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

nOn-pdrtlSdfl, as viewed Dy MT. MetS-
ker. Then when the declaratory
resolutions FOR North Walnut and
North Michigan street sewer i'm
provements came up. the council, as
the record shows, directed that no.
tices should be published in the
Chronicle This, Mr.. Metsker says,
was petty partisan conduct" Then
when the vacation resolution was
passed, publication was made in one
of Mr. Metsker's papers. When this
was done Mr.. Metsker did not rush
Into print and charge the council with
being petty partisans, no, mol They
were high-minded, non-partisan gen.
tlemen When the hearing and final
adoption resolutions for North Wal
nu and Michigan street sewer inn
|provements came up for passage, the
council unanimously adopted them
and directed that the notice required
by law should be published in The
Tribune. Then Mr.. Metsker rushed
into print in the Independents of
April 25th and charged the council
with being bitterly partisan" mar
row-bore partisan and clique of
pap-suckers." With record of non
partisanship, dividing up the city ad
ventisements between The three pa
pers of our city, does not Mr.. Nets
ker stand condemned in his bitter
personal attack in calling the council
marrow bore partisans," pap suck
ers', bitterly partisan and of petty
partisan conduct? Mr.. Metsker says
that the council are attempting to
ignore their own record, and Atty.
Hess advice has already cost tn
taxpayers interested in the sewer i'm
provements in North Plymouth to
pay twice for the advertising. This
statement is untrue and the records
of the council and bills on file with
the city clerk prove it to be untrue.
What is the record to which he
refers, that the council is attempting
to ignore? 1t is his resolution OF
April goth, which he claims ties the
hands of this council so they cannot
exercise the right that the statute
gives them of directing IN what paper
they want the city advertisements to
be published. Mr. Metsker says | am
trying to boss the council and to die
tate to them what they shall do. To
this charge | enter an emphatic de-
nial, which | can prove by every
member of the council. When called
upon by the council | give them
legal opinion as to the law pertain
ing to any matter they submit to me.
This council is composed OF men of
judgment, with minds of their own,
and are high minded and honorable
men, not to be bossed nor dictated
to by any one.
Mr.. Metsker says that l persist in
writing in resolutions which pre-
pare. specifying some other news
papers for publication than the ones
approved by the council. This state
ment is not true, for the records of
the council show that every resolu-
ton which has been drawn contain
ing the name of the paper that should
publish the notice, required by law,
were passed by the council. With all
these facts easily obtained by any
one, why should Mr. Metsker make
| the reckless and false statements
about me and the council? Does he
suppose he is going to intimidate
them and drive them into submitting
to his autocratic dictaiion, and that
they will surrender the right they
have under the law of this state, to
direct in what paper city advertise
ments shall be published and allow
his resolution to tie their hands and
take from them the right which a
higher law gives them? Mr. Metsker
would have the council to believe
that his resolution is superior to the
law of the state
Mr.. Metsker's personal attack upon
me is wholly unwarranted and mali
eious. Because l write in the resolu-
tions that | prepare for the council,
rects notices to be given, as the stat
ute of the state gives them the right
to do, Mr.. Metsker has seen fit to
make most virulent, vitriolic, per-
sonal attack uopn me- He is in the
habit Of doing this upon reputable
citizens OF this community, and mosi
of them have let the matter go un-
answered, but if he thinks tina. this
lpresent council and myself will sub
NIT to his villianous, vicious, and
virulent personal attacks through the
columns of his papers, he is sadly
mistaken. IF he wants to kee.l
this. war of personal attacks on this
council and myself, there will be nc
Handling of him with gloves on, nor
mincing of words in answering such
attacks. The sole cause of the at
tacks which he has already made
grew out of the fact that the rresen-
council exercised the right they have
under the statute Of the state of In
diana, of directing citv advertise
ments in any newspaper of general
circulation, published in this city
which they see fit, and not be bound
hands AID feet by resolution passed
Nov. 81, 1905, which, as the resolu-
tfon shows, was introduced at the re-
quest of c. w. Metsker, and pro-
vides that until further orders city
advertisements shall be published ir
his papers, thus giving him, as he