St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-19

lHOSG Ol UIlcul IOlu me tlldb WAS DtliS
humbugged. Leader in the meanwhile
was to obtain passes for me to Marshal,
Galveston and New Orleans. When the
coming and [ thereupon expostulated
with the man and reminded him of his
rascality and scoundrelism. | omitted
to state in the proper place that
Leader" asked me during conversa-
tlon had with him, whether | knew
of any homeless female who wanted a
comfortable home" found out what
his purpose was. On an other occasion
he solicited my endorsement to an ap
plication for a female orphan about
fourteen or fifteen years of age, which
he intended to send to an orphan asy
lum in New Orleans. He did not send
the application with my endorsement.
He also requested me to write to a
female orphan asylum in New Orleans
or to write to Mayor Shakespeare. It is
needless to state that Leader" could
not use me as his tool in either design.
just after our last interview | quit his
employ. l did not receive a cent for
my services, although / reported for
two weeks, and people told me that it
was absurd to expect even a penny from
"W. Y. Leader" He is known as a
professional dead beat and is a non
descript in Austin and in fact in Texas.
The reader can imagine my surprise
and Indignation when upon the next
evening he read the following in the
Dispatch
"a young man wearing spectacles and calling
! himself Edmund Maurin is not connected with
this paper and is not authorized to solicit ad-
vertsements or to collect or act for this paper.
My first impulse was to adopt the
Texas plan and shoot "W. Y. Leader
on sight, but friends said that would be
ridiculous as the man was too we'll
known in Austin as poltroon and that
by assaulting him / would simply be
bringing trouble upon myself-which
was all Leader was fishing for. Col
Cardwell, the editor and proprietor OF
the Austin Statesman, the only. daily
newspaper, expressed himself in the
same tone and advised me not to notice
"W. Y. Leader" as he is too contempti-
BILE to be noticed by any decent person
Additional inquiries about this man
"Leader " establishes the fact that he
has been in the habit of advertising fol
male and female help in leading metro
politan papers in the North, East and
West and lately in the Southern jour
nails. Sometime ago he induced lady
(whose name know from Louisville tC
20 to Austin to work in his Office. This
lady worked for Leader" for three
months on promises and in the mean
while " Leader" tried hard to lead hel
from the right path to vice. This cpl
sode is we'll known in Austin, where &
subscription was raised for the purpose
of defraying the lady's expenses back
home. And your correspondent is mo-
the only young man who has been en-
shared by Leader" They can be
counted at fingers end. Young Cover
of New Orleans is one OF LEADERS
victims. Leader is we'll known to al
newspaper men in Texas as a fraud ant
a prominent Judge of a Texas trlbuna
expressed the opinion that before tht
year is out " Leader" will be wearing
stripped clothes. We hope SO for th'
public good. He cannot hurt any ont
in Texas but outside of it he can d.
Il immeasurable harm as he has already
done. Publishers and newspaper mer
in the United States will confer a great
favor on the human race by showing
him up. He has been unveiled so Otter
in Texas that it is monotonous to SCI
his name in public prints. Moreover
/ he glories in having himself noticed b,
the press Of Texas. He has been re
fused admittance to the Press Associa
ton of Texas. The people of Austil
are fully acquainted with the facts 0
my case and any one there can substan
tiate me in what l write. All that
regret is loss of time and failure Of m.
anticipated trip through the great Stat
of Texas. In the next letter will trea
of !" Texas it's cities, it's people and it
, glorious climates" etc.
Au revOir, EPSILON MU.