The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-02
THE CITY ADVERTISING.

ulClCQ ClllIllldl CultOi U the De11lO-
crat and Independent, must have had
bad case of brainstorm when he
wrote the article headed Partisan
Council" in Thursdays Daily indie
pendent, judging from many down.
right, bare-faced false statements it
contained from start to finish. He
says the city council is directing
little business out of the legal chan
nels" By that he wishes the council
to understand that the only legal
channels" through which the city adj
vertlSements are to flow, are through
the papers which he publishes in this
city Does Mr.. Metsker think for
moment that he is going to intimi-
date the city council, mayor and city
attorney to direct all city advertise
ments to his paper by such infamous
his "Dog-fennel Daily" of April 25th.
He says the city attorney advised
the council that it made no difference
whether the time and place fixed for
the hearing of circumstances to the
proposed improvements contemplated
in declaratory resolution, was done
by motion or resolution. This is
bare-faced falsehood No such advice
was given to the city council by the
city attorney. This is falsehood num-
Der one
He says the advice of the city at
torney has caused the city to pay
the Chronicle illegally for the pub
LEGATION of two notices at its last
meeting. This is absolutely and un-
qualifedly false and the record shows
it. This is lie number two.
He says the taxpayers are plunged
into lawsuits and forced to pay
double advertising expenses in order
to justify a few hungry partisans.
This is another downright villianous,
bare-faced falsehood, for neither the
city nor the taxpayers have been
plunged into a lawsuit nor lawsuits,
except such as may exist in the brain
and imagination of the editor of the
'Dog-fennel Daily" This is false
hood number three
Mr.. Metsker says the council has
caused advertisement twice for two
improvements, piling up costs to the
parties interested. This is another
unadulterated point blank falsehood
and the records of the council show
it. This is falsehood number four.
The law gives the common coun-
Gil the right to direct in what news
paper the city advertisements may
be published but because the pres
ent council has seen fit to exercise
this right by directing part of the
city advertisements to the Plymouth
Chronicle and Tribune and not Civ
ing it all to Mr. Metsker, he jumps
upon the council with all fours and
calls them narrow bore partisans"
and pap suckers. If ever there
was a pap sucker" struck this
town it is the editor of the Dog
fennel paper which blooms and bios
SONS on Laporte street,-for every
member of this council personally
knows that nearly every bill for ad
vertisements for the city, which Mr..
Metsker files, has to be cut down
from the charges he makes. Not
only this present council know this
statement to be absolutely true but
the former city council and city at
torney, know it to be trues Mr.
Metsker has not confined his pap
sucking" and over charges for adj
vertising to city matters, but is
guilty OF the same nefarious prac-
tice with the county advertisements,
to the end that he is now under
bonds to the Marshall Circuit Court
to answer two indictments found by
the last grand jury for over charges
for county advertisements. Does il
not then come with very poor grace
from Mr.. Metsker, in the face of
these undsputable facts, to charge
this present council with being pap
suckers" marrow bore partisans"
and violators of the law? A council
of as honorable and upright men as
were ever elected to that Office in
this city, and not one OF whom has
ever been charged with criminal
offense, and against whom 70 one
would think of going into any court
and swearing that their general rep
utation in this community for truth
and veracity was bad.
The resolutions referred to by Mr.
Metsker in his Dog-fennel paper are
the North Michigan and North Wal
nut street sewer improvements. in
each of which the time for their
hearing was fixed as the law directs,
for April %, which resolutions were
unanimously adopted by the COM
mon council and approved by the
mayor, all of which is matter of
record and may be seen by any one
who will go and examine the records
in the Office of the city clerk. Yet
Mr.. Metsker says these resolutions
are illegal and are so considered by
every attorney in Plymouth. Mr.
Metsker, did you ask Mr.. Martin
dale's opinion of the legality of the
resolutions? If you did not then you
have not the opinion of every law
yer in Plymouth on this subject.