The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-07
THAT MASS MEETING.
The TwaddIe of the Twins.

The TWaddie OF the Twins.
The town was full of people Saturday,
and though the so-called citizens COM
miiiee had widely posted its notice Of
meeting of tax payers to hear about the
great stock and bond steal ~, the tax
payers did not seem 10 worry themselves
so much about it, Is the committee who
feared they would have to foot the bills
they had incurred in proving nothing
and rot get n chance TO saddle the eX-
peuse ON the county. The court room
was too large for the audience which
gathered to hear the spouting.
Sam Wood undertook 70 speak about
Lyon county bonds Tie people would
like TO hear from him about the bonds of
some county further west Among the
false charges and insinuations made at
the meeting was that the board of com
missioners had levied a tax in 1851, for
interest on railroad bonds, and were
using the amount so collected for other
purposes; and that the commissioners
had expended $500 of the peoples money
to defend themselves in the suit brought
against them as individuals; and that
the Emporia NEWS had charged over
$500 for county printing, that at legal
rates would only amount TO $50.
Such insinuations and charges have
their effect only with those who
want to believe them, and do not
examine the law and record to see
that they are untrue Any person who
takes this trouble and will consult the
records will see that it Is wholly false
that single dollar of the county's mon
ey has been used for any work to advance
or retard the investigation of sale of the
bonds; that the 81 ,29O57 levied in 1877
to he applied on interest for railroad
bonds, has not been used for any pur-
pose whatever, let alone fixing the court
house; and that every dollar of the levy
is now in the treasury and will be used
this year on interest for raiirood bonds.
The charge against THE NEWS is no
ticed in another column.
A committee on resolutions had been
duly cut and dried along with the rcso-
lutions, and went out with the resolr-
tions in their pockets and came tn with
them in their hands, just as the
willy Eskridge directed. They show
ed the true inwarlness of the cul-
minating capering of the committe of
smeilcrs The resolutions resolved that
warrants be drawn on the county treas
urer 10 pay the expenses incurred by the
committee, in behalf OF their smelling
propensities When A. w. Stubs, of
the Ledger, arose and inquired if any
levy had been made for that purpose,
there was "look adown Il nose" at the
cheek that had been exposed and the
miserable reply, that this tampering
with the county fnuds would not he as
bad as other things that had been done.
ID. s. Gilmore was present at a portion
of the meeting and arose and made Il
manly speech that contrasted strangely
with the contemplate, insinuating NUT
terings of those who were running the
meeting. The attempts to ridicule Mr..
Gilmore rs a commissioner out of Office
was disposed of at once, as every
one knows Mr.. Gilmore is one of the de-
PENDANTS. The commissioners, he said,
were ready to state the fact in
regard to the bonds ON the
witness stand they were not on trial be-
fore u smelling committee Mr.. Gill
morc's speech stopped the mouths of
those who were condemning persons on
trial and as yet not proven guilty, and
the meeting shortly adjourned.
The county attorneys honor was also
questioned mt the meeting, and he
made little speech on the cor
ner afterwards 10 one of the "smcl-
lers" that was unanswerable. The Off
cials all stand by the record and not a
direct, explicit charge has been or dare
to be made, for it cannot be sustained.
On the street corner it appeared that the
embcZzlement had fallen to $4,000.
The report of the county commissioners
ITALICS exactly, dollar for dollar, with the
dispositions, as far as they have been
taken.
II. c. Cross and Wan. Jay each pledg-
ed themselves last night at the water
works meeting to be one of ten to pay
off what some folks call the repudiated
manufactory bonds of Emporia, issued
some years ago, and amounting, we be
licvc, to something over $1,000.
IN BUSINESS Notwithstanding all
my friends and old patrons for their pat
ronage while l was in the meat market
business in Emporia, l take pleasure in
statino that with rastOrad ba,ItI, 7 hove