Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-05-15

campaign for hot air blasts which
you solicited by letter from me as
well as all other candidates from
Audrain county, and that | receiv-
ed more votes by fan than the ones
announced in your paper with
laudation adjectivcs thrown inf
Which proves conclusivcly that
the citizenship of Sailing have a
higher degree of intelligence in
casting their ballots for the ones
they deem best suited for the diff
fercnt offices in Audlain county
than you gave them credit for, and
will never believe until shown (as
| am from Missouri that you, Mr..
Editor, can make those people be-
lieve they east their ballots in the
last primary for an "old hog for
the Office of County Collector.
The above is the balance of the
letter which Mr.. Gray promised to
publish, then deliberately stole
from its pages and refused to let
go to the public Il gcntlcmanly and
courteous statement of the facts
in the ease.
y newspaper controversy was
not my aim i'll the beginning, nor
will be drawn into one; but did
think the facts were due To the
people, AS my character had been
publicly assailcd 10y one in Boone
county who calls himself an editor
and n democratic (O That too,
when | was in the discharge of
duty in the interest of the Demo
cracy of Audrain county. Will
the people believe II character as
sasSin who garblcs II statement
that it may be kept from the pub
lie, made in vindicatiOn of the as
sault! Gray is after the dough. "
The more candidates puts up the
greater the velocity of his wind
tanning boost" If You refuse
to stand and deliver, the cdict is
bclchcd forth from Gray's Sun
day Sun that l. Omar Gray, the
great | am, do hereby convert
You into hog, and then if he had
chance 10 garbc the hog he
would turn him into dough. "
What the matter with Gray! I'll
tell you, he thought he carried the
vote of Sailing Township in his
vest pocket, when he found his
mistake it threw him in IL rage. |
suggest, Mr.. Gray, You change the
name of your paper to Oman ID.
Gray's Sunday Sun"
VIM. Nivion.
Gray makes the following com
mcnts upon the portion Of Mr..
NiVion's letter he publishcd
Om statement of last week was
based on the interview we had
with j. {. OwingS. On Saturday
Mr.. Owings called us into his res
tauraut and told us that Mr.. vi
won had used the telpnonc line
without paying for the same. We
told Mr.. Owings that the message
would be charged to him if Mr..
NiViOn did not pay it, as we cX-
pcctcd our subscribers to protect
lis from imposition on the part of
inconsistencies. Mr.. OwimgS
stated TO us that he would try To
collect from Nivion.
On Monday Owings called us
again and said he had named the
charge to Niviom and he refused
to pay the same. lie said that he
tNivion) had been talking over
the telephone system in Audrain
county for ten ycarS-that he
did not have IA telephone in his res
idcncc and that he had never paid
one niCklr for using the lines.
This is what We call hogging.
We saw Mr.. Owings on Tues
day of this week and he told us
substantially what he did before.
Now the points are these: Mr..
| Niyion states that he promised
| Mr.. Whitney that he would dcliv-
cr the poll books to Mr.. Batter
man. Now instead of riding ont
to Battcrton'S house, he tclr-
. phones that he would leave thr
poll books at Owlugs restaurant
Did not his conversation over the
telephone save VIvion ride out
to Baitrrton's house Was rot
this worth the toll charge of 80
asked
W" care nothing about the small
sum Of money asked for, other