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, schools o‘oming >by, ,,“twos and thiees and dozeiia preferred to be 'at home, and so withdrew. 'So Hibbard' was a sneak and a cow- . ' ‘ .ard', wasiivher‘wben he, saw ’such 'men as “Citizen,” Patton, Kirk, Cobb, Grint,_ et 31.? Porhaps- “Citizen" was not presentwa fé‘vy month’s‘m'go- when Grant and Cobb ' 'nmi their valorous'associates tried .to ekglude Hibbard from the council chamber, But 'sevefil quite . prominent citizens were them. Ask them if‘ Hibbnrd playogl the part of coward ‘otf that historic occasion. A'sk ex~Mayor Fletcher} Erskifie. Mayor Evans and many others who honrd' r it call out: “You acknowledge th t you lied, don"t you ‘B',’ if that teru rible charge ,so frightgned fiib-I bhnTthat .hu’jumped out of tho: \ , wigdow or ran downthe stairs. I 3 - has he wanted it to be, instead of as it actunfly finnnpiredi " i "know that. some of those men Vvho came into McDohald’s‘nall as “‘Ciflzén's" friends are men of repute._ One of themhas the rep. utafion of hitting one of hi: as- sociates a whack in the face when That report remindeme of a» veluble Frenchman who was ex- hibiting curios, antique and other- wise, and with the lot adilapi- tinted old sword which he said was the identical one Balsam had when he killed the ass. FA wag ii] th Vaudience sung out that id‘not. have any sword; he had one. “Oni, uni, Mon eu’r," replied the vol- uble son of. France, “you he cor- rect, but this am the sword Ba‘laam wished he had.” ' . The meeting “Citizen” reported 4:1 very like 'the one he wished vies 'h'eld,‘bnt it certainly was not the one that m held, so far as I kugw or have been able’to learn. But then his is a “’prentice han’.” He says I made a speech iand Sim; and .. prgved a “pl-entice hm’ ” sure ewnghfior :9 a piece otreportiug‘ it was fearfully de-. A "TIME HAN‘." You ,remomfier Burns saysin cued his poems that the'Creawr ~[gflqome part of the work of ore. ation‘to mmprentice han'," hence‘ its. defects; .‘31 Highland Park Citizen" relmrtéd that flu-non. Batmdny' evening meeting, in McDonald's ball, in last week’- V; U' w-no “Citizen’s” report of Colorge Davidson’s part in the meeting was even more reprehensible than his report of mine. _The simple fact was that, someone made Messrs. Shields and «Patton be- lieve their schools were to be at- tacked~just what the originators of that meeting determined should not be do’ne-and Came' there primed and loaded to_ the muzzle, and of course they hadto “shoot,” but their guns “kicked” and knocked them over; they lost their heads and-8ndâ€"â€"-that report in last Week‘s Sun was to let them dowh easy. I hope they and all who suflered“with them will re- cover. LEWls B. HIBBABD’. As to “Citiien’s” personal in- sinuations-about me, I will let it pasflf; what it is worth, with,1 this one remark: _ I have. I be. lieve, On two occasions voted for “Citizen” for a high ofice in this city, and both times the people vetoed my vote. 1 did the some once for Mr. Patton, with like re- sult. ‘I hope’ I shall ‘yet‘have a? chance to vote for them again for the same Qi‘ higer offices, with better success. I have been a candidate several times inrflhs' City of Highland Park andthe town of Deerfield for office, and the people have ratified my oeu- didature by; handsome majorities. he aid methlns he did not like; another of telling- is associate he lied, and no on, but when “Citi- Ien" impliee that I. run away from even those fellatio," be known he in not t1 [ling the truth. I do not accuse him of grace misrepreunt- tion purposely. Not at all; he in a “’prentioe ban';’ ’ he evidently did not know how to report cor; 'rectly. The whole report «bears on the face ‘of it, in almost every ,,.....s...pu, L - Auvuuvo . u; unw- curacy, even if I did not have “if testimony of those who participated “Citizen” says that a certain issue‘ ofthe local paper, the NEWS; L'E'rrna, was “largely taken up with c A. MWMQL I Uiic "fiiu s‘7'an a generaldis- honesty oxf’tfié part” of - the two school boards. I will not call that a falsehood, for a “’prentice 991‘ han wrote it, bht ‘1 will chag- lelige “Citizen” or anyone else 0 prove it ‘in any ‘ one particulau As a matter of fact the NEWS- LETTER contains about eighteen or ‘tvéenty columns ‘of reading matter, and that particular issue contained about ‘one column of matter which referral to our schools. That’ is, how “largely” the paper was devoted to school- matters. But why go on? J THE SHERIDAN ROAD NEWS-LETTER. Discount an, gll Cash-in-Advance ---_k , ommmomm 5 CALL. AND SEE OUR LINE OF WDONALD’ S BLOCK HE HAS THE BEST STOBK IH HIGHLAND PAHK AT THE LOWEST PRICES. i WWW 0 mm MM 0:- Can J. L. Bought-Ills. Win-0th. sufimnmbggrgngggwgiifi'ffi'fi ‘50 Per Ce ’ LOANS :00“ .. 0F ’ COA BTOV iGES _5ubscriptions to