The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-06
S"e. Slrehasior - maa Jamsf aosc
-Favor'a splsnsIG -7esort

Editor neider, IL seams that two or
thee sore-headcd parties are quitting
themselves 10 a great deal of trouble
coacefning my public and private life,
and are going through ,he third com
missioners distric telling all tinds OF
lies about me
aTost especially 10 ] tefor to one Nm.
lDdd. a resident OF Woodland township,
a canvussing agent for some school sup-
lly company. This Mr.. uodd has made
Il ~ buslnss TO visl, th n5mbers Of eve
cry district school board IN the Third
commissioners district aud relate 10
thom q mess Of lies that would make
Frank Greer take second place as
poinlard artist. lie is going about telling
these people how Incompetent / am 70
serve the people as one Of their com
misaoncrs. lie also charges me with
being "a CRATER aud Is also telling that
/ am drunkard. He l. telling the peo-
pie that as result Of my incompetency
Logan county is thirty-iye thousand
dollars IN the hole. and says that he has
dug up the records to substaniiate his
claims ne absurdity OF such a tale
liow then ~ me ,ell few facts con-
cerniug Mr. Dodd. soma people may
,hnk ha, ;his man Dodi is truthful in
some OF his heart to heart talks. lie is
saying TO the people hat his reasons for
,elling sucn malicious lies Is due to the
interest n has ll. his county as Tx
1ayer. think can tell you Why Mr..
Todd Is aghtng me ana trying 20 get
you people preiudiced against me. =
year ago las3 April about the time the
term ~ the high school BOARD appointed
Dy the previous board OF county commits
sioners expired ,his Lar Dodd ap-
preached me one day and shaking my
hand very warmly asked me TO epgoint
him as a mambeT Of ,ho board saying
that he would not care for the appoint
ment other than It would heIp him TO
sell his school supplies.
told him | would take the matter up
with Mr., swanN and Nc Bmke. lie
then approached Mr., swan6 and told him
Gne same thing. j am noi sure but
think he approached Mr. burke In the
same way Any how We did not appoint
him and I think we acted wisely By not
doing so, as I do not think that any
man should be appointed to dll any pub
lie Office simply 70 give him business
advantages and more than that Wood
land township already had "a member on
the board who was serving an unex-
pired tenn and whose term did not tx-
pire until the following August
How abut the $4,000 deficit ieP He
must have borrowed that from the state
Capital because that Is the source from
which this lie came. The idea that he
dug up the recordsl why he wouldn't
know the county clerk. office from the
county ueasurer's II II We're not not for
( the sign over the door.
/ 10 you know that this man Dodd
/ asked the commissioners to place his
name on the uc6ets TO be placed IN the
jury box. The idea that "a man so bright
and competent as Dodd says he is. would
apply for job as a petit or grand juror
o. NOT mean 10 say that the position
of juror IS not honorable. on the con
tasy ! de9m lt most honorable posi-.
fion, but I consider no man competent
90 be Juror who VIII try or place him.
self IN a position 10 be made one
These are facts and can be proven
Now with reference 10 my being
drunkqrd. that when any on edesires Z,
nave amy business with the commission.
ers they would almost always find their
Do some saioon. That ~ malicious ane
q damnable he ana aobody but an ,m.
Hefupulous liar could ten such stun
90 not fear that anyone VINO knows m,
VIII believe this lie. but am refutini
this for the benefit OF some one whom
he has told this that may not know me
haee lived IN Logan county for seven.
teen years, coming 10 this county whe,
was 10 my sixteenth year1 have con,
tinuousiy lived In Rose HIN township
since coming 70 this couats ! refer so,
10 my many nelghbors and iviends win
have known me nearly an MY lfe 4
bear witness concerning these ,hangos
JO''S b. FAVOR