The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-03-19
TAR AND FEATHERS.
Wholesale LyiBE-Lyon County sIanl-
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o, What Shall We Do?
AGNES CITY, March 10, 1873.
EDITOR ENPoRIA NEWS Dear SIR
On my return home yesterday from
a trip down in Texas, my attention
was called to an article published in
THE NEWS of the 9TH inst. for one,
Mr.. NJ. j. o., of Neosho Rapids, which
L respectfully beg leave to reply to
through your paper. Mr.. II. j. o.
takes tor his text an article published
in the Denison Times, which article he
| assumes was gotten up by one Robt.
Clark, claiming to be of Lyon county,
Kansas. Then he bursts out with his
language of comments, reproofs and
threateninga, which language and cpl
thets l wish the public to consider, and
the motives that the gentleman had in
view in making them.
l am the gentleman alluded to in
the article of the Denison Times, but l
am not responsible for the exact Ian
guage of said article. l was elected
or chosen by the citizens of Agnes
City township, on the Both of January,
1873, to go to Texas to solicit aid for
our destitute neighbors, ard my ere.
dentlals were properly made out, and
| received certificate from Mr.. Craig,
orr county clerk, and 4 letter of rec
omendatiOn from Mr.. F. S. Slower, and
credentials from three oranges az my
outfit, and set out on the 9th of Feb.
After visiting some of my acquaint-
ances in Denison, and receiving letters
of introduction from them to other
parties OF the city, 1 visited the mayor
and the printing offices OF Denison.
Both editors said that they you'd give
notice of my mission In their CITY.
The editor of the Times, Mr.. Baker,
wrote up short notice for his daily
paper. which lie read to me. and 1 APP
proved of it, Mr.. Baker said TO me
that he would give further notice in
his next issue. 1 told him, in our
conversation, that there was a great
deal Of suffering in our state, and that
had seen paper statements, up to she
time that L left home, of the deaths OF
some twenty-five or thirty persons
that had frozen and died, and that
there had been several deaths In sixty
or siXty-five miles OF where lived,
caused by the cold and the want of
proper food and clothing. From this
statement Mr.. Baker made up his arti-
Gle that sets my friend, Mr.. NJ. j. O..
in such state Of asony, which hope
may not prove as fatal to him and his
business as he iniagines.
1 claim to be responsible for Just
what have said, and TO more. Mr..
Baker uses the word "near' to Empo-
ria in his article, which word / am
not responsible for; neither do blame
MIR. Baker, for 1t was some time after
we had our talk that he made up his
article. L know that he acted in good
faith, wishing his remarks to be bene-
fetal to the people of Kansas. And
now, Mr.. NJ. J. O., do not know who
you are, or what your business is !;
but 1 would naturally suppose that
you are one of the good old Samari-
tans, that, if you could flHd any OBJ
iects Of charity, you would relieve
them, though it should take all of your
star and feathers" to do so. OF course
you are not engaged in any real estate
business-O, no, of course not. A
gentleman of your fine feelings would
not dare to engage in any such traffic
as that.
And now if you will only write to
me, l will give you the names of sew
eral families that live in Lyon county,
that have had to live on bread and
rye-tea for a mouth at a time during
the cold weather, and are probably still
in no better condition. And I am
sure that man Of your pride of coun-
ty would have too much pride to let
women and children suffer if you only
knew of such cases. You say that YOU
do not know who / am. l will tell
you as near as can. L am a citizen
of Agnes City township, Lyon county,
Kansas. L have been living in this
state nine years, and in Lyon county
about four years of that time. 1 be-
lieve that my reputation for truth is
an average with those that L associate
with. And now 1 hope that have
not done any injustice to you, nor to
Lyon county in making this my reply.
ROM. CLARK, Agnes City.
"REAARKs.-Not n person has died
in this county or elsewhere in kansas
from suffering that we know Of"
This remark l find under the above
heading. If the persons making this
statement believe anything in news
paper statements, l cannot see how
they can make the above assertion. I
know that they do believe paper re-
ports, or they would not have written
said article under the above heading of
remarks. ROBERT CLARK.