The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-27
DIVISION
IN DEMOCRATIC
PARTY HERE
FRANK SHUTDOWN ARGOS CON-
TRIBUTOR, SAYS DEMOCRAT
is BEHIND ATTACK ON
KRUYER.
Is of The Opinion That Move Was
Made to Divert Attention From
Court House
of Plymouth Tribune:

To those who have read the serie.
OF articles recently published in the
Democrats should have sale
Chronicle, attacking the administra.
ton of farmer Kruyer-these re.
marks + adddessed. The first
thought that to my minds is
that the Republicans were undul,
careless about the graft thew have
unfolded OF were waiting to get in
only their account, and were afraid
TO spoil the pudding till they got a
finger in themselves. But the quarry
is. did the Republicans start the in
v~estigation, and if they did what
was the object in doing so at this
particular time. Kruger is not a
candidate for anything In the county
and long ago notified the papers that
he would not continue at the farm
after the current year. The next
point is who did it. Boys is about
as capable of getting up such an art
ilcle as one of his glass paper
weights with the picture of Napoleon
blown in the bottle. /. and no doubt
hundred of others knew some weeks
before the article was published,
that the thing was in incubation
but no n knew when to expect it.
or If 1T would ever appear in any
form. Any n who has given the
matter careful attention, and is cap
able of reading the hand writing on
the wall, has long since come to the
conclusion that no article of any
particular Importance has appeared
in the Chronicle until ii has careful
~ been blue penciled by the editor
of the Democrat.
There are a large number of read
ers in this county who believe that
the Kruger story is one of these
articles, and that it was sired by the
editor Of the Democrat. 1t carries
with ii a letter of recommendation on
its face that this theory is the true
one. In thousands of cases which
come before court, there is a neces.
sity for showing up some motive,
for with no motive in view, the ease
weakens and often falls to the
ground. Every reader comedies the
fact that with all his faults, the
editor of the Democrat is long head
ed and is determined to win out in
this court house scandal. let the
consequences do what they NAV! For
this purpose the "Big Four who
are in the race to abandon the pre-
sent court house site and rebuild on
a lot down town as n part of the
! Metsker outfit. For this purpose
they set aside commissioner Lee who
was in favor of repairing the present
court house, and doing ii as cheaply
as possible, and selected a citizen of
Plymouth who at that time owned
valuable property down town, to
take his place. The commissioner of
the third district who had been at all
times IN favor of anything Metsker
favored and who in fact was
putty in Metsker's hand was thought
to be the best trained man in his
district. or at least they did not
have time to train another one in
time TO catch the flood of voters that
they had promised themselves. would
rIsh into their schemes. But all nice
schemes Of nice gang, went amiss
and the votes were quietly moving
in the wrong direction. and the two
pets of the "Big Four" were in
serious danger Of being showed I'M
der. ] use the word showed advised
~ for 1t was one of the most quiet
and deepest campaign seasons here.
since the now fall of 1884 and ) and
the covering vas going Over the pets
putty and all, of the "Big Four.
Something had TO be done in short
order. Metsker had read the article
in question and knew what it was
worth to n who knew what it was
1t. kruyer was a candidate for
warden of'the state prison at Michi-
a City and so was a former mayor
of the village of South Bend. AS it
happened, about this time a mar who
had pOwe. to act. made a business
visit to Plymouth and it appears il
was n of purely business. for in
the next issue Of the Chronicle the
Kruger article made lis appearance
and the result was all that any one
might have foretold. The quiet cam
paien walked up and many democrats
without hunting up the real sire to
the article made up their minds not
to have Kruger downed without a
struggle, and for a time the court
house vas forgotten, and made a side
issue. But they are now getting
their second wind. Most intriguers
over. DO themselves and this was the
ease with Metsker. The article
which might have been answered eff
fectively IN a quarter column has
been the base of nearly all the edi-
torial page from then till now, in
fact there seems to have been no
thing else to write about. But lie
has shown his anxiety 10 keep the
mind of the voters from the court
house scandal entirely.
"A week or so ago, we find him adj
vIsing Kruger not to sue the Chron-
lcle for libel, and giving his reason
why is he so anxious? If Kruger
sues any one, it should certainly be
the editor of the Democrat. He has
certainly done Kruger more harm
han the Chronicle even if he had no
FaAd IN getting up the previous artl-
Gle as is generally believed. The
innings so far in the Kruger cam
| palgn have been in favor of Metsker