The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-05-20
oP1N1oys OF THE PRESS.
From the St. Louis Republican.

Is we'll knOwH III hdnsds ds Z politlcidn anu
journalist; an outspoken, independent and
man. In past years he has
gained the reputation of one not TO be
triHed with. but long age, expressed his in
tention of avoiding in future all personal
encounters, and OF devotins himself exclu-
siyely 10 his newspaper. The resolution
thus expressed Col. Anthony carried out.
No man in Kansas has more Of a reputa-
ton for utter fearlessness, and yet of late
years, on more than one occasion, Col. An
thony has submitted to insults rather than
engage in difficulty. Embry, the man
who shot him, lately made a personal as
sault upon and even kicked him, Anthony
retreating without resistance. The trouble
grew out OF certain structures made by An
thony upon the Printers' Union, Of Leaven-
worth and the circumstances indicate a de-
iberate attempt to entice him into a person.
al encounter and to kill him. On Monday
night, for the first time, Anthony's passions
overcame him, and he struck his prosecutor;
then he was deliberately shot down. He
was unarmed at the time, evidence enough
of his peaceful intentions, and fell before
three shots More than one man seer;s TO
have been implicated in the successful at
tempt upon his life, though only one did
the shooting. The unyielding disposition
of Col. Anthony made him enemies, and
there is something short of an actual gloat-
ing over the affair among the class who hate
bold, OutspOken man by instinct. If the
courts of Leavenworth have a regard for
the reputation Of the city, swift and heavy
punishment will follow the killing of a
man who, whatever his faults, stood fore
most among the leading spirits of the State.
Col. Anthony was the youngest brother OF
Susan B. Anthony, the famous advocate of
woman's rights, and leaves widow and
three children amply provided for.
From the St. Louis Globe.l
The shooting of Col. Anthony, at Leaven-
worth, was surely most cowardly, if not an
utterly unprovoked attempt at assassina-
ton. 1t is not worth while to discuss the
merits Of the original quarrel, or the char
acter of the man who was shot. Col. An
thony may have had all the bad traits
which his enemies have ascribed to him,
and many more but he had not provoked
this murder, or attempt at murder. He
may have been in the wrong during the
entire course of the quarrel, ard yet
he seems, judging from the tone of the
paper, to have acted with reason and mod
Grafton. 1t is evident, from all accounts OF
the ARRAY, that he did not bring on the DIFF
ficulty in which he was wounded. There
is no question that he WIS unarmed at the
time OF the shooting, and his friends assert
that he was not in the habit OF carrying
weapons. 1t as highly probable that his as
sailant was aware of these facts, and en-
deavored to fasten a quarrel upon him,
with the intention OF taking his life. The
place where the shooting occurred, and the
circumstances attending it, give the deed a
vet more cowardly and malignant charac-
ter. Colonel Anthony was at place Of
public amusement, Tin the peace Of the
State" and accompanied by his wife. If a
man cannot be safe from assassination at
such place and under such circumstan-
ces, when and where can he be safe Even
according to the evidently partisan and
one-sided account which was sent to the
St. Joseph Gazette, there was no justifica-
ton for the shooting, and it must be pro-
nounced an assassination. II he struck
Embry on the mouth, and then fled up
stairs, none but the most jealous partisan
of the pistol would decide that that act
gave Embry a right to shoot at him as he
ran. But it is to be hoped that the people
of Leavenworth have not yet to learn that
even blow upon the mouth does not justi-
fy a resort to the ready revolver. 1t is al
so to be hoped that they are not prepared
to Justify the carrying of deadly weapons,
and their deadly use upon slight provoca-
ton.
From the Pacla Spirit
The details Of the shooting of the editor
of the Leayenworrh TINES will be found in
another column. From all the infcrma-
ton we can get since the occurrence, we be-
lieye it to be a fair and truthful account of
the affair. Embry seems to have been
bounding Anthony from the first. Alto
pether, the shooting OF Anthony seems to
have been an unjustifiable and most damna-
Bile act. The plea that Anthony was a dan
gerous man will not avail Embry. The
Saturday previous he had met Anthony on
the public streets and assaulted him. At
that time Anthony was certainly as dan
eerous as he was on the following Monday
night. Yet Embry did not hesitate to at
tack him, and did not seem to realize that
it was necessary to shoot him down to save
his own life. He Dragged about this in his
own paper. Forty-eight hours after, he
shoots Anthony, the man he had kicked,
and justifes himself on the ground that he
was dangerous character, and that his
own life was in peril, 1t would seem that
Embry, not Anthony, was the dangerous
party throughout this difficulty, and We
have no doubt it has terminated just as he
intended it should. We believe he ought
to be hanged.
From the German Fret Presse.
We have it from good authority that
when Embry met Col. ID. X. Anthony on
Delaware street last Saturday, he, Embry,
had revolver In his right hand, and IL
Anthony had made move to defend him.
sell, 1t was undoubtedly the intention OF
Embry to shoot him on the spot, hence the
murder was IN all probabilities, premedita-
ted, and there Is no doubt that there were
others July aware oil his intentions. That
what Anthony has said about the Printers'
Union was not sufficient to justify the crime
OF murder, no one Will deny, Tor Anthony
would have had the same right to shoot
Embry after charging him In the 1PPeot
With being "an assassin, seducer, thief, liar
and the Y'iest coward ever allowed to live
IN respectful community
Anthony has, through his passionate
high temper, made for himself many enc
mics, but that there should be any of the
latter eKulting over the murderous action
OF the assassin, is to be regretted, as it
shows lamentable depravity of mind and
good morals. The Topeka Commonwealth,
Atchison Champion, and other State papers,
denOunce, In the most emphatic manner,