The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-02
The Marrow Bore Partisan and
Pap Sucker"


has seen fit to exercise the right
which the law gives IT., in directing
the paper in which all city adver-
isements shall be published, Mr..
Metsker calls the councilmen mar
row bore partisans" and "a clique of
pap suckers" Because the council
does not direct all city advertise
ments to be published in the papers
which he controls he says they are
not disposed to act for the general
public and are guilty of petty parti-
san conduct and are not proceeding
regularly, and in accord with their
own record Will Mr. Metsker ex-
plain to the dear people whom he
has assumed to take into his conf
dence in order to save them, as he
says, from reckless extravaga nce nd
irregular proceedings, if it was not
narrow bore partisanship and pap
sucking" on his part, for him to rush
before the common council after the
last municipal election when it was
known to him that there would be
three Republicans and two Demo-
Gratis in the incoming council, and,
at his own request, as the record
shows, have a resolution passed di-
recting that all city advertisements
until further orders, should be pub
lished in the papers which he con-
trolls; thereby tying the hands, as he
thought of all succeeding councilmen
for all time to come, who would be
willing to obey his autocratici dicta-
tons and to dance to the crack of
his political whip from exercising
the right which the law gives to
every council of directing in what
paper all city advertisements shall
be published
When Mr. Metsker learned that
the present council had made up
their minds to no longer submit TO
his dictations and were determined
to exercise the right which the law
gave them in directing that the city
advertisements should be published
in some other paper than those he
controls, he was Johnny on the
spot" and long, loud and furiously
did he howl and wall, and crack his
political whip, telling the council
that if the city advertisements are
published in any other papers than
the ones he controls that it would
divert little business out of the
legal channels" and that they are
not disposed to act for the general
public" That is, if the council d.
reefs city advertisements in any
other paper than the ones he con-
trolls it would be "out of the legal
channels and not in the interest
"for the general public" and will be
petty partisan conduct" and "reck-
less procedure When Johnny on
the spot" failed to drive the council
into submitting to his autocratic die
tation and they adopted unanimous
ly, as the record shows, the declar-
atory resolutions for sewer improve
ments on North Walnut and North
Michigan streets in which the coun-
Gil, as they had the legal right to
do, directed that notices as required
by law should be published in the
Plymouth Chronicle, fixing therein.
as the resolution shows, the 22nd of
then on April 22nd when the final
adoption resolutions, in which the
council as they had the right to dc;
directed that notice thereof as re-
CURED by law, should be published
in The Plymouth Tribune-which
resolution was unanimously adopted
by the council-and then the declar-
atory resolution for Thayer street
sewer improvement, in which the
council directed the notice as requir-
ed by law. should be published in The
Chronicle, which resolution was also
unanimously adopted by the council
this was more than Mr.. Metsker
could stand and endure for he saw
that the present council were pro-
posing to exercise the rights which
the law gave them in directing in
what papers city advertisements
should be published, and refused to
be bound by his political scherning
and trickery; he. HES to his sanctum
and vents his spleen on the present
councilmen in an infamous article,
replete with false statements and
Misrepresentation from start to FIN
ish, which article should aud no
doubt will dscredit him in the minds
of all fair minded, impartial aud rep
utable citizens of this community,
for the present councilmen whom
he calls narrow bore partisans" and
"a clique of pap suckers" are as hon
orable and respectable and are gov
erned by as high a sense of civic
duty and responsibility and imparti-
atty aid are possessed with as high
order of business ability, .integritv
and duty to the general puDlic as any
council that has ever been elected
to that Office in this city.