Halletsville Herald. (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 11, 1895 Page: 4 of 8
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One Car Load of
Phaetons, Buggies,
hjac^s and Carts.
One Car Load of
NewtoQ Wagons.
One Car Load of
Glidden Barb Wire
ST- to arrive ii} JULY aod y/ill be sold at f^ocR Bottom
Prices by -mxwwww
Rosenberg Bros.
Halletsville Herald.
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BUuSCBIPTION, per annum
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$1.50
C. F. ljtHMANN. . . . .
Proprietor
W. A. Maib............
A FLIMSY DEFENSE.
A recent issue of
the
Herald
contained the following clipping
and comment:
to the May term of 1892—three
years—to find a quarter that ex-
ceeded! f) the May 1895 quarter?
Did we not say “several years?”
How many years does it require
to make several years? But even
that weak, sickly little excuse of a
prop is knocked out from lieneath
the Era's flimsy attempt, i for its
quotation of the 1892 figures is in-
correct. The Herald gives the
disbursements (see first clipping)
for the quarter ending with the
May 1895 term at $5,471.57; the
C6to^° under a Rep. adminis- Era gives them at $2,796.00. The
tmtfcm spent •3,439.52 m the last quarter, Lavaca TT . ,
county with 1 more inhabitants under Pupuliat ad- | HERALD got the figures from the
th..**, C(mntv treasurer’s hooks, but].to
The foregoing extract from the Columbus make SUre doubly SUre the editor
Li^ht appeared in last week’s Hew Era. The - - — - — 1
HBBALD does not know whether or not the editor
of the New Era believed the statement or whether
•r not he indorsed it, but it does know that he
eoald have and should have gone to the records
and ascertained the facts in the case and corrected
the Light's uncalled-for misrepresentation. If
there had been any onnsnal economy in the admin-
istration of county affairs recently no paper would
hare been more prompt in giving credit for it than
the Hkkald, for this paper is here to record any.
thinp that furthers the interests of Lavaca county:
but It cannot indorse an effort to boost up party
intereats by culpable misrepresentation and a
sneaking metamorphosis of existing conditions.
The county records show that during the last
quarter the disbursements for general expesses,
, fees, printing, road work, etc., were $5,471.57. Of
this amount $3,899.08 was out of the general fund
and $1,571.59 out of the road and bridge fund. The
records also show that the expenses for the last
quarter were larger than they had been for any
previous quarter for several years. There was
nearly $10,000 disbursed for other purposes. bridge
hoods, etc., but that is immaterial nere. We mere-
ly want to show the disbursements for current ex-
penses for the quarter.
The foregoing figures are from the records. Will
the Era. the Light, the Bellvilie Wochenbiadt and
other papers that have published the misstatement
quoted above, publish tnis correction!
The truth always hurts, and of
course we were not surprised to
find the following flimsy attempt
at defense in the last issue of the
New Era;
Some week's
Some week s ago there appeared in theae ool-
ninns a clipping from the Columbus Light showing
that Colorado county had spent milch more in the
i.rt quarter than did Lavaca county. Fresh in our
memory was the report of the grand tnry, which
Indicted two of the commissioners ana showed be-
yond|a doubt that matters were terribly rotten over
there; therefore we did not investigate the state-
ment as we otherwise would have done, and publish-
ed same without comment. Now, our neighbor up
the street comes to ths front with e statement the
purport of which ia to show that oar county admin-
istration has been more extravagant during the
last quarter than any preceding one. It happens,
however, that the Herald dia not show, nor at-
tempt to show, what piece of extravagance they
w*re guilty of. .
In regard to the Herald’s statement that more
money was expended by our court during the last
term than in any proceeding term, we submit the
following facts, taken from the official -ecords:
During the May term, 1892, the expenses, accord-
ing to ail orders on the general, as well as the road
aim bridge docket were:
General fund.............................. .$&,524.00
Boa<d and bridge fund.831.00
of this paper called on County
Clerk Rees Saturday and request-
ed him to furnish the amount dis-
bursed for current expenses for
the quarter approved at the May
1895 term* of the commissioners’
court, and Mr. Rees politely com-
plied, and read as follows: “Gen-
eral fund, $3,899.98; road and
bridge fund, $1,571.59." Then
Mr. Rees replied; “These figures
are from the official minutes ap-
proved by the court and are cor-
rect. But, I want to say that
some of the disbursements includ-
ed in this total were for old con-
tracts approved before that quar-
ter, and 1 suppose it is generally
understood that the way to get
Total.............. $3,335.00
The expenses of May term, 1895, were:
General fund .............................$2,585.00
Bead and bridge fund..................... 213.00
Total.................. $2,796.00
Thia shows the Hbrald'b statement to be incor-
rect. We bring this proof to show that it was a
misstatement, we know that expenses at different
terms most vary, and as the population increases,
expenses may increase. All this depends upon
circumstances, and unless Jbe Herald can show
that money «u spent uselessly, illegally or fraud
uleatly It sboula not cast insinuations. Come out
like men and diacuas platform principles, and stop
•ids issues.
The Herald accomplished what
it intended in its comment on the !
Light clipping—carried its point-
ana even the Era admits that much
in its reply. The other matter
was in the nature of a digression
the actual expenses for a quarter
is to get the amount of bills al-
lowed at the meeting.” That gave
us h clew. The Era’s figures, then,
for the 1895 term, we suppose,
represent the bills allowed and not
the disbursements for the quarter.
But is this the proper way to get
at it?. Are not all county govern-
ment’s finances regulated by fiscal
years, divided into quarters? If
there are disbursements in the
May term that were for bills al-
lowed at a previous term will not
the Augustquarter’s disbursements
contain bills for the May term,
and so on ? Will not this balance
matters in the end? That is the
only way to decide these matters.
The Herald’s figures, then, were
correct. But let us take the Era’s
figures of bills allowed for actual
expenses for the May term 1895,
$2,796, “according to the dockets.”
The bills allowed at the May term
1892 according to the docket
furnished by the county ..clerk
amount to $2,534.53—$959.26 out
of road and ; bridge and $1575.27
out of general fund. This leaves a
balance of several hundred dollars
in favor of the 1892 term, and we
suppose the Era will have to go
back further. The minutes also
show several hundred dollars al-
lowed at the 1892 term for perma-
nent road wavs purchased, but
side ;
rs pi
w that was not in “bills allowed” and
U,, *. Kra i®
a weakness fur answering truthful ^rfl ^ J, ' “ hgures. ere w?s
arguments that set hahiv on his i.<*'*>»£ ***«" parsed m
digestive %ppantos with .the ' the May dSi'u quarter for - perma-
c&rc of '• misrepresentation^" wnt improvements, but we did
“falsifying." etc., (on paper only)1 «ke <*«* fl8,‘rc5 ln "
and he* could not resist tl.etcn.pti- .eratmn. We wanted only nn-rnd
tion to indulge in his favorite pas- expenses.
time in an effort to coyer up his In conclusion the Herald would
shortcomings in the foregoing ex- Jike to state that the Era also has
► tract from his last issue. The j.a weakness for trying to prejudice
Era even had to stoop to resort to ; the populists against this paper by
a little technicality to bolster tip making it appear that this paper
its truthful statement in reply L> is trying to criticise their methods,
the Herald’s reference to the fact as will lx* seen by its reference to
that the disbursements were great- “insinuations about extravagance,
er for the last quarter than for etc." If a person will carefully
any quarter for several years past, read the Herald s comment on
by saying that the Herald made the Columbus Light clipping and
a misstatement, liecause “in the j then say there is any reference or
May 1*:»2 the expenses were ' even the slightest,insinuation about
$2,524 out of the general fund and •extravagance," etc., he either
$831 out of the road and bridge [cannot read English or he wilfully
fund, a total of $3,355, against misconstrues plain English. I he
$2,585 out of the gene-al fund and ! primary object in commenting on
$213 out of the road and bridge the'Light> article, was to correct
fund, or a total of $2,796, for the an uncalled-for and ridiculous ims-
May term of 1895.” Look at. the representation, and our reference
Herald’s comment once more. | to the fact that the disbursements
Note that we said “larger than for were larger than usual was merely
any previous quarter for sev- to show the entire absurdity of the
eral years,” and then see if we assumption that the government
were not wholly sustained by the machinery of so populous a county
fact that the Era had to go back 1 as Lavaca could l>e run on $ii»3.21
ft
a quarter. This may be a
issue” but it is full of meat.
To show that the Herald’s cor-
rection of the Light’s misrepresen-
tation was timely we reproduce the
following translated from the last
issue of the Bellville Wochenbiadt:
“This week’s issue contains another
contribution from E. O. Meitzen’s pen in
reference to the silver question. We
deem a reply to the same unnecessary,
as his this week’s communication must i
convince everyone who has carefully fol- j
lowed the recent discussion that Mr. :
MeitzeD continually makes use of mis-
representation and distortion to gain his
point. Ihus he speaks of ‘facts’ when
we had mentioned ‘assertions;’ he very !
coolly transforms Mueller, Sr., into
Mueller, Jr.; with cheek unlimtied he
states that the opponents of free coinage
admit that free coinage of silver would
increase the circulation of monej, though
nearly all assert the contrary; finally he
puts down our officers as liars, etc. We
do not feel capable of doing battle with
same or similar weapons and prefer to
publish Meitzen’s last article without
comment.
We must add, however, that this will
be his last, as we are compelled to de-
sist from publishing his contributions for
the following reasons:
As our readers know, our correspond-
ent F. A. Laake recently stated that the
Populist county administration of Lava-
ca county had expended but $793.21
during the last quarter. Everybody who
is fairly well versed in county affairs
was compelled to see that the regular
expenses of so populous and rich a coun-
ty could not be covered by such an in-
significant amount, and we immediately
stated that we doubted the correctness of
the statement. Since that time we have
abundantly satisfied ourselves that Mr.
F. A. Laake received^, his information
through the Columbus Light, a populist
paper, but that he was careful to make
further inquiries of the publisher of that
paper and prominent populists of Color-
ado county. They informed him that
the report had been taken from Meitzen’s
paper, the New Era, at the suggestion of
Mr. Bates Gay. Mr. Laake thus had
performed his manliest duty, had acted
in good faith and if his report was false
and misleading, the blame does pot fall
on him.
The Halletsville Herald, which is the
official organ of Lavaca eounty, con*
tains the following information:
[See Herald’s comment on Light rfr
produced above.]
So we were quite right when we
doubted that statement, and we have the
best evidence that populist county com-
missioners can’t work m trades any more
than democratic ones.
Does all this concern Mr. Meitzen ?
Whether that Light article was really
taken from the: New Era is something
that we can neither affirm nor deny; but
in last week’s issue Meitzen copied this
false report of his colleague, and in do-
ing so gave it his indorsement. Meitz-
en, who is a resident of Hailetsyille,
who is strongly interested m the county
administration of Lavaca county, who
himself reported at length in regard to
the proceedings of the commissioners’
court, ought to have known at the start
that this statement of the Light was
falsefrom A to izard, and common hones-
ty should have compelled him t<? correct
the misstatement of his colleague if he
did not want to help ln profiting by the
deception. But he did not do that by
any means; to the contrary, by his own
paper he aided in circulating that false-
hood. That he might not have known
better we readily grant and for the sake
of his honest German name we would
be loth to believe the contrary. But
whenever the publisher of a newspaper,
and especially one who essays to be a
leader of the people, proves flagrantly
ignorant concerning public affairs, so in-
ordinately credulous that he accepts and
spreads the most improbable statement,
though he ought to know better, then
his opinions cease to deserve considera-
tion and we do not choose to circulate
them further. Of course hereafter as
heretofore we will be willing and ready
to publish comm”nications of populists,
silverites, goldbugs, republicans, etc.,
when we have space to spare and reason
to believe that they are stating thelr de-
liberate, well-considered opinions.”
—It is now Bishop Forest. A
cablegram from the Pope of Honk*
announces the appointment of
Rev. J. A. Forest, of Halletsville.
to the Bishopric rtf the diocese of
San Antonio, vice Rt. Rev.
Neraz.'deceased. A more merited
promotion has never been made,
for thirty-two years and more
Fr. Forest - has been, an untiring
worker here, building churches
and doing good among his. people,
and to say that his departure will
cause many hearts to grow sad is
iMit a feeble expression of the . es-
teem in which he is held in Lav^Ca
and adjoining counties. Fr. For-
est i> absent,j and we - are there-
fore unable to say* when the ordi-
nation will take place: The Her-
ald congratulates Fr. Forest on
hi* promotion.
WH. t. ROSENBERG.
Fire and Accident Insurance.
Fire Insurance Writteo iQ any part of the County.
Agent for the following Steam Ship Lines: Mallory, North
German Lloyd, Hamburg American Packet Co., and Cunard.
Tickets sold to and from any part of the WORLD.
THE TRUTH WILL PREVAIL.
More of the Era’s Great Truthfulness.
Era
P
ha
The last issue of the New
contained the following:
“A majority of populists were
elected in Galveston on the board
of aldermen. The so-called ‘good !
government’ candidates were de-
feated, so says the News.”
To this the Galveston Daily
News replies:
“Neither The Galveston News
nor The Dallas News ever made
any sqch statement, for such is
without the faintest show of truth.
Ten out of twelve of the Good
Government club candidates were
elected. None of these are strong
rtisans, hut the majority of them
ave democratic tendencies and
none of them have populistic ideas
in their heads. Neither is the
mayor a populist, but a good, hard
democrat. Inquiries were receiv-
ed from Halletsville, where the
populists are using it with good
effect, to the truth of the state-
ment. This is the answer in a nut-
shell.”
Ill reply to a letter on the sub-
ject, Mr. E. K. Marrast, City Sec-
retary of Galveston, says:
“The Good Government club,
at the recent election, elected ten
out of twelve candidates, and you
might say eleven out of twelve, as
they made no flght against Capt.
Borden of the 10th \\ ard. There
is not a populist on the present
board, and while none of them are
politicians in the strict meaning of
the word, they all affiliate with
the democratic party as a rule,
and the mayor who was elected by
1004 majority over four candidates
is a staunch democrat and has al-
ways been.
E. K. Marrast,
City Clerk "
—The Epworth League will
give a social entertainment at the
League's new quarters (Simpson
Hall) Tuesday night, July 16th.
-There will be ice-cream, cake,
fruit and melons. The program
will consist of music and recita-
tions. • There will be a contribu-
tion basket on the table, and per- J
sons desiring to throw in some-
thing to assist in keeping up the
reading room can do so, or contri-
butions can l>e sent. This is a
worthy-; institution and Rev. Sims
asks the co-operation of oiir citi-
zens. The reading room will be
supplied with books and the ^ cur-
rent periodicals; The hall will be
o]>en on all special occasions, and
everybody is invited strangers in-
cluded, The League's meetings
will Ixi held in the hall and the
young will r6eeive social privi-
leges under religious auspices.
—There is one thing of which a
The names
of those
w ho use
Bock Beer
will appear again here soon.
§3 Drink the great health drink, jH
NEW ORLEANS BREWING ASS’N’S.
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TO. PRICE, Agent.
EE.
Halletsville, Texas
a!
CLEANING
DYING |i
Repairing.
Tt^pHave your old clothes made new. New suit* made
to order and fit guaranteed. Ready made clothing. Prices ‘
low.
Wm. Smith,
Salieh Building, 1 door from F#y & Braunig’s.
r<4
—There will be no more free
seed scattered among the “dear
people” by congressmen. Secre-
tary Morton has ruled that this
practice must cease.
accoi
, ,JI
Right Arm Paralyzed!
Saved from St. Vitus Dance.
“Our daughter, Blanche, now fif-
teen years of age, had been terribly
afflicted with nervousness, and had
lost the entire use of her right arm. ! Halletsville,
—About two weeks ago the
secretary wrote to Gen.
Manager R. H. Innis, of S. A.
A. P. railway, stating the uri
necessity of better depot
dations, such as larger
rooms, shed over platform,
and reminded him of the fact
Halletsville is one of the beat
trons of the road and that upi
of 10,000 tickets have been
here since the office was oj
Mr. Innis replies as follows:
. “\V. A. Mair, Esq.,
Halletsville, Texas.
Dear Sir:—Yours of the
inst., regarding an improi
! in depot at Halletsville has
referred to the General Mai
and he answers that iust as
I as the earnings of the road
sufficient to pay its operating
penses, he will spend some
at Halletsville. The trouble
there are so many points on the
line at which improvements are
necessary that it is impossible for
us at present to attend to them all.
During the past two years there $
has been much more money spent
on betterments than the company
has earned.
We appreciate the business at
sville. and I assure you that <
lady Ts particularly proud—a nice We feared St. Vitus dance, and tried 1 depot will be one of the first im~
purse. No matter what
vbur taste 1 the best physicians, with no benefit.
• ,• - .7. l,. t She has taken three bottles of Dr.
in this line mu) oe } ou Miles’ Nervine and has gained 31
suited in that handsome selection ^ poUQds. Her nervousness and symp-
of new purses at Ledbetter & toms of St. Vitus dance are entirely
proved.
R. H. Innis, Supt
Yours truly,
BlTHns."
i
Knox's drug store.
—The suit against Berkofsky A.
Klecka, mentioned in our hist is-
sue, was withdrawn by the county
attorney, upon payment of all
costs by B. & K. it seems that
these gentlemen removed their
sereen« soon after they were noti-
fied and hence the withdrawal of
the suit.
gone, she attends school regularly,
| and has recovered complete use or
her arm, her appetite is splendid.11
MRS. R. R, BULLOCK, Brighton. N. Y.
Dr. Miles’ Nervine
Cures.
Dr. Miles’ Nervine Is sold on »
guarantee that the first bottle will
Alldi
It wil
by the Dr,
positive
Deneflt.
—“The Mexicans have been
benefit in one way,” remarked
prominent planter Tuesday,
that is in saving our cotton
from destruction by weeda.
is no doubt that they saved
upon acres of cotton that
have been abandoned for want
cheap labor. One Bohemian f
ter had 29 Mexicans at work i
day last week.”
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Mair, W. A. Halletsville Herald. (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 11, 1895, newspaper, July 11, 1895; Hallettsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1000654/m1/4/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Lavaca+County+-+Hallettsville%22: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library.