The weekly soliphone., 1917-08-16


 go around and explain these things, it will merely be necessary for these publications to have a star ogre ntC~ get correct information and in all probabilities you will again be con- victed of lying. In fact, by the time the public understands fully that you are inclined to lie about most anything that comes conveniently in your path, it is more than prob able you will be called upon to re- sign, with charges preferred against you, A county judge who has no more respect for his office than to lie about the presentation of ac- counts, and reiterate these lies un- der his own signature. will look small indeed to the public when that same public fully understands his calibre,
 And while we are about it, Judge, accept some friendly advice Don't continue to spin pipe-dream that float away in foam like breezes from Budweiser You will be caught ill practically every lie you tell. It might embarrass you exceedingly should we publish half a dozen affi- dayits convicting you of lying. You wouldn't want to see these in print. l We don't care to go to the expense of having plates made by an en- craving company to substantiate our claim, but if you continue the practice of misrepresenting every fact that falls in your path, some evening you are going to look up with a sudden start and wonder who pulled the props from under your fabrication of misstatements
 Permit us, Judge, to thank you sincerely for your letter of today. We did not believe you would be simple enough to write in black and white the lies you have been telling. It seemed impossible, pre- posterous, exaggerated It looked childish. A boy in the sixth grade of a public school would have had better sense than this. Try to use some of that element which to you is virtually indefinable and intangi- ble-common sense. Try to be req sonable. Try to harmoniZe the wag- ging of your tongue with the tick of truth. Try to exercise human in telligence, Do this and you will feel like rejuvenated boy.
 We thank you for the proof of assertions made in yesterdays pub lication It saves us some trouble and a little expense. We shall keep this proof as your own signed state- ment that a claim filed by The Daily Press and Weekly Soliphone for STOPS has been disallowed We shall file it as a monument to your ig- norance and incapacity.
 Now go out into the highways land byways and swear it some more. Tell it often enough to hang your self and then ask the County Clerk if you are not lying. Better still, ask yourself. The alA@ef s 4l- ready on your lips, put you coat it over with q shade of darkness.
 You say you shall consider that a refusal to set dates for a public harangue will prove that it is cowardly for The Daily Press and Weekly Soliphone to continue call ing the publics attention to your simplicity and lack of qualifications, and the absence of ability or incli- nation upon your part to tell the truth.
 Judge, The Daily Press and Week fly Soliphone represent the people of Greene county in field of essen tial importance. The collective cit izenship represents a large corpora tion, business concern with a go- ing value. We are spending the equivalent of more than fifty thous- and dollars annually and we are taxing the people of the county a corresponding sum, which they must pay. These people are not interest ed ill you as personal entity. They are not interested in The Daily Press or Weekly Soliphone except to the end that the papers serve them. Service is the watchWord- results the demand If these pub lications feel that the county's money is being squandered; if it is felt that the man who is at the head of the business institution is in no sense qualified for the work, l it behooves us to speak out fear lessly, boldly, and call attention to the policy of prohigacy We make no attempt to injure you as an individual You may be a per fectlyl clever boy in all respects save in the art of telling the truth, But weA do not believe you possess the qYahfcations for administering. the county's affairs, and, believ- l ing this, we would be neglecting q. duty that is sAst as binding upon us as your duties should be binding lupon you should we fail to speak 0ur sentiments If yau have made