The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-10
MORE FORGERY AND FABRI-
CATION

The Kansas City Times cheekily re-
marks thatit is the only paper which gives
"fair' report of the Investigation. We
have shown heretofore some of its spe-
cific forgeries and fabrications, and have
now to call attention to another and still
more infamous one. The Times report
states that Maj. Hood, of the Emporia
National Bank, testifies that he paid to
Mr.. Danford five thousand dollars in per-
son at one time, and that he (Danford) OBJ
tanned ten thousand dollars more from
the bank-both during the Senatorial
canvass. What Maj. Hood really testiti-
ed to was that Danford did not obtain any
money from him; that the ten thousand
dollars was obtained from the Emporia
Bank, after the Senatorial election, for
the use of the Usage City Savings Bank,
and that the identical package Of currency
was returned by Danford within less than
ten days of the time it was borrowed.
The public will readily see the enor-
NIFTY of the Times fabrication, and the
scoundrelly animus which inspired it..
Not satisfied with defaming Mr.. Ingalls,,
it must needs pervert and falsify the
sworn testimony of as truthful and hon.
orable men as there are in the State. After
such examples as we have given of jOurn-
alistic fairness" we think it will hardly
be necessary to make further refernece to
whatever the Kansas City Times may see
fit to do or say.-Topeka Commonwealth.
So far as we have seen, almost the en-
tire testimony produced by the "memo-
rialists," is made from perverted "hear-
say" talk and rumOr, and the papers
which are engaged in trying ingalls, with
the Kansas City Times at the head, nat
urally have to lie and traduce the char
acter of witnesses to make the public
think they have case. The whole in
vestigation, so far, is the thinnest kind OF
farce, and we should think those en-
gagged in il who are susceptible of such a
feeling were heartily ashamed of their
performances Take the case of our
townsman, Major Hood. A business
transaction of frequent occurrence be-
tween two neighboring banks is taken
up and hcralded by the "memorialists"
as an attempt to corrupt the Legislature,
and to cast odium upon n name which
stands among the highest wherever
known. Then there was II. NJ. Holden,
of Kansas City, who had private bust
ness at the capital one day during the
senatorial contest. Having a spare hour
he visited the Teft house with bundle
of legal papers under his arm. This
was caught up by the pure gentlemen,
who shifted corruption in the air all
about Topeka, and Mr.. Holden was
dragged to Topeka to make startling
Developments" His testimony, like
that of nearly all the other witnesses,
left the attorneys of the "memorialists, -
looking blankly and sheepishly at each
other. The celebrated Topeka attorney
who is helping the "memorialists," and
who SHORES" the witnesses for both sides
thought lac was going to astound the
world, but suffered fearful ''let down"
In the whole investigation there seems
TO be nothing clearly established except
that two or three cheap fellows who
ought to be sent to the penitentiary,
took money, but did not vote as those who
are supposed to haye'givn it to them de
sired. Mr.. ingalls,, according to the
testimony, is in no way connected with
these transactions. Many men have been
'hauled up" before the commission
whom the "memorialists'' themselves
have fled statements at two different
times were entirely innocent of charges.
The only result of the investigation as
yet, CT which is likely TO occur, is the
general smirching of the state and LOT
of discomfitted purifiers" Much ofthe
legislative ''chaff' gathered last winter
has vanished into thin air" under cross
examination.