The Republican journal., 1910-09-08
TReprinted by Request.]
A PUBLIC ENEMY.

A PUBLIC ENEMY.
These are some of the men that the
mavor. through his personal newspaper
organ, is charging with grating and
with dishonesty and dishonorable prac-
tees:
GEORGE E. JOHNSON, Judge of the
Probate Court.
CHARLES P. HAzELTINE, Register of
Probate.
TLEsToN WADLIN, Clerk of Courts.
VIM. A. BRAGG, Lincolnville; EDWARD
EVANS. Waldo; GEORGE E. BRYANT,
Freedom, County Commissioners.
AMOS F. CARLETON, Sheriff Of Waldo
county.
ROBERT F. DUNToN, JOHN R.. DUNToN
and RALPH |. MORSE, members of the
law firm of Dunton &. Morse.
WILLIAM B. SWAN, EDWARD s1BLEY
and CHARLES S. BICKFoRD of the Swan
& Sibley Co.
FRED G. WHITE and BEN HAzELTINE
of the Belfast Fuel & Hay Co.
ORLANDO E. FROST of Mathews
Brothers.
Are there any individuals in this COM
munity who stand higher, personally or
professionally, or who possess in greater
degree all the qualifications for good cit
izenship, than the gentlemen who, week
after week and month after month, have
been assailed by the mayor with false
hood and abuse?
Messrs. Swan, johnson, R. F. and J.
R. Dunton, two Republicans and two
Democrats, have served the city most
acceptably as mayor. Hon. r. F. Dun
ton has represented Belfast in the legis-
lature and Mr. Morse was elected to that
position in 1908, the former as a Demo-
crat. the latter as Republican. Tileston
Wadlin has been reelected term after
term as Clerk of Courts, in which posi-
ton he has had the confidence and re-
spect of bench and bar, and he retires
voluntarily at the close of his present
term. Judge johnson has held the office
of Judge of Probate for many years and
has never had decision reversed by
higher court. Charles P. Hazeltine was
first appointed as Register of Probate by
the county commissioners to fill a va
cancy caused by death, and was chosen
by them from several applicants because
of his admittedly superior qualifications,
bic a1aofio,,
term after term. Can any one who
knows them say one word derogatory to
our present efficient board of county
commissioners, or of our sheriff, Amos
F. Carleton, as an officer or as citizen?
Are not the members of the corporations
of Swan & Sibley Co. and the Belfast
Fuel & Hay Co. honorable business men
and good citizens? what of Orlando E.
Frost, the head of Mathews Bros, one
of our largest local industries, built up
by his superior business abilities? 1t is
perhaps not necessary to say even this
much of gentlemen so we'll and favorably
known at home, but the attacks upon
them have been scattered broadcast and
it is we'll the public should know some
thing of them.
Now what of their accuser?
1t would require too much space to set
him fully before the public in his true
light; but of local conditions this may be
said: He has taken from the people of
Waldo county thousands of dollars for
which they have received absolutely no
return. Ask the investors in Petit
Manan, Nutriola, Cream Publishing Co.,
ETC., if this is not true.
In January, 1897, Hanson launched the
Cream Publishing Co. to publish a
monthly magazine. The capital stock
was $4,000, of which comparatively
small amount was sold for cash. Flam-
ing advertisements were inserted in the
Maine papers announcing that SIS, 900 to
500, 600 would be distributed IN ''grand
prizes" and it was stated that the prizes
were to be "awarded under the SUPER
vision of an Ex-Mayor, Ex-City Marshal
and Minister of the Gospel" Well, in
May, 1898, the Cream Publishing Co.
went into the hands Of receiver, and it
was announced at the time that the as
sets were $4,000 and liabilities $4,000,
and that Hanson's management was SO
satisfactory that the receiver would con-
tinue him as manager. But the condi-
lions were not as thus represented. The
receiver, Mr.. Frank l., Wilson, found
nothing to receive" but some silver
thimbles used as premiums, and few