The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-30
RcSntes Positively Misleading State.
ments Made by Mayor
Harvey Hummer.
SHOWS nARAIEn,s ERRORS
Pledges Square Deal to Every Citl.
zen, Rich or Poor, White or
Black, High or Low.

Black, High or Low.
In the remarks that I have TO Of
fer to the voters of this city, in re-
ply 10 Mayor Harmer's speech at
the conrt house on the 2Sth inst, |
do not desire TO mold myself up as
self-constltuted martyr, and as the
great ] am. shall not delve into
my personal life, although have
been an orphan and on the world
since | was. three years old. because
that does not enter into this COM
paign, and the people are not so
much interested in the past as they
are In the present and future. i do
nor ask the people 10 make such a
sacrifice for me, All that desire
from the voters of this city is thar
they vote for the best interests Of
the entire city. live among you,
and like my opponent, always expect
to. AS to Mr.. Harmer being an Of
flee seeker, and the number Of times
he has asked the peoples suffrage,
Won an know better than can tell
you.
Mayor Not Bound.
Mayor Harmer said the council
bond him hand and foot in regard
10 the police; that the chief never
came to him for instructions; that
the entire police force failed to do
its duty. Did he do his sworn duty
IN this respect before man and God?
II these officers were derelict in their
duties. 1t was as much Mr.. Harmer's
SWORN DUTY under the law, to
fine, suspend, or prefer charges
against them before the council Did
he ever do this? If so, the records
fail to show 1t, and no one has ever
heard Of him so doing. Tfthe chief
OF police5or any other officer did not
come to him for instructions, it was
his much talked Of SWORN DUTY
to so 10 them The mayor is the
chief executive Of the city, says the
city charter
Mayor Harmer in referring TO
saloons and vice under my admins
tratlon as compared TO Mayor Kel-
Iey's, said that the saloons increaseG
in number under my administration,
This statement | absolutely deny as
untrue, and the records will bear me
out.
Fines Compared.
In the FIRST year OF my administra-
lion tl9O2-Sl, the fines amounted to
$S,S5S.59, and under my second
year. Cl9OS-D. they amounted to
$4,24T29. These figures are exact
and correct, Reader, II you have
any doubt about ii. go to the city
treasurer's records and satisfy your
self Why the falling off in the sec
ond years fines YOU ask? Because
there was less vice and crime than
formerly, and Mr.. Harmer knows IT..
Mayor Harmer tried 10 make you
believe that he was more than zeal
Gus TO give you exact figures in re-
gard to the amount OF fines imposed
and collected by me. He was so
anxious to give yoa the exact figures
that, (quoting his own words as TAX
en- by a stenographeI II climbed
up into the dirt over the lockup and
tried to find more of the (Crie's)
records, but could not find any ex-
cept Shlelds's," SO he gave you a
garbled statement that ! collected,
from July 10. 1908. 10 April 16,
( 1904, fines amounting to $1,55SO0
then adding, "If anybody will show
me more. from these two records
then l quit" If he had been homes;
/. 10 give the people the truth and the
Who'll truth, in five minutes time he
could have gotten ii from the records
OF Captain John r. Steel, city treas.
uFer, not only for the time above
mentioned, but for the entire year
and would not have been compelled
10 present himself a living sacrifice
over the dirty cells in the lookup
for his sclf-glorINcatior abso.
lutely deny the correctness OF Mayor
Harmer's deductions.
Not 'rrc About Bonds.
NJ. Harmer fnrther stated that
/. the city had voted (asing his exact