The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-11-01

the pending charges. Well, if this
is so, why didn't Judge Watson no.
tify Mr.. Peyton of that fact when
he (Watson) first learned of the
matter which is made the founda-
ton of the charge? He let the
matter rest for nearly two years,
and then brings it up in the last
hours OF a six weeks term of court
at nearly midnight, and then, in
stead of adjourning his court until
the next day, or to some conven-
lent time before election, he ad-
journed court until the dag after
election, and then comes out and
says that Peyton can come into his
court the day after election and by
making an 'saffidavit" clear the mat
ter upl Verify these conspirators
run the affidavit business into the
ground. And we are glad to see
that Mr.. Peyton treats the whole
matter with contempt. Fully real
izing the desperate strait of his op-
ponents, who were driven to the
midnight use of the District Court
in order to make even a semblance
of Roadway, he declines to play in
to their hands by getting into a con-
troversy with them. Sam Medary,
the wheelhorse of the Democracy
in Ohio, and the editor of its chief
organ, the Statesman, was credited
with doing successful work for his
party by keeping just one lte ahead
of the Journal, the Wing organ.
sam would get up roorback of the
most fragrant character about the
Wing candidate; the Journal would
get up laborious denial, and inst
as the charge was exploding into
thin air, prestol Sam Medary had a
new roorback even more startling
than the first. And so oil, until
after the election.
Very like this trick of Sam Me-
dary's is that of the latter day Dem
Ocrats. The charge of forgery be-
ing disproved the next thing is
something else, to-wit: That Mr..
Peyton is not competent for the po-
sition of District Judge, and that
besides, if he is fit, he has recently
been q Democrat! Rather a lame
and lmpotent conclusion to a cam
paign that started out with a charge
of forgeryl AS to Mr.. Peyton's
fitness we know nothing, except
that he has had a large, lucrative
and constantly increasing practice
at the bar. and as there are plenty
of attorneys in this market, and
some of them confessedly quite
eminent, we conclude that his abil-
ity has given him his success. But
we have at hand an endorsement
of the bar of Lyon county-com-
posed of gentlemen who may be
supposed to know whereof they
affirm-which effectually disposes of
that part OF the case-the endorse
ment being as follows:
Hon. f. B. PEYroN, EMpoR1A KAN
sAs.-Dedr Sir: The undersigned
members of the Lyon County Bar, in
view of the approaching election for
District Judge for this (5th) Judicial
District, and because lis desirable
that the position'be filled by one who
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and that the Initiative should be taken
before the heat of political canvass
shall distract the mind of the citizen,
or partizan zeal ignore the claim of
real merit; therefore we thus early re-
quest thut you be a candidate for that
position, promising You our support
and cooperation.
JOHN v. SANDERS, j. JAY BUCK,
p. B. PLUME, j. =. PINKERToN,
ALMERIN GILLETT w. T. MCCARTY,
ORRIN MILLER, J. w. LYNN,
NJ. WEAVER, EN-. FoRDE. -.
G. B. BACHELLER, w. II. SKINNER,
Z. w. CUNNINGHAM.
The charge of having recently
changed from e Democrat to a Re-
coming as it does from the
followers of the Great American
Turn Coat, Horace Greeley, is de-
cidedly cool. The charge, even if
true, is not to the purpose, and but
serves to illustrate to what straits
men may be driven by their pOliti-
cal necessities. Trivial and incon-
as it is, it can't stand the
The afildavits herewith
show its utter falsity:
STATE OF KANSAS,
COUNTY OF LYON,
d. c. Witty and j. w. Jones being /
duly sworn upon their oaths, state
that they are residents of Clay county,
Indiana; that they are now on their
way to Sumner. county, Kansas look
acquainted with E. B. Pey-
ton, of Emporia, Kansas, from the
early part of the year 1861 until the
fall of 1867, when he left Clay,county,
Indiana, for Emporia, Kansas; that
during all of said time he was a Re
publican of the most ultra kind, and
one of the strongest. advocates fer N
vigorous prosecution of the'war in his
ID. c. WITTY,
JOHN w. JONES,
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 29th day Of October, 1872.
A. N. HANNA,
Notary. Public.
STATE OF KANSAS,
COUNTY OF LYoN,S
George p. StoIk being duly sworn
upon his oath, says.that he became ac-
1uainted with Z. b. Peyton, of Empo-
ria, Kansas, in the year 1864, when he
then resided in Bowling Green, Clay
county, Indiana. That he was inti-
mately acquainted with him until the
fall of 1867, when he left there for his
present home In Emporia. That dur
ng all of said time to his personal
he,said Peyton, was an I'M Il
Republican of the most rad-Ii
cal stamp. GEO. p. SToRK.
Subscribed and sworn to before me /,
his 3Oth day of October, 1872. /,
E. BoRToN, IL
Notary Public.
STATE OF KANSAS,
COUNTY OF LYoN,
James Robinson being duly sworn
lpon his oath states, that he resides :
ONE six miles southeast OF Emporia, :
lyon county, Kansas. That he for .
nerly resided in Clay county, Indiana.
That he became acquainted with Z. b.
'eyton, of EmpoEia, in the year 1861, !
n Clay county, that he knew him per- q
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