Year: 1878




c. p. JOHNSON, ESQ Sir Our
(always gentlemanly) County Treasurer,
paid me visit, with, as he supposed, the
two receipts with my endorsement upon
both, which were neither Of them for
geries. They were genuine, but were
not the vouchers that could take my
twenty dollars, as one of them was paid
to me for two days witness fees for
the two first days of last term of court.
The time for which claimed fee az
witness and ON the day when served as
a juror was just three weeks later In the
term of court and have not yet got my
pay, Your New Castle correspondents
report to the contrary does not make 1t
SO, although che was told by a gentleman
who had seen the receipts with my en-
dorsement." Your editorial of Feb. 9th
says, "Mr. Deans memory is bad as some
receipts at New Castle we are told will
attest" who was at fault, your informant
or my memory? Our County T reasurer
thought my article reflected upon him
but it not so intended. Allow me to
quote from my letter to the Every Even>
ing and Commercial, which called forth
your New Castle correspondents article.
"During the last term Of court was sum
moned as witness, was qualified and
gave my evidence and was so fort innate
as on the same day TO be called TO act as
q juror to fill up the box, for which the
County Treasurer paid me So. when q
thought struck me to know just how a
follow would feel who was getting two
days pay for enc days services and ap-
piled TO the proper official for my pay
and mileage as a witness and was asked
''did you not get pay as a juror" The
answer was In the affirmative when he
said, "do you expect two days pay for
one days work?' Now, Mr.. Editor, will
you please tell your readers who told the
truth IN regard TO these receipts yourself
and your New Castle correspondent, or
will you still insist that "my memory 10
bad" still have the twenty dollars to
pay for those two vouchers prosperity en-
dorsed. Please send them along early
as l might want TO use the money II the
receipts cannot be produced. That there
are some smart men In and around New
Castle I admit, but your correspondent
is not one of them and before he can
make me out either liar or swindler,
which he has tried TO do, he will see
many more winters than he has yet seen
and want him TO retract through your
columns what he has said. If he does
not do 1t voluntarily he will be made to
do 30. He must know that he cannot
dictate to others what they shall write
provided they avoid the errors of your
correspondent and do not as he has in
my case write lies.


Your correspondent "Old Democrat"
of Newark, will now quote from; "Mr.
Deans standard of loyalty at that time
which consisted manufacturing shoddy
cloth for the Government and in making
desperate efforts to 'see the captain" in
order to get some ofhis "shoddy contracts
through. Now this correspondent is a
falsitier and does not tell the truth.
never had q shoddy contract with the
Government neither had any firm with
which was q member and never furnish
ed any shoddy cloth to the government
in any contract that was q party to and
defy your correspondent to prove 1t so.
And he must do so or retract what he
has stated, which is foul slander and
personal in its character. 1t affects my
private character in the community, in
which reside. He must either retract
or you will be held responsible for the
foul SANDER. In all my communications
/ have avoided personal attacks except
as to the public acts of the individuals,
and in res oart to what was said about
the Levy Court action in the Tweed
Mill bridge matter, the matter is there
10 provide itself. In regard to the men
in White Clay Creek Hundred whose
names were made use of by me the acts
which claimed they did am ready TO
prove whenever the parties dare come
forward and demand it. Nothing will
please me better than that they demand
me TO prove it. will do it if you would
allow me to give the facts through your
columns to cheated Democratic party
of our hundred. The excuse of your
New Castle correspondent that the sum-
mons to appear at Court was as a wit
ness is too thin. 1t Was regular sum
mons to lay aside all manner OF business
and signed By one of the Judges of the
court. In Justice TO me for the foul
slander brought against me through
your paper you will please give this a
place in your columns.


VIM. DEAN.