Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-11-02

hoyce's oVer-charges. Most 12-yeRr-
old boys know that bills allowed by
the commissioners are sworn to, and
further that commissioners as rule
do not understand printers measures,
and even if they knew his bill was
too large they would have no data to
go by in cutting 1t down to the proper
amount.
But the greatest hit he makes is in
charging that Tadlock wants to be
appointed superintendent for four
months right in the middle of Mr..
Thomas term, then quotes the law
which says the appointment is to be
made after the expiration of Mr..
Thomas term, and to hold until the
beginning of his successors term
Royce then goes on to show that
Tadlock is absolutely incompetent
and would upset the whole delicate
system of education, which of course
Mr.. Thomas built up all alone. But
worst of all. Royce says that $500 is
already as good as in Jack Thomas
pocket and it would be highway
robbery should Tadlock or any one else
be appointed and take it out. We
will not take any time or space to
answer the above except to suggest
that the appointment for four months
should be gwen to Mr.. Thomas sue
cessor, who will be chosen at the
election next fall. If Mr.. King is
elected the HERALD will urge him to
appoint the one who is elected next
fail. Will the Dispatch agree to do
the same, if Mr.. Breasted happens to
be elected.
Royce says that Brainerd got six
cents for delinquent town lots, when
ne (Royce) got out five. The state
ment Is true; the commissioners how
ever did not intend to pay out five
cents and BraInerd squared matters
as the following statement will show:
I hereby certify that Mr.. BraInerd
collected 6 cents per lot for delinquent
tax list but did other printing free of
| cost to make the difference between
6 cents per lot and cents per lot.
D THORNTON, Co. Clerk.
Another wilIfui faIsehood the Dis
patch article was the assertion that
Mr.. Brainerd has been chairman of
the peoples party central committee
for every year since 1898. That lie
is too self evident to need denial.
However Royce squirms the most and
lies the hardest III trying to get over
the fact that he charged 500 more
for printing the ballot in 1895 than
the HERALD charged in 1893. He
deliberately lies when he says the
ticket IN 1895 was twice as big as the
ticket in 1898 He uses the term GEMS"
SO as to try and confuse his readers
Printers cen see on the face of his
statement that it is Willful deliber-
ate lie. But as all the voters of the
county are not printers he hopes to
fool some of them. The ticket in
1895 was actually smaller than that
III 1893. The same officers were voted
for rs 1893 except district judge and
and also the road overseers were not
printed on the 1895 ticket. The fol-
towing certificate from the county
clerk shows the actual slzs of the TWO
tickets:
I hereby certify that I have ex-
ahmed and measured the official bal
lot printed in 1893 and fiad it con-
tains thIrty-sIx names exclusive of
road overseers which vary IN number
from four Ia Towanda to twelve in
Crystal township The ballot is 81
inches wide and the length varies
from 173 inches in ToWands to 20
inches IN CRYSTAL. have also ex-
emined the official ballot of 1895, and
ind it contains 80 names, and that it
measures IL inches wide bv IA inches
long The ticket of 1895 is one col
NM wider but that column is blank
except for enc name
I. d. THORNTON. Go. Clerk.
Thus all Royce's trying to juggle
with ''ems" falls to the ground. The
fact remains also that the ticket of
1893 contains more ems than that OF
1895, but knowing that many people
could not measure by ems, Royce
hoped they would not detect his lie.
| AS to the ticket of 1894 Royce
prints statements from Mr. Thorn
ton that the contract was originally
let to j. Q Royce. That does not
prove anything. The HERALD said
Brainerd printed the tickets. This
Royce finally admits, although he
saws he got half the pay, which is