_THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, OCTOBER 5, , 1005. _ Pago 2 ANOTHER OPEN LETTER. SECTION II, To Tom Harter, Charles Heisler and Such, Greet- ings : A Personal Reply to a Personal Attack. The editor of The Centre Democrat, at the outstart of this article, wishes to beg the indulgence of its readers for consuming much valuable space in reply to what is hardly an issue in this campaign, or of much interest to the taxpayers of Centre county, I rise though to a ‘‘personal privilege:" to reply to a personal attack, as to wit: (From the last issue of the Keystone Gazelle.) In view of the above there is no need ot further discussing this point, and I turn to your attempt to poo-poo, laugh off and ignore the charges 1 made against you and which I still hold up for your refutation, that you denounced your present candidate for county commissioner, ig Dusiag, on the public diamond in Bellefonte three years ago as *‘nothing but a d loafer," and 1 will support it with the further declaration that Charles Heisler, of Bellefonte, a Democrat and one of the men to whom you said it, told you at the time that you would have to swallow your own words, I further make the charge that you were so proud of your denunciation of this manu that you not only boasted of it but repeated the declaration to your office hands, saying that Mr, Dunlap was a loafer, that he was so lazv he stank and that Ae should have kis clothes Sumigated. 1 will produce, if desired, as witness to this declaration, one of the then employes in your office and who is still a resident of Bellefonte, Now, My Dear Sir; you cannot, dare not attempt to get away from these facts and I command you to camp right there, for you said it; you know you said it—and the only questions that now arise are: Why did you say it, and were you justified in saying it? First.—~Why did you say it? I answer you said it because, Mr. Dunlap, being disappointed in not being nominated for county commissioner by the Democrats three years ago, accepted money from the Republic an party and made a canvass of the county against the Democratic candidates for county commissioner, Mr. E. A. Humption and Philip Meyer, who had defeated him for the nomination. He did it with such success that Mr, Humpton was beaten because his colleague, Mr Meyer, “advi sed his friends to vote a single ticket for himself for commissioner and cut out it Humpton, which elected Meyer who, under the pretense of friendliness to his fellow officers, has made every effort to lead them into traps, and is now informant—concealing everything good done by the board and painting in the most lurid hues any- thing that might be construed Skconp,—Were you justified in 1S now gol ng over the count ry on and you know the reason why, You in Bellefont le 1 paid to the own declarat @are not come out aspiring to sel essed liar You know deep Abram V. Miller are honest men, You Mr. Dunlap to anything. YOU HAVE How then, tl can you just fy Xi men who have live you might gain a little money fo taxpay ers « OO vour chief Souza SO 4s 100K suspic ng i know that Mr. Duala 1K poverty, He is & poor man i ¢ is one of the best carpenters better say | » 1 TOOL, i ic know t if h rv d t he coule y if De cared to work he coul nake wages Y« i also that in the f; and county commissioners which 1 print openly that you wi i st 1ons— them PA . t forth and for fear ~QO1 down in ye also kr S ALD IT wrefore., course of attempting yoursel to lead Your | you ‘Three vears th the ing to the il candi Three surprised the people f elect i at tim hn Dunlap « OD Le Pe y! +€ lates, as + wuld and leal Years ag not have there f fairly rolled the county Was 1 there for the sar we frankly inforn strength with prove the pe ad more ths time ths lap on } : J : want him to fill the office of count nd right here ® n enon tree 8 sire y mg y commssioner for th ie ne a Me hat a vole § tation as a prophet t eater vole is Mil we bank our repu ber J hn D nlap i the tourists, by seve wv " rovem ey, ee A Ki ARTS : " mol ler and Ba indred fa spite of 4 ARs in his readers last week man Harter tells thus far Aad not dared When the opposite is the case, and is directly proven —an untruth—A LIE TO HIS READERS distinct notice and the above reply, this that I Aad ignored his charges, and fo answer his questions, above. This is deception CHARGES FULLY ANSWERED. Now to the charges. Four persons are directly involved Charles Heisler, the writer, and another whose name will be witheld In addition to my former reply, which is published above, I will add more Tom Harter, detail Three years ago my personal preference for commissioner, which I had a perfect right to exercise, (while the pauper was neutral) was for the candidate from Snow Shoe, because | believed him to be the stronger man, The day the conven. tion met | was surprised at the strong showing John Dunlap made, but [ opposed his nomination conscientiously, because at that time it also would have put the bulk of the ticket in Bellefonte. For doing this | engendered the bitter enmity of Charles M. Heisler, Joe Rightnour and other politicians, who for several days prior to the convention paraded themselves as the boomers of John Dunlap's campaign; and this very fact, more than anything else, caused general fear of his nomination lest, if elected, he could not throw them off and each would then have an axe to grind at the commissioners office. That we believe more than anything else, caused his defeat in the convention, The morning of the conven tion this man Heisler, whose political record is well known, came to town, and perched on the corner in front of Blair's jewelery store like a political faker or a curbstone politician, began to announce his wares. Whenever anyone recognized or approached him he would “look wise,” and immediately would inform them of his business in about this language: “I live in West Spring township; have one delegate out there, and I control him; he is uninstructed and will vote just asgl tell him,” 1 heard this man make this play several times that day on the street corners, but I am satisfied he could not interest anyone in his goods, for he was faking, Philip Garbrick was the delegate, and Heisler could neither ‘vote him" or even make a fool of him. | Hounded and Threstenad by Heisler ! That morning Heisler and others began threatening me with all kinds of | vengeance for favoring Humpton, Atabout 11 am,, as the convention was as- sembling, this man Heisler, with Joe Rightnour following, began assailing me near the front of the Court House, Heisler cursed, and, shaking his fist in my face, made threats. Knowing that it was a discredit to get in a public alterca. tion with this man, I endured his wilful abuse and made no reply; in order to avoid him I crossed over to my office (then above the Garman House.) He fol- lowed close after, howling all kinds of epithets and profanity, attracting every- body's attention. To all this I paid no attention until he came under my office window, where several of our lady compositors were at work, when his ugly tongue poured out such a floodlof profanity that I ordered him away; told him to move on. Joe was with him, barking in occasionally, but more gentlemanly in his deportment. Seeing that I cared nothing for his abuse, ignored him, he be’ came desperate; with his foul mouth he then began to curse, berate and heap in. sults upon my parents—people who never injured or offended him in any way, So cowardly, malicious and wicked was the onslaught that I lost my temper, and had I been prepared his wicked tongue would have been forever silenced on that spot. In my anger I likely cursed him, his gang, and possibly his candidate; and if 1 called anyone a *‘d — loafer.” 1 feel quite confident that I applied it to this man Heisler, and not John Dunlap—knowing Heisler for 16 years | can come to no other conclusion—profanity omitted. 1 may have sworn at Dun. lap, hardly think so; I don't believe Heisler wants to tell the truth, and if Joe Rightnour says I did swear at Dunlap, [ will admit it, for Joe Rightnour is a bet ter citizen and much more truthful and reliable Man, er recognized this man Heisler, tempt for him no doubt has inspired the zette at me, Sinck that day I have nev- My con- spleen he now ejects through the Ga- unless business conditions demanded. The Bookman, a Little Tale doth Unfold : Recently Chas. Heisler, was a director on the School ard in Spring township and served as Secr comes from Charles W. Scott, leading citizen of this ™ £11 ctary., ihe following information at Williams harles Heisler, as a imong agent of the American Book Company, port, to a town and then told to me: That ( tried eeze for six costly book novel school director, to ‘sq that company them being the firginia" and other works, Heisler made ¢ letter for these books. Scott's company replied that the and was ‘nol in the habit mn, ack a sharp letter saying he was not so green, he kne “ Heisl S000 No » books when he wrote, otified suffer for his later, and that when they needed him ’ § vel It 3 said +} ’ } were ala IS Sad Ge Leal wert recommend to the other director ard threw out evidently worked e Heisler, as school direct uld not squeeze or beat the An ¢ 3 ] + y b a 1 pany for hn RO : : ntage it | s as ough he made Scott's line: it Becaus wok Con can Be taxpayers of the text book nemason or stonecutter by trade and one of his pec ialties is building I tad OWABr wf Br ge Bu and Heisler is as § OL Mr i ‘ a st abutments and piers for br Figes, such needed when t ! i : e on As Ale appeain Lg My Reasons for Supporting John Dunlap Yes, | am supportin hn Dunlag irge everybody money, with nominatic of Dem that he has conh iple }CIAcCy 18 lence in ae super: ve that Miller and lieve that when me ke and Bailey run the county largely in debt by questionable bridge contracts awards to political roosters the taxpayers are jt t. John Dunlap and Cal Weaver have xd in firing then no such charges against them and are entitied to a trial; and if at the end of three 4 g years they can give no better accounting, let us fire them out of office bodily, no if they are democrats Fifth fting with bndge agents, accepting « matter If after election, John Dunlap and Cal Weaver should be caught graf wily presents like a set of harness, a lap robe, a fur cap, or I pledge my word that this paper will use every means in its power to send them instead of rewarding them by a re-election, as Philadelphia does with convicted grafters and ballot box stuf” fers goods of equal value to prison, For these reasons and many others, The Centre Democrat will support John Dunlap and Cal Weaver for Commissioners, and if by doing so (as Harter de- clares) it will make me ‘stand forth before the world, naked and unkempt a self-confessed liar I will bear the stigma and never murmur; but my greatest humiliation then would be that Tom Harter and his haondy.man.Friday, Charley Heisler, are already in the same class, Mr. Harter you say to me ** Your hand is the hand of Esau, but your voice is the voice of Jacob.” By that you evidently wish to imply that through greed for gain | have become guilty of deception to the readers of the Centre Democrag who look to me *'to lead them to the light” You remind me of the Smart Alecks who want to be the whole show; not only argue the point, but act as court and jury. On this point of political duplicity | am ready to ungergo investigation and comparison and leave the patrons of this paper and the public at large form their own conclusions, I now take the privilege of calling attention to your crooked political career as an editor, politician and chronic-disappointed-office-seeker since you emigrated to Bellefonte, From the time you made your appearance here as a whippersnapper from Snyder county, your course has been that of treachery, betrayal of friendships, vindictive assaults on political rivals—an editorial brigand—and today you stand in your party alone and deserted.-without a true, sincere or influential friend, The following are some of the reasons: A Crooked Political Career ; Years ago you tried to play the “double shuffle” on Gov, Hastings and his friends. You sought his friendship and confidence by carrying to him stories of Judge Love, Next day you would be secretly consorting with Judge Love and trying to assure him of your support. Has it not dawned upon you by this time | | i | tern that both then: men rend the brand of Bovediet Arvid in your countenance? not your duplicity proven in the famous Republican County Convention when you were forced to stand up and endure interrogation’ Don't you remember how you squirmed and twisted, and dodged-<but you were unmasked to the amaze. ment of the public? Do you know that you never enjoyed either of these men's confidence, for Hastings frequently ridiculed your course; and Love seeks you only when you can be his servile tool? As proof of this, in youraspirations to be- come postmaster of Bellefonte, neither of these men, Love or Hastings, would give you recognition or support, the first or the second time, Then you sought a Food Commissioner appointment and some of our influential republicans notified the department at Harrisburg that Game Warden about met your deserts which you received--the office Joe Rightnour afterwards filled, You are the same man who secretly turned on Clem Dale, who for years was your friend and valuable patron of your office. When he asked for the nomination of Congress you secret. ly consorted with Dr, M4]. Looke, a newcomer, and claimed the credit for accom- plishing hignomination and Dale's humiliation, extolling the virtues of Dr, came back sut the worst duplicity was your Locke before the Conference met and when the Dr and since then have denounced him, bitterly—evidently disappointed because you got none of the “‘swag;"—ask Locke if he shared with Harter? 1 now appeal to Dr Locke, Clem Dale and other reliable republicans if I have not correc tly recorded you in these matters ? you declared he sold out to Dresser for several thousand dollars “A Disgrace to the Newspaper Fraternity’ : In your issue of Sept. 22nd, 1905, you further said of me a disgra ¢e lo 7 Ne you You are wspaper Fraternity,” For that reason, have no complaint if yo to wit ir career is herewith reviewed ' I further declare that your editorial course is ot f dishono Heinle igation u member that ot mind you of the assault you made on the integrity b ) 4 ago, by publishing a false list of h bl r “yy A her laadin ¢ 17a ! . } Diankers and other leading citizens denounce 1 in print ov their signat tures and were § He: you rther ren Senator nie received two days later wv, . 3 Y OU Certs and th iinly know nose in the home of a certain far » 1 temp ol 01 CHAS. 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