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


ken into consideration, L think your
readers will not only excuse but justi-
~ the attention shall give it.
/ want to show who this mortal is.
and, TO some extent, at least. tear from
him the mask that hides him from the
public gaze. Read the acts, character.
motives and designs OF this man who
has so bitterly denounced me. as I
shall delineate them, and then con-
denim me if you will. A mans repu-
tation is naturally very dear tn him,
and 1t should stand or fall by the facts,
upon a fair hearing before an impair
tiai public. wish it borne in mind
that in my last communication, which
was In reply to former one of his, l
desired, and went so far only as to i'm
press upon him the fact that he and
all others live in houses constructed
more or less OF E'glass,' (if all are hui
man, and that In throwing stones
more windows than one might become
shattered. The pebble or two that /
then cast upon his brittle and trans
parent shsnty so badly damaged it
that while he may endeavor to patch
1t up and try to make people believe
that 1t is as good as ever, yet 1 am in
clined to think it will be like the child
that was kicked in the face by the
mule-possibly AS good, but hardly as
pretty.
So far as his abusive language is con-
cerncd. 1 should care nothing about it
did l not believe that its aim was to
storm down opposition, which oppo-
sition might possibly prevent the
running of his lumber yard (or the
"boys'" lumber yard, 'or whosever Ium-
Der yard it ISL on the city fer anoth-
eryear, and the covering of designs OF Il
mercenary character in other respects,
both as 10 the city and individuals.
The abuse 1 could take, but it is the
motive prompting it that / desire to
resent and beat down, not only in the
interest Of the city, but the people
generally. l, therefore, feel toward
this blowing adder rs the illiterate JUS
tice of the peace did to the man whom
ne tried for stealing a sheep and hog,
and not knowing what the form of the
verdict he desired to render should he.
entered upon his docket that he should
"let him go on the sheep, but hold him
on the hog So L might treat this
sugar-coated pill that worked Off the
bile in the last number of THE NEWS
for if ever any man in this eountrv
has tried to "hog up" more than this
thing Jay, don't know it. When he
first came here he went for the city
treasury as hound pup goes for a
mush pot, and he came very near not
only gulping down all the mush, but
getting away with the pot. He exhib-
lied most ravenous appetite when he
got his nose into the city treasury. bv
virtue of his position as mayor, and if
some of us had not got injunclions
against his grasping operations, he
would, undoubtedly, have played Boss
Tweed's game on the city, and with
the treasury, bankrupted individuals.
myself, perhaps, among the number.
He showed fearful nav for money.
L am so reliably informed that, at
least, L believe the story, that bids for
furnishing lumber to build the seven
or eight miles of sidewalk, while he
was mayor, were rejected, or not con-
sidered, or spirited away" which bids
proposed- to furnish the lumber many
dollars less on the thousand feet than
1t was furnished from Mr.. Jaws ward
and we, the lot owners, must not
even inquire into it, nor say a word :
If we do, we must be characterized by
this soulless sponge, which Belongs to
neither the animal nor vegetable king
doms, as dishonest and desiring to
avoid the payment of just debts. ]
wish here to inform him that 1 have
always paid my honest debts, and if ]
owe any man cent to-day, let him call
and he will get his money. But l
don't propose to pay Boss-Tweed con-
tracts to even such small imitator OF
rascally transactions as this galvanized
speciman of Jersey whifflers-this man,
who, as am reliably informed, when
bidding to furnish bill ofIumber pro-
posed to do it for S25 less than anv
other mans bid, which is not only an
unfair and sneaking manner of doing,
bur it is the next thing, at least, to
orlbing man to tell what another's
bid is; and he who will do a thing OF
this kind would not stop to make I'D
the amount on his next unsuspectino
customer. Over his own signature,
not long since, he undertook to falsely
impress the public, by advertising that
it was his own capital he was using in
the lumber business here, when, in
fact, according to his own statement,
made to the county commissioners TO
avoid paying the taxes on upwards of
$4,000, his advertisement was false,
and thus, by his own action and decla-
ration, he proves himself to be either a
liar or swindler, and he can take Ell
ther home of the dilemma he chooses.
If the money belonged to the AGO.
part of the firm, the mortgages in
jays name here were subject TO taxa
ton. If Jay & Co. were doing BUSH
ness here on borrowed capital, his adj
vertisement was false and put forth to
deceive the public and stake the stran-
ger ina sort of Peter Funk lnmber
yard; and would advise the "boys, -
for whom he is new clerking, to turn
him off that their business NAV not
suffer by his connection with it in
any capacity whatever.
Go to the district clerks Office and
you will find papers there ON file in
which it is alleged that this sweet and
spotless character, this noble and mag
unanimous spirit, this generous-hearted
Jay, in about three years, squeezed
from one citizen, on a mortgage he
held against him, on which he PERTAINS
paid no taxes, the sum of fourteen
hundred and thirty-two dollars and fif-
ty cents as "lllegal and usurious inter-
est" This shows an unselfish motive.
don't it? Here is a model mana be-
nevolent and christian gentleman.
Read what the scriptures say Of such a
man and Suoh transactions o,,zso .