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The Conspiracy AdmittedWm. Shonkvdkr, County Commissioner. Writes Another Letter and Admits Some More Facts.Wm. 8hoDkwiler hag written another letter to the Eaub Rambler and says he doee not want to uee the columns of the Review. We would dike to publish it in fall bat space will not permit it, bo .that catting out non-essential parts as we quote from it as follows:‘‘I would imply by Mr. Roby’s first question that be considers the county printing as bis “farm aod that no one has a right to ran a “line fence” across it and take part of it. As I see it no one has a right to all the ooanty printing. It ought to be divided among the papers representing the leading political parties.We most assuredly claim that as long as the Review is the only paper in Benton county that answers to tbs requirements of the laws of Indiana, for the publication of the legal -notices required therein, that that is oar property just as much as Mr. 8hookwiler claims the land he liv^s on is held by him auder the same laws. We bought aud paid for our property j ust aa honestly as Mr. Shonkwiler paid for bis farm and if in defianoe of these laws Mr Shonkwiler tries to deprive us of it, he is doing just as an unlawful a tbiDg as we would if we should camp od his farm with a shot-gun and sav it nothe Press last fall Mr. Shonkwiler.No statement was made that Carr was was paying Bishop’s bills, but that he furnished money to pay a certain note at the Freeland Park bank. Our readers will note that this is not denied. If Carr did not pay for the beer he lied for he told people he did.“I did not allow “bdt new member of the board to control ray vote. I gave ray consent when I found that our action was legal.”Here is where the ring comes in. The ring controls Dhwrod Bmith and Dewson controls the Board of Commissioners aod Mr. ShoDkwiler “coDsents. That is just what we said. Mr. Shook wiler iDtende all right, but he “oon-BeDta too easy when bis conscience ought to warn him he is wrong. He knew then as well aa he doee now that the Freeland Press did not comply with the requirements of the law, but “he consented.” We skip a.number of paragraphs regarding other actions of the board nnlil next week, then fol Iowa:I do not consider tbs legal printing of the county to be your “oorn oats and I emphatically deny thatcao “steal” fromyon when it is does not hideorwenotbeWhatyonrs. Tbs board hind any discretionary power, we do is open and nothing is hid.The law says it is our “oorn and oats and we want to leave it to the judge and jury. Dare yon at the next meeting of the hoard Mr. Shonkwiler enter an order to your attorneys to let this case go before a jnrv on its merits. You see Mr. Shonkwiler its up to you. If yon want to Bee what Judge Babb and twelve good meD say is theThe Ch;ise. his wa expecti Mrs. E pal an« young the B. deeds, illegal the cap penseelonger belongs to him. He would ap- ...peal it to the coart. to put a. off bo,I l,w 8od rl*bt *ou c“ lel be t6Blclt;lwe have appealed to the court to make him do his duty aa required by law.Now if in honest truth Mr. Shonkwiler really believed the printing ought “to be divided up,” why does he not send aorne of it to the Otterbein Sun, Arabia Journal, Boswell Enterprise, Ox ford Tribune, etc., who have never had soy and have twice the circulation of the Press. If Mr. Shonkwiler wna so anxious “to divide it up” why did he only think the democratio side ought to be ‘ divided up” aud all given to the Press. Now with the faots as everyone knows them, is not that explanation that his ideas are superior to that of the republican legislature as to what papers ought to do the printing enough to disgust anyone. Really Mr.. Shook wiler should be elected to the legislature to straighten things out a bit.“In reply to bis second question I would say the commissioners contemplated that their aotion was perfectly legal and it was not necessary to hear any of Mr. Hays’ testimony.”In other words, having been told by Duwbod Smith he held the right to do as he pleases, he immediately shuts his eyes to the truth and wonld not listen to it. No comment on the action of a Judicial officer who will listen to only one side of the oane ia neoessary that paragraph needs reading twice is all.“We did not know that Mr. Bishop was a “red hot republican.” He told me Monday that no one knew his poli tics until hie paper came out as a democratic paper—three weeks instead of three days—before the county printing was given it. The Freeland Preas did not support the “candidates for clerk and appelate judges.” Mr. Bishop says that John Carr never paid a dollar for him, that he had always paid his own bills- In regard to baying beer to convert Mr. Biabop to democracy, Mr. Bishop says, it is all a false accusation and that the Roview will have to prove some of its statements.This is exquisite. January 3. Mr. Shonkwiler votes to give the democratic printing to the Freeland Pre9B and on January 8, five months afterwards be inquires of the editor Jif he is a democrat, “Yes,answers Bishop. *1 kept my politics secret until you had promised to give me the printing.” Holly Smoke if this is not innocence abroad. Now we have been frying j since ttoe middle of January to get into court to prove that Mr. Bishop did not keep it so secret after nil and we aching in every bone to get the witnesses on the etnDd from Rossville,(Ci sea a Park aud Parish Grove to prove up to the t ime the coDspirntors offered to give him that printing he was a red hot republican. “Make us prove it.” Just instruct yoni attorneys to with . draw vour tebnical objections and leti today is that Chase has I savage.” nute of complete sound- But you nevercomplete responsibility The Duhnics h:Then ‘as tf me supporting uuogc Sannderson aDd M. DbfTy—whew! Yon should have commenced to readAre vou hiding behind your discretion ary power? Yon say not. Prove it by an evidence of good faith.•‘If the Review presists in hringingsuits against the county, we will fi; d metna to defend such suits. There is not and there never has been anv conspiracy against the Review. If such exists it is the imagination of the editor.”“We will find some means to defend such sails” is Mr. Shoukwiler’s ex planation of how he is going to pay his extra attorneys to fight the Review when he has no right by law. He admits be has helped employ attorneys unlawfully, John Carr admits he paid them, Bishop admits he kept his politics hid until they offered him the prize. Shonkwiler admits they did Dot want to decide accordiug to justice and Ihw in the matter, but that “he consented.” No conspiracy ! When some one had the plan all laid, the charge of dynamite capped, the fuse lit, and the plot to blow the Review into bankruptcy if possible all ready “he consented.The trouble with Mr. Shonkwiler is that he has a conscience and the ring ha to put the things they want him to do up in sugar coated pills and then “he consents” to take one on Dawson’s recommendation.Mr. Shonkwiler you are a good, honest, hardworkiug farmer. This is a farmer’s county. When you come to Fowler aod Dawson says, “Yea tha-t’-s the la-aw” don’t believe it unless ycur sense of truth says it is jast.No doubt a good many readers of the Review are Republicans who have read of the claims we have made regard ng the unlawful, unjust and arbitrary tc-tion of the commissioners, have pastel it up as a newspaper fltocy and wonld not believe it, like former Commissioner Davidson said be wouldn’t, or classified it as ft “d— d democratio lie.” To all these doubters we want to point you to the frank admissions of the truth of onr statements, by Carr and BboDKwiler of their part of the conspiracy in the pub lie print. The rest of the story can be proven when we get the proper men on the witness stand.The great ttheird as the have a ette Jc have a reason were n mony iog ot one be a quea cide, a a mere entitle view o the ha oorn pa cases eubeta their r ever, I torney and bt and of that tl the co away client, to sho come the ju will a |If abeen ctice thfend a nation point eviden trlv or their i pnrel3 not.The Dan g oompl on thlt; them broad* evidec like 1 When hinise.The will bi the prI The that a fore'.g to I no of Ido if it h bigbeFre Lafity da«y. n no doi pen|p!A Kenton County I'reakMoses Bridgewater, residing on A. D. King’s farm has a chicken that carries off the bell in the freak liue. The chick is but ten clays old and it- has four feet and four wings. All of the wings and legs ore of uniform size and leiigch. The onriosity shows a disposition to want to die. but A. D. King and the balance of the neighborhood areProTribn bis wt bad b cliff p$5 forpointiGroveenL—TheClarkctThe of the reach Bleep repub bodyThe : nad t!by th filed .a(oq»hftjr hpntjinkp. to nreeerve ........dictation Hie loiter w You haven’t show tation tho deeds ofavc not yet boen hero would be to a well regulated garden.— Goodland Herald.hav^dismihite Hogs at Irish Creek stockfarm.—J
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Fowler Benton Review
Fowler, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 18, 1903
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