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A Campaign Lie Nailed

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
October
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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The following letter fronj M. J. Cavauaugh, chairman of the democratie county comiuittee, deuyiug the false and ridionlons charges publisbed in the papers named below was unavoidably crowded out of last week's Argus. it sbould reeeive the careful cosideration of every voter of the county as it illustratea the unfairness and falseness of iiiany of the nieaua being used by the republicana to make political capital for their ticket : Aun Arbor, Oct. 23, 1896. Editor of the Argns: I see by last uight's Detroit Journal, in a communioation from Ann Arbor, and also iu yesterday's issue of the Anu Arbor Courier, that I ara quoted as loauing money on niortgages. I have uever loaued a cent on a mortgage iu my life, nor have I ever taken any mortgage of auy kind with a gold clause iuserted therein. Spmo weeks ago, one J. H. Mays, a life insurauce vendor, met me at the eutranoe to my office aud asked if ;I kuew of any one who had money to loan. I told liim that I did; that one of my neighboi's had sorae mouey which she desired to loan, and Mr. Mays theu said that he had issued a $2,000 policy of iiisurauce on the life of a lady heie in town, the premium on whiob was f120; that the lady wanted to get that amouut aud some more to pay off a smal] mortgage then existing on her premises, and also to pay for au additiou which she was putting on her house; that he was tryiug to get the mouey frota the Ne.v York Life Insurance people, bnt that it wonld take too long and tueu he was not sure he could get it. He asked me to go and see the property with liim, which Idid, aud then he requested that the lady who had the mouey be showu the premises. She was shown the premises and arrangemeuts were made for the loan through Mr. Mays. It seems that the lady whose life Mr. Mays had insured, was told by him tbat he could not get her the mouey unless the gold clause was inserted. My counection with tbe transactiou was simply to inform Mr. Mays where he could obtain the mouey aud draw up the papers for then) after they had agreed upou tbe terms of the trauscatiou through Mr. Mays. And I was surprised to learn that Mr. Mays bad so far forgotten the ordinary courtesies of business intercourse as to try and cover a weak argument with a false represeutatiou of a business trausaction. I wish to say to the publio that if I had money to loau, I would have uu besitancy in doiug so, without exactiug ;ts repayment in a metal whioh all authorities admit is coustautly appreoiatiug in value. M. .1. CAVANAUGH. Here are suatements of tne parties to the trausactiou. It pays to teil the truth. Aun Arbor, Mich., Oct. 26, 1896. I loaued of Mrs. E. M. Sill through Mr. Mays some ruoney and the terms were agreed npou through him. He said be would get the money from the New York Life Iusuranoe Co., bat found out after that he could not. I did uot loan any money from Mr. Cavanaugh, nor did be have anythiug to do with the gold clanse. It was Mrs. Sill who wauted it. No conversation was had about a gold clause wherein Mr. Cavanaugh was interested. Any statement to the contrary is untrue Of this money I paid Mr. May $121.44 premium ou a polioy of $2,000. MRS. S. A. CARSON. Ann Arbor, Mich., Oot. 26, 1896. I loaned Mrs. Francis Carson $1,900 and the mortgage was drawn at my dictation after the terina had been agreed upon. Mr. Cavanangh had uothing to do with the terms of the loan and auy statement to the contrary is false.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News