Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-24

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supporting Finley are untrue. You may be
sure that will give your statement the Gre
deuce IFS solemnity entities it TO. In keep
ing with my past action in this matter,
shall endeavor to be absolutely fair, hut in
asmuch as they have made charges desire to
give them an opportunity to prove them. If
they fail to prove their charges, the fact of
their making them will do very little good. +"
"Thanking you for your communication,
and assuring you that the matter will remain
as it is until everybody has had fair hear
ing, beg to remain
Faithfully yours,
Geo. A. Neeley
Somehow and sometime be-
tween the 31st of March and the
9th of Arpil, Mildred Johnston
became candidate for the Of
fee. Her name, it will be noted
was not brought out until her
father, Tom Johnston, had been
fairly and honestly defeated.
For the past three years Miss
Johnston has been serving as
Assistant postmaster under the
influence of a stand-pat republi-
can postmaster and her sup
porters were mem bers of the
same bipartisan ring as those
who supported Stamper.
have been reliably informed
that on April 9th, Mr.. Neeley
sent a message to Meade, stat
ing in substance, That If S. d.
Adams, d. H. Sloss, DR.. Fee,
and B. S. McMeel would recon-
mend Mildred Johnston that he,
Neeley, would appoint her.
am also equally as reliably in
formed that these four individu-
ais wired their recommendation.
A few days later Mr.. Neeley
made another double cross and
wired friends of mine for a pc.
ton signed by sixty democratic
patrons of the office, favorable
to me. This petition was sent
to him and contained seventy
eight names. 1t seems, from his
actions in the matter that he
was hunting loop-hole.
On April 25, due to the fact
that the charges made against
me had not been substantiated,
l wrote Mr.. Neeley, asking his
permission to use his letter of
April 10, as authority for the
statement that DR.. Fee made the
charges. received the follow
ing:
Washington D. c. May 1913
Miss Agnes Wehrle,
Meade Kansas
My Dear Miss Wehrle:
Replying to yours of
the 25th uItmo, relative to the charges pre-
ferred against you, have recently been ad-
vsed by Mr.. Tally of Meade that the charg-
es were not preferred by Dr. Fee but by DR..
Simpson. My informant before stated that |
DIR. Fee was the instigator of the matter, but
the later statement corects that
Hoping this will clear the matter up,
l beg to remain,
Respectfully,
Geo. A. Neeley
When Mr.. Neeley made the
above statement he showed his
weakness. On April 9th, he
stated that charges had been
preferred, on April 10th he had
stated that DR.. Fee had made
them, and on May 3 he admits
that he listened to and held up
my appointment on charges that
were not legally signed by the
party who made them, and that
when he wired me that my APP
pointment had been held up,
pending an investigation of said
charges, that he wasn't absolute
ly certain who made them. The
next step he takes he muddles
worse, He states that
"the charges we're not preferred
by DR.. Fee but by DR.. Simpson
Upon receipt of Mr.. Neeley's
letter of May 3, / called DR..
Simpson to The News Office and
showed him Mr.. Neeley's letter.