The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1878-07-04
Correct, with Certain Exceptions.

A communication signed A. J. Selover, and ad-
dressed to "Sol. Miller" appears as leading ed
itoriaI in the last Bulletin, the object of which
seems to be to excuse and Justify A. j. Mowry
in swindling us ont of a just debt. We were 60
ing to ask Mr.. Selover why be sent letter aa-
dressed to us personally to the Bulletin, when
we have never refused 10 publish any matter ne
saw proper to send us; but We shall not ask the
question, for we can see through it as clearly as
if it were plate glass. 1t bears the ear-marks
and features of the favorite "open letter" gag OF
the shyster and fraud, Mowry, so Enthusiastically,
that we cannot misunderstood it. MOwry has
importuned Selover for a statement to how
he understood certain matter; Selover has
signed letter, which lie supposed Mowry was
going to send to us but Mowry, with the char
acteristic honor of man who is destitute of
honor, publishes the letter in his personal Or
gan, as if Selover had sent it there Of his own
accord.
The statement signed by Selover is correct,
with few exceptions, which we shall here note.
We were not at the Centennial, nor anywhere
else outside of Troy, when the order for Mowry's
tickets was received; and the order was not
given to Mr.. Peter Knopp, but to ourself indi-
yidually. We arrived home the day before any
order for Mowry's tickets was received. An
order was sent through some one, We do not re-
member whom, but before q single ticket was
printed, Mowry came himself, in company wit th
Mr.. Selover, and changed the order. We have
the memoranda Of all orders for tickets, that
year, now in our possession. Mowry and Sell
over came into our Office, on Sunday, before
Mowry's ticket order was filled, and Mr. Perry
was also in the office. We were present, but
some distance from where they were consulting.
Perry went out, and then Mowry gave us differ
ent orders about his tickets-some to have Hub
bards name on, and some Otis name. Perry
never said a word to us about the tickets, and
never agreed with us to pay any part of the bill,
either at that or any subsequent time. Mowry
did not tell us that Perry had agreed to pay for
the tickets. What private conversation he and
Perry may have bad, we do not know the only
person we knew in the bargain was Mowry. If
Mowry should 60 to Selover and get a sack of
-four, and some months afterwards should tell
him that Mr.. Perry had agreed to pay for it,
would he hold Mowry or Perry legally bound for
iti
A few days after the election, Mowry wrote us
for his bill for tickets. We sent it. He then
claimed that Hubbard had agreed to pay good
part Of it. If Perry was to pay it, why did he
say that Hubbard was to do sol This letter of
Selovers is the first we knew that Mowry had
made Perry responsible for the tickets. Why
does not Mowry pay us the SIS, for extra papers
containing his communication abusing w. B.
Craig, j. w. Cook, and E. v. Snively, which he
promised, on his word of honor, he would pay
within thirty daysi Why does he not pay us
the s. for publishing quarter of column call
and announcement as a candidate for Represent
alive, when We charged other candidates the
same price for three or four lines 7 Did Perry or
somebody else agree to pay for thati Has
Snively $40 in his hands a wager that Mowry
never threatened to expose him, in the commu-
nication referred tot We have not rec eived pay
for the Hubbard tickets, the Otis tickets or the
Mowry tickets, of that year. We suppose they
all concluded that Mr.. Perry should pay for |
them.
We thought that Selover knew Mowry we'll
enough to make due allowance for anything he
might tell him; and especially not to place any
paper in his hands that he could make use of |
as an endorsement or justification of his own |
frauds.