The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25
TIE SUNS SANDERS.

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THE SUMS ISLANDERS.
The bright Democratic luminary
printed in this city, it will be remember
ed, came here few months ago with a
flourish of trumpets about decency and
fairn ess. For several weeks it has been
fulfilling its promise by the meanest,
basest sort of ISLANDERS on officers of this
county, and ON this paper. 1t makes
these by innuendo, and by cowardly in
situations. 1t says it does not charge
THE NEWS with stealing, but simply
asked the question if it had stolen. We
suppose the Suns object is to make votes
against the Republicans. The editor,
true to his instincts, is regular bush
whacker. When the paper came here we
met it in all things with spirit of fair
ness. We extended every courtesy in
our power, and urged the Democrats to
support it. Its ISLANDERS in the last is
sue, and in several issues during the pres
ent campaign, is our return. We had
supposed the time had come when a
Democratic editor could be a gentleman,
but we were mistaken. Much as we dis
like to parade our private business in
these columns, we feel called upon to
notice one or two of the villainous SLAM
ders circulated in regard to this paper
We have nothing in regard to our con-
duct of public or private business that
we are not perfectly willing all WHO care
to know, may know all about. In our
twenty years here as publisher of pa
per we can truthfully say we have never
pOcketed dishonest cent, either from
the county, state, or any individual. We
do not undertake to notice the ISLANDERS
and hints of the Democratic sheet
because we think anybody believes what
it says, but merely to show up its object
and to what indecent and unfair nses it
puts itself to make political capital. In
regard to the sheriffs advertising and the
charge of bribery, we say this: All pub
fishers know how difficult it is to collect
printers fees for miscellaneous legal ad-
vertisements. In former times there was
more of this sort of work than there is
now, and on our old books stand hun
dreds of dollars of unsolicited accounts
of this nature. The cases were often dis
posed of and the parties gone before we
knew it. 1t took a great deal of time to
look after them, and we found it impos-
sible to collect them. We remember at
one of our terms of court, in 1862 or SO,
we went with bills of about $500, and re-
ceived some $40. Cases were frequently
compromised and settled without our
knowledge, and we were left without our
pay. Many years ago, and before there
was any other paper printed here, we
adopted the plan of charging all sherif>s
advertisements directly to the sheriff, and
holding him respon sible for their pay
ment. At the same time we adopted the
rule of paying him ten per cent. for look
ing after and collecting our bills. He
knew when the sales took place, the par
ties and the proper time to get the fees
BY this plan we got our pay, and we
have always kept it up. We could moi
follow up such sale and attend to the
collections. This was next to impossi
bic. The matter of giving the sheriff
pay for the trouble we made him was oul
own offer No sheriff ever asked us tC
, do it in a single instance. 1t was nevel
offered till the different sheriffs came
into Office. 1t was never offered to in
J duce him to give us his advertisements
because we knew we would get then
, anyhow. The practice was adopted, al
we said above, before there was any 9th
} er paper printed here, and how could i
| have been done to influence the sheriff
( to give THE NEWS his work. We saw
> nothing wrong in paying the sheriff TO
: the trouble, more than there would b
e in paying any one else for making thes
: collections. The ten per cent. has neve
I in a single instance Influenced a sheriff
: of Lyon county to give his advertising t.
e THE NEWS, and no sheriff has ever ask
I ed us for the ten per cent Now this i
= all there is of the sheriff matter W
= are sorry that this wretched slandere
a is so hard up as to drag into his vile pull
= location the name of the late sheriff Cor
/ ner, and attempt to vilify him. He wa
s a man honored and loved by all. Their
y was not dishonest hair in his heaC
+ Do the people of Lyon county beliey
a Hiram Conner ever offered or accepted
, bride from us or any one else? Whe
+ the Sun so asserts, or that we ever a
l. tempted to bride or corrupt an officer, |
S is guilty of the basest kind of Islander
y and it knows it. The practice we follo1
:, is common in many places.
e As to the matter of the sale of til
{ Santa Fe stock, we know nothing. Ate
l. we first heard of the matter some week
c ago, we met Mr.. Gilmore and aske
l. him if the stock was sold. He said n,
D gotiations were in progress for its sal,
. and he did not know whether the sal
S would be consummated or not This
e all the conversation we ever had wit
4 any commissioner about the matter. an
p all we know about it If the Sun know
+ anything, Why don't it give its know
IS edge to the publics We are perfect
willing il may expose anything it know