The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-18

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Emporia NEWS, was walking the stree
last Monday, when he met Mr.. L. o
Priest, of Eagle creek, and the following
conversation ensued:
Mr.. Slow do you do, Mr. p, how
goes it!
Mr.. P.-Pretty well, thank you, how'i
politics.
Mr.. Slot.
Mr.. P.-Yes; we are making it warm
for you fellows down our way!
Mr.. 81 am sorry, Priest, you are
letting these Greenbackers lead you off
hope you don't believe all these Green
back editors say in their paper, do you
Mr.. P.-Well, yes, generally. But
how is ii about that statement you made
in your paper, about it being unconsti-
tutional to tax bonds; is that so:
Mr.. Swell, 1t might be so construed.
Mr.. P.-O, now, Stotler, you know bet
ter, Just say that you put that in for pOlit-
ical purposes, and be done with it.
Mr. Swell, Priest, certainly, you
know that is true, we have to do that in
politics. Good day.
Mr.. P.-Good day, sir. - Emporia
Greenbacker, Oct. -.
We copy the above for two purposes.
First, to say that there is hardly word
of truth in it, and that no such CONVEX
sation ever took place between Mr.. Priest
and Mr. Stotler, of THE EArPoRIA NEWS.
We met Mr.. Priest on the street, perhaps
on the day mentioned, and had some
conversation with him. We were on the
hunt of him. We had been informed
only half an hour before by a good citi-
zen that Mr.. Priest was charging us, as
postmaster, with refusing to deliver to
subscribers copies of the paper known as
the Advocate published in New York
City, by notorious character Che is en-
dorsed by Sam Wood named Shupe.
Mr.. Priest denied that he had made such
charge, but went on to say that some of
the people in his region thought it
strange that they did not get their paper.
We endeavored to explain to him what
we thought was the reason. We told
him that we had just as soon he or any
one else would charge us with stealing
money as to charge that we were running
the postoff1ce as political machine, and
especially to charge that we would sup
press, or hold back, or in any way dis
pose of any paper that come, to the office,
otherwise than to deliver it to the person
who was entitled to it, whatever its poll
tics or religion. As an individual, or as
an editor, we can say what we please
about "men and things" but as an officer
of the government we know no politics,
nor personal likes or dislikes, and we
defy any man to substantiate to the con-
trary. To Mr. Priest we denounced
the Advocate and its publisher, and
averred that all papers sent to the office
were delivered just the same as any other
paper. Shupe's history is that of seal
awag. Before he went to New York he
had a reputation for dishonesty. We
are firmly convinced he does not send
all the papers subscribed for. So far as
the Emporia Office is concerned we are
willing that the fiaters may appoint
commission at any time, of respectable
citizens, and we invite them to do it, and
we will show them through the Office,
every nook and corner of it, and for
every copy of the Advocate they find laid
away, or in any way Improperly disposed
of, we will pay years subscription to any
paper they may wish to subscribe for. Our
further conversation turned upon the
statements of the Advocate. Mr.. Priest
said all papers published things that were
not susceptible of proof, and cited a GER
tain article in THE NEWS some weeks
before. We replied that the article was
credited to the paper it was copied from,
and like hundreds of articles in every
paper, were published as matters of in
and not vouched for personal
ly by the editor. We are aware that
Priest is great expounder of finances
and the constitution, but the supreme
court of the United State, under Demo-
cratic rule, which ought to be satisfactory
to Mr.. P, and the great Spangler, has
decided that U. s. bonds are not taxable
by the states. We did not say we
were sorry that Priest was letting the
tiatists lead him off. The fact is we
knew it would do no good to either of
us to hold discussion with Priest. We
have not time for street discussions. Our
only point was to assure Mr.. Priest, and
through him, he being sort of repre-
sentative of the fiat craze, that we were
not using the postoffice as a political
machine; that if we were we would do
all we could to circulate the Advocate,
as we considered it was doing good
work for the Republican party. We
said no sensible Republican could read
1t three weeks without becoming thor
oughly disguised with its demagoguery,
its falsehoods and its mud pictures. We
are well aware that humanity is so con-
stituted that every PRONUNCIATION of
something new" has its advocates, and
we are one of those who are perfectly
willing every man should hold and enjoy
his opinions, and who does not fool away
any time to convince a man against his
will' on such subject. The Greenback-
er is indeed hard up to undertake to
garble private conversation, and turn it
into triumph for its side. It's mighty
small business, to make the best of it.
but when it comes to making such yarns
out of whole cloth" as in this case, it is
simply unmanly and foolish.
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