The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-08-05

Penna, in reference to appointments
made by the President OF the U. s.
or the Governor of the State.
Under the fundamental law, as
you should know if you don't, nom.
inations made by the Pres. and Gov.
must be confirmed by the Senate.
Csn you see any great crime in ap-
plying the same principle to the
! Mayors appointments in the great
city, OF Phila. ? The great majority
OF the Phila. delegation was in favor
OF the bill and 1 saw no particular
crime in voting for it. You knew
something about the bill before it
had passed and if you are so much
interested why didn't you give me
the Deneht OF your political iudg-
bill i, WV
l have but little time left to touch
upon your fourth charge. You want
to know why l voted against Mr..
Coray's motion to go into the com
mittee of the whole for the purpose
OF amending the Gen. App. Bill!
Mr.. Coray is an excellant gentle
man and for whom l have q good
deal OF respect but when he presum.
ed to know more about the amounts
required to pay for the expenses of
the legislative and senate branch of
the government preferred to SUD-
port the amounts as furnished by
the Chief Clerk of the House and of
the Senate.
When Mr.. Coray wan ed to ap.
propriats no more for the expenses
OF the legislature than was appro.
priated in '95 he forgot that the last
session was month longer than the
'95 session and that in the item was
an amount of $1,000 or more to cover
q deficiency. Mr.. Coray may have
been correct when he said that the
pay rolls were padded, but he had
no means of knowing that $685. 900
should be stricken off from the item.
The governors explanation proves
lny position to have been nearer cor
rect than Mr.. Corays.
II you are after itemized state.
ments Mr.. CRay may be able to give
you some information because I no
tice that i'll the session OF 81 of
which be was q member. 1921 was
allowed to him as member of the
appropriation committee. We are
all quite human.
In your judgment have forfeited
the confidence OF my best friends
because you measured me and &C.
cording to your standard am found
wanting.
You have called me before The bar
OF public opinion to answer four dis
tistinct charges which you prefer
against me and for which you think
l deserve to be condemned. I rest
my case with the honest judgment
OF common sense, fairminded, and
intelligent constituency.
Before l finally leave you, howey.
or, want to charge you with four
little things that have much to do
with your unmanly attack upon me.
lst. The motive that prompts you
to parade what you call my record is
due to the fact that Hon. Mahon
didn't appoint your father-in-law
postmaster of Middleburg for which
you hold me in u great measure re-
sponslble.
End. Your candidate threa' cd
to turn your paper on me if re.
ed to endorse him and now as
means to even things up you are in.
duced to assall me.
Bird. You are not infallible if
measured by anything near like the
moral or spiritual law. You should
say to the public that you endeavor-
ed to land your father-in-law in the
post office by fair and unfair means,
because as Il last resort did you not
purchase my endorsement for him ?
4th. You might also state that
during the last United States Sena-
torial fight you accepted 800 as
price for running your pa ,er in the
interest of John Wanamaepr.
l dismiss you with the rl'ting ad-
vice that censor shoum,. by all
means be free IRON the g vt sins
which ascribes to the object of his
criticism, all of which is most re-
spectfully su admitted.
CHAs W. HERMAN.