The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-06-19
TMeeklp Gimes
THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1873.
The TIMES.

Two wears ago we bought The ZINES.
For nearly two years we run the same
with the combined opposition OF corrupt
Tinted States Senator and powerful rail-
road monopoly monopoly that has
robbed the merchants, the farmers, the me
chan;cs and the laboring men OF our county
ont of over two millions Of dollars, under the
nreepse OF aiding our railroad system Ihey
robbed US. They did not give IN return
railroad facilities commensurate with the aid
extended to them. They put the hard earn
irgs of labor in their individual pockets.
They bought and owned State Senators, Leg
islators, county and municipal ofhcers.
Paid agents o; this monopoly have infu-
eecsj elections, and in many instances have
controlled them.
A material change, however, has taken
place. A corrupt Senator has been ignomin-
iously driven from the halls OF Congress.
The wouid-be monopoiists have, for time
at least, received check. THE TINES did
its share in the overthrow of this devil
fish" power.
While that power IL broken, and TO al ap-
pssrances harmless, there now exists
common bond of sympathy between those
who have been the recipients of corrupt
gains from the enemies of honest toll.
The legislator who has taken their
money, the editor who hss sold
his principles for so much coin; the County
Commissioner who sold his vote for specific
sum: the Councilman vino sold-out the inter-
esis of his constituents for few paltry dol
lars: the professional politician, without any
honest, visible means Of support, who has
sold ont his brains and his influence to aid
the woodworking conspirators in their efforts
to draw the Fast drop of lie from the honest
toilers oil the land: all these We say have
COMMON bond of sympathy existing between
them. They hate, as ii by instinct, any and
all who have, directly or indirectly, aided in
the crushing cut of this power, from whence
they have for SO many years derived dis
nOnoraD!e ilNcllucOu. All thso ei'A' ~ $1,000
in our city and county hate the TIMES.
Well. who can blame them? They may
lie, they may Islander, and they may curse
their ili-luck, but, for time at least, honest
men are on top. The resistance which we
personally have made for the past ten years,
and the opposition which we have for the
past two years conducted in THE TINES,
have hal their results.
To-day THE TIMES is intrenched hrme'
and stronger than ever in the estimation and
confidence of our citizens. During the last
two months our subscription list has IN
creased Handsomely. The advertising pat
ronape has more than doubled that Of any
previous year. The great success OF 1HF
TIaEs makes the enemies Of honest Industry
howl with rage.
They must grin and bear il. Their last
doIye is one OF united system OF lying AND
instrumentation about Va. In this they
have miserably failed, and notwithstanding
the exhibition of spleen from contemplate
journals THE TINES is more determined
than ever TO continue the warfare against
corrupt monopolies and the long line O.
toad;es, laoksys, lickspiitles and paid tools
of corruptionis;s. THE TINES to-day Ii
the only independent daily English paper
pnb,ished in Leayenworth. 1t has nevel
sold IFS influence Cor money. II has never
knowingly advocated the wrong, and Goc
helping ms il never will.