Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-11-12
mr.. STOLZ
EXPRESSES
HIS OPINIO'.
TELLS ABOUT THE Ills
BRIDGES AND CULvEk AND
INVITES THE CLOSEST IN
sPECTIoN OF ALL OF HIS OF
FICIAL ACTS.

Editor: One is seldom justifie
in troubling the Public Press or 1t
readers with personal grievance
or defence of good name. / hav
never found it necessary in all m,
private or public life; nor do / deen
it necessary to do so now, with an,
fair minded citizen of Salem, {,
trouble myself to resent certain at
tacks made on me during the pas
few months, but unfortunately al
men are not fair minded in theil
judgment; there are always those
who can not bring a friends name
to the attention of the dear people
without pulling down, and defamine
somebody's character. l have tried
to exercise all the charity could
command and overlook it all, hoping
that when their purpose was accom-
plished they would be satisfied, nor
did care to go into the Press, before
the City Primary, as there is nothing
of political intent, on my part, in
this article, although l have had a
strong suspicion that 1t was mostly
politics on the part taken by those
who have attempted to discredit my
four years service under the present
administration. would now allow
this all to pass as final settlement
and full payment for my four years
service to a grateful people, IL those
misguided people had not brought in
the name of our worthy Street Com
missioner, Mr.. Cornelius and the
owners of South Mill Race. 1 will
be charitable enough not to mention
names, it may be better than they
deserve, but you know that Charity |
suffers long and is kind" Let me
use motto as headline for what
comes next, 1t is this:
He that sells his good name for
money is a fool.
And he that does not defend his
good name, when falsely accused, is
a coward.
On September 1st, 1910, mailed,
under registered letter, the following
letter to friend living on East
Court Street:
Salem, Ore, Sept. 1, 1910.
MT. ...,...,
? Salem Oregon.
Dear Sir: For some reason or
purpose best known to yourself, you
have made statements within the
past month in the presence of my
friends, which were intended to re-
fleet on my good name and standing
in this community.
If in your knowledge you can
sight one instance where have
grated, or in 9ny possible way be-
trayed a public trust, wilr you do me
the honor to make a full and clear
statement over your own signature,
when, where and how such an act
was done, or If you lack positive
knowledge will you then give a cir
cumstance that would in any way
justify you in making such charges.
A man making a statement calcu-
lated to reflect op the good name of
his neighbor, must himself be honest
first; so If you lay claim to this, the
noblest impulse of man, you will be
open and above board in your reply y
and withal prompt. You might also
explain what motive you had TO have
Mr.. Carson to call the Chairman of
the Committee on Streets to account
for not reporting on your petition !
on East Court street. when but a
few days before, at your office you o
requested me to hold that petition a
till you had time again to talk to 1
the property owners on that street.
1t will be interesting for me to 2
have your explanation on this.
- / shall greatly appreciate prompt i
reply, and above all full exposure t
of every act of mine that has even e
the shadow of wrong doing.
Respectfully, G. SToLz' G
Chairman st. Comm'r.
There was no response to this let I
ter SO on September 7th, ! notified b
this party that l would treat this let C
ter as / saw proper. sent this letter
by registered letter as the first, so G
am not betraying family secrets.
will make 40 further comment on
this letter, as 1t speaks for itself, but
the challenge is open to all comers
if they desire to take 1t up.
The past three weeks these SLAM
derous statements took new turn
and furnished the real ground for
this article Statements were made
that ! shy ed in real estate deal
with Mr.. Cornelius and others on
the Southeast corner of Fourteenth
and Ferry streets; statements have
also been circulated that the owners
of South Mill Race got material de-
livered by the Warren Construction
Company from the contractors on
Twelfth street and East State street,