Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — CONFESSED. [ARTICLE]

CONFESSED.

Vow, Mr. Calkins, Here is Something that Will Shut r Mouth. {jerk is a Confusion Oven Tons Own Signatobe Amotting Yovb INDEBTEDNESS TO THE SCHOOL Fond. [Laporte Argus.] We have spoken from reords and carefully avoided xaggeration and constantly <ept well within the lines ot he most explicit truth, but lotwithstanding this temperite and honorable action, we nave been accused from one ‘.nd of the state to the other if lying and slandering the Republican candidate for rovemor. All the time we lave had within easy reach positive evidence in Major Jalkins’ own writing that he •wed the school fund debt. Iwing to the private nature •f the evidence, we determind, however, not to use it, un ess Major Calkins personally lenounUfed our statements as alse Mud slanderous. This Ye are Informed on the most mquedfionable authority, he 4 now doing from the stump a all parts of the State, and t is for this reason that w r e 'Ublish his own words to rente his denial that he owes he debt to the school fund, 'he reason the debt, was not •aid as requested in the letsrs was because no purchaser juld be found for the swamp t the price of S2OO. The so - >wing is a coppy of the le ;• ers: Committee on Appropriations, House ) of Representatives. V Washington D. C. Februar/ 20 1884, » Dear Will —I appeal to you •j fix up that school fund matNo matter how you do it, lease fix it. You know 1 feel ke 1 could not allow it to ang over me. as a handle will e made of it in the coming ampaign, and if our positions . ere reversed I would act , romptly for you. Don’t ask > le how, but fix it and write le what 1 Will have to pay. leave the whole matter you. W. H. Calkins. House of Repbesentasvek, I . Washington, D. C., May 2P, 1884. J Dear Will —Won’t you [•lease close up that school tnd matter? I want it closed op before the Convention. . 'lease do this for me, and Tite me what I have to pay, nd I will send you a check or it. Don’t delay. Your . fiend, W. H. Calkins. It will be seen that Major ■ al kins fully recognized six ] Lonths ago that he alone wed the debt, and that he wanted it settled before the 'epublican convention met? rad bes. I? the campaign <• • pened. No further comment i jems necessary, but we ask le reader to judge for I im- ; )lf who has lied, and who has made slanderous statements.