The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-07-13
CITY ATTORNEY NJ ASOH
ACCUSES A RD NJ D REITE
.OF UAFA|RHESS IN THE
REPORT OF n ON NJ EET
or CITY COMMISSIONERS.
Mr.. Jonn f. Easley, Editor Ardmorcltc

Mr.. Jonn Il. Easley, Editor Ardmoreite,
City,
The writer desires to think, and will
think until he is convinced to the
contrary, that you, at least, of the
force, want to be fair n
your news items that enter into the
make up of your paper and hence
this letter.
In the Sunday issue you undertake,
as matter Of news, TO write up the
failure to have q meeeng Of the City
Commissioners, and at once jump
upon Commissioner Wilson and Mayor
Freeman for not being at that meet
ing and in language berate them for
their failure. Now the entire item is
false in so far as it effects those gem
tlemen, and if your writer had not
been so biased against the City and
especially the City Officials, and so
brutally in favor of the other side of
the issues involved in the matters eff
fecting the Ardmore Construction Com
pany and its individual owners, Messrs
Gait and Franklin, ana the City Of
Ardmore, he could have easily as
certained that Commissioner Wilson,
was at home sick, suffering with an
attack of Asthma, and had been prac-
tically so confined for a day or two,
that he is subject to those attacks,
and that the Mayor had, before the
time OF meeting, been advised that
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present Friday night, and hence as
it was not possible to have a quorum,
he too stayed at home. Why cannot
the Ardmoreite, at least in its news
items, remain unbiased and give the
news?
Again in the same issue you make
great display headlinethat ""THE
MAYOR REFUSES TO CALL AN
ELECTION ETC"
Now that headline is absolutely un.
headline had only read the Mayors
letter he could have known the truth
and not jumped at such conclusions.
If you will read the letter of the
Mayor on the question, you will find
that the Mayor concurs in the opin-
ion written by the writer of this ar
ticle and DECLINES, notRefuses to
call the election at this time.
Now the writer Of this article as
sumes full responsibility for the legai
opinion written upon the petition pre-.
sented. He will not now, or at any
other time, try to eyade the same. 1T
is THE LAW and the Mayor acted
upon what his City Attorney told him
and the blame If any is all mine ana
If any one was to be censured there.
II that had been done you would have
heard no plaint from me. l have
broad enough shoulders to stand my
full share OF blame and shall not now
or any time in the future, try TO
evade, or avoid, any responsibility
in any act or thing l do. You vii,
note, in the opinion, that | specifically
state that the Mayor wanted to call
such an election, and both of US
started into the examination of the
petition with the full idea of issuing
the proclamation for the election on
August 3rd, the primary day, but
when 1 found the law would not per-
nit ! could do nothing else than
| what | did in the matter. Again l
say, l assume full responsibility for
that opinion and the Mayor is not
one whit to blame. unless it be that
after examing the authorities, he knew
so little law, that he concured In
what said"
Now the gentlemen who think tina,
what l said was not the law, have
their remedy. We lawyers never do
agree upon what the law is when we
get upon opposite sides of the ques'
tion. So there is nothing new in the
fact, that Judge Eddleman does nor
agree with me.
Again l think you treat the Mayor
and myself in an unethical and unpro'
fessional manner, when you take our
articles, which by the way are the full
reason for all the articles of news in
the Sunday issue, and place them
/ idsl IN your coluiiH' uih AoI coui
planning Of this very much and Il
that is your idea of newspaper cour
tesy, then it Is all o X and my
remedy is simply to see that nc
items from me finds space in your
columns.
At least upon one other occasion
/ have talked with you in regard Il
stating the facts instead of biased
account OF dolngs in the city affairs
again respectfully urge that you
at least try to find out both sides
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