FRIDAY, NOV 2, 1917
THE REVIEW; ilETDSVILLE, N. a
PAGE TE
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w,,i...e odi cwnin had a rtebt to sell the little pile of
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highest commendation in volume af
ter volume until the 169th, and in
one of the cases it is referred to as
a cumulating' doctrine whdch all offl
clajs of North Carolina should have
catted to their attention, that this As
.th high standard of conduct re
quired of them, when they come , to
" dispose of public property. They
$21.00.
any further to-do about it. And as
the Court says, nobody questioned
their honeuty. The question is, "Did
thev measure up to the standard ot
duty required ot them?", Suppose it
had turned out in the Chatham coun
ty case that some one ha4 come to
the Board and offeted Jiem $31.00
or $41.00, and out of partiality of the
man who had offered $21.00, they had
said "No, I cannot Cake your $41.00 or
your $31.00, because someone has told
me I am under obligation to this man
because they bring up a large body him under the table and all wound,
. .lii.i it. nni.r,nUffva Kir rr ni Inir
in i,.h lone netitlon of 100 or 200 ! offering $21.00 and I will take that
men, saying they are men of good
character, It is no defense to slay
thtfyi are men of honesty and integ
rity, because honest men and men ot
integrity may be guilty of want of care
willful neglect in the disposition of
public property, just as the Board ot
Coramisaioners of hntham County,
men of as high character as these de
fen lants, were they found by a jury
of their countrymen ulltlj of dispos
ing of property of little worth, it Is
true, but nevertheless guilty, as the
Court says: :
' That is not a new doctrine. Here
is the same rule stated by Bigetow on
Fr:.ud, under the head of Collusion,
vol. I. page 576:
'Cases falling under this head
might be dismissed with the statment
that they turn, nofupon fraud prop
er, but upon constructive fraud. That
is, i: is not necessary to relief in a
cae based upon deception accom
X'fehed by collusive conduct between
one standing in a fiduciary or confi
dential relation towards the plaintiff,
and another person, to show that the
parties intended to defraud the plain
tin; enough that there has been col-lu.si.-ye
misconduct.
"That is not all; the case differs
still further from a suit aglainsit a
person standing in no fiduciary or
confident! relation towards the
plaintiff. The, trustee, agent or em
ployee would have to prove hta own
integrity and Justify his seemingly
improper conduct; and this upon
slighter evidence on the part of the
plain tiff a than would be required in
other cases."
Just as my brethern got confused
In (their arguments because we say
the effect of this neglect on the ipiart
of these defendants has resulted in a
fraud upon the town, that it is con
ctructive fraud, so they say we charge
them with all sorts of corrupton and
rascxilitx which we do not, because it
is not necessary. And even if it was
necessary we did not do It because
we know they are not men of that
kind, we know they are nen of hon
esty, integrity and uprightness, but in
this case we say they exercised par
tiality, however honestly they may
have thought they had a right to do
It, just as the Commissioners of
Chatham County never doubted they
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what would ithat have been? Would
it not have been something more than
legai neg'tect? Would it not have
gone beijond that? And yet that is
what has been done here.
In this Hatch cas.you will find the
facts stated that the sale of the
shingltis was linade by the chairman
of the Board. The other two merely
assented. The active sale was miade
by the chairman himiseiiif, and they
held the other two guilty because
j they assented to the act of the chair
man. When Mr. Wray was talking to
Mr. Tfllbobt, shown from these re
cords and declarations by the defend
ants themselves, he siald, "The propo
sitions are substantially the same,
what you offer and what the. Utilities
Co. offer, the schedules and prices are
just the same," and he makes no ques
tion of their financial responsibility.
After debating the matter with Mr.
Talbott, chasing him as Mr.: Brooks
said, they badgered him. but they
never chased the Utilities Company,
Vhere was no bedgering there. No,
f,he attorney for the city and two
others with him get on the train and
ride down to see the Utilities Com
pany, all the way to Charlotte 125
milesv They go im and take off their
hats and bow, no doubt, it is just
25 miles to Danville where Mr. Tal
bott lives, and neither of them goes
there to talk to him, or to their own
townsmen, Mr, Richardson and Mr.
Wfettit. They absolutely refuse, to give
them the information which like
gentlemen they called for. Yea, Your
Honor, tlheir hostility Is shown in
every word and In every act. When
Mr. Wray asked the question of the
cfmlparatiye dependability of electri
city generated by steam and by water
power, and Mr. Talbott in a f rank and
candid way was proceeding to explain
it, what does Mr. Glidewell do? It
evidently made hiim mad. He said.
"Are you making a campaign
spfeech?" That is the way they chased
hdnx. After calling upon him for in
formation and explanation, when he
was proceeding to give it, having, de.
tenmined that he should not have this
contract, they badgered and browbeat
him, showing their hostility in every
word and every act. Yes, they were
chasing him ; no doubt about that.
Th-'tv. chased him under thio table and
around the table and everywhere else,
but Mr. Talbott stood there and gave
them the information every time. He
said, "Gentlemen, fwllglve you any
sort of bond you want, to furnish you
all the electricity this town needs now
or will' her. filter need.'! And1 the
truth of it is if some one had not
moved to adjourn then, I expect there
would at jeasit have been soma di
vision upon the proposition as to
whether or not thtey should turn his
bid down, because I judge from Mr.
Wray's declaration he had asked ques
tions until he seemed to have become
satisfied that this bid of Mr. Talbott'a
was a better bid, and there was notn
ing efltse to do from what appeared
than to accent it. Then somebody
moved to adjourn. Something was
about to be done they did not want
done, and so thtey take an adjourn
ment. Then what happens? The next
day there is not a word said about
these resptective bids, which is bet
ter, or anything of that kind. We
find en entirely new tack taken, some
thing instituted there in order to
ovejrawe or to influence this Board,
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of men who belong to the Oommer
ois! and Agricultural Association, and
the city-attorney calls th;m up one
by one and puts thorn through a se
ries of examinations as to whether or
not theV think the. new Board was
bound by what the Commercial ana
Agricultural Bo:rd had done, that is
to nay,, that they had promised Mr.
1'enn or they had rvromlsed the Ame
loan Tobacco Company if it would
nut ud a cigarette factory tlure it
should have power from the Southern
Power Company. Seme of them said,
"Yes, we told -them we would get
power fiom the Southern Power Com
pany, but Mr. Duke said he did not
c,ajw where wengot our power." "But,"
they were asked, don't you regard
this Board committed to the Southern
Power Compaay?" Souie siid they
did and some said they did not. Mr.
Joyce took a very sensible view of it.
He said, "That Is a matter for this
Board to detremlne; you -are charged
with a duty, end that duty is that you
make the very best contract and get
the very highest price for this prop
erty possible; you are. the ones charg
with that rsiptonsibi'Wty."
Then they say that in the election
that was held in May 1917, the Issue
v:t whether the property should be
sold. We have nothing to do with
that, we do not care; we are not cha
flengtog the right to sell, we are ch.l
ltinginaj the manner .in which they
ha to sold it, and we are saying ths't
was due entirely to partiality and
faioiitism, and jthat favoritism, as
Judge Strud wick read to you, is but
one form of fraud. That election
they say shouM have some bearing
'on it because the Board said, "If we
are elected we are going to sell."
Suppose they said they were going to
sell to thet Utilities Company, and
that they were going- to sell to them
for ,$30,000.00 Grant all that. Had
our preposition teen made then?, Not
at all. Our proposition to pay $20,
000 more was' not made until August
afterwards. And so we come in and
say, "Gentlemen, we will not only
give you $30,000.00 but we win glv
you $20,000 more," it did not make
any difference what had been said at
the election or at any other time, the
duty presented to the Board of Com
missioners was.what shall we do now;
here is a new etfement, that has puj.
a new phasei on the matter. Here is
a man who offers to give us in cash
$50,000.00 for this (property,: what'
shall we do? That was the question.
Nothing that the Commercial and Ag
ricultural Club had done could effect
that. Tbat; imposed a duty 'on the
city commissioners as the trustees of
the town. No hing done in the elec
tion proceeding -could bind them, be
cause - when they eame into "power
and took the oath of office these duties
devolved upon them and they had to
measure up to the high standard
which has been marked out by our
Supreme Court.
It must Impress Your Honor that
they concealed from Mr. Talbott all
information be was seeking to get,
In order, as he says, that he mfelht
put in an intelligent bid. All th
information contained In this little no
tice Is that they are going to sell the
pl;nt. They do not say anything In
that advertisement about what they
want thei purchaser in h:s bid to say
he will) do with reference to the oper-
ation of the plant or the building of
a new plant, or enlarging that plant.
Nothing of the kind. AM it says
that we are going to have a regular
meeting and consider the question ot
the sale of this specific property, and
all w ho are interested may be present,
and If anybody has a proposition
they do not say what kind of propo
sition they had better put it in writ
ing.
They did not even do that much
until July 25th. I do not want to
characterize their conduct, I merely
call Your Honor's attention to the
fcpt, but it appears that in June and
July they had been privately dealing
with the Utilities Company, and had
actually forwarled to them a carefully
prepared contrtfct, which had been
prepared after having been submitted
to them, and certain things elimi
nated from it, and it comes to the
Chairman of the Water & Light Com
mittee, not adressed to the Mayor or
Board, because no advertisement for
bids had been made, and the Chair
man of the Water and Light Commit
tee takes irdown tuid puts it in his
private file in the mttl, and there it
e days until after our bid was opened,
and it was disclosed that we offered
more than they offered, and then they
bring it up and put It on file.
It wits at our request that this little
notice was given, though they did not
publish what we wanted. We wanted
them, to state the terms and condl
tiorus, and just what they desired
done, and then they put in this little
notice 1 referred to. After that was
published, we wrote them ai very re
spectful leter and called their atten
tion to the fact that it Was impossible
to make an intelligent bid, and asked
that they give some informettlon a
to what they wanted the person who
bought the plant to do, requesting
that they set forth the conditions,
stipulations and terms, and informing
them that it was impossible to bid
intelligently until we knew what they
were going to sell, and what they
wanted done. .
They did not even do us the cour
tesy of answering that letter, or
acknowledging receipt of it. Then
"when we come before them (for not
satisfied with that, Ur. Talbott goes
to the meeting) Your Honor heard
manifesting their hostility, complain.
ing when he undertook to explain
matters, that he was making a cam-
pai&u speech, t nd would not give him
the information he wanted.
That Js,what theae gentlemen have
done. They have not only put forth
no efforts to get bids, but they have
tried to keep; from igjetting any bids.
This evidence shows that they did
not want any bids but the one which
w;s on file with Mr. Scott for $30,000.
That is all they wanted. When they
opened our sealed bid and found it
was for $50,000.00 and that it was the
only bid ou file, they hurried to get
this other t-nd bring it up. And then
at the meJtlug did you hear how they
tried to get Mr. Talbott in a hota?
Mr. Wray said, "Do you want to re
new your bid?" Mr. Richardson said:
"It la not necessary to renew 1, the
bid Is on file." Why do they ask
that? They thought, "If you renew
yours, then Mr. Scott cs.n put .in the
Public Utilities bid," but Mr. Rich
ardson was too smart for that, he
said, "No; I do not want to renew
my bid, you have It in writing and
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After they could could not make
him do tha'tv then aa Mr. Brooks caid,
they began the chaseand showed their
hostility. 'Then when' it came down
to that laet meeting, the date on
which this transaction was completed,
what recson did they give? Why did
they say they rejected a bid of ?50000?
Did thay comiplliain to Mr. Tf Ibott that
there was any defect in his contract?
Did they ask him to amend it? Did
they suggest anything about pump
ing? Nothing of the kind, They laid
all that laside and said, "We havet
got to turn down this f 50,000 offer
because the C!ommercJal & Agricul
tural Association b.a promised the
American Tobacco Company v to get
the power from the Southern Power
Company," Mlay It please Your Hon
or, we can get power from the South
ern Power Company as well as any
body ele. It is a public ser
vice company and must furnish it toi
anybody who offers the price. There
was no relation In the contention these
gentlemen were maklngi and Mr. Tal
bott explained that to them. He said,
"I can get .the power from the South
ern rower LJompany if lt Is neces
sary." But they did not want Talbott
to get it from, the Southern Power
Cmpany for some reason, They had
to have the Public Utilities Co. to
get it from the Southern Power Com
pany. They criticised Mr. Richard
son's corporation for being' a New
Jersey corporation, land they make in
quiries abut it, but what on earth the
Public Utilities Co.ia nobody knows so ,
far as this case Is concerned, except
it owee its. corporate existence to the
State of Maine. They make no in
quiries About that, they ask nothing
f rem the Utilities Company except ther
privilege of putting into its pocket
$20,0000 in cash. No questions aslC
ed for it.' We will chase Talbott un
der the JJable and out from under the
table and leverywhere eillse.but Wd wiU
take off our bats to the Utilities Co.
we have no questions to ask of it,
what ita capital eitock 4a we do not
Inquire what its financial responsi
bility is we do not ask, al we ask is,
"Gentlemen, let us giw you J20.000;
will you accept it?" Of whose money?
Money that belongs to the taxpayers
of the Town of Reldsville, bedauso
these decisions say that the selling of
property for an adequate price IS
equivalent to taking money out of the
treasury land giving it away. That la
what they did, and yet they come here
fa ml- denounce Mr. Richardson and,
Mr. Talbott in all sorts ot affidavits,
when Mr. Richardson Is not even a
party to this suit. They criticise him
because he had the temerity to enter
into competition with this favorite
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