The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-12-01
Harmer's Course.

h0ELmeE COURSE
The coward through the Harrison
County Herald who will not publish
his name to the article attacking the
Telegram and some of those con-
nected with it, has no cause for say
ing that this paper has made unwar-
ranted attacks on Mayor Harvey w.
Harmer. He is a liar, when he says
it. for, we can prove by some of Mr..
Harmer's omcial acts that there has
been NO unwarranted attack upon
the man that now fills the ofice of
mayor of this city.
But recently the mayor asked the
council to remit a fine in violation
of the city ordinances. The council
declined to break the law and It's
oath. Mayor Hammer himself ought
to have known his request was an
unusual one and the granting of it
Illegal.
More recently still there were ex-
tenuating circumstances in connec-
tion with the sending of several to
jail, and the Telegram insisted that
the mayor should not have imposed
the jail sentence. The next day, af-
ter sentence had been in force and
actual operation, he RENTS the sem
tence as he expressed it himself in
what purported to be an interview
published by his official mouthpiece.
the Democratic clique paper Of this
county. In other words, he gave
them their freedom, the very thing
the Telegram contended he ought to
have done in the first place.. Yet
how could he any more remit SEN
tence as he expresses it. than he
could remit fine. and since he con-
fessed to the council that he could
not remit fine, how dare he assume
to be consistent and remit a SEN
rence? Certainly. there is no I'M
just criticism in this respect in the
norance of the law are shown by
him
Again. we have his published word
that he can do nothing else, but send
a drunk to jail, when the fellow can
not pay his fine, yet a day or so af-
ter that this paper from the police
records record the fact that he did
not observe this duty as he terms it,
but, instead told the drunk to go his
way. Also in this connection the
mayor, when he objected to being
called debt piler and said he was
powerless to do anything else but
run the city in debt for at least three
days board for plain drunk found
guilty, was shown by this paper,
through a plain and accurate quota
ton Of the law bearing on the sub
ject that there was a way for him to
make money for the city even in such
instances. instead of heaping up .
debt
An investigation of the police
records will also probably disclose
the fact that the mayors part of the
department. has not under the pres
ent administration been self-sup-
porting but that heavy appropria-
ton has been diverted from other
channels for the purpose of meeting
the debts the mayors sentences IN
cur for the city to pay. 1t has not
been thus for many years until the
present administration. Some will
undertake to say there has not been
so much crime. and yet the police
records show differently. 1t used to
be great howl would go up from
some. ii there was a big police court
on Monday mornings. and yet it is
sometimes even larger now. which
fact must signify that Sunday sell
ing. which the mayor boasts has been
broken up under his administration.
is sim in vogue. II that is what used
to cause big police court on Mon
days. Yet. If the Telegram were
now to say there is Sunday selling in
Clarksburg some coward who has not
the courage to sign his name to what
he prints. would say 1t was an un-