The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-28
RATHER Personal.
Esl<rIdse sakins Ihe Chase
County skunk.
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April oath, 1865
EDITORS NEWS: From a commu-
in the last number of your
paper, am led to believe there is a
skunk in Chase county that needs
skinning, and although considered
''too dead to skin,'' 1 shall nevertheless
undertake the disagreeable job. The
skunk of which l am writing Gi ffer
from the native polecat, not so much
in the thinness as in the in
tensity of the offensive means
by which it sickens and re-
pels every body with whom it comes in
contact. In Chase eounty they have
another name for this animal. They
call it "Sam Wood The animal,
however, is the same, by whatever
name it may be called. More from the
formation and appearance of the body
than from any facial expr, ssion or the
shape o: its head, many persons regard
this animal as the "lost link" but
from its offensive and repulsive nature,
its mode and means of attack and de-
fense, as well as from its low, spitefHl,
idiotic, hyena-like grin, hazard bat
little in expressing the opinion that it
should be classed with the skunk fami-
ly. II however we are to place It
just over the dividing line between
man and the lower order of animals,
we must admit that It will be good
thing for the monkeys and skunks, but
a bad thing for. our already overburd-
ened humanity. If now we shall con-
slider him as linked to the tail end of
our struggling civilization, he can GER
tainly be regarded as nothing more
than a dirty, coarse, low-browed'
foul-mouthed buffoon, practicing more
the antics an tricks of the monkey or
clown than the ordinary virtues of an
Out-east Kaw Indian. Those who
know him, know him to be a moral,
political and financial bankrupt,
treacherous, deceitful and false, I'M
worthy of credit, confidence or respect.
If Kansas owed the devil a world of
liars, thieves and scoundrels, and he
did not take this Chase county monde
script in full satisfaction of the debt, he
would be unworthy of the dominion in
which he is said to rule.
Last fall the people of Chase county,
IN the generosity of their souls, con-
cluded thew would blow the breath OF
political life once more into the putrid
carcass of this driveling Iunatic, under
the impression, which was shared to
some extent by myselfa and others, that
his long oblivion had served to modify
and change his nature; that if given
another chance he would probably pur-
sue a more high-minded, dignified,
honorable and truthful course than
was his habit years ago, when lodging
managed occasionally, to slip
eyer, TO betray the confidence
of his constituents, and in the most
unblushing and blatant manner, OPP
pose the highest interests of his coun-
ty, section and state, except, l may say,
those interests established along the
Kaw river.
In all his legislative career what
good has he done the people whom he
has represented Have they anything
to show, more than they had before, as
the result of his efforts? He declared
in the legislature that he was opposed
to immigration coming into the State or
into Chase county. He abused the
people, and in the most unbecoming
and shameless manner, did what he
could to injure and destroy the reputa-
ton of the State. Nothing in the
State was right-everything wrong.
a
Gently clamored for by this chattering
ape, and at least one fourth of the time
of the House, costing thousands of dol
lars, was consumed by this pinch back
retormer in fillibustering and discus
sing points of order. To such an eX-
treme did he go in his disorderly con-
duct that the Speaker had to order him
under arrest, and the mistake the
Speaker made, was that he didn't keep
him there. He seeks notoriety-such
conduct brings notoriety-he apes Ben.
Butler-ape is as near as he
can come to him. He knows enough,
however, to know that 1t Is easier to
tear down than it is to build up. and
therefore his individual success being
the paramount thing with him, he OPP
poses anything and everything, with
out regard TO its merits, which he
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chance, a measure cannot be defeated,
whatever My be his private feelings
in regard to it, he will favor ii, and
then exclaim with a deceitfulness for
which he is noted, " / did all this-lay
| it to me; or give me the credit" "a the
case may be. In other words, he is
bound to turn up as the champion on
the winning side. He would fllllbus-
ter for a week oyer the employment OF
an additional page in the House, and
then at once vote to donate seven hun
dred and fifty dollars of the peoples
money to newspaper reporters. AS
soon as he was appointed on the rail-
road committee, all the time he could
spare from discussing points of order,
and fillibustering, he used in getting
up a railroad excursion to Pueblo.
EQUITABLE railroad legislation cannot
be obtained under such circumstances
and through such men, Considering the
time he unnecessarily and foolishly
consumed on the floor of the House, in
opposition to almost every measure
brought forward during the ses sion.
and the time taken in the investiga-
ton of his Rice county school bond
transactions, this rattle-br reckless
| demagogue cost the people of this
State more than the amount asked fol
by the Normal school. Now I ask the
people of Chase county fair question
Is it more to your interests to continue
such a pestilential character as an ex-
pense upon the State than it is to con-
tinue the Normal? If you favor the
demagogue instead of the school-ii
you favor his idea of no more immigra-
ton to the State or to Chase county
if you favor his pocketing the proceeds
of the Rice county school bonds, 0y
which scheme the school fund of the
State was eventually swindled out o.
about $lO,OO0-if you wish to brush
away the cloud under which he return
ed from the army-if you desire to ig.
more the charges set forth against hin
in the indictment in Douglass county
if his transactions in the cattle bust
ness in Texas were such as honorable
men can defend-if you say he honest
lly and faithfully used the money hC
drew from the grange for regalia, pO.
tatoes, etc.-if you wish to lower your
selves to his plane of action-if yor