Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-10
GRASSY CREEK.

Mr. Editor;-By your permission will
answer in as brief a manner as possible as
| can in justice to myself, premeditated,
undermining, Infamous, libelous, slander-
Gus article over the signature Of w. G.
Short, in your issue OF the 10th ult., in
which he brands me with being everything
but gentleman and an honest man. The
lowest down charatter in the country has
never had such volley Of vile epithets and
base appellations heaped upon him as Fair
Play has had by Mr.. Short Short is his
his prpoer nfm,. He is short in the fullest
sense OF the term-especially in principle.
There is company OF them, and everv one
that howled was hit. Short was the only
one that had the courage to sign it. The
author Of the dirty screed kept behind the
curtain as towards VII, and made a cats
paw OF Mr. Short 10 do their dirty work.
A straight look at Mr. Short in daylight is
all the proof necessary TO prJve that he
never dictated it. have no i'll will against
Mr.. Short or the other conspirators.
Shakespeare said, take my purse and you
sake trash but take my good name and you
take all have have lived here CT years
and my record is an open book.
NJ. Short and all these bulfoons that die
tatatcd and wrote that-arti lie cant SANDER
Fair Play. Short says that the facts and
figures that he gave are as true as Fair
Plays bible. Let's see: Sections I6I and
2}5, Kentucky Statutes, says: no officers
salary shall be changed after his election or
during his term OF Office. Did they change
them?
lie also states that the law requires e. ch
county to have treasurer. 1t does not
The best Lawyers in the country say that it
is in the discretion OF the Fiscal Court.
The law does not say that they shall de-
eide to have treasurer, but having decid-
ed to have one, the Fiscal Court shall ap.
point. Section 93S, Kentucky Statutes,
says: "The Fiscal Court, when they de,m
it necessary in their PIscRETIoN shall ap-
point Il treasurer" etc.
So you see they violated the law twice
with the statute under their nose and COW
cred it up under ialsehood. The Court
took straw bond o! $4,000 90 which is
less thln one half the amount required by
law, and Mr.. Short voed for it. Another
violation of law.
Yet Mr.. Short says that what he has
stated is as true as Fair Plays bible. II
my bible was as full OF lalsehoods as that
article would burn it and bury the ashes
Fair Plays bible says that all liars shall
have their part in the lake that burneth
with ERE and birthstone. '|-s-'', -i's-''
Yes, that hell that Fair Play breaches so
much about is a reality, as ye slanderers
will realize some day. Mr.. Short, in his
sanderous article, says that Fair Play
would have men pledge themselves TO vio.
late the law, or perlure themselves before
he would vote for them. No use to take a
pledge, when men do these things of their
own voltion, as have shown in this arti-
Gle
How does Mr. Short know that Fair
Play is wolf in sleeps clothing, or that
he wants men to perlure themselves? How
does he know that he is false and deiam
ing prophet; The devil in his prime, never
belched forth more palpable falsehood.
Yes, it would be better to take Fair Play
out of the world, las he is prepared to die
than to take lot Of wicked wretches to
perdition.
Mr.. Mathis has no record by which TO
prove to Fair Play that it is better TO have
a road engineer, and treasurer, and pay
them salary, instead of the old way, Al.
though this company Of Slanderers say they
are saving hundreds of dollars to pay on
; the bridges. II we had the 5000 that the
Fiscal Court virtually conGscated and gave
: to those salary grabbeIS, we could about
complete our bridges, II every county il
the State had elected the right kind o
county Judges and county attorneys for the
last twenty years we would have had goot
, roads without an engineer. Sorry officer;
I brought US to ii.
There is quite lot of things that ;
blacksmith can't beat into my head with ;
sledge, and one thing especially, and tha
: is that an officer is the pure stuff that vii
| refuse to perform the duties Of his Office un
less the county pays him 5000 more thai
the salary for which he agreed to work.
l Jus such men as these are the kind O
t characters that are spewing their venom
[ on one that helped TO elevate them.
+ don't know how hard my headiS, but an
sure that it is better to have a hard heat
and u soft heart than to have a soft beat
I and hard heart like Mr.. Short and tn
5 other conSpiratogs. MIR. Short belcheS on
e challenge for me to disprove what he said
q Don't have to disprove it, 1t twas false
hood when it was born. 1000 gallons q
ialsshood boiled down don't make spoon
: iul Of truth. challenge MIR. Short and al
his cohorts to prove a single utterancc tina
they made AGAINST my reputation, Th
devil from the bottomess pit would blus
to perpetrate such SANDER Christ ma
use the gospel sledge on such hearts iC
years without any good effect.
So far as a clean cut case of religion
concerned will say hat Fair Play has
: genuine case Of old time salvation lro
S which pure and undehled religion emanat