Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-07-07

for $500 Please state who ever
asked you to sign q contract for
that amount? State who made the
motion! You know you can not
do it, for there was never such q
question before the commissioners
court and it got into your fertile
brain by dreaming. You said once
when the question was up about an
independent vault that you would
not sign contract for an independ-
ent vault with the Diebold Safe Co.,
but we told you, you making this
charge, thai you would have to
sign the vault contract first before
we ever would sign the court house
contract, and you signed the vault
contract al! right FIRST.
Now, let 3 see how you voted.
You know you were not in it, and
when we lowered the price of the
court house you opposed it. Any
steps for an independent vault you
opposed, even to get competition
for the vault you opposed, which
the two letters published by you in
the New Era from Mr.. Townsend
and myself will prove.
You know you were completely
whipped and we had you fat on
your back, otherwise you would not
have gone to Houston to pick up,
thoughtlessly, Alsberry's charge,
and to De Witt county, by saying
[ misquoted Mr.. Burow.
Mr.. Paulus says, Mr.. Meyer
does rot seem to like lawyers, and
especWy young ones" etc. Yes,
do like some lawyers, young ones
as well as old ones, for it has al
ways been a pleasure to me to hear
good lawyers speak when they
effectively, forcibly and elegantly
argue their rlse. hut there are
some lawyers have not much use
for; they can Fever ask u witness a
question or speak to a jury unless
they insult them, never wished
to be a lawyc4, for | am proud to be
farmer, butt do wish right now
that 1 COULD handle the English
language better than l do.
AS you have asked me several
questions and | answered them
truthfully, allow me to ask you Il
l few questions. When the com.
missioners' court was on the trip tC
look at different court houses, il
/; Karnes City fTy were you so anx
4 ious to go to ~ I Antonio where We
a had no business, because the cour
;. house there cost $650,O00? From
0 whom did you receive those tele
!, grams from San Antonio while OF
the road? Why, when at Gonzales
t did you recommend the GonZale
8 court house to the commissioners 5,
!, highly and that we should dupllcat
itin Lavaca county, and handed
D report from an architect that wa
there on record to Mr. Checker t
read to us, which stated that it wa
a first class and a cheap court house
e Yes, MIR. Paulus, if we had jus
e voted with YOU we could have go
$ all the independent vaults W
$ wanted. Why did you go severa
o times before contract letting t
: Houston right in the midst Of tn
: contractors? Who paid for thos
y trips and kilograms? If you give
'' true statement Of this then the pee
:, pie of Lavata county will under
y stand why there was so much I'D
: made obout the vault.
u Your closing phrases are alway
% something like The following: 18Th
people of Lnvaca county can rel
q assured as long as | represent IL
people everything viii be all right
1t or Whose faithful servant Tam
"a or 81 am persuaded to believe Thu
at the proper time they will endor
u my course" Now, Mr.. Paulus, don
'e you fatter Yourself that you ca
ct throw sand in their eyes that We