The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-06-23
THE SKUNK SKINNED AND THE
Is HIDE TANNED.

pefVersIon OF language oflictai cour-
tesy sometimes requires of u.s. 1.-THE
gentIemans from Chase" notwith-
standing the skinning heretofore re-
ceived, appears In the last issue of the
News with another communication,
the .sintent and purpose" of which,
when understood, viii more fully show
the designing and untruthful charac-
ter of the man. Having finished the
skinning, now propose to tan the
hide. Even this is an unpleasant job.
A newspaper controversy is as dis
tasteful to me as it Is to any one else.
dislike to engage in il. I also dis
like to be misrepresented. In all these
matters affecting public Interests and
the reputation OF individuals, officially
or privately, the truth is what we want.
When we finallF get. it, we can then
judge what is bestt0 be done.
twill be remembered thatI did not
commence this controversy. Before
had said word, publicIy, in regar d
to Wood, he wrote communication
to the News, replying to short edi-
torial In the paper about Japanese.
In that communication Mr.. Wood
most recklessly, 50 far as the truth was
concerned, siaslied in to the News, the
board of regents of the Normal, the
faculty and myself. He wrote as
though one stroke of his pen would
annililate the NEWS, throw the board
of regents and the faculty into con-
sternation, and MYSELF into oblivion.
The egotism, impudence and audacity
he displayed In that communication
required sstaking down" little. He
paraded himself as the Irishman did at
the fair, who strutted forth with the
air of a bully desiring q row. He
wanted some one to tread on the tail
of his coat. Il modestIy complied
with the invitation. Now, II 1 shall
convict him of ihsincerity and down.
right falsehood, the verdict of his
friends In Chase county. IL they are
honest, must be in my favor, and
against him, because the truth must
be sustained. hsf.- fe.s
In my former articles entered into
no defense of the Normal, the board of
regents, nor the faculty, as against the
| pevish trivial, foolish, false, insane
drivelings OF this pinch-back reformer.
In this ne was undoubtedly disap-
pointed. Because I did not do it, he
saws in his last article: "ue {Esk-
ridge) seems to'forget the school al
together, and if your school should
finally go down, its friends, for Esk-
ridge Is not one of them, may thank
such articles as Eskridge's." Why is
he so anxious that i should not forget
the school in this controversy In
his former communication he says the
Normal school here is my "peC." In
the above extract from his last COM
munication, he says l am not a friend
of the Normal. In his former commu-
nication he says, "we could and would
have appropriated 81 900 to $4,000 for
the Emporia Normal SCHOOL, had it
not been for this that and some
thing else. Now, when the ways and
means committee of the house report
ed back and recommended the passage
of bill for SO. 500, Mr.. Wood, as the
proceedings will show, said it was an
''insult to the House,. The man is
either natural fool, or he has become
insane over the establishment of the
Normal school here. 1t is not person.
al feeling or opposition to met is
not that he has any real objections to
| the manner in which the school is
conducted-it is not in, the interest of
the State or the tax payers that he
opposes it. 1t is tn crafty personal
feeling against Emporia. Why this
feeling against Emporia? Let me exc
plain. He has been member of the
Legislature many times from Morris
and Chase, adjoining counties to this,
and while something for this county
was always accomplished, and the in
terests of the State promoted thereby,
he failed always to secure anything
| for his constituents or to even favor
what they regarded for their general
interest. ] ealousy, therefore, is one
cause OF his opposition to Emporia, or
to any person or any interest In En-
poria. Another reason for his HOSTILE
ty to this place is the fact that the
people of his own county, a few years
ago, on account of his principles and
actions, petitioned Judge Brown,
then of Emporia, just before ala cleo
tion, to remove to Cottonwood Falls,
that with him they might beat Wood
for district judge, which they did. We
had no railroads in those days and
Brown came near loosing the election,
not from sharp contest or close
vote, but he started from Emporia late
in the day, and it was nearly midnight
when he reached the Falls. If Brown
had been two hours latter he would
not have been eligible to the Office by
reason of his not having lived In the
county thirty days Immediately preced.
ing the election. This in my opinion, is
another cause of the reformer's oppo-
sition to Emporfa. But for this defeat
Oh 0lSs the ClJlLSuS Vi EmpOEIa WCIt
not responsible. Still, as Brown went
from this place, Wood, of course, can
have no love for us. He tries to
make people believe that he did the
right thing IA voting against the APP
! preparations for the school. He turns
right around and says he was willing
to vote "a 900 or $1,000; and yet star
ing him in the face is his record
where he said in the Heuse that it was
an insult for the ways and means
committee to even offer bill for So
500. The Normal is, my "Ket,,' he
says in one article; then, forgetting
himself, says in another, I am no
friend to it. leave it to the honest
reader, ever in Chase county, II all
these inconsistent and contradictory
statements don't convict this political
charlatan of more than insincerity. To
i show further that his opposition to