The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-21
slgTHERN AETER KIDD.


Thus, the Kidd hcucinnen are using
the same tactics Kidd did as school
trustee on Crooked run and he Is in.
hnitely pleased. May his happiness
endure! The town, however Is to Be
pltled.
A man who confesses that he car
not register a letter or issue a none,
order otter being in the postoffiee SER
VICE I'VE years, as he did TO PostofIiee
Inspector Edward !. Allen, who rec
commended Kids removal because OF
ignorance and ineompetency. need NOT
be expected TO intelfgently discuss the
financial features OF a t5wn NOR do
other than juggle when he deals with
figures. This lightning calculator
added and subtracted so quickly that
his think tank, II he has one, could
mot grasp the fact that the debt spok-
EN- OF was 1880 and not $4,000 as ar
frlved at by him in way that puts his
knowledge Of figures in the lacking
class. Casual investigation would
have shown him that the dest consist
led OF $1,000 borrowed money, part of
which was borrowed on orders, and
Ethe remainder OF the $500 in OUT
tstanding orders. in other@- words
Kidd counted so rapidly that he count
ed twice and that is where he got
that extra $1,000. a hasty departure
TO 4 pure air zone might give Kidd a
muoh-needed relief but, not one be-
fllepes permanent cure could be eff
fected in his case. Perhaps. trip to
Weston would do him good.
have known for a long time that
he and his fiupkles were jealous OF
Imy sand bank, but this is the first
knowledge have that he is also
Jealous of my whiskers and as a,
sniftler he is Of long life and he has
been "nosing" into and meddling
with my business the last eighteen
years.
February A, 1910, Kidd made oath
that only &322.S5 was due the Town
from the state auditor. But my adj
ministration received $1,157S2 in.
!stead from that source after had
given the matter attention. There
was SS52.97 that would have not
been received by the town. II <Idd's
sworn statement had been the force
that governed in the matter. Why
did he swear to an amount almost
one-thlrd less than that actually
due? He either did not know or
had another purpose. There is no
danger of his getting into Missouri
las he could not go down into Penn
isylvania without asking people in
Clarksburg which train to take to
get there. AS buffer he Is at the
head of the class.
1 never said that 1--WE all stand for
special privileges and any time It
Ills his lot to run for mayor again,
he will please let me know SO that
| l can run against him and thus let
the people say He does not know
how little he is and such would be
a good opportunity for him to find
out. 1T will be a cold day at the
equator before his henchmen let him
run such a risk.
| In reply to his declaration made
through the frenzy of jealousy, that
tried to run Coal district in the
ground and am now trying to do
that to Adamston, l merely inform
the public that in 1891 / was land as
SCISSOR, in the lower district of the
county, and he was one of only
| four persons who kicked. All other
residents of the district were salts
/ fed. Kidd always voted against
the Republican ticket in the Adams
ton elections lie once told ME he
was for me and all the Republican
ticket except one man and 1 could
guess who that was, but it is pretty
well established that he voted the
lother ticket straight. LAS jumping
jack in trying. to make it appear at
various times he was Tor NE and de-
sired to help me bu, worked ana
voted against me, this man Kidd is
perfect. l have never taken an oath
as an election commissioner OF po-
littcal party and voted the opposite
ticket. Kidd, did you not say that
you did that at the last November
election? Your regard for your
word was shown when you pledged
your support to Howard M. Gore for
nomination for county clerk. No
sooner had you learned that l was
for MIR. Gore than you broke that
pledge. This sample of the po-
litical stamina, of which you boast.
shades OF the mighty statesmen and
to constancy of purpose!
! Please state what street your adj
! minis frafion nv any othar thai. mine