Williamsport Warren Review (Newspaper) - February 24, 1898, Williamsport, Indiana TO THE INTERESTS OF 24, 1898. 9. MOUNTEBANK A BUNGLING AT SPRINGING A SENSATION IN by he Quotes from the Record with the Hope of Getting tlie Before the People LURKS ABOUT THE COURT Gazette in its issue of last contained a statement over the signature of one of its which is construed into an attempt to establish the fact that John our County is a the guise he has worked so long of pretending to be the saviour of the this man Mavity seems to be seeking to blacken the character of a neighbor and law abiding citizen because he does not like knowing that Mr. has no feeling of friendship for seems to be seeking to not only defeat his but to ruin him socially by conveying the impression that he has appropriated funds belonging to the is this man weight should his sayings have are a few suggestions as to the real character of who poses as a great and as the saviour of the first in this this writer was told that Mavity was the discoverer of tlie treasury is continually holding himself up as an example of al that is and and right citizen who constantly parades himself before the people as truly great and good and is ever ready to blacken the char acter of anyone whom he happens for any real or imaginary to ought to be when presenting bills for public as the records aie of a right open books to every payer of the are examples of the wa he transacts business with the the way he juggles wit the money of the the March session of the Court in 1897, was presented by this political Moses and professional great man and among the items was the charge the publication of the delinquent tax 625 descriptions at 20ci.'ntseach$125. of there being 625 df there were but 539, a of 87 descriptions and ail overcharge of much f the county to lose of yet in the neighborhood of twenty per more than the law back two years further is found a of the same presented by for publishing the delinquent tax claiming 1105 descriptions at 20 cents There were but 1018 Figured the overcharge is same as last 8602 provides that not more than 20 cents a description shall be paid for the publication of the delinquent There seems to be no provision for the payment of the heading and footing of the This being the it would seem that the Gazette thus provides a these little discrepancies do not amount to much in dollars and yet it is clearly shown that Mavity pretensions and Mavity practices do not travel well farmer who hauled of his product to market and sold afterward discovered that the dealer with whom he transacted had cheated him out of 20 per of its value by a short or any other would be to believe his after that in hearing him question the honesty of a let us see whether the Mavity method of attack upon Mr. is not on the same so ar as principle is as lis dealings with the copying from the Mr. Mavity went as far as his suited then Had le gone further it have been useless to say and lis would fall further in the record is the entry reproduced in another under the From John G. The particular item referred to in this connection is the item of the will you the and of this and blatherskite who attacks a fellow for no other han through or for pelf or personal gains ONE TERM the new advertisement Dick JONES A season menee next work will corne on with a Are you prepared for carpets and new all the newest at the Boston we are past the middle of and no winter worth mentioning so far this ladies of the Christian church netted a nice sum of money by serving dinner Thomas E. Moore and Desha of will fight a duel and divide the gate you have not already done so begin to get your horses ready for the heavy work you expect them to do in the situation is about as De AV. having just closed one of the most successful cut price sales now opens a big remnant of C. A. presiding elder of Lafayette M. E. will preach at Saturday night and Sunday March 5th and 0th. every implement and get it in shape for See that your harness are in Valuable time csn be saved if matters of that kind are attended to white man who was shot in Missouri recently while attempting to steal chickens from his colored A chickens war has therefore the Editor has not been customary candidates at conventions to their in the county newspapers in their own but our young friend from Steuben shies his castor at McCord in disregard of prosperity and he writes under the non de Republican but the veil is too transparent to fool He is evidently writing to that he may come back this week with a full and a grand display of oratorical flourish to amuse and confuse the The valiant Ajax will no doubt completely demolish what little Mavity has left of poor so that after the convention the party will only have to gather up the dissevered fragments of a once respected and trusted will doubtless tell us that he is a one term from the skies above to that other place ' All the way up and down he citizen is for a single term and could not reason ' be induced to hold so fat a one minute Having made that matter clear and he will likely tell a waiting people that his opponent is a bad that he not only wants the office a but that he defeat Smith and Stearns for a second term a few years and while on this branch of his subject we hope he will pause long enough to explain how Smith and Stearns came to owe their defeat to John We had always supposed the delegates to that convention were the men who did that Mr. Chandler is dictating on the beauties and profits of one term will he be kind enough to explain how it comes that he supported both Smith and Stearns for a second when the Clerk's and Auditor's office were each at least a and is for one when they are only worth one half that Then it was right that Mr. liis should have tlie office eight now it is right that McCord shall be turned down at the end of four years to help himself in. That dear old don't seem to have a place in Chandler's It was the other ox then that was being And that makes a lot of But how about the Clerk's office under the old and new law Under the old law it figured about this cash earnings per year Total years Deduct clerk hire per leaving net the present 4 years at per less clerk Balance so the office is worth two and one half times less now than it was when Chandler claimed his brother-in-law should have it eight looks very much like it is Boyd of Charley Dick was in town j is a candidate for the office of He says the firm of Dick subject to the decision of Connell is doing a splendid the voters at the approaching He is well pleased with his The doctor is well for any position and will of the churches in a good Coroner if placed in the go were decorated with flags last | Hanly Should be Elected to the United States ministers preached firey sermons of war like ring and their utterances so excited the audiences that they broke forth in hearty remains of Gilbert Winsett were brought here yesterday from where he last Deceased was a former well known citizen of this He was nearly ninety years The remains Avere laid at rest in Hillside ENDEAVOR every Sunday at the Presbyterian You are cordially invited to attend and take some part in the for discussion Sunday Feb. 27th Close to Luke 10: 38-42. John 17: 20-26. members of the German Baptist Bible Society celebrated the of advertisement for the firm of Hemphill Brothers appears I birthday in style Tues in this issue of The Llay evening at the U. B. prices are offered The house was decorated with without any attempt to match the patriotic etc. The If you don't | of the Warren County the read about their at the head of page supper given by the ladies of Presbyterian church Tuesday was well Music was furnished to enliven the and the all in all was very The colonial style of dress by the ladies who waited upon the added a novelty to the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Wagoner gave them a surprise last Friday A large forty-six in wearing broke ill them and they were at a loss for a time whether white caps or robbers were paying them a But matters were soon explained and a time condition now existing in the contest for brought about through personal dislike and spite is to be As between the The Review has no Both men use its columns this and the successful man in the race will receive its support in the The Review will be found taking a before the convention that will allow it to consistently support the present and were addressed by Homer W. The remainder of the program was of about one hour's duration and consisted or patriotic songs and Some of the selections deserving special commendation were by Miss Boy by Miss Boy's Poem on by Willie and the of Bunker sung as a solo by Miss Artie Ed Banes made some very glowing patriotic remarks at the close of the The old soldiers showed that they appreciated the meeting by heartily applauding those who addressed a new stock of window at the Boston wish to make the following correction of the article written by True in last week's issue of the West Lebanon wherein he classes me with others as being as Recorder with only one I thought that every voter in the entire county knew that I was not a candidate for re-election in any sense of the and of good news items could 1 quite why gathered each true to want to assume the chief dictatorship of the county in the future as he has in the wants to misrepresent me along with the other misleading statements he has assisted in as published in the same in order to try and make this a C. the transactions of John F. All within a week he traded for the big livery barn the Wabash depot and the btock of the other barn up and traded the big bam for other but he still holds the livery stock at the barn in ths rear of the store of Judy and is now running the business being in charge of Thomas has been busy since the first of the extending his business operations until now he has eleven stores in full ROBERT fatal consequences is illustrated by the death of three men in the prohibition county of W. by substituting patent medicine for one of the old time residents of Fountain died last The funeral occurred the remains being laid at rest beside those of his wife in Riverside appointment of John Chambers has been confirmed as postmaster of He has purchased the outfit from postmaster Hoitz and as soon as his commission the change will be on Chandler's part to put himself into an One thing is dead and that he is inconsistent in his while McCord may be perfectly even supposing he was a one term man in 1890. tramps were arrested at Oxford last Friday morning under suspicion of being implicated in a robbery at Stone Three of who were found with stolen articles on their persons belonging to John who had been were held and the balance were They were brought here Friday and placed in jail and Saturday morning were taken to Mattie Sewell brought a suit against William Miller in the Benton circuit court for breach of The case was decided last Friday in her allowing her Five years ago Miller and Miss Sewell became when she was a school girl aged An engagement resulted about three years He gave Miss Sewell a diamond ring and other expensive presents and the young woman was very He had bought his and he and Mattie had often visited the place and talked about the changes they would make in the Last December Miller suddenly married another woman of Oxford without giving any reason for the Feb. 21,1898. Editor am a candidate for County and desire through the columns of your valuable paper to reach those of the I will not be able to see in and have an explicit understanding with and hereby state that if I receive the I pledge the party in this county that I will not be a candidate for a second There are too many and good Republicans in this county who have political for me to wish to monopolize the Clerk's office for more than one term of four The office belongs to the and not to any one man and should be passed I want the office one and am willing to devote all my time to it for per the salary fixed by A. from a recent issue of the Lafayette Daily will be of special interest to Review Frank Hanly is an honest true to principles and courageous in He is a capable broad of mind and studious He is a efficient one who has earned his way to prominence by industry and uprightness of He is a natural of whom it has been said he resembles the great Henry Clay in his power of appeal to the judgment of At the meeting of the Republican State league he proved his wisdom under stress of He said the right thing in the right During his term in Congress he gained the respect and admiration of coU leagues old in the experience of He is not not Were he in the Senate he would sustain the as Fairbanks in every measure of commendable That is the sort of man Indiana needs in the Upper sa of a man of the from the people and for the there is still another reason for selecting Mr. Hanly and working from the of the campaign deliberately to that He is a man still young in endowed with the qualities of head and heart to develop into a power of public before the Republican presented an argument that is in this The General was not a he was not speaking for Mr. Hanly nor in behalf of any He was urging the young men of the state to action in the cause of He pointed out the value of the young man in affairs and cited the case of Cobb and He might have made the list much His purpose was for he showed the of young men in public We give his statement on the first page of this While the speaker did not intend this as a personal we call attention to its ( The same statement appears in this Frank Hanly is a man whose success in private in governmental on the and at the bar is equal to that of any one of these men at a moment similar in their Given the he will vindicate this He is now in the vigor of with a capacity for should place a growing man in the one who is in the creative years of one gifted with the abilities to perceive and with the discriminating intelligence to recognize is not a reflection upon the distinguished men of mature years who are named in connection with the but the Senatorship should not be a wreath of laurels to crown a completed whatever of merit that life may demands vigor in the working man in every sense of the Such a man Frank WILLARD death of Miss Francis E. which occurred in New York last will prove a great loss to the W. C. T. U. of this In the death of Miss one of the most remarkable women of the the Woman's Christian Temperance Union will feel as though it were left without a Certainly Miss Willard had inspiring power in controlling these moral and her place will probably never be so worthily or self-sacrificingly but there will arise another leader around whom the Christian women of the land will rally in time as loyally and earnestly as they did around their great who now lies cold in It is to be regretted Miss Willard could not have passed away amid the surroundings of her beautiful home at 111. guarantee to save you money on Boston
