The weekly soliphone., 1917-08-16

to suppress facts, lying to create erroneous impressions, lying-ad in fnitum.
 You may well be proud of your l reputation in this respect. We know of no public official, past, present, future or mythological who can hold candle to you ill this profes- sion.
 Every man is supposed to excell in some one department. Each in- diyidual is presumed to be prof. cient at some particular art.
 Yours is lying, and you are a bowling success.
 You are ace high as an example of proficiency in this peculiar call ing.
 { You not only lie about conditions incident to county affairs, but you
 lie about your own public records.
 You say you have disallowed a claim for STOPS for The Daily Press-by indirection you say it is for The Daily Press or Weekly Sol iphone-when as a matter of com mon information i'll your own of flee it is not only believed that you are lying, but it is KNOWN you are l lying.
 o, happy, happy liar that you are!
 The word is short indeed it has ibeen referred to in the past as the short and ugly word.
 You say The Daily Press asked $50 for publishing the serial num- bers assigned drafted men in Greene county In this you are partly correct and you are partly not. Your intention is to lie, but you wobble u8 on something resem- bling a fact. The Daily Press and Weekly Soliphone published the list as originally made out, This was published upon our own initiative ] The list was later changed from an alphabetical arrangement to a seri al one and the request was made that it be published. This request was made at time when but a few days intervened until the gov ernment's draft lottery. was to be held We stated to the clerk that other counties were paying $50 for publication Of the list and that we did not care to republish it, inas- much as it had already appeared once in each paper, at an expense to us of more than fifty dollars and no charge was made for this publication, and you know it. Not only did~- we publish the official drawing, but we paid telegraphic tolls on messages from Washington in order that drafted people might know where their assignments would be.
 You know this. You know that no request was made that this be paid for and you know full well that we would not accept one penny of the countys money for the service. You know that the reason you wanted the second publication made was to relieve your office of repeated requests for information and save trouble--and you know, too, that the securing of these numbers by men subject to draft would have been of no earthly use to them until the government had assigned posi- tions to the numbers, You know that we waited until the following week and arranged with the West ern Union Telegraph Company to| supply us with the official infor- nation AT OUR OWN EXPENSE and you know that not one penny was asked for this service, and none expected. It was a matter of news and we cheerfully gave it to the public. The actual expense of hand ling these two publications has been far in excess of S100, not eouatiHg our time, We hired stenographers to arrange the lists and we paid them ourselves. The county was not expected to reimburse us, and you know full well THAT NO| BILLS HAVE BEEN FILED FOR THIS WORK, and you know that you would be lying if you should in- sist that such were true,
 In your capacity as chief admin istrator of county affairs it is your duty to see that in matters of this nature when grave public ques- tions arise e-that information of essential importance to the people you represent be given them. If it had been true The Daily Press and Weekly Soliphone refused to pub fish these lists without pay, then, in that event, you have convicted yourself of denying such informa ton to your people because it would have cost the sum of fifty dollars.
 Judge, do you think niggardly policy of this kind will be approved?I Do you believe the fathers and ..,.o4 |, c..,.. of Groono opuntv who haveI