to have unsettled the
cerebral functions Of bis massive
BRAIN. The fear that his ward, Hugh
Smith, will be robbed by the same,
Geo. w. Smith, has so wrought upon
his sense of honor, his high regard for
honesty, his exalted moral ideas and
his love Of pure and unadu!terated
justice, that he finally made a desper-
ate leap into the forensic arena, and
triumphantly looking around upon the
assembled multitude. and strikes
an attitude of defiance and
says "Hngh, my boy, your uncle will
stand by you in this ordeal" II will
see that you shall get every cent taken
from you by that awful stepfather, Geo,
w. Smith"
Mr. Rowland has suddenly come to
the conclusion that an active canvass
of the county was about to begin by
the candidates for the different
Offices, and fearing that the republican
nominee for sheriff might get enough
votes to elect, made haste to begin
the suit above mentioned, and have
flIe papers served the very day the
candidates were to start on the canvass
OF course Mr.. Rowland would not
stoop to do such thing for the politi
cal effect 1t might have. Oh no
But in his haste he brought the suit in
his own name instead of Hugh Smith is
and made the further fatal mistake of
combining two supposed causes of
suit, one against Smith as an lndi-
vidual, and one as administrator The
demurrer filed by Judge Burnett,
Smiths attorney, raises three points,
and will most certainly be decided
against Rowland, the plaintiff.
In this suit the effort is made to
smirch Smith by accusing him of un-
lawfully getting away with this money,
and Rowland goes so far as or accuse
the mother of his ward, Of stealing her !
own child's money and pnttng the
same into certain lot in Corvallis and I
also making $1,000 worth Of iimprove-I
ments on the land which she Inherited |
from her father, Haman C. Lewis. |
The memory of this woman, who was
Rowland's sister in law, must be black |
ened, her character maligned and she |
made to pose as a criminal, now that |
she IS dead and cannot deny these |
and damnable lies. With
what feelings of disgust and with what
utter contempt must this son Of Jerusha
Smith, if he has the smallest spark of !
liiinl aft ction, regard this monstrosity.
uncle and guardian. This money
which plaintiff saws this boys uncle
gave to his mother, for him and his
brother, was the proceeds of the sale o!
his fathers interest in large amount
Of stoc, and being personal property,
the father of Hugh having been killed
hy runaway team, one half belonging
to his mother. Jerusha Smith, and
only one half of the $500 could in
any event be the property of tins hoy
Hugh and his brother and who died
in 1883.
Mrs. Smith raised, clothed and
schooled these children, tie youngest
living until s years old and the other.
Hugh, now being nearly 81. Can it
be possible that $2,750 out of which
these boys were fed, clothed and
schooled could have grown to such
large sum? The facts are that there is
:, lot of electioneerlng gush n, this suit
and every reasonable man knows it
ANY man that will knowingly as in
this case, deliberately bring suit and
make the charges that he has against
his wlfe's own dear sister, accusing
as he does her oR.he basest of crimes,
is unfit to associate with decent men,
and Mr.. Rowland knew, and has
known all the time that this money
was not a trust fund. Why did he
not seek to establish this trust long
ago? Simply because it is an after
thought. and that suit was brought to
lessen the chances of Smiths election
to the Office of sheriff All right
minded men on election day ought to
seal with their disapproval. this pro-
ceeding by voting for Smith.