The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-07
THAT MEETING.
,s,stidre Takes Twist 10 Saddle More
Expense an the People.
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sasn wood Get. in Ills DIrty work.
The meeting al the couri house Satur
dag was not very largely attended, and
not much enthusiasm fioatcd on tic
"descrt air" The meeting was called
oslensibly by the sainted McCandliss te
hear q report from the citizens commit
tee in relation 10 the sale of the Santa
re railroad stock, and purchase Il
county bonds, but really TO give. EskS
ridge and Sam Wood, AS the News said
a few days ago, chance to manufacture
some capital for their falling political
fortunes. AS q mandatory of capital
for the twin sisters it did not pan out.
1t was rather devoid of results. One
gentleman, on coming out Of the court
house, said there were no less than four
voters in the vicinity of where he sat
who said they had been Greenbackers,
but if that meeting was Greeabackism
they were from that on stalwart Republi-
cans.
The call was addressed to the "tax
payers Of Lyon county" and the tax
lpaycrs" were urged to turn out. sam
Wood. who is universally known as the
most corrupt and shameless political
denagogue in the west, and who does
not lice "a. Lyon county, IS not a coter IA
Iron cosfnty, ant dies Mt pay a cent 81
fqres IN Lg0n county, because his print
. ing office is not owned by him, was there
to run the meeting. Think of his unmit
igated inpudence! Not only this, but
he disregarded the call of the meeting
and went outside of its object to inject
) one of his lying TRADES against cit
liens here No wonder his course in thai
l meeting Disguised people. No one be
lieves word he says, and yet he has thC
brazen impudence 10 believe his unsup
ported assertions will be swallowed by
: our people.
I So far as Eskridge was concerned hi:
: action was amiscrable trick to saddle tho
, expense of his smelling committee on
the public treasury. He had Il res
olution presented requesting the
county commissioners to audit and pay
the expense he and his tools have beer
: to to gather electionecring garbage. Hi:
= cheek is only equalled by that OF hi:
: partner, the notorious Wood. Eskridge'!
: motives for political acts are Away:
5 transparent and his demagoguery Away!
4 shows through. He is bowling over the
' county, and distributing secret circulars
telling the people how they are burdeneC
with taxes by ring, and that money hal
, been used for other purposes than tina
e for which it was levied, and yet on thu
I very heels of these bowls and these sc
q crct circulars, he comes into public
: meeting and tries to get a resolution
5 adopted for the county to pay the eX
t penses of his political robbery, amount
ing to several hundred dollars. 1t is on
of Eskridges old tricks to saddle every
{ thing on the public treasury, and NJ
: man in Lyon county to-day is more re
> sponsible for our tax burdens thar
l. he. He is the father of the bond bust
ness in this county, and is responsible
more than any one else for the thousand
of dollars that have been bonded upor
this city for private purposes, and fol
which no levy was made. We sim
ply call attention to the $4,000 of law
p ycr's fees in the float suit, and the eXpens
es of the injunctionists in the macada
MIXING suits, both of which were fraud:
on the city, and both of which wert
strenuously and persistently urged upon
the city council by this political hypo
critic and scheming shyster. He even had
the brazen-faced impudence to ask the
city to pay his fees in the injunction
suit against the issue of the Normal
bonds last spring. He is becoming
alarmed for fear he will have few dol
lars to pay on account of his smelling
committee, and that brings him TO an
attempt to fas:cnt hose expenses ON the
. county treasury.