The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1900-07-18
Seeks a Cowardly Opportunity
to Vent Personal Malice.

sewing circle rows and the luarrelS he.
tween neighbors' children and took an.
other flyer at maligning the town and
truducing its officials, attempting by
cowardly insinuation to make II appear
that they are a pack Of thieves who are
looting the treasury. That papers
policy, as The MINER has once or twice
pointed out and proven, Is to injure this
town; its method being to create discord
and discussion, hesitating at no trick.
however mean and contemplate, to ac.
complsh this.
Its last assault on the credit Of the town
and the honesty OF its officials Is based on
the false allegation that the recorder re.
fused to permit its representatives to see
his books. From this known falsehood
II draws the desired conclusion that these
books would reveal something detriment.
al TO the reputation OF the town ofticials.
Following its own instinct, OF COURSE, the
natural inference Is that somebody has
been stealing something-hente all that
senseless noise.
This is why representatives of the Blue
Mountain American were not allowed To
see the books Of the recorder. At the
meeting OF the council on the evening oi
July 7, the first meeting after the close oi
the second fiscal quarter, the recorders
quarterly report was not ready, rs II
should have been, and the council granted
him one week more IN which to prepare it.
The American knowing OF this, knowing
also that he would be busy during the
coming week working on these books,
saw an opportunity to create Il disturbance
and forthwith availed itself thereof, BY
demanding that its representatives be per.
mitted to expert the books, when It was
we'll known that the official could not
grant that demand. To make this part ot
its work looks less coarse, the American
says that its intention to investigate the
tity'S Finances reached the ears OF officials
and they concotted this excuse To permit
the public from being informed Of their bood.
ling. The paper failed TO state, however.
whether they learned OF its dreaded inten.
ton through some occult mind reading
power, or whether il started out TO expert
the books with a brass band and a town
crier.
ANYWAY, when the accountant and the
ignoramus who mulilates the languagur
in its columns appeared at the recorders
office and delivered their ultimatum, that
official explained the situation aud told
them that after he was through with the
books they could inspect them in his
presence. He took occasion to further
inform Cassidy, the language mutilator
and hired bla;kmailer, that he, individ'
ually, couldn't keep the books in his pos.
session moment, because he knew him
to be a crook who couldn't I've trusted tor
moment on any proposition. His Butte
slot machine record would seem to bear
out this charge, and his tace would pre-
vent him from working on any reputable
newspaper.
Under these manufactured circum'
stances, Of course the recorder is given a
vulgar roast. But these circumstances
were worked for this end. The recorder
Is the man they were after and, OF course.
some excuse was necessary to make the
attack. The real animus is not found IN
his refusal to show his books, but is be'
cause Of his report to Dunn's Commercial
agency regarding the financial status OF
the concern, which is in a shaky tondi.
ton, owing to the fact that the people OF
this camp, recognizing the fact that its mis-.