The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-03-24

prietors are a set of swindlers, having
endeavored to fitch from the taxpayers
by collnding with the publishers of the
Tribune in order to obtain exorbitant
prices for doing work for the City and
County. To give vent to all this per-
sonaI animosity his eminence occupies
three columns of solid. BREWER in the
last number of the IF56sne. The whole
of this immense production is entirely
original except the little stanza of which,
from its close resemblance in style and
character to the essay as whole, he
makes frequent and serViceable use ::
MARY had a little lamb.
And every where that Mary went
The lamb was sure to CO."
AS to Mr.. Eskridge's stictures upon
Mr.. Stotler's course in the Legislature
we shall have nothing to say, preferring
that Mr.. Stoler, who is abundantly able
to defend himself, should make, with
his own pen, whatever reply he may
deem best. Neither do we deem our
selves called upon to say anything in
Mr.. Overstreets defense, as that gentle
man, having proved himself more than
an equal match for the Governor in the
contest for Representative last fall, will
undoubtedly be able, if he should choose
so to do, to vindicate his course as our
Representative, and to prove TO the
same constituents who put him up, and
Eskridge down, that so much of this
| lengthy criticism as is devoted to "Mr.
tired and chagrin that still fingers as a
Overstreet1i is melted by feeling of ha-
puerile consequence of a humlliating
defeat. Neither shall we have much, if
anything, to say in Vindication of Mr..
Stotler's private character. If that gen.
tleman is in the habit of getting drunk
away from home, he has certainly kept
the fact hidden from his most intimate
friends with an industry that is truly
remarkable. This insinuation is so pal
pably false, and so maaifestly the result
of a jealous and malignant feeling that
we venture the assertion that even Mr..
Eskridge's warmest friends and great
est admirers, if such there be, will con-
denim him for making it. Mr.. Eskridge
evidently deems it necessary, because
certain affidavits were published in this
paper proving him to have been seen in
a state of intoxication, to give express
sion to his vindictiveness by insinuating
that Mr.. Stotler ''gets drunk away from
home" Has he ever seen Mr.. Stotler
drunk "away from homer" If so and
he will make affidavit of the fact we
will publish it. If not, can he obtain
the affidavit of the person who has seen
him drunk "away from home" If so
we will publish that. But should the
Governor prove his insinuation to be
true he will simply have proven the
fact that Mr.. Stotler has more self-re-
spect and more regard for his friends
than is possessed by his exeellency; for
he will have shown that whereas he
himself gets drunk at home, Mr.. Stot-
Ter gets drunk only when he is abroad.
BY way of contrast in regard to the es-
timation placed upon the characters of
the two gentlemen, we may say that
both are members of the NJ. L. Church
at this place. Mr.. Stotler stands high
in the confidence of both pastor and
members whereas Mr.. Eskridge has
recently been requested by the minister
to withdraw from the church to avoid
expulsion.
With regard to ''Jakes twelve dollar
imposition" we will say that Mr.. Es-
kridge does himself more injury by far
than he does us by this illnatured char
acterization; it will not injure us; it
will not injure our patronage. If, there
fore, it Injuries anybody, as it evidently
was meant to do, it will iBjure himself.
We make no apology for the NEWS; it
needs none. II is as good as it can be
for the patronage it possesses, and it
has all the patronage it well can have
in town no larger than this. We make
no complaint and we think our patrons
make none. AS to the SD per annum
there is not Daily in the State that is
furnished to subscribers by carrier,
whose subscription price is less than
that charged for the NEWS. We furnish
it by mail for SO per annum, as do other
Kansas Dailies; none furnish it for a
smaller sum.
But the Governor says we ''filch'
from the public treasures. All! do we?
Why brother Eskridge that's serious,
isn't it? We never, before, considered
ourselves public thieves, but it may be
we are. 1t is true we know a man
who once stole eighty rods of fence
from the State, but we hadn't before
supposed the mere personal acquain-
lance of this man made tts public thieves
also. If it does we will cut him in
stantly. Mr.. Eskridge says also that
: we are colluders-that we and some
; body else did collide, actually collide!
by putting in agreed bids for county
: printing. AS to county printing the
law stipUlates how much we may have
: We cannot have more. So there is nc
. chance to swindle the Taxpayers very
: much. We may do it for less than the
: law allows US but it is entirely optiona
: on our part. As matter of justice W.
t should have just as much for worl
e done for the county as for work done
= for individuals provided it be the same
: Mr.. Eskridge should be ashamed of thi
= charge of filehing from the county. In
t deed if he has any manhood in him h
e win, on reelection, be heartily ashamed
e of his whole letter. As to the cit.
y printing, in regard to the pay for which
s be says we have been equally avari
o ciors and culpable," the city pays u
Il just what we pay our compositors 70
:, putting it into type-only we pay tn
: compositors in cash and the city pays u
= in deprecated scrip. This is all W
c have asked for and has been all that W
v have received, except for two or thre
e ordinances, which Mr.. Eskridge, in tn
e absence Of the writer hereof, vino is
If councilman, got through. the council wit
l. a provision that they be published i
= both the city papers; provision ths
l. was in direct violation of the contraC
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