The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-08-15
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onehah column editorial u last sats
jnrday Times Wa Mckinney
had an along belteged that hewas5
1.-THE person who sponsible q
the vicious attacls ON me appeartng|
ID that paper and g him only
shat my fetker pabtfshed ON lastsa1ts
surday referred. am unwilling toi
iieye, until convinced by proof that
any other person connected Will that
paper would engage In the malicious
manufacture OF intended and injurious
falsehood. That such Is not new
business with HIM | need only refer
to the baseless assaults made by him
upon MI! Lehman, while mayor; and.
HIS attacks upon ME-. DeBolt MI
hutchinson and Judge Raymond. who.
composed the committee in charge OF
the construction Of the water works.
IN leasing the Times to NJ, Smith,
MI. Mckinney reserved the rigat 20.
control the editorial page. b plr:i
pose Of said reservation seems to be,
Ito have a place where concealed be
hind the Times he can vent his spleen
in vilifyfng and malfgntng whomso-
a.,er he does moi happen to like. Much.
praise for a Republican Office holder
is seldom seen III his paper; and when.
sucn does appear. it Is most usually.
of some n whose loyalty to his own.
marty is doubtful. Often 1T is of some
one who is giving, or Is expected IN
the near future to give his " party
trouble. ANY Republican otictal ~no
will betray his own party on election
:laR. or who will carry to him MS
own party secrets; or who will con.
stantly consult him as tothe g s
method to get up d~issensions in the
Republican ranks, and will follow MS
advice In the conduct of his Office,
will most certainly receive abundant
nraise. and be most favorably mention
ed editorially and otherwise in MT,
McKfnney's paper. But the Republi5
lean. whether il.or out OF Office VINO
is living very close his own party;
and who is lending no aid or comfort
TO the local Democracy; or who lent
valuable assistance toward detnFon
ing the old Courthouse ring or who
stood on guard and prevented the bal.
lots from being changed so that
among other things, Mr.. Mckinney.
could be returned to the Legislature
n one guilty Of these things need!
not expect a square deal from MT.
Mckinney.
My purpose in writing b letter,
which I will not further embarrrass
the Times. by asking that paperFto
print, is to call attention to few
more Of the Misrepresentation made
by Mi. Mckinney in his beIahored and
strained effort TO ward on the effect
of what I said in last Saturdays
Times,
He says a "calvert' sewer is con-
trary to the Ordinances" and cannot
be used for sanitary sewage. There Is
not now, and never has been, n such
ordinances; and as to the use of such
sewer, Mi. Mckinney knows that Par
ker's run has been used for this pur-
pose without even a %culvert over It.
The fact is the East Park Company's
sa.,e. hae haenstns used ever since 1t
was built. and to q considerable extent
lis still being SO used. A sanitary
sewer was extended up Elkins street
and with some twenty to thirty tami-
lies connected, the same for two sum
mers, was permitted to empty in the
open run right in the front yards OF
taxpayers.
L proposed to construct a con
Meeting the culvert at Elkins street TO
the East Park Company's sewer, some
thing over 800 feet. in, order to take
care of the sewage from the sanitary
sewer.
Mr.. Mckinney says that Mr.. 9. ".
Arnett threatened an "intunction"
against the building OF q culvert sew
er. Now, just think Of that! Threat
ened an injunction against building
on the same run above, what his CONF
pany had built below. This is only
another form Of misrepresentation.
II have been told that Mr.. Mckinney
threatened to enioin the street cont.
missioner IL he attempted to comply
with the order Of council. The truth
is that Mr. Arnett wanted some ar.
rangements made with his company
about their, sewer and his company
instead of asking an injunction, were
anxious for the city TO take their sew.
er and even offered 1t as a gift to the
city, provided the city would keep II
up and would lay twelve hundred feet
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