The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-08-05
Thursday, Aug. 5, 1897.
Our Renlv to Herman


Elsewhere in this issue we pub
fish Representative Herman's reply
TO the questions we propounded to
him in the Posi- last week if a reply
it can be called. Well, Mr.. Repre-
sentative, we received your letter a,
the post Office on Monday morning
with , cents postage due and we
paid the bill and lifted the letter.
From the very first sentence to the
closing word you display a sarcastic
and indignant spirit thereby indi-
eating that you are not at all anx-
ious to have your record ventilated.
You say, however, that you invite
criticism when it is not prompted by
vengeance. We appeal to every in
telligent reader of the Posi- to point
out one eveidence of spleen or ven
geance displayed in theentire article
or editorial. The article itself is
nearly all copied from the Phila.
Press. Why should they vent their
spleen on you? DO you assert that
the Phila. Press is bent on ven-
geance Or must you admit that they
are after better government. If it
is vengeance we are after why do
you not have your record so you
need not fear its PRONUNCIATION? We
did not make your record, we only
published it as we found it andask-
ed for information on points we
did not know.
() Your reply to our request for
an itemized statement of bill for
$3O4 has been totally disrtgarded.
Your bill originally was for Gear
fare, carriage hire, kilograms, etc" ."
Now you say in your letter to the
Governors private secretary that
your bill includes "boarding" "street
car fare" and postage" as secretary
of the committee. If you have a
personal bill for boarding what was
done with the $773.S0 to cover the
hotel bill handed in by your COM
mittee? | do not quite understand
the difference between "boarding"
aud "hotel bill" You say you had
street car fare, but here again you
fail to itemize. Postage, the same.
The stenographer of your commit
tee has bill of S6S5. Clerk, type
writer, etc, 500. You see youhave
failed to itcmize your bill and the
people are just as much in the dark
as before. Won't you tell them how
much this Secretaryship cost you
in addition to what it would have
cost if you would not have held the
honor? The people want more in
formation. One of your friends in
the western part of the county
writes: 81 suppose Herman's ac-
tions will not coincide with the wish
es of the people. | am myself more
than anxious to see a bill showing
every item"
Your reference to other members
having received appropriations fol
like items does not in any manner
justify us in overlooking the stric,
mandate ofthe constitution. Art III
Sec. s, which says that the members
shall receive their regular salary
(S15oo) and mileage for one round
trip from their home to Harrisburg
"and no other compensation what.
ever, whether for service on com.
mittee or otherwise" You speal,
about "postage." Are you not al.
lowed neutrality-suspicious. of slo'
a session for postage?
(2) We are as much in the dark
now about the Cook funeral bill
as we were before. You state thai
we were in error in giving the aver.
age cost of each committee member
tor the funeral. We are not very
much enlightened by your lump
sum statement, In fact YOU dom,
know? Was it not your duty tc
find out before voting for the ap.
preparation 1t is sometimes more
convenient not to know. You have
a bill for coffin, flowers, etc. St