Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12
ANSWERS THE AFFIDAVITS.
CITY Attorney Pease Has His Say in Res
gard to the Sworn Statements of
Mayor CRUDE and Alder
man Wertheimer

Mayor CRUDE and Alder
man Wertheim
EDITOR REPUBLICAN,: Last Thurs
day, in The Daily Times, Mayor CRUDE
opened his mouth and put his foot in
1t. On the same occasion Alderman
Wertheimer opened his mouth and
put both feet in it. Those gentlemen
ought to know that newspaper affida-
Wits were invented and formerly used
by pothouse politicians to throw dirt
at each other, but that, even for that
purpose, they have long ago been dis
carded, as every sensible person un-
derstands that they add no force to an
ordinary statement. The gentlemen
were very unfortunate in fixing Sep
tember 20, 1899, as the date of their
pretended interviews. It so happens
that since May l, 1898, have kept a
complete, accurate, daily record of the
name and date Of every time any city
official has called at my office, and
therefore, am able to state positively,
and to prove it in court, if necessary,
that from the 7th day of August to
the 10th day of October last. Mayor
CRUDE was not in my Office at all for
any purpose. and that Alderman
" erthelmer has never been in nv Of
flee since the 23d day Of June last.
have also on file in my Office a
copy Of every document drawn by me
relating to the city business and fur
nlshed 10 any city officer
The awkward mannerin which those
gentlemen stultify and contradict
themselves is quite extraordinary
First. Both Of them have served
many years as members of the coun-
Gil. One is now mayor and the other
now is, and was last year, chairman
of the finance committee Yet they
both go to the city clerk and ask him
If there is not some possible way to
give five years time to pay for street
improvements.
l venture to say you may take any
child in the lowest grade of the high
school and give him page 90 of the
charter to read, and he will tell YOU
that there is such way provided,
and that there is only one thing to do,
and that is for the council to tell the
publisher of the official paper of the
city to insert in The Gazette the notice
which is printed in full on said page
90, and he will tell you further that
it requires no papers to be drawn
by anybody.
95cond According to their own
Gta nt
before the work was finished neither
o. them ever mentioned the subject in
any council meeting, or to aly mem
Der of the council, or other city officer.
The charter makes it the duty of
the mayor to ''give the common coun-
Gil such information and recommend
such measures as he may deem ad-
vantageous to the city"
Third. According to their own
statement they had made up their
minds in the month of April last that
they would not issue any general city
bonds, and yet the records show that
the ordinance authorizing those bonds
was passed on the 10th day of May
and signed by the mayor
Such glarlng contradictions and in
consistent statements will not mislead
any one. They simply show that the
parties making them are in distress.
fioundering around in the murky pool
of their own imagination.
The simple truth is that those pre-
tended interviews never took pl4ce,
either in my office or anywhere else.
Dated December II, 1899.
HARLOW PEASE.