South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-10-28
PRODUCE THE WHOLE REC
ORD, MAYOR

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ORD, MAYOR.
AT last the pieced-in and dove
tailed statement OF defense of May
or Gaylor is out in print. IL Is the
story read by the mayor from care
fully prepared notes. and delivered
at his Century meeting last Thurs
day evening, I'm which vituperatiOn.
innuendo, abuse, and mud-siineing
was INDUCED To- the limit of the
actors capacity and appetite.
Everyone hitherto taking part in
politics was handed a large handful
of mud Prominent citizens, re-
spected in the community, among
men of affairs, of business and i'm
professional life, worI1ingmen in
cluded-all came i'm for an ndroitIy
planned Smearing and bCsmirCh-
ment. Newspaper mon were asSaiI-
ed as Snipers and aSsassins of char
acter.
An eIocutionary exhibition at
reading some kilograms and letters
was engaged in, for the entertain
ment of the audience, and the lie
direct and caustic was handed out
so dexterOusly that the timid were
supposed TO run to cover. Oratori-
cal gas shells broke, liquid fire OF
Indignation swept the field. and the
rapid-firers spit and spat every
where, until all who witnessed from
afar supposed Mishawaka's mortal
/ ity rate would reach about the most
Sanguinary figure ever recorded. I'm
! fact the Alamo was a mere pleas
ure party, IL was thought, by wit
neSses, as the slaughter wore on.
! OratOrically and VindiCtiveIy the
storm ragged and Surged. but Mayor
Gaylor did not give all the record
of his connection with the cOnscriD-
ton board. He did not produce the
/ original of the communications
/ which he read. Like the shysteI
lawyer deCeiving the jury or court
/ he put forward such as would tend
to- support his point that he did not
quit the board. He Is i'm possession
/ of AL the facts. A representative
1 Of the Ncws-TimeS called on him
/ for the facts Saturday. but he could
not produce them. He gave date OF
| original telegram appointing him
/ the letter from Consumption Agent
Eschbach dated May is, and a let
| ter of regret from the governor OF
week later. But he did not ex-
/ plain to his audience THURSDAY
4 night, nor offer to- give the News
Times his version of the appoint
ment of himself TO the board dur
| inc the month of June.
During the latter days OF June
and The early days of July il was
common talk upon the street that
/ the mayor was still on the exemp-
/ ton hoard. lie mayor either has
| the credentials, OF can get them
show whether this rumor wa. IN.
/ founc6d. Either he has thsT1 or
they are under control of his bDarj
and IL crefOre Under his ':..I.tr.I Let
/ 81 mayor produce al the record
We challenge him TO come out. Lei
him apply the other motto of his
record bearing inspection" 10 his
cOnnexion with the CONSUMPTION
= board.
! And while he Is doing il. while
he H. Preparing his aIibi again, let
hum slate where he was Saturday
June 80. and Sunday. July 1. and
some time Following when the gov
eminent was calling for him to re-
/ spond to- duty and take the oath
that
II will support and defend
the constitution of the United
States against all enemies, for
eign and domestic; that I will
bear true faith and allegiance
to the same; that I take this
obligation freely. without any
mental reservation or purpose
of evasion; and that / will well
tics of the Office upon which I
and faithfully discharge the du-
am about TO enter: So Help Ne
I God"
The South Bend Tribune'S csti
nate of men avoiding service OF
exemption boards, and defining al
such as slaCkers. still stands. An,
Mayor GaylOr has not cxOncratc,
himself by a good ways before TN,
court of public opinion, or the bal
of a close analysis of the situation
and scrutiny of all the facts: fact.
over which he has control. and i,
called upon to produce.
Mrs. K. Shaw and son. JONATHAN
Of Wabash, Ind, are visiting witt
the formers sister, Mrs. F. w
Bum, PIP 5. Hill st.