The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-01-29

Shylock, from one man, as "illegal and
usurious interest" No wonder, rs the
scriptures say, esthe land shall be ut
terly emptied and utterly spoiled
No wonder that grasshoppers. chineh-
bugs, drouth and general devastation
came, and utter stagnation to our city,
when such hypocrites and grasping,
avericions demagogues came as this
Jay, violating both the laws of God
and man with Drazeu effrontery that
would shame the devil himself. And
yet this man has the impudence to set
himself up in judgment upon my char
acter! This public villifler and falsi-
fer may deceive many, but not me.
How does his actions stand beside OF
mine? 1 have lived in this commune
~ for nearly eighteen years, and du-
ring that time. have been engaged in
various branches of business, and by
the favor and confidence of the peo-
pie, have, nearly the whole time, held
some official position. This Jersey
fraud has lived here about four wears.
and during this short time his transac-
tlons will not bear the test of either
honor or honesty. The people know
me, or ought TO, at least, better than
he does. While in business, 1 had
thousands of dollars standing out, yet
never have forced a collection ut
law, nor have 1 ever in any instance
demanded or taken usurious interest.
How now does his character and bear
ing compare with even so bad one as
mine? l care not what the fool may
think-I know the verdict which the
fair-minded, unparalleled, sensible
citizen will render, as between us. In
any other respect I will cheerfully
compare my actions, motives and pur-
poses with the actions, motives and
purposes of this tax-smuggling, con-
sciencious, avericiouE, anti-license,
law breaking. beer-guzzling hypocrite,
who buys his beer by the keg and the
pail full, and yet, in the face of these
facts. declares that he never drank
gallon in all his lifei This assertion
may be believedI where he is not
known, but it will hardly be accepted
as the truth in the city.
L was not surprised on reading his
denial of every question asked him.
knowing what 1 do of him, ex-
pected it. For various reasons 1 am
inclined to think the denial is merely
technical, and does not reach the spir-
it of the questions propounded. The
words and form are nothing; the spir-
1t and import are what we are after;
still, as the man said to his wife when.
he came home and caught another man
under the bed, "innocent, no doubt,
but circumstances look mighty suspi-
ciOus." Nor do care to fortify my
self, particularly, by dragging in the
names of other parties. When we
consider the fact that he is doing BUSH
ness on the capital of some one else.
and that, too, in, by, through, under
and on the top of the names of the
"boys," and that the mortgages, leins,
transfers, assignments, lodges, quIrks,
twists and shystering arrangements
ne has made to avoid paying taxes on
upwards of $4,000, as was shown by
the records to be in his name, and vet,
not his %, all go to show that he is
far more slippery and Shiny all over,
from head to foot, inside and out, hand
and tongue, mind and heart than the
most Shiny specimen mentioned in the
list OF loathsome and repulsive reptiles.
MY "slimy tongue" as he is pleased to
term it, could neither add to nor take
from the slime, oOze, green scum, fetid
and poisonous filth thrown to the sur
face in his last communication. 1t
will certainly settle back to the source
from whence it came. He has de-
seended SO far below the plane of a
gentleman that should certainly be
debasing myself to undertake to follow
him merely for the purpose of trying
to excel in the use of abusive language.
He has overleaped himself and lit on
the wrong end of his legs, and in that
situation propose to leave him-hav-
ing, as many have expressed the opin-
ion, hurt himself worse than he has
me, and failing after strenuous effort
to make single point against my pri-
vate or public actions. 1t shows the
extremity to which he was driven
when he had to go back about four
years and bring up the old story that
was circulated on the eve of the cleo
ton for political purposes, when Mr..
Overstreet and myself were running
for the legislature, and which was de-
MED in card published at the time.
over the signature of the person charg-
ed with starting it. This story 1 have
heretofore proven false, at least half
dozen times. The people have on
several occasions since rebuked the
repetition of it, as matter of justice:
and l think this man Jay will hard
ly be justified in his attempt to
drag it up and palm it off as a new and
important discovery OF his own. 1t
shows his weakness, his lack of origin
ality, his want of truthfulness and his
utter inability to make a point against
me. would say to him that he need
not take up the cause of the sold wo-
man" nor the preachers" He will
have quite enough to do to take care
of himself. Nor need he seek refuge
behind the latter nor beside the form
er. The searching truth will yet Bills
ter his salamander skin wherever he
may stand. Though the sold woman"
may have no big brother, she has, in
the person of Jay, what answers her
purposes as well-a big LooJy. Con-
sidering the fact that he frequently
writes articles the same week for both
papers-one perhaps over his own sig
nature and the other not $50 as to
make people believe several persons
are endorsing his views, when it's all
Jay HIMSELF, am led to think that
Jay really is the sold woman" and
with characteristic duplicity desires to
put the shoe on somebsdy's else foot,
and, when on, howl, as in this instance,
that meant this, that or the other
one and cry tGik,a too badI to- +oo 49,