The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-07-20
The Dodson Times Comes
to the Rescue.
ADMITS CHARGE is TRUE
That Printing is Let Out by
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
it Reconsidered.

The Southern Sentinel OF last
week used half a column of its
space in trying to explain to the
public how it happened that w.
b. SmyIie. of the Winfield
Comrade. was elected Parish
Printer. In our last issue we
briefly referred to the meeting of
the Police Jury and to its election
of officers, but did not attempt
to offer any reason why Mr.. Smy-
lie was elected. We should,
however, have stated that his
election was due to the fact that
our friends supported him as a
result of.a misunderstanding be-
tween ourselves, the circumstances
at the tine being such that we
could not prevent it till it was
too late.
As pointed out by the Sentinel
there had been an effort made
along cooperative line between
The Dodson Times and the Com
rade and our friends, the general
understanding being. that if our
forces should work. together and
we should be successful in our
plans the division would be equal,
or so per cent. But as the time
for the election of Parish Printer
drew near, our friends who were
supposed to support Mr.. Smylie
wished to know just what we
were going to get out of it as our
part. We went to Mr.. Smylie
about the matter and he only
proposed to give us % per cent,
which, as a matter of course, we
refused, as his election depended
on the vote of our friends.
We then went to our friend,
Mr.. Smith, of our home ward,
reported the result of our confer
ence with the Comrade man,
Mr.. Smith agreeing with US that
% per cent was not fair to us.
We suggested that he and the
other friends who were going to
support Mr.. Smylie with the idea
that we were to share equal in the
receipts of the printing should
drop out of the effort at consoli.
dation, merely voting for us on
our merits, as we could not get
our consent to accept the q PEI
cent offer sssssie on the part Of
the Gomrade. 1t was this that
caused US to place ourself before
the body as a candidate on oul
Notwithstanding that our friends
had decided to support us person
ally Us long as we could stay in
the race.
We admit that we left ouI
destiny,- in a measure, IN the
hands of Mr. Smith, ward seven's
member of the Police Jury, bat
as he did not express himself a.
being favorably impressed with
Mr.. Smylie's offer to give us the
little end of the deal. % per cent,
we gathered the idea that he was
going to vote for us on our mer-
its and that he had So instructed
the other members who were
with us ia our efforts to get some
thing for our side of the question.
But the rot, having been taken it
showed, beyond any doubt, that
there was great misunderstand-
ing, the direct result of which
was that w. b. Smyiie was cleo
ted Parish Printer by reason of
misunderstanding my friends
were prompted to vote for the
Comrade man.
After the editor of tie Comrade
had gotten our support By way Of
misunderstanding. as already
indicated, he fatty refused to
give US % per cent or anything
else. assigning as his reason that
we refused his offer In the first
place and went before the body
on our own merits 10 the second
place. We do not deny xnythingI
we said or done in the matter,