The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-24

Mr.. EDrroR

Dear Sir. In the last issue of the In
sepesdext, TINE Hon. L. G. KINNE ANTI
MoxorofY, INDEPENDENT, DEMOCRATIC,
FREE VIM AND BEER Candidate for Dis
trict Attorney, the TEARLY CANDIDATE
Tor Office, and the man who has been try
ing to dodge all the Offices, that has BEEN
after him 10, these many years,
and signaly failed, opened up his sluice
gate of yulgarity, pretending to answer
my communication in your paper Of the
10th, inst. Permit me therefore to re-
spcnd to him in person.
In that communication I charged you
Kline, that on the Sabbath, in the Court |
House, while Rev F. NJ. Robertson was
divine service in the same
building, with writing an article which
was published in the Independent as an
editorial wherein you charged Mr.. Jaqua
A. n Poyneer, John Ramsdell and myself
with stealing about $500 out of the county
treasury, and also charging the Board of
Supervisors with malfcasance in office.
did not say one word as l now recollect
imputing to you that you wilfully misrep-
resented the matter, but threw the mantle
of charity over the statements as III Oh as
possible, and contributed it to your igno-
rance of the facts in reference thereto.
However since your acknowledgement,
that you did not know whether or not the
money was used as you charged, am in
clined to the opinion that the prevarica
ton was premeditated and wilful.
You say am a coward: grant it, and do
you mean by that, you are nots and
that you are ''fghtist," would hardly
suspected it if you had not published it.
will not for one moment deny but what
you are very courageous fellow-a per-
feet Heenan, Bully Brooks-and as bod
as sheep. 1t is great wonder you do
not emigrate to some country where your
fighting qualities can and ould be appre
ciated. 1t is generally believed by par
ties acquainted with the circu Instances
that you wrote the articles published in
the Liberal and Press, wherein you Wilt
fed the chara ter # L. CLARK, G. Jaqua,
John Ramsdell, and great many others,
that might name simply because they
did not Greelyize with you. You publish
ed statement that was defaulter to
the road fund in about $500 after you
were told by one of your personal friends
that | had receipts for more money paid out
than received. 1t is generally concededby
your neighbors that you wrote the articles
published III the Independent traducing
the Town council because they increased
the price for license to sell beer and wine,
and yillifying the ladies Of Toledo for cir
culating petition asking the council to
town, and accusing one of our best ladies
sin steaming it as ever" after signing the
pledge You wrote the article on Sabbath
as charged in my communication to the
CHRONICLE There is no doubt but what
YOU wrote or dictated the article wickedly
and maliciously villifying the charcter Of
Rev F. NJ Robertson; and in all of those
communications you dared not sign your
true name. And be,ieve the Rev. MIR.
Childs did not escape your slang, all be-
cause he would not surrender to you his
views on the temperance question. Will
any one say that person that can do the
above is q coward?" if he should he
ought to be gibbetcd, Brave, Brave as 4
sheep!
You say that ''promulgate falsehoods
behind mans back" Do you mean that
you do not? did you notprevaricate little,
just little, down at Chelsea, when you
.old the people down there that the pro
position to publish the tax list by the
CHRONICLE and Citizen was ten cents to
each paper? Did not prove you to be
falsifier by your own chosen witnesses
viz: S. W. Hutton and John Ramsdell,
backed up by G. Jaqua? now do you not
think that Won knew that the above pro-
position was ten cents TO both papers?
If YOU were mistaken and it occurred
through ignorance in not knowing how to
construe the proposition say so and every
one will believe you, and ] will believe
YOU a second George Washington. If any
person acquainted with your communica-
tons published in the newspapers of this
county, and with the facts connected
Herewith should call you liar or even in
innate that you could cut the little
tree with your little Ratchet and not own it,
they should be tied to the stake and
burned for their impudence.
Are you not little forgetful when you
say YOU do not want to get into a news
paper controversy with ne? Il don't mean
YOU lie) There are not ten men in this coun-
ty but what are well acquainted with the
fact that in the papers for the past two
years, you have in every way conceivable
tried to defame my character as well as
that Of my family. and never paid any
attention to it until answered your "slop-
ping OYER at Chelsea You know you
,.;~a oxo,tc the people "-ainat Stivnrs s.
Safely by charging that they were work
ing in the interest of the defendants in the
County Bond Case No attention was
paid to it by the firm or either Of them.
You know you belied them because the
Board of Supervisors would not hire you
as County Attorney last January. All
this was done in your paper. over some
assumed title or name and "you do not
want to entire into a newspaper contro
versy." You say your record is made. ]
believe it, and as an anonymous scribbler
in the newspaper it is not an envious one
either! and as a lawyer you say it will
show in the many cases you here tried
with me &c, Now Kline don't you know
YOU never tried lawsuit with me in your
life? You have played second fiddle to
other LAWYERS in some cases, but did not
allude in my communication to the
CHRONICLE to your ability as an Attorney;
I only mentioned the fact that it was quite
impoltic to elect you to the Office OF Dis
trict Attorney of the 9Th Judicial District,
when you had tried but two criminal
cases, and had very bad luck with them:
you may be a Daniel Webster or second
Rufus Choate or Tiffany for aught
know; may be you are; and if any
one acquainted with your brilliant profess
sional career in this county, would dare to
question it we will have him disbarred
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