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Show I! ffllTMT CULLS FORTHCRITICISM Spetial to The Tribune. OODEN, Feb. 8. As fclio" result of a communication which ho has recoived from tho residents of tbc Warren district, dis-trict, tbo friends of Comity Commissioner Commis-sioner W. C. Hunter feel that possibly ho has been made tho "goat" of a herd of hull mooso elephants and donkeys. don-keys. Aflcr turning down ono candidate candi-date for the ofiico of deputy road com-missionor com-missionor in tho Warron district be-causo be-causo the candidal c was not regular in his nllcgiaticu to tho Republican party, Comniisionor Hunter selected a man who, aceordiiipr to tho cominuuicution, was ono of I he most ardent supporters of Colonel itoosovelt in tho last cura-'"''fiio cura-'"''fiio Icttor to (ho eonimissionor is signed bv fifteen Ticpublicans and eight beniociaifi. all of whom signed the petition pe-tition of the candidate vh0 was turned down bei-auso of his alleged progressive progres-sive proclivities. . . The letter slates that Commissioner llunler gnvp as his reason for not ro-appointing ro-appointing .1. 1M. Wade- the fact that Wade was a .Dull Mooter during tho ro-r.cnt ro-r.cnt campaign. The signers ol tho let-or let-or deny tbo charge that Wade was a. supporter of Colonel Koosevolt and sarcastically sar-castically declare that tho appointee, It. B. Gibbon, was ouo of I he most ardent ar-dent supporters of the new party in tho district. Commissioner Hunter is charged with having failed to givo tho petition proper consideration and tbo iotter further alleges that 'a casual consideration of at least two of 3'our appointees ap-pointees in this county persuades us that yon proposo that your frionds .hall share generously of tho public crib, though tbo people bo brought to Tho list of names appearing at the bottom of the letter includes some of ibe best known residents of the Warren district. Commissioner Hunter could not bo reached at his Wilson lano homo this evening for an explanation of tho alleged blunder. |