Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-10-06

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mics and navies.-The Commoner.
NEIGHBoR MILLER take it, it
is he, because those queries are in
reply to some l put to him,
although he now modestly signs
himself "Committee"-asks me
some more questions, one or two
of which, as they concern myself
particularly, | will answer frankly
and fully.
The first is, show often has he
(meaning mel changed his politics
in Al years?" Well, | have con-
Quoted the REGISTER thirty-six of
the Al years, and l will let its
record speak for me. Surely
thirty-six years unbroken fellow
ship ought to pass n from the
probation stage into full standing!
Mr.. Miller calls himself a "life-
long Democrat with fewer years
utilization and various fallings from
grace, and therefore this answer
ought to satisfy him. He will
pardon me, / am sure, the con-
lecture that it is my consistent
Democracy, not an alleged incon-
sistency, that worries him and
causes him to write himself down
an ass. Mr.. R. L. Carly, within
the past six weeks, said to me, 81
am a Democrat and will vote the
Democratic ticket straight. | am
no b~olter!" Yet Neighbor Miller
; has naught but words OF praise and
commentator for Mr.. Carly, now
that he bellies his voluntary asser-
ton of loyalty to the party that
late did honor him.
Next, Neighbor Miller wants to
know if | think it right for me and
the County court to decide what
the county advertising is worth
without asking prices from other
people," The law defines the price
to be paid for legal advertising,
, and l have never charged, nor has
l the court paid, in excess of that
price. And, while | think of it,
let me tell neighbor Miller some
thing he may not know, all-wise
as he thinks he is in his lately self
j., assumed role of Master of Affairs.
The principal piece of advertising
= the county has to pay for is the
annual financial statement. Al
the legal rate-at the rate estab-
t lished, not by the court, but by
the statutes,--this work is worth
from S140 to S175 each year. When
the Democrats took charge OF
affairs in 1916, Iron county was
poor in purse and deeply in debt
It's warrants were below par, and
the court had hard work to make
. ends meet. / then offered to pub
, lish the statement for $50 a year,
and did so for twenty-five years
, although the greater part OF that
time the REGISTER was the only
paper published in the county, and
| | could have eXacted the full price.
/ Then, when the county was in bet
ter condition, | asked and received
f, a greater amount, but never in eX-
; cess of 500, and that sum only
t twice. Go to the record, Neighbo1
Miller, and see if | am lying OF
: telling the truth. So much for the
, questions applying solely to me.
: But I, in turn, claim the privilege
: of putting a query to Neighbor
Miller: Did he ever promote an
enterprise wherein he was not an
expectant participant in it's %favors,
as designer, architect or builder?
Did he ever "give up"a portion OF
, the sum heicould collect through
the tenor of the contract, whether
that contract related to public OF
, private buildings? Does he not
always demand his full pound OF
flesh? Current rumor says-but
, rumor is oft a lying jade, and ]
! give Neighbor Miller the benefit Of
the doubt, straining to my charity
and intelligence as it is so to do,
Besides, to carry her gossip would
SAVIOR of housing after small game.
not justified even by way Of
reprisal against Neighbor Miller's
: dirty insinuations against me.
: The query relative to Mr.. O'Neal's
fees was answered fully two years
ago. He asked for and obtained
) exactly the amount the Attorney
General said he was entitled to-
no more. All this Neighbor Miller
/, knows, and | am forced to the con-
: clusion that he asks the question
. through miserable spite and ILL
r will; not,from O desire to serve the
people, but to delude them.
There is no law forbidding
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