The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-07
Writer Says That He Did
Not Charge Council and
the Mayor With Being a
Set of Crooks.
CHARGE OF MAYOR
WAS UNJUST1FIED
"Nothing but a Distorted
Mind Could Misconstrue
My Request" Is the State
ment of BaViS.

In the appended communication A.
Bavis, who has considerable insight
in public affairs, comes back" at the
mayor and the city council, for the
latter's treatment of him at the coun'
Gil meeting last Monday evening. Bavis
declares that his communication was
a plain simple request that the steno-
graphic notes taken at the sessions OF
the hospital investigating committee
be turned back to the councilmaniC
committee for translation and publ.
cation.
Bavis declares that the statements
of the mayor and the councilmen to
the effect that his communication
charged the council with being crook
ed, were not justified. Bavis charges
in his communication today that May
or Zimmerman had told him two diff
ferent stories regarding his absence
at the council meeting when the hos
pital report was considered.
Mr.. Bavis declares that nothing but
distorted mind could construe his
request, in regard to the publication
of the stenographer's notes, into q
charge of crookedness. He further
states that whoever places such g
construction on the request can bt
looked upon as one whose conscience
is not wholly clear.
The communication follows:
The Palladium: @
I have deferred commenting on the
reception given to my communication
by the council Monday evening, t.
give my nerves an opportunity to set
state, that | might be in a fit ant
proper condition to propel a pencil
without fear and troubling. AS it is,
have to write while the graphophone
is playing, to keep my mind from wan
dering to the possibilities, had the
more acute.
What was all the rumpus over
What did my letter contain to trans
form such a haven of peace and tran
guilty into such an inferno? l an
charged with insulting the dignity O
the councilmanic body as whole
What grounds are there for sucl
charges?
Let us draw a comparison or two
and see where the insult lies, whether
it be to the council, or the committee
whose work has been kicked around
that it makes the kicking of the mis-
souri, Houn Dawg" look like love tap
from the tip of a velvet slipper.
My communication was a plain sim
pie request-that the stenographi,
! notes be turned back to the commit
tee for translation and publication
/ With further request, for whateve
additional evidence has been given t.
the council to justify the four-fold re
versal of their actions.
Here is the quotation from the let
ter that is construed to be an insult
and possessing the charge of crooked
| ness" on the part of the council:
II would further ask your honorabl,
body for such additional evidence ad
duced, subsequent to the submitting o
our report, that justifies the frequen
change in your vote as whole on it
acceptance, and particularly to caus,
the three councilmanic representa-
tives who served on that committee t,
vote against their own recommends
tions." l felt and do feel, that any ad
ditional evidence given to the council
justifying change in the recon
mendations of the committee report
| the members of that committee, witt
the councilmanic representatives
should be put in possession of sucl
evidence.
| What but distorted mind coul,
| construe such request into charg
| of ''crookedness"
| There is no such a charge, direct o
| implied. and whoever places such
construction upon it. can be locke,
upon as one whose conscience is no
wholly clear.
When it becomes necessary for m
| to make charges of crooked dealings
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