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The Conspiracy AdmittedWm. Shonkwlfcr, County Commissioner. Writes Another Letter and Admits Some More Facts.Wm. ShoDkwiler has written another letter to the Eaub Rambler and says he does ncrt want to nee the colurone of the Review. We would -like to publish it in fall bat space will not permit it, eo .that cutting out non-essential parts as we quote from it as follows:“I would imply by Mr. Roby’s firat question that be considers the county printing as his “farm” and that no one ba6 a right to run a “line feoce across it and take part of dt. As I see it no one haa a right to all the county printing. It ought to be divided among the papers representing the leading political parties.”We mo6t assuredly claim that aa long as the Review it the only paper in Benton county that answers to the requirements of the laws of Indiana, for the publication of the legal -notioea required therein, that that is oar property just as much as Mr. 8hookwiler olaims the laod he livis on ia held by him ender the same laws. We bought andnRid fnr mir nrnnarlv i not. so hnnaallrthe Press last fall Mr. Sbotkwiler.No statement was made that Carr was was paying Bishop’s bills, bat that be furnished money to pay a certain note at the Freeland Park bank. Our readers will note that this is Dot denied. If Carr did not pay for the beer he lied for he told people he did.••I did not allow ••any new member of the board to control ray vote.” I gave my consent when I fonnd that our action wap legal.”Here is where the ring comes in. The riDg controls Dawaon Smith and Deweon controls the Board of Commie sioners and Mr. Shonkwiler “coDsents.” That is jnst what we 6aid . Mr. Shonkwiler intends all right, but he oon-eentfi” too easy when his conscience onght to warn him he is wrong. He knew then as well as he does now that the Freeland Press did not comply with the requirements of the law, but “he consented. We skip a.Dnmder of paragraphs regarding other actions of the board nnlil next week, then fol lows:I do not consider the legal printing of the connty to be your “corn or oats” and I emphatically deny that we can “steal” from you when it is not yours. The board does not hide be hind any discretionary power. What we do is open and nothing is hid.The law says it is onr “oorn and oats” and we want to leave it to the
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Fowler Benton Review
Fowler, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 18, 1903
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