The Springfield herald., 1914-10-02
THE EXPLANATION
OF the BOUNTY CLERK,

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In a recent Democrat ap.
peared a remarkable statement
of the county clerk, it being the
second in the line of remarkable
explanations appearing in that
SHEET in an attempted evasion
or denial Of, the existence of a
courthouse newspaper syndi-
cate, and Of it's doings.
Its remarkableness, as in the
other case, consists in it's neg.
ative admission; of the existence
of such courthouse syndicate
and ownership.of the Democrat
contrary to the affidavit of own
ership made by their editor.
The negative admission of the
ownership of the paper is a neg
ative admission Of the falsity Of
the Democrats affidavit of own
ership, and also that the writer
of the explanation (being one of
the syndicate), is one of the par
ties who either directly
or indirectly suborned the
Democrat editor to make
the said false affidavit, the pen
atty for which has been already
stated in these columns.
The county clerk complains
that he has beenssingled out by
the Herald (ors defeat, which
prompts us TO put a few inter
rogations to tile said county
clerk direct:
Do you believe officials of the
county should own the newspa-
pers of the county?
Was Henry sGreen holding
stock in the Democrat for you
at the time the Democrat editor
made his ownership affidavit?
Were you one of the parties
who suborned the editor of the
Democrat to make that affidavit? 4?
Do you kelieve that you have a
better right to; add the profits
of the newspaper business in the
county to your $500 county job
to support yQarself and your
wife, than yoa brother has to
a means of mai - living for
his family?
Did you ever hear of the two
brothers with the field of wheat,
how that the one without a fam
lily to support rose up in the night
and said. seeing that my brother
hath a large family and can't
help himself, l will carry the
sheaves that he hath, and upon
which his children depend for
bread, over on my side;" and ac-
cordingly did SO?
Did you think. for a moment
when you were leading that
bushwhacking combine into that
field, that your brother would
think so little of himself, his
wife and his children, as to sim
ply stand and look on while you
were getting away with the
goods?
Don't you think it would have
been more in line with the life
that you profess, and somewhat
more brotherly, if you had taken
your stand with Judge Eldon AL
len, faced the Tammany outfit,
defied them, and dared them to
do their worst?
Had you done so, you wouldn't t
need to be worrying now about
the election. You would have
gotten the nomination against
anyone they could have put up,
along with Judge Allen, and you
would come out of the November
election with flying colors, also
along with Judge Allen.
The Herald hasn't singled you
out for defeat. On the contra
ry, it asks every man and woman
in the county. who thinks you
have done right in this matter, to
work for you and vote for you.
Could you ask more than that?
Could you want more than that?
You make a denial of things
in general. Don't you think it
would have been more to the
point at issue if you had incor-
porated in that denial the state
ment that your reported fnan-
cial connection with the court
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