The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-10

Ex-Mayor Replies in Which
He Does Some 'Kid-
ding Of Southern.


Reply from exNIayor, Southern,
dated February II. 1871. :
southern.s article Is long. bu,
nothing to the point. .sTen-year-old
school boys" know that $1,000 or
tmore q orders outstanding, ana
iSt,o5O borrowed money from banks
make 1850, the amount alleged in
smy article. cot former mention.
MINISTER'S you are noted for your
hunting and nosing around in other
peoples business, theraIote you
now parade your heuchman-like
character. by telling what you found
from The auditor OF the state. Do
you think the auditor of the state is
under obligations to you for such
wise council as you seem to wish
people to know that you, and you
only, was the one able to cause the
railroad company to turn over what
they would have done Just as well
without your legal assistance, but
such is your makeup, you are to
,be pitied that you do not know more
than you even do already know.
You would last about TWO days out
i'm Missouri, where bluffs do not go
in shis day and time. The bank
records show who borrowed the
$1,000. but they or no one else but
you exactly know how you spent
+, the town's money. You know how
much your team worked out in the
town OF Adamston. You dodge the
question by referring to the last or
tders. II you will show up every
dollar your team earned of the
town since it was Incorporated, then
people out Of the town will see that
you are for special privileges. That
! is one reason why you hauled the
I dirt and mud to special citizens.
You say we all stand for special
privileges. I think you are mis-
; taken this time. The people voted
you out never to return, since they
found out how little you really are.
They know how you run the politics
into the election Of town officers.
Yoa have helped ruin the Republi-
can party, you who left the Demo
cratic party because you were not
needed in that party any longer,
and thank fortune you were not
nominated for assessor Of the lower
district, or more oEehe good citizens
Of Harrison county would have
found you out. just as, we have
found you out here in Adamston.
Many people who feel It more hon
orable to vote the Democratic ticket
in order to get you out of the Re
publican party are not willing that
you shall be Duke and reign over
them. You talk as If you had the
good people with you. Well, 1t is
sad. If all who are tired of you, as
they have said by their votes, do not
at least some OF them belong to the
better class Of citizens?
Who has the town charter? Wlo
stin has the books of the town, in
their hands. You old tyrant have
had the towns books long enough.
You lied about returning them and
still have not turned them over. I
defy you to prove that any mayor
has ever been guilty Of such gross
conduct.
You can not tel the truth about
the grading. You talk as II you
did all of the grading. The. peo-
pie know that other administrations
graded streets and built more side
walks than your administration ever
built. The people were glad to
have a walk on Chestnut street, and
you are the greatest kicker about
Now you say II they do not carry
out your plans they ought to be
sued. Just like you, dictate what
they shall do. I guess there axe
good many people out OF the
200 here that win not listen to
you much longer.
You dug out the bed for the
walk down at Mr.. Pitts's place,
which made the foundation for the
wall unsafe, and then, traitor-like,
ask them TO sue the town.
You have not forgotten how you
cursed a former minister's actions
when the election did not suit you,
but now you discriminate bedFeen
the churches, as to walks, whether
board or cement. PE0
You can not prove that your col
lector was the best ever in the
town. Did he ever ask me for my
taxes !, with many Others. saw
you were squandering the towns