Transcription
R. P. Conklin's
History of the Village of Chester
His Question to the People:
Do You "Tant the Map and Deeds of Isaac T. Townsend or Masterson's Store and No Streets?
Your Title is Gone!
VOL. XII.
July 10, 1920.
The Government of the United States is no better thim its Politics. Since Abraham Lincoln was assassinated we have been controlled by two Political parties. And they are controlled by Bosses. It matters not which party beats at the election, the Bosses win and keep the control.
The worst Enemies and Traitors this Government has to contend with is the Public Officials; They take the oath of Office to do the work Faithfully, Honestly, and to the best of their ability. And collect a retainer that gives them a license to lie, steal, cheat, and rob the government with impunity. They make the People helpless.
It is not so much what they do. But it is what they don't do that causes the trouble. Their Bosses do their work for them. That leaves the Officials' hands clean. No penalty or courts, can reach them. For they have done nothing. They did not see it done, for their back was turned toward them, but their hand was behind them getting their mitten filled.
There are many highly educated, distinguished men in this Nation but the Bosses have no use for them. For they are not trying to make an exhibition of the weakness of Human Nature and the insignificance of our government by the People.
The paid publications of the newspapers are deceiving the People to help the Bosses rob the government. The Sacred Ballot has become a disgrace to the Nation when it is used by the Bosses for its robbing power.
What this Nation needs is a newspaper published in every County. Things as they are. And be protected by the Government. It will be self supporting. And cheaper than an army. If Non-Partisan. And kept so. The Buyer, Seller, and Robber. The combination the Voters worship today for Selfish Graft and Special favors. The Taxpayers are helpless but have to pay the expense.
While the Officials are voting each other a higher salary and making new offices and appointing men to do the work for them. So the Bosses in power will have more votes.
The United States is being Mortgaged to pay for the wasteful extravagance with Bankruptcy staring us in the face, unless it is stopped.
Abraham Lincoln was the third party in his time. Elected for a Purpose, Selected by God, educated with practical commonsense and observation. He alone wrote the emancipation proclamation and showed it to his congress. Then the war ended.
Then came General Lee's unconditional surrender to U. S. Grant.
Since that time our conventions are sometimes opened with prayer for divine guidance. It reaches the hearts, minds, and spiritual nature, of some. But the Bosses have never allowed themselves to get in a frame of mind to receive the spiritual nature that God has endowed them with. It lies dormant buried deeply in selfconceit of superiority to their Creator and His teachings. Far they can beat the other man with the robbing power of the Government's money. Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof: from such turn away-2 Tim. 3. 5.
To the victor belongs the spoils. The voting process has become an art. And an expensive burden to the taxpayer. The inspectors of election, the watchers at the polls, and the watchers to watch the watchers. And no one to enforce the laws, if anything goes wrong for it is generally a conspiracy and not an individual. And the expense is great for the candidate to meet the obligation. So we have a government of Autocracy. For the Bosses. So the Producers of all the raw material for industrial and commercial use of the People are the ones that keep the Bosses in Power.
There was never a time when it was as much needed as Now. To prevent a revolution between labor and capital.
A new party Elected for that purpose can do it. And the People are ready. Get them aroused and give the popular vote a chance for it is rule or ruin. For this Nation. If it is not done.
God will be with you if you quiet your Animal nature, and let your Spiritual Nature, get in sight, for party politics has extinguished its light. And left us nothing but animals to contend with. And the Bosses rule.
God has promised to protect the righteous. And has tried to educate the People and explained how it has been done in the scriptures, for what has been foreordained has come to pass. (Read Vol. 11 of this history).
The World has had its World's War. Which was promised so many years ago.
Now let us review the History of the United States. Righteousness was the motive. Then the Declaration of Independence was declared and People of all nations were allowed to come here for freedom of worship. It was called a free country. Prosperity was wonderful.
Then came slavery, a disturbing element which lasted for many years for it was controlled by the ballot box.
Then it grew so bitter the South seceded from the Union. Claiming State Rights. It was a sad condition but it had to be met. And was met with a civil war. By Abraham Lincoln.
Men are born to fill certain positions at the time they are needed circumstances and environments of life fit them for the work. It was like robbing the men he loved and respected, by power of Office. It was the will of God that made him the Power. It was the Power of godliness.
He had finished his work complete and he had been reelected for another term of Office. Then came the reformation the saddest part of the war. He had the southern men and sympathizers to meet and when asked by one of the southern congressmen what he was going to do with the Four Million slaves he said they will soon be able to take care of themselves. And the time may come when they will be fighting for your liberty as well as theirs. The colored troops were in the Hottest fighting in the last war. General Petain said the colored troops of America were the best fitted regiment in France. Although their black skin may have ben penetrated with many a bullet showing marks of heroic deeds you could not expect any thing more of a white man.
While the white Y. M. C. A.'s were distributing the things that were sent free to the men on the firing line.
They sold to the soldiers for an exorbitant price and pocketed the money. The value was not in the color but in the spiritual nature of the two.
God allowed the assassin to shoot Abraham Lincoln to prove his scripture. And inspiration. And prepared a time and place to make it conspicuous. So the world can see how our best and most useful men are treated. By the wickedness of human nature exhibiting animal nature to prevent Righteousness.
President Hayes took a great liking to Wm. McKinley for his bright intellect, ability and manner. And told him that he was a young man and that the affairs of the nation were so great no one man could grasp them all. And that the tariff question was going to be an important issue in this nation, study it up and you will gain a distinction. He did and regulated a protective tariff.
Then the majority voted for Cleveland and free trade. Business was almost paralyzed, the factories had no foundation. To buy, one year, manufacture the next. And sell the third year. So the people had to wait for the next election. Which was Bill McKinley and the McKinley Bill with an overwhelming majority an important event for the Nation.
And great credit to William McKinley and after he had made his best speech the assassin shot him in the presence of the audience. Could it be made any more conspicuous?
Theodore Roosevelt held the Office of President for the most. important seven years of its History. Volumes could be written. No man worked harder for Righteousness and hammered at the People than he did.
A servant of God preparing for a world war. The Bosses did not own him. (Read the other volumes of this history and be convinced that he had the Power of godliness.)
It was the manuscript of the best speech that he ever made that was in his vest pocket and saved his life. So that speech was delivered before a throng of People. While the blood was flowing from the assassin's bullet.
Would you expect the Almighty God to make it any more conspicuous. Congress would not allow hIm to go to Europe but allowed his sons to go.
Roosevelt said he prayed God for their safe return but he could not expect it. For he knew their courage. And that meant danger.
And while the People were waiting to hear what Roosevelt had to say of the League of Nations. God removed him from this world's cares, and Persecutions, that Righteous men have to endure. (Better described in the Bible) 2nd Timothy 3rd Chapter. This History is a postcript to that chapter.
Theodore Roosevelt had finished his work complete. Then God had selected President Wilson, a highly educated, cultured man. To introduce the work in Europe. (Read Volume 11 of this history). But the wise men in Europe did not realize that it was premature. But were delighted with the League of Nations.
THEY OVERLOOKED THE CHAPTER 19 OF DEUTERONOMY 14TH VERSE, THOU SHALT NOT REMOVE THY NEIGHBOUR'S LANDMARK, WHICH THEY OF OLD TIME SET IN THINE INHERITANCE, WHICH THOU SHALT INHERIT IN THE LAND THAT THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE TO POSSESS IT.
The League of Nations is the law of God for the United States and all Europe.
Regulate the boundary lines first protect the People, give them their rights. Then the fighting will stop.
Then the League of Nations will Christianize the World. The Bosses will lose their power. The persecution and robbing of the righteous, for selfish Graft and special favors of real property will stop. Would you expect the Creator to make the need of it any more conspicuous than he has for the last five years. To educate the People to respect the Bible. And make the United States the birth place of the League of Nations. The home of Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Wilson. And many other distinguished men who have done their part to make this Nation one that has received God's greatest blessings and promises of the past and future. They are the men that have used the Power of godIiness. And made the United States a league of States. That does not interfere with state rights. But it is necessary to use the power of godliness to make the nation first.
The natural wondars is yours to enjoy. But Autocrat Bosses control the voters. It is easier for a camel to pass through the needle's eye than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
God's Blessings is the reward of Righteousness. The Declaration of Independence. The emancipation proclamation. C. G. Calkins piloted Dewey through Manilla Bay of shallow water undermined with torpedoes when he annihilated the whole Spanish Fleet and never lost a Man or Boat. Righteousness was the issue.
Theodore Roosevelt sent the American fleet with permission around the world to get acquainted with its water. He told the people of the approaching danger. And begged for preparedness. And never lost a beat.
President Wilson sent many millions of People to Europe and returned them. And never lost a transport. God is on the Water as well as on the Land.
Get acquainted with Spiritual Nature and enjoy God's Blessings.
It is the abuse of good Laws. And of our Noblest, Bravest, and Bravest Men. By Autocratic Bosses, who are destroying governments, robbing the people, for supremacy. By persecuting the Righteous. And using the insignificant voters, who sell their votes to the highest bidder. And men whose brain is lazy to work but merely drift with the tide.
The last Presidential election the tide turned down Roosevelt for he wanted War.
They returned Wilson for he had kept us out of war.
Now they are fighting Wilson for he is keeping us out of Peace,
One had prepared the Nation and was relieved of the burden. Wilson took the finished product. While God is educating the People to prove the Bible. (Read Vol. 11 of this history). Then read the second epistle of Paul to Timothy third chapter. Then pause at the verses 4, 5, 12. And you will find it clothed in better language. Then read (2 Tim. 2.1 to 7.) Written many years ago to prove this history and the Bible.
As goes Chester so goes the Union. I will make this Volume more local and explain the process I have been put through by Autocratic Bosses.
The writer has put out 12 Volumes of History. Claiming to be the only Trustee the Village ever had. And that the elected Trustees have been robbing the Village for selfish Graft and special favors.
To destroy the virtue of every deed in the village. Rob the People of five Streets, Ten Street lines and two Acres of Railroad land dedicated to the People for Public use. And recorded in the County Clerk's Office before a deed was given in the Village. With the original deeds clearly defined.
Read Vol. 9 of this History. The act of incorporating was no mistake, but when the members of the Protestant Churches lost sight of the Deity. And worshipped William Lawrence's money. And made him the Supreme Being. That was the mistake. Since that time The Village Officials have made the Corporation Building a hotbed of iniquity and grafted the records in the County Clerk's Office with its' fruits. And associated my Name with the most wicked work the building ever sheltered.
By persecuting, prosecuting and robbing the best friend the Village ever had to hide their criminal work. By using the highest Court of the State.
The Corporation Counsel, the Corporation Engineer. And the Power of Office. The writer did not have a friend in the World that could help him.
Everything was done through Fraud, Deception, Perjury, Bribery, and Forgery. And False Records. The writer does not like to repeat this but it fits every sentence of this history. And it has been used to deceive the Village, Trustees, People and Courts for over 20 years.
But it did not Deceive the Almighty God who has forced the writer to Defend the Righteous. And expose the Wickedness. God had everything prepared for the writer when the time came to make use of it. The
writer bas published it repeatedly for over 20 years.
You have had a chance to read this History, but could not deny it. You have spoken of it as a joke. And laughed at my helplessness.
Now it is no longer a joke for the Facts that prove every word of this History are Recorded in the Orange County Clerk's Office. And you have Forced them there. No Testimony can change them they have become a law.
You may own the Orange County Lawyers. But the Law of God is good enough for me.
The Village Board of Trustees is a continuous Board. One Trustee is not responsible for what the other man does. When the Secretary keeps the records on the pages of memory.
No land can be taken for public use without a fair compensation to its owner.
But in Chester the public land can be taken for Private use and the people have no protection. For the individuals are the Robbers and not the Board. An individual can write a deed. Village Board cannot change the Deeds in the County Clerk's Office. That is the reason they have never had an honest Map in the Corporation building. Since we were incorporated. It will be very interesting to most of the readers to learn for the first time, the process I have been put through and how the game was played. By the Bosses. And the Creator. The writer was only the Umpire. And score keeper.
And it has been Published in the twelve Volumes of history, Which goes to show that God won in every Court. The Street lines in Chester have never been changed.
The writer has bought the Village. And sold it with the same right that Isaac T. Townsend had when it was farm land on a sidehill. It is a private matter between myself and the buyer. It is defended by the first Deeds that were sold by Isaac T. Townsend to my Uncle Daniel Conklin after the Villlage was mapped out and recorded. I also have his lease for the farm land to Daniel Conklin before the lots were all sold. Later he bought in large lots and sold the small ones. I can give the people the public land if they will accept it, if not they can pay rent. If they prefer to do so. In the mandamus action the Village Trustees swore the Streets have never been accepted by the Village. But they were all accepted by the Buyer of every lot, block and number. From the beginning to the present day.
Put on file Oct. 11th, 1841.
Lined up correctly 1885.
Accepted by the Village Board July 2nd, 1899. Fred J. Knight's Correct Survey.
Lined up correctly for the Telford pavement by George M. Roe, President of the Village, 1902.
Deed, R. P. Conklin to Wm. R. Conklin, Recorded Dec. 4th, 1919. That will protect all prior claims and give the owner every foot of Land he is entitled to with landmarks that have always existed. Could you expect the Lord thy God to give a cleaner title to the land he giveth thee to possess?
Corporations are impersonal. To make big Graft of public real property. Big pulls on the public purse. And tax evasion. They secure agents to do a certain amount of dirty work, which no one of them would be guilty of personally.
Adverse possession of 20 years is a good law to ease titles in a few cases. But in many cases it is unconstitutional, disgusting, and unreasonable. It places a premium on crime. Robs the widows and orphan’s of entailed property. And keeps the World in War. To make a plaything for the Legal Profession. And defended by the Powers. It defies the laws of God who has proised them a Hell of a time when they arrive in their everlasting home.
The Creator has never lost his title to the World through adverse possession of 20 years.
We have had the World War. And the PerlIous times are with us Now.
This is continued in the Third Chapter of Second Tim. Read it.
"The Preachers and the Lawyers,
The Doctors one and all,
Are all after money: so
It's money after all.
The Voters are being educated to get money, get it honestly if you can. But if you can't get money and spend it and waste it, so you can be buried in a pauper's grave, at the expense of the government. Then your grand children can pay your debts with their inheritance thereof. The Bonds and interest of the government must be paid.
A majority of the People don't want Righteousness. There are Righteous men in both of the old parties but they are not popular on that account. Autocratic Bosses could be removed from power. And God's people could rule his universe by Building a platform for that Purpose. Frame it up to fit the Constitution of the United States, select the man that has the courage to protect God's peolpe in the interest of humanity. Then God will do the rest, He always has.
And he makes it very conspicuous to educate the people. The Mother of Christ was not good enough to be admitted in the Hotel but she was allowed to go in the barn. Christ was tried in the Courts but they could not find that he had done anything wrong. But the Powers compelled him to die between two thieves. The exhibition was just as complete as it had been advertised thousands of years before. No admission was charged.
The writer has put out 12 Volumes of History explaining his practical experience. He has certainly had an education. But has never been admitted to the Legal Bar. And since prohibition has gone into effect has never had the Full effect of the other Bars, in other words he has kept sober.
But will endeavor to show that Officials work as individuals and not as a Board.
The President of the United States is a servant of the People. The President of the Village of Chester has no greater power. They only think they have. So we have no public enterprise. It is Selfish Graft of real property. And generosity of appeasing sauce. I have paid for my publications and give them to you. They have cost you nothing. The only rights that I have in my native village is to pay the Taxes. Judgments, and fines and bear the persecutions, prosecutions and robbery. Better described in the other volumes. So the writer win refer to the last election to show how easy it is done.
The Village Board select them. selves for the following year. Then they go through an election process, (before mentioned). The last election there were Nineteen Votes cast. Only one ticket in the field. The voters were the Village Board and their wives and a few others who had received some special favors at the expense of the local government. Nineteen He and She Votes made it unanimous. The result of the election was not the harmony of the people, but their helplessness.
The writer has published in this history year after year that there has never been an honest Board of Trustees since we were incorporated. The original Board laid the foundation to rob the village of all public land for selfish Graft and special favors.
Then the incorporation of the village was placed on record. Never expecting it would be discovered. Even if it was, no court could change it, for they took the village as they found it.
Now a Court decision was necessary to legalize it and settle all questions that may arise. So the Bosses wrote the Banks Deed to Johnnson for a lawsuit to be used as the hub of the situation. For the other situations and changed land marks.
The writer was the Auctioneer and sold the property to J. T. Johnson, Pres. of the Bank. The property was sold to the writer before Johnson's deed was one year old to settle up the estate of Johnson. The process the writer was put through has been explained and you have had a chance to read it. So I will refer to it briefly. After being on the calendar under bonds for three years I was landed in the Supreme Court to collect a penalty of $25 for violating a village ordinance for putting up a temporary fence so the trustees could tell me where the streetlines were.
The prisoner was landed in the worst burlesque of a court that was ever held since the trial of Christ. It was a fixup. The Judge asked my counsel if he was ready with his case, he said I see now I ought to have corrected my Deed. The Judge said this was no time or place to do that, but they went on with the trial.
I was the prisoner having my first hearing under bonds for three years to get there. For a criminal offense. It was the people of the State of New York With the Counsel on both sides Solid against one man to collect $25 fine for a criminal offense. M. N. Kane was the counsel for the state. He, had four witnesses to swear that the sidewalk is the same today as it was as long as they have lived in Chester. The Judge asked, Do you want me to establish your street lines and we all said yes.
A criminal action in Chester. A civil action in Supreme Court. Changing the nature of the case after it had been called. By making the prisoner a plaintiff, in a civil action to regulate Boundary lines for the Erie R. R. and adjoining property.
With the Court and Counsel on both sides. The People of the State of New York. The Corporation Counsel and the Corporation Engineer. Who swore that the records were all burned in Goshen in the year 1843. After he had lined the Village correct. With records and marks that had existed when it was Mapped out before a lot was sold. And has existed every day since. And accepted by the Village July 2nd, 1899.
That was the combinatfon of highway Robbers the prisoner had to meet Alone. And the first introduction of the case.
The next day the prisoner prepared for a 20 year war. And bought the key of the situation. Six weeks before the decision was rendered.
Then the decision was $25. And cost for it did not appear as though the Trustees had ever laid out the street lines as the law requires.
Whether the locus in quo be within or without the lines of Main Streets as shown on the map filed in the County Clerk's Office Oct. 11th. 1841, it is sufficient to say it was not included in the defendants Deed, and been acquired by the public for highway purposes there should be judgment for plaintift with cost. The Deed sold 20 feet of the street more than they owned, 120 feet long. They sold more than they owned. Expecting the court decision to give less.
So they used my counsel, and my only defense to beat me with. The prisoner was the only man ever found guilty of encroaching on public land. In Chester.
A Supreme Court Judge can lie with as much distinction as any other class of men. If they are so inclined. But Judge Garretson did not intend to lie for he was in bad company and did not know how to play the game.
He virtually told me to go home and correct the Deed. I done so. But the Counterfeit deeds were located in different parts of the Village. So I had to buy the whole Village. The decision did not legalize the Banks Deed. But it did establish my Street lines. (Unintentionally). A victory in disguise.
This case has been published in history so I will make a few brief statements. The writer had to get out of the County to prove this condition. With a mandamus case which was tried in Goshen and before Garretson who tried it before. Then The case was dismissed. Then Judge KelIy entertained a motion to vacate his Judgment which went to Poughkeepsie. Before Judge Garretson, who Vacated his Judgment, Reversed his decision and reinstated the case. Then it was decided before a jury in favor of the Village. The lone man won the victory. But had to pay the cost of the court. For it was put in wrong side up. For the secret Session had borrowed the name of the People. So the lone man was saving the Village. When it Proved the Secret Motive of the blank summons 20 years before to abandon the Village map.
There is no penalty attached to this kind of work. No honest man would accept the Office of President or Trustee to undo the wicked work since we were incorporated.
God has made the writer the Elect and prepared every thing for him when the time came to make use of it.
It could only be done by one man.
The Court decision was a private matter and only one Deed. And the Court fined the writer $25 and cost for accepting a Counterfeit Deed.
The penalty has been very severe.
If a million dollars was offered me on one side and an empty grave on the other I would prefer the grave.
I offered all my real property at a public sale, would sell at 50 cents on a dollar but had no offers.
So I felt it my duty to defend my native Village. For I knew how every encroachment took place and heard it talked at the time.
It put me in a deep train of thought. And that developed my Spiritual nature that had laid dormant. Then came dreams, visions and inspirations.
Then I bought the Village and put it on record. Then I waited until some buildings were lined up correct. Then I sold the village but reserved the right to protect the buyers claim to the Deed. And his right to protect the other deeds. So the people will not be robbed of the streets and public land for private use. Would you expect the Creator to make it any more conspicuous?
When Autocratic Bosses rule the world. They own its Power. And the People. The men from the office and the work shops. The Farmer that feeds them all, has no Country they can call their home. Yet they are forced on the firing line to be shot down. A free country with the worst form of Slavery that could exist. Now under the lash of the Bosses. It is not the President of the Board but the individual. It is not the Courts but the La wyers. It is not the President, but the Congress. By having the individual on every hook and crook.
So the Bosses can use them when neecded to rob the government. Deceive the people. To abuse our good Laws and destroy their power and virtue. By using the Ballot box to defend their criminal work. To make the Sabbath a legal holiday. For its worst form of recreations.
To defy the laws of God. The laws of lhe land. With the fruit of the ballot box. The brute force predominates. Human nature drifts with the tide. God has promised you and gave you a Spiritual nature, put some in the Ballot Box and the tide will change.
God has given the writer the control of the village of East Chester. He had given Jesus Christ the control of the world. It is recorded in Scripture and in the Orange County Clerk's Office. So the title is good in heaven and earth. And we can protect the Righteous if caned on to do so if it does not interfere with the rights of others.
R. P. CONKLIN,
Recording Secretary of Public Works.Transcriber
Clifton Patrick