Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1911 — Some Questions From Us, Directed To You, Mr. Babcock. [ARTICLE]

Some Questions From Us, Directed To You, Mr. Babcock.

Did you not on Aug. sth, 1893, when working for the Remington Press, write to J. W. McEwen, publisher of the Democratic-Sentinel in Rensselaer, and ask him as a "favor** to 1 tell the city attorney of Remington that a certain non-resident legal notice the Press printed and for which the town of Remington was to pay, was worth sl3? Was not this notice padded by running it Wide spaced in half column measure and was not the correct price for that legal, had it been fairly set, only $9. Did you not enter into an agreement by which the office in Rensselaer that secured the city legal printing was to pay you, in case the contract was not awarded to you, 30 cents on the dollar for all that was paid to the successful bidder? Did not George E. Marshall pay you 30 cents on the dollar for three years? Did not you send him word when the three years had expired that he must keep up the practice or you would bid it ,in and keep him from getting it, and did he not refuse to longer give you 30 per cent but did continue to give you 20 per cent until he left Rensselaer and did not the writer, George H. Healey, make a final settlement with you on that basis and write you a check in balance on the occasion of the settlement affecting Leslie Clark also? Did you not try to dodge settlement with Mr. Clark and only came to the point of paying him for presswork, etc., when the writer said he would refuse to settle with you unless you paid Clark? Did you not also force Clark to pay you little dribs of 15 and 25 cents on job work done by him for the city, on the threat that if he did not stand for it you would also bid that work down to nothing? Did not you write a letter to the printer, E. T. Jones, in which you enclosed a non-transferrable Monon mileage book, made in the name of your son, George Babcock, and instruct him to use the book from Indianapolis to Rensselaer, being careful to sign George’s name to it as nearly as possible like George signs it, thereby advising Jones to commit forgery ? These are only a few of a lot of questions that The Republican will direct toward you, Mr. Babcock, to let the people whom you are trying to deceive by calling yourself “the taxpayers’ friend” get wise to your duplicity.