The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1915-05-13
A CRAVEN INSULT.

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ruthersville Argus, May 8, 1916.
No one with less gall and i'm.
pudence than the editor of the
Argus could offer the people of
Hayti a more brazen insult.
No one knows better than the
editor Of the Argus how repeat.
edly the people of Hayti have
been tricked, cheated and
mistreated in most every con.
ceivable way by the Argus brand
of schemers, yet this individual
has the audacity to make the
above hyphenated allegation, re.
quest and suggestion. 1t is Ger.
tainly the limit of contemplate
cussedness and hair. Drained lit.
tleness.
Charlottesville has had five
years in which to hold an elec-
tion, and during all this time not
a move has been made to do
so, and now the editor of the Ar
gus tells us if Hayti's census can
be invalidated it will be great
favor" to Charlottesville in their
contemplated effort to pull off
another stunt.
According to all past records
and considering local conditions
now existing in Charlottesville,
should a local option election be
held there the town would go wet
as usual. A test of the wet and
dry strength there was recently
had. The editor of the Argus
admits that the issue in the re-
cent city election was wet and
dry, and that the vets won by a
big majority; and according to
the same authority the munich
pal government of that place is
in the hands of the socalled vets
to manipulate as they choose.
Besides, when the recent city |
election was held there, the al
legged drys were we'll organized,
or should have been, having
just emerged from a big re.
vival meeting which had de.
pleted their pocketbooks to the
amount of more than 500. The
alleged drys can never hope to
be in better shape than then, and
if it ever comes to a test of a 10
cal option election in Caruthers-
vile the opposition would ma.
turally be ten fold greater than
in an ordinary election for alder.
men.
But Charlottesville cannot hold
a local option election because
Hayti has had her census taken,
and would have saloons should
Charlottesville vote dry! If the
drys there are sincere, why |
should they object to this? Why
should they care what towns
have saloons, so they get rid of
them?
AS said, Charlottesville has had
five years in which to hold To-
cal option election and could have
done so long before Hayti's
growth made her equal to that
place as to the unit law, and no
election was held there. In
heavens name. how much more
time did they need?
Instead of holding local option
elections, when threatened with
a raise of the county unit law,
Charlottesville has had several
censuses taken, and each time !
raised her population so as not
to be affected by the require
ments of that law. Several years
ago when the unit law was about
to be raised so as to include with
the counties cities of 5000, Ca.
ruthersville very promptly got
busy and placed her population
safely above that number, but !
not word of protest was heard
from the truth and justice" peo
pie there.
There are just as many truth
and justice" people in Hayti, ac'
cording to population, as there is
in Caruthersviile. but they are
not, and never have, meddled .
with the affairs of that place in
any way whatsoever. The truth
and justice" people of Hayti are
attending to their own business,
and always have.
If Charlottesville wants to hold
"A local option election, why in the
Sam Hill don't she go ahead and
do SO? No one objects, and, so
far as can be seen, the way is
open.
In the meantime, Hayti is fully
competent to attend to her own
affairs, and means to do so. 1t is