Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-02-13
THE MASK COMES OFF

Editor Chas. E. Taylor, who has been absent from
Plentywood for months past, while trying to get
control Of the Farmers Press at Wiliston has not
completed his threat to sue that paper for publishing
some facts relative to his friendship with Mig Collins.
the Plentywood bootleg king who is in Jail charged
with q loathsome crime against a high school girl that
has barely reached her teens"
In the letter he wrote the editor Of the Farm
ers Press as we'll as the directors Of that organization,
he says among other things:
81 defy you to find one time or incident,
where l have behaved myself in any reprehensible
manner"
Yes, that is our pompOus, lordly State Senator,
who yas disowned by his own son by his first wife
when he wanted to call on him some years ago. This
action on the part of his son must have been actuated
by some stronger motive than ordinary behavior on
the part of the bluffing state Senator.
When Taylor started his Sturgeon River Tim
Der Products Company at Big Falls, Minnesota, which
he could just as well called it a lath mill, he contracted
bills that were inconvenient to meet, as the Senator
from Montana had his funds tiled up" Amongst
these bills was one where the creditor sent a note to
Plentywood to the Honorable Charles E. Taylor to
guarantee payment. The note being only for a short
time, and finding it more convenient to give a Note
than to mess around getting the cash to pay it, was
signed Carl (. Taylor in a very boyish handwriting,
and returned to the creditor who acrepted it in good
faith, and paid no attention to the slight difference in
the name.
Time went by and the due date arrived, but the
note remained unpaid. A registered letter to Carl E..
Taylor brought a return card to the creditor signed
Carl E. Taylor in the same round boyish handwriting,
but no cash was forthcoming. Then attorneys here
were requested to collect it. They found upon inves-
tigating the matter that the signature on the note and
registered letter card were identical, but very different
from the honorable" Charles E.. Taylor's handwriting,
and are rather nonplussed about this collection matter.
The only Carl E. Taylor they have been able to
find here is a little ten year old son of Charles E.
Taylor.
And yet, the honorable" Charles E. Taylor
says 81 defy you to find one time or incident where l
have behaved myself in any reprehensible manner"
We have before US some letters and notes in
which the honorable" figures quite prominently.
George F. Myers, the proprietor of the Myers Hotel Of
Buffalo, Wyoming, was appealed to by Taylor when
he was down and out, sick and without funds or
friends, and Myers took pity on him and went to the
Stockgrowers Bank Of Buffalo and as surety signed a
note with Taylor and also boarded him at his hotel
where Taylor ran up a board bill Of $173.O0 which he
never paid. Myers had to pay the note on which he
was surety for Taylor. We have both notes here
which were given about Is years ago, and without in
terest amounts to about $4,000. Only one payment
of $500 has ever been made. The notes are outlawed
and Mr.. Myers has long been called to his eternal rest
In a letter which Mr.. Myers wrote on January
3rd, l9l9 ne says about 1ayl0r IN part: ms notes
amt no better than his word, he proved himself to be
nothing but a first class swindler, he had to leave
here nobody would employ him anymore. He refused
to answer my letters till / threatened to have him
published in all his neighborhood papers as a crook
and swindler. That is what he is referring to in the
letter enclosed. l wish you would send me his ad-
dress l am 70 years old but l guess / am a match for
him yet. Excuse me for expressing myself the way !
do. 1t gets me when l think about it."
And here is part Of Taylor's letter in mis- own
handwriting, which he wrote this old man when he
threatened to expose him:
Nov Pap you have justice on your side-I
presume that l cannot help myself and will have to
submit to any disgrace and injury that you may find
in your power to inlict.,,*+*+
Taylor must have forgotten some Of these
things when he went "Berserk" down at Williston and
wrote the letter demanding the r~etraction, wherein he
nonchalantly classes women and girls as "reputed
prostitutes"
We would like to publish this letter and so
would the Farmers Press at Willistbn but to do so
would bar the paper from the mails.