The Robesonian., 1908-09-03
DR.NORTHROP REPLIES.

cduLlOIlS are UdhSll.
DR.NORTHROP REPLIES.
Submits Affidavit from MIR.
Brock and Wants Law Pub
lished-Men Who Write Arti-
cles Above Assumed Names
Denounced--Some F avors Ask
ed.
To the Editor of The Robesonian.
In answer to my article asking
you to cite instances of over
charges for goods to the chain
gang by J. w. Carter and A. R,
McEachern you do not bring a
single item against Mr.. McEach-
ern, but you do charge that J.W.
Carter, trading as J. D. Mclean
& Co., sold shoes for 81. 40 against
81. 90 for the same shoes from J.
w. Prevatt (W. ]. Prevatt, it
should be). | ask you to publish
this affidavit from w. K. Brock,
the man to whom these shoes
were said to have been sold for
the county:
AFFIDAVIT OF W. K. BROCK.
Personally appeared before me,
a justice of the peace in and for
Robson county, W.K. Brock, who
deposes and says that he did not
make any such statements to Mr.
Prevatt and that he has never
been in the store of J. D. Nc.
Lean & Co., and has never di.
rectly or indirectly spent or caus.
ed to be spent any money there
Signed w. K. BROCK.
G. T. FISHER
Justice of the Peace
Now, Mr.. Editor, you want tt
be so fair, l ask you to publish
the law which forbids a count!
commissioner from selling good
to the chain gang and I ask yol
to publish the whole section O
laws year 1905, chapter 65, sec
tions 10 and Is. If l can read i
forbids in this case a county com
missioner from selling stuff fo
more than it is worth or for NOR
than it can be bought on tn
! open market. Your reply to m
: intimates that you can cite man
! more instances. Please let u
= have them.
, Now | want to ask a favor
Will you please ask Col. N. A
Mclean why he had this law er
acted to go back just far enoug
to exempt R. D. Caldwell, M. l
Marley and others who, whe
county commissioners, were ais
selling goods to the county? Di
not R. R. Barnes sell a mule
= the county, Mr.. Barnes bein
y chairman of the board? VIII
:. did not the finance committee il
It vestigate the $4,000 fee whic
o was paid to Mclean & McLes
E for drawing the road law, whe
L one of it's members had that bi
r enacted when he was State Sci
r, ator?
:. The Robesonian has a large ci
q culation and many of it's reade
never see another paper, and "
q are due them all the facts. | b
$ lieve that a certain crowd
o Lumberton furnish you, M
-e Sharpe, with the stuff for the
70 villianous articles against t
\ best citizens of this county. Y,
IL allow articles to go in your pap
signed by Fair Play" Dem
crat" and other non de plume
'e Why don't you make these peoI
1T sign their names to these article
ye Any man who will writesuch sea
n dalous stuff and not sign his nal
r is a coward and | am believil
H. that these articles are originatil
3y in certain law office in Lumbt
c. ton.
r Now, as to the Democratic ez
n cutive committee voting to ha
W no canvas of the county by asp
IS ants for the Democratic nomir
g. tions, why don't you give t
s, vote? Don't you know that W
x was 16 to 2? Yet you attack Gt
NJ 3. Mcleod and AR. McEachel
-0 who were of the 16. If this ;
IL ton was such a crime, publ
n the names of these other IA m
'ld so that the people can see
n crowd whom you charge wi
er keeping down the factsof the
10 vestigation. Mr.. McEachern
= a recent issue Of The Robesoni
Ls' challenged the opposition to {
is, bate, and why don't the gent
lr- men who are trying to save
he from utter ruin and bankrupt
u accept the challenge? Now, c
w more favor: Please give US
ny amounts owed by the county
is September 1st Of each year sir
ut. 1896, and please give us the d;
'er of Mr.. Joe Buies' statemt
,oo that the county was out of de
,%0o % T. L. NORTHROP. M. D
B. St. Paul's, NC, September
TX 1908.