The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-31
SLIGHTLY PERSONAL---VERY.
RING

Eskridge's political practices and hah-
its of thought cause him TO jumPat once
10 the conclusion that there is ring
when he is "out" He was SO long in
the ring business, that he thinks every
body as mean as he is. He asserts there
is ring in this county, but furnishes
not one particle of evidence for his asser-
ton.
The fair deduction from his article in
last weeks Ledger is, that l. a. Taylor,
]. NJ. Griffith, L. A. Wood, VIM. F. Ew-
ing, Jacob b. Moon, ID. w. Eastman, w.
J. Jones, G. w. Frederick, o. Il. Whar-
ton, Harry Hibben, and those of their pre-
decessors who have lately held office, to-
wit: Joseph Ernst, D. $. Gilmore, John
S. Craig and Others, aided by THE EXPO
RIA NEWS. have been robbing Lyon
county; that corrupt ring has existed
for years, and THE NEWS has been its
defender; that public money has been
used for other purposes than that for
which it was levied. He says further
that the Republican ticket as now com
posed, rests under suspicion, because this
paper supports it.
Dir. Eskndge says all this, makes these
assertions in behalf of the Democratic
Greenback ticket, and against the Re
publican tieket--this, too, while pretend
ing to be Republican. He does not
pretend to furnish one iota of proof fol
his assertions, but basely, and in fit Of
madness, hatred and jealousy, attempt.
TO beslime the best and truest man this
county has ever had. Why doe:
he strike, in his blind rage, mt tho
Republicans of the county, many o.
whom have been his warmest friends
Why does he not specify who have been
dishonest? Why does he seek to stall
the whole party: There can be no an
swer but that he wants TO see the Repub
lican party defeated in Lyon county.
Now, we wish to say, deliberately, an6
say it because we mean it, that when thi.
man Eskridge-this political and per
sonal hypOcrite and demagogue, charges
that THE NEWS belongs to any ring, OF
has ever belonged to any ring-or wher
he insinuates that the publishers of TIL
NEWS have ever taken an illegal cent on
of the people or the treasury of Lyon
county, or that they or either of them
have ever had any knowledge of any one
else doing so, he is a malicious and vii
full liar
Again, we wish TO make the point tha
if c. V. Eskridge has any proof that TIL
NEWS, or any county officer, or any othel
party has ever swindIed the county ou
at any swindle, and does not furnish thai
proof and assist in convicting such par
ties of the crimes he charges, he Is PR
tfceps erimiHis, equally guilty with Tho
criminals, il there are any, and must be
held by the people alike responsible
So far as we are concerned we defy
him and his few satellites TO do their worst
in this matter. We dare him to say We
have ever taken cent from the county
that did not justly and honestly belong
TO us.
We wish to say further that Eskridge's
political standing here and over the state
is such that his unsupported assertions
will not be taken as worth the paper
they are written on, or as any evidence
of anybody's wrong doing. His word
is wholly unreliable in political sense
and not of much value in any particular
where it conflicts with his selfish inter
ests.
Further, if he cannot sustain his base
charges and innuendoes but makes them
loosely, and from mere motives of per
sonal hate, then we denouce him not only
AS cowardly liar, but as slanderer ant
entirely unworthy the confidence or re
spect of the people