Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1908 — Pseudologist Cowered Again. [ARTICLE]

Pseudologist Cowered Again.

When the assessor called on the Republican this year and took our assessments, we, George H. Healey and Leslie Clark, put the office in at SI,OOO, two and one-half times the amount that the Jasper County Democrat was assessed at When the matter of accounts came up, Mr. Clark said to the assessor, “Well, we have some accounts due us and we owe some, and they will Just about offset.” To which Mr. Strong replied In substance that that was all right, and we were asked to make no statement of the account There were very few accounts due the firm, as it has been doing business only since Feb. 10th, and the individual acoounts had been as nearly cleared up as possible In order to effect the consolidation of the two papers. True, there were some amounts dee us from ditch petitions, but the prospect of early collection of these

was so small that we might easily have overlooked them. None of them have been paid since that time and it is probable f thV money they represent will be earned again in their collection and they are not regarded as a very valuable asset. The settlement with Babcock that he harps about because we wrote him a check for s2l, was made on the 27th of April, and not the first of March as he alleges, and he knew he was misrepresenting when he said it was in March. At the time this check was written, the settlement between the two paipers was based on public sale notices sent by the Republican to the Democrat, and also included a settlement of a claim Leslie Clark had against Babcock since 1906. At that time Babcock paid to the writer in cash something over sl6 for Clark, and he took it from a roll in his pocket that would trip a hog. It would be as reasonable for the writer to assume that Babcock had a thousand dollars cash in his pocket on March Ist as it would for him to say that because I wrote him a check for s2l on April 27th, I had plenty of money that I had failed to assess on March Ist. But of such material and such magniloquence is the) brainery of the Democrat chock full.