The Missouri herald., 1922-12-08
THE COURT HOUSE e.
BONDS ORDERED SOLD

formed that the discredited and out
going County Court. in session at
Charlottesville last Monday, ordered
| the court house bonds, the proceeds
| of the fraudulent election held Sep
tember Q, 1919, advertised and sold.
A fitting "swan Song" that was, for
the two political kaisers who have
been kicked out of Office by the larg-
est llajorities ever registered as a
protest from the people OF Pemiscot
county 1t is nothing short of a
gratuitous insult to all law-respect-
ing people-an official act of infamy
that shows the depth of contempt
and venom that fills the bosoms
and brains Of these political vult-
ures the people have so fortunately
and gloriously ridden themselves of
! for all time to come. Until now,
| perhaps, the people never realized
| how wisely they acted in the bestow-
! al of their ballots in the recent cleo
tion. 1t is true the light had been
turned or to a considerable extent
by The Missouri Herald, but some
had believed that we were actuated
by selfish and political reasons
when that was farthest from our
thoughts. OF course, the spite and
microbic littleness of this court was,
in certain matters at issue, leveled
at this paper, and that prompted us
to make the fight we did; and since
our work has been so abundantly
crowned with success, we feel that
we have been repaid for our effort.
But the court house bonds: The
only reason this order was not made
sooner was because the two asso-
ciates of the County Court were ask
ing for further political powers,
and realizing that if they made
such an open order against right and
decency, they would be turned down
in the following election good and
hard. But after the election, had
they been elected, their action
would have been the same as now.
This purpose some knew and many
believed, and this knowledge ac-
counts for the defeat of these
worthies(?) by the largest majority
ever polled against any men or set
of men in this county.
Thus passes the first Republican
County Court Pemiscot county ever
had, and which is destined to be the
last until the obnoxious record 1t
has made has in the dim and distant
future faded from the minds of the
people.
The pernicious activities of this
political County Court. in which
this paper was made the victim of its
ipetty spite and all-around malevo-
lent cussedness. was mainly what
drew us into the fight for vindica-
tion and relief to the energetic ex-
tent we pursued, confident that righ
would win, and the expiring acts of
this vanishing evil but clinches the
proof of all our previous statements.
1t is fortunate it is not within their
power to do greater harm, for in
their desperation and spite they are
evidently in the mood to go the
limit.
The statement that the County
Court ordered the sale of the bonds
as part of its program to clean up
all unfinished business" is too thin
to be considered even for a moment,
as an excuse. There was no such
unfinished business" not so far as
the County Court was concerned. 1t
was only the unfinished business"
of the promoters of the fraudulent
bonding election, who have backed
1t before the election, since the
election, and are now, like drowning
men, grabbing at every straw, hop
ing that by some hook or crook
there may be erected temple of
justice(?) to stand as monument
to perpetuate that monstrous shame,
not realizing 1t would forever cast a
shadow over the morals of any CIV
ilized community.
The bonds will not be sold.
Not until the case has been tried
in the United States Supreme Court
and in the event the plaintiffs lose
their cause.
How far in the future that may be
only time can tell. Perhaps one
year, but just as likely five years.
While this suit is pending, the
proposition to sell the bonds is pre-
posterous, silly. but fair showing
of the intelligence of the men who
ordered 1t done.
1t would certainly be fool bond
buyer who would hazard $15O,00O
on a suit pending in the highest