The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-01-08
A RESIDENT OF A GLASS HOUSE

MR.. EDIToR:-Thanks for your can
did and truthful criticism in the last
number of your paper on the Hon
Charles VOlmer Eskridge's attempt to
hoOdwink his constituents. know Il
is contrary to established usage to kick
an. unclean animal when it is already
FRUSTRATED, but as the Shiny serpent
may wriggle again to his feet, notw It'll
standing the truthful castigation you
SO ably gave him, will, with your
permission, look through the broken
glass land every pane ia broken,) OF
his windows, and lay bare some of his
canting sophistry.
Had this able falsifyer (and none
shouid deny his ability,) DEVOTED to
good instead of evil the talent he pos
sesses, had he used that talent for the
benefit Of the people, instead of devOt-
lag it exclusively to sorded and selfish
purposes, he would have been a bene-
factor instead OF q scourge to his spe-
cies. Let me ask Charles Volmer Esk-
ridge, In all seriousness, if he did not
for the purpose OF securing the support
of the moral voters of the LIST ward, say
that he "waS against license, first, last
and all the time 90 After he answers
this question, will ask him if he did
not, shortly after his election, tell a
member of the council from the second
ward that he was decidedly In favor of
licenses, and pledged himself to vote
for an ordinance drawn up by said
member in favor of granting licenses
/ would ask, also, If he did not in
struct the clerk OF council to call his
name among the last on the attempte
passage of that famous ordinance, So
that he might vote for or against it as
the exigencies of the case required? /
would also ask him If he did not make
a speech on Its attempted passage
strongly and decidedly in favor of it,
upon its merits, nOtw MISLEADING he
had told Mr.. Hanna that she was OPP
posed to it first, last, and all the time
and then when he saw tie indignant
looks of his constituents who were In
force In the council chamber, voted
against it upon the express ground
that he was q representative from 8
ward that WIS opposed to its passage
and he was bound to carry out the
views of his Immediate constituents p
1 would again ask him If he has not ev-
err since. voted to sell whisky, notwith-
standing his immediate constituents, ,
by q vote of two to one, cast their
suffrages against licensing its sale2 Sc
much for his consistency, and now
once more, in all seriousness, let me
ask Charles Volmer Eskridge il he and
such a. he are not responsible for all
the costs accruing to the city from the
license suits? Ifhe and some half dOz.
en- other responsible and selfish citi
zens had Joined the small army of tenn
. perance reformers, and aided instead
OF fighting the friends of morality, tn,
license suits never would have occur
red. The grog shop keepers woul'
3 never haYe arisen to the front, woul,
: never have dared to carry on their in
3 famous traffic, had not Charles Volme
EskrIdge and kindred ilk patted Their
on the back, called them "bully boys,
r and told them to 60 on, for that he an
: hey would see them through and fire.
e from harm, provided the ''thirty piece
d of silver should come to him In tn
Q way of rent for his saloons.
: say again, that to Charles VolmG
= Eskridge, more than to any other maj
# are the people of Emporia indebted fl
e the city's lawsuits. Has the erudII
n gentleman forgotten that the city hi
:e had other law suits on her hands, d
lie rectly chargeble to him? Has he fOrgo
N ten how he begged and prayed the eli
ID authorities to have the street in fro
rs Of his property macsdamized, and sta
lie ing that his tenants were complaint
in of q loss OF custom in consequence
ID the delay in having it done? Do
T. the gentleman recOllect that as soon
ot his request was complied with and Il
= work finished, that, with the tr
q. mAgnanimity and generosity
r. which he is noted, he prayed out an j
" junction restraining the city from &
d, leetiug the pay thereon. and has n
" paid it TO this day, but, on the cOntT
I'd ~, has put the city to hundreds OF d.
he lars expense in trying to recover fri
sy him, Charles VOlmer Eskridge,
lis honest duesp Has the gentleman be
r. enjoying g Rip Van Wrinkle sleep, q
rs, thinks his constituents are blind,
at have forgotten all these things? If
and he wants to be enlightened up