The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-11-12
slandering = Good Man.

Lyon county possesses the champioh
doubled-face hypocrite of the universe.
His name is John 10y and his den is al
Americas. Monday afternoon before
the election he declared, in a public
speech, that he was for Randolph, ms.
last and all the time But Sedgwlck
saw him that evening, stayed with MIN
all night, and when he went TO the poIls
in the morning he was strong for Sedg,
wick. His neighbor Republicans told
him to his face that money did it. Some
say that one five dollar note did it, some
say more, but one was big pay for ms
exeerafIle work.-Sentinel.
This stealing ones good name and
dragging it down in the dirt, is practiced
upon slightest excuse. John W. 10y,
among his friends and acquaintapces, is
known as an honorable and upright
man, above the shafts of this slanderer.
As to his den he will compare residences
with his traducer Sedgwick did not
stay at nor with 10y on the night stated,
nor for six months previously. He went
to the polls, not as the advocate OF, nor
to vote for Sedgwick; nor during the en-
tire day did he ask any man to vote for
Sedgwick. That he took or received
from Tom Sedgwiek, or any other man,
one dollar or any greater sum for said
service, is a willful and malicious
lie The facts are, he was one
of a committee of three to be at
the polls on the day of election
TO forward the interests of the pro-
hibitory amendment, which he did and
nothing more. This system of whole
sale lying and SANDER has been carried.
on about long enough. No one, no
mattsE heaXb gqnfd ,8gg R SYfEssf p .4 pFivate,
religious or political life, escapes this
carrion VuIture and right here we can
boast of its most accomplished scandal
mongers. They pour into neighbors
ears, print in county papers, their dark,
dirty whispers of Islander and abuse;
and at the same time, pretend to be the
most sincere friends of those of whom
they talk. Their black, nauseous pills
of malicious SANDER are sugar-coated
with smiles and honeyed words of
friendship eygf ssss sr1n 9Stai1 l to talk
ing and writing newspaper squlbs, from
the promptings of natural instinct,
and they prosecute it with an energy
that would give credit to the devil. Our
contempt for these graceless creatures
knows no bounds. If the punishment
meted out to these slanderers hereafter,
is in any proportion to their crime, a
shrek of satan will be whisper beside
the sigh they will give, when he calls
them for his own. Against these covert
slanderers there can be no defense. He'll
cannot boast of so foul a
1end. 1t stabs with q word,
with look, with smile; it is the pesti-
lence walking in darkness, spreading
contagion far and wide, which the most
able cannot avoid, It is the heart search
ing dagger of the dark assassin; it is the
| poisoned arrow whose wound is incur
able, and it is the mortal sting of the
deadly adder-murder its employment,
innocence its prey and ruin its sport the
curse of society, the foul mouthed ribald.
The sly smooth sinner who will cover you
with the slime ofhalf uttered suggestions,
of inarticulate suspicious, because he
can with safety to himself" is not a
man.
The author of the above scandal can
appropriate as much of this as fits and
scatter the balance on our town site.
Americas, Nov. 8, 1880. THISTLE.
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