The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-03-12
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Under the quoted portion of the above |
caption there appeared in the Kansas |
City Times, of Wednesday, the follow
ing communication:
EMPoRIA, March 1.
EDIToR TIaEs: Ny face burns with |
shame when I look about me and see |
Republicans paying gamblers and black |
legs for their time and give them free
passage To Atchison and return To whoop |
up u boom for that old fraud, j. j. In
gals, the man who has brought shame
and disgrace upon the people and the
state of Kansas. Ingalls, hireiings arc
very still and they act like They
were ashamed To let anyone know what
they were at. You could see them in
the back alleys and in the whisky
saloons, whispering 10 thieves and cut
Threats, Offering 70 pay all the way from
$3.50 TO 50 per day if they would only go
and help make a big show. am Re
publican, but have voted that ticket
for the last time. There are hundreds
more who have told me they will never
vote the Republican ticket again.
DISGUST.
The highly virtuous individual who
thus rushes SO valiantly into print over
so suggestive sobriquet, should lose no
time in seeking wider field for the ex
ercise of those superb talents which he
has so unwittingly developed. No pent-
up Utica should contain his noble pow
ers. While the whisky saloons and back
alleys of Emporia inanifestly furnish to
him familiar and congenial fields of re-
search, it must be confessed that every
sense of justice and propriety would be
most wantonly outraged were he to pros
titute his magnificent endOwments to the
narrow uses of provincial sphere. Let
him, rather, without delay, repair to New
York, and seek out the great and good
Mr. Whitney, whose system of secret es-
pionage upon the unhallowed haunts of
vice with which that city abounds, has
wrought such sanatory change in the
moral atmosphere of the great metropo
lis. Amid the putrid slums of Gotham,
disgust" could pursue withoutlet or him
drance those savory lines of investigation
for which nature and education have so
admirably fitted him, and hold sweet
communion with ''thieves and cut
throats," with none to modest and make
afraid.
Had the statement of Disgust" reach
ed such class of readers alone, as were
familiar with the facts pertaining to the
matter which he has so basely misrepre.
scented, we should have passed by in 81.
lence his flimsy tissue of lies, in the calm
assurance that the outrageous mendaclty
of his assertions would furnish their own
refulation. But, having gained admis
sion To the columns of a journal, whose
disrcpuIabic character, strange as it may
appear, has not curtailcd its circulation
we feel called upon to say-and the facts
in the case will amply sustain our posi-
tion-that no affair within the recollec
ton of the Emporia people was eve
conducted with n more direct view Il
. excluding all objectionable element
than was the excursion which left Elm
poria for AtchisOn last Tuesday. Thi
scrupulous care on the part of tn
management, was, we are fully persuad
ed, the head and front of their offending
. as it eiiieclually barred from participa
, ton in the affair, the self same elias
? of whom Disgust" is representative
The infirmity of derogating and asperS
ing that which is inaccessible is no
;. an exclusively vulpiue characteristic
I and the fox which condemned tn
f rich clusters of lofty grapes, has la
@ many human counterparts in all ages {
the world In perpetrating his vii
r SANDER upon the most eminently IT
q spectacle citizens of Emporia, Disgust
h has only yielded to pardonable veal
ness, and has acted in pursuance OF
very common but ignoble impulse L.
the heathen rage.