Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-10-27


the face of the report to the Counc
10 as it appeared on the records. an
* also across all the records pertain
D. ing TO the matter, ard this wa
done and now appears on the rec
ord. Yet t. H. Glass has seen ii
g 10 publish this report without tn
resolutions expunging the same an,
without the word expupged" writ
ten across the record, and tho mar
: ginal note showing why it wa
:. done. The following is a certificat,
6 g from the Clerk of the Council
= hereby certify that I am Clerk O
] the Council OF Buena Vieta and custo.
t dian of the records OF the Courcil;th
the report Of Committee published IL
the Buena Vista Times OF date Oct. 81
1909, was made to the Council and
. spread upon its minutes, beginning al
line 10 on page 243 OF Record Book
NO. l; that there appears on the mar.
gin OF said record the following In red
ink;
This proceeding beginning at line
10 on this page and ending at line
i 81 on page 242 is declared by the
City Council to be null and void
and ordered expunged from this
record and declared no part Of the
record OF the City Council.
r. J. BROWN,
G. w. LECKIE,
Committee OF Council.
See Council proceedings June TO-,
1892
Il further certify that in large red
Ink letters the word expunged Is writ.
ten across every page and part OF page
covered by tho said report; and fur
thur certify thet everything 10 connec-
tlcnxith the said report has the san
memorandusu along the margin, and the
word expunge6 across tho face OF the
record.
II hereby further certify that Book
No. 2 Ia which Is recorded resolu
tioi s ordering the records exD1nged
has disapp Jared from my office ard |
can't now be found.
T. F. ANGLE, Clerk
City Council"
1t may be claimed that it was not
known that this record had been
nulliied and expunged, but it is in
excusable that it should have been
published without examining the
records TO ascertain the fact. The
fact is that the original report filed
with the Council, and which belong
ed to the City records was taken
away by some one, and was in the
possession OF the Democrat above
mentioned who had brought this
matter to the attention OF the Repub-
leans.
This Denocratic(as l understand
brought the original to Mr.. Quisen. Z
berry for his use, which be declin.
I'd. Mr.. Quisenberry asked what
had become OF the report in the
Council, and the gentleman who +
endered it said he did not know. :
How and why this original report =
vas taken from the files at Buena =
Vista | do not know. An appeal to
he records of the Council us TO
What was done with this report
would have suggested itself to any +
nind that had any idea OF fairness
r justice. 1t is singular too that the V
'olume OF records containing the
xpunging resolution should have
isappeared from the Office OF Mr.. +
mole just at this time, but it is I
)rtunate that the substance OF the
esolution appears on the margin OF
he records.
Mr.. Editor. If you had examined
ne files OF the old Buena Vista Ad-
ocate, which was the former name
your own paper, you would have
'und that not one word of all this
ottenness was published at that in
me, although Jacob Bumgard ner, q;
ne of the Councilmen, was half :"
~ner OF the paper. 1t was never
eemed of sufficient Importance for OF
ublic notice at the time. though
DIV, from personal hatred, it is o.
ought to be made much of. 1t will =
3 found in the records in Book No. II
that the Council itself saw the in -
stice of publishing such stuff and
'tually requested me to give my
'nsent which l declined to do, and
rem my bitterest enemy then did
IT have the nerve to endeavOr to
we it published. II
/ may add that at the next cleo tn
IN after this fight with the Cuun- of
|, l ran for the Office of Common CT
ealth's Attorney for the City OF ar
lena Vista aud / was elected by a ~
ajority Of lib out of total vote of -
l, my opponent getting 70 and l III
2; and though this matter was On On
en- fresh, don't recall that my IL
ponent used it, certainly not
blicly, for had it been it would r
We proved a hindrdnce rather i
an help. | simply mention this an
show what my own people -
ought Now after eighteen years, ~
is expunged resolution has been Vi,
eserved and is sought 10 be made
e of in the absence of the fact ty
At it has been repudiated and alb
,ked out by the Council. the
understand, Mr.. Editor, that
nr issue of the 21st, which contains =,
:. elias communication, has been "a
ed by you for campaign purposes TEL 'e,
sending out special copies; il so, IN
nple fairness compels the issue, WI
1taining this, to be sent the same
)ple. rs
HUGH A. WHITE. m,