The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-02-03
NAMES THE GUILTY.
Long Drawn Out Court House
Squabble Elicit its Pointed Re-
marks from F. Shutdown
ARGOS REFLECTOR

board was the election OF T.. I.
Martindale as county attorney
This came as no surprise as 1t has
been long since known that An
drew Thayer is an 9 Neefe-Mar-
tindale henchman. By this proce-
dure, Mr.. Thayer takes upon him
sell the odium that attached to
the majority on the old board,
and not only this but he must be
held responsible for any disaster
coming to the party he represents
because of his fragrant defiance OF
public opinion-Plymouth Dem
ocrat, January 6. 1910.
The democrat makes the same
old baby plea that the commits
sioners are to be held responsible
for anything that befalls the party
for rhe multiplicity OF malicious
suits that have interferred with
the legally arranged plan to re-
pair the court house. Mr.. Thayer
has made no mistake. He has
had his ear to the ground for
some time and known the feeling
OF the public in regard to this
personal fight that is responsible
for this trouble at the court
house. In his investigation he has
no doubt found out that Mr.. Ness
the other bidder for repairing the
court house. has little if anything
to do with the present combi-
nation OF internal fights. He
knows now that it is not likely
that Ness is paying attorney fees
(which he is not in a financial
condition to do and that if any
attorney fees are being paid at all
which is doubtful. they are being
paid by the editor OF the Demo
crat. He knows that it O'Keefe
hal desired to loot the taxpayers
of the County he would not have
paid into the treasury $4,000 from
a source that had never in the
history OF the county paid a cent
nor would he have started q
scheme that has returned 80 the
treasury throughout the state ov-
er half a million dollars ANNUALLY
that had never reached there be-
fore. He probably also found out
this self constituted watch dog
OF the treasury owned at one
time a printing office worth
about $4,000 and after buying anC
adding thereto another Office fol
$4,000 returned the combination
to the assessor for taxation at the
modest sum OF one thousand
dollars. The tax payers can com
pare the two actions and decide
which one of the two has their
Interest at heart.
Mr.. Thayer probably kept uT
his investigation until he found
the nigger in the wood pile at frs
t. a.. We ,0aid hni II he did nc
that the so-called Judge G.
was a brOther-in-law to one OF the
sub contractors under Ness, ant
that he also owed lis life to thS
same man. Is there any sef-re,
specting attorney in the state tha
would have act ID as Judge I'm
der the circumstances? What
other decision could have been ex
pected? The bid OF Mr.. Mes coulC
not have been accepted il there
had been no other bidder from tn,
fact that he had stated to the com
missioner that they would have Il
change the specifications or hi
positively could not do the work
The commissioners either had te
reject all bids or accept that o
Ia. w. O'Keefe. Vim. OKeefe b,
it remembered had no more to dc
whit it than the King OF Ram
chatIa. If there is any disastel
coming to the party on account o
the many malicious suits and mis-
representations made in regard Il
rhe court house repair tn,
Plymouth Democrat" and MOI
| Mr. T'hayer will he responsible
for it. The fight in the court hous,
case has as little to do with pro
tecting the treasury as bronze
turkey has in protecting a grass
Hopper. In fact the fight common,
ed long before the contract for re
pairing the court house was decid
ed on. 1t goes back to the time
when the editor and lawn" fel
out over gambling at Pretty LAX
on Sunday and the subsequen
suits for gambling when Martin
dale happened to be the attorne,
against the editor and gave him
lambasting. Again referring to tn
| Democrat of February %. 1909.
We find long article urging tn
| destruction OF the court house an,
advising that new one be bull
down town The writer of this art
icle is now one of the attorney
working migth and main to de
stroy the court house. The othe
! attorney has been quareling wit
VIM. O'Keefe ever since he PAR
back the $4,000 to the taxpayer
OF the county. All these quarrel
ante date the election OF eithe
Lee or Thayer or of Martindal
but have been carried into ever
transaction that has happene'
) among the politician OF Plymout1
from then until now, and the tax
payers must pay the bill. On
good thing will come of i
Plymouth has been electing tn
candidates for county office fO