The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1874-10-22
Allen VS. Jewett.

"A qnizzical paragraph in our last is-
sue directed TO our old friend w. T.
Jewett. the mixed party candidate for
Representative, brings to the fore a
defender, who, over the signature Of
'Fair Play" elsewhere, accepts our. in-
tima,iors as direct charges, and makes
answer by attacking the record of Hon.
T.. Il. Allen. But for the fact of the
personal knowledge that our CORES
pondent is honest in his exhibit, we
would pass over the communication
unnoticed, constituting, as it does, no
sufficient defense of Mr. Jewett.
Fair Play" dose not play fair when
he SAYS that Mr.. Jewett "does not
vaunt himself as heavy tax payer
and further, that he never had any
thing TO do with any railroad scheme,
except to oppose with all his influence
the voting of the 100000 of railroad
bonds for Sedgwick county, in aid of
the Wichita & Southwestern rail-
road" For he is Il heavy property
holder all the same, and if he is not q
heavy tax payer it is not the fault of
the assessor who failed to persuade
Mr.. Jcwett to swear to his list. 1t is
begging the question. As to his OPP
position TO the voting Of $500, GOO IN
bonds, Fair PLAY" must know that
Mr.. Jewctt not only agreed to support
the proposition, but to 90 $50, 900 bet
ter, provided the road was run by
way Of Park City, and that his opposi-
ton to the 100000 bonds was engen-
dered simply because he couldn't build
up his town at the expense of the
county at large. This is also matter
of record. and under the oath OIL. G..
Sluss, made July 1871. And further,
Mr.. Jewett was strong advocate of
the thirty or forty thousand dollar
township BOMBS which were voted for
the "Cimaron Valley Railroad,"a road
that made Park City point, but
which was never built.
AS to the charge that DR.. Allen
voted for the bill "exempting mort
cages from taxation" and that the
Doctor had admitted the vote to be a
"serious mistake we say if mis-
take. and if the law was n bad one,
what more under heavens could You
ask of an honest, honorable, upright
man than such an admission. The
law was a measure to obviatc the evil
of double taxation and was drafted,
further, with view to relieve the
money borrower and not the money
lender. Al such il was advocated by
many of the best, ablest and purest
men of both houses. And it was re-
pealetl because a cry was raised against
thought it bad. Every poor man that
borrows money by mortgaging his
real estate knows that the loaner adds
to the interest the amount that the
mortgage is taxed. The money loan
er won't loose the amount, so the bor-
rover is forced 10. There would be
ten times as much. money sent to this
state, to loan at four or five per cent.
less than it is now loaned, but for the
taxation OH mortgages. If Doctor Al
len thinks he made mistake, and says
he's sorry for il, all honor to'him say
we, for such acknowledgement is the
surcst guaranty that he is conscien-
cions puplic servant. According to
Fair Plays" own admission the Doc
tor did just right OH the "debenturc
act,'' for Oh the final passage of a bill, a
refusal to vote is equivalent to vote
against the bill.
AS TO Mr.. Jewett's pitching into the
EAGLE, that was all legitimate warfare
in political contest, and all the
EAGLE desired was to let that honor
able gentleman know that it could
talk to as many as he. and as pointed.