The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-23

tOlu JalueS DuIue IJO5ltlVeiy anu WltQs
out qualification that the REGISTER
would not support VIM. Mattocks for
sheriff. / heard all Of the convsfss.
tibn and I did not hear A. G. Scottsay
sit would ruin our business or any
words to that effect" :s5Ai
T JOHN w. ScoTT.
And again Mr.. Burns says that h.
does not. remember to have heard A.
q. Scott say in the caucus on Thursday
eyening that "the REGISTER would
not consent to any ticket with Worst
left Off" We repeat that that state.
ment was made, and our memory on
that point is corroborated by the fol.
lowing
STATEMENT OF w. J. CONLEY:
~ was present at the caucus in J.
Fl. Fishers office on Thursday night
before the convention, and heard A.
&. Scott say that Worst had always
been the choice of the REGISTER fol
sheriff, and that they could not con-
sent to having him lett out"
w, J. CoNLEY.
The above statements fully substan.
tiate every assertion we made last
week with regard to the combination,
about which any question has been
raised.
Since the above was written we are
in receipt of statement from Jas.
Burns, which was sent the first of the
week but was delayed through forget
fulness of the messenger. As it is vir-
tually the same as that published in
the Courant, we need not print it in
full. The only respect In which it diff
fers is in the closing remark, which is
as follows: "Whatever odium attach
es to that "dirty job" by which Sto-
yer and Worst were defeated can be
laid to me as I submitted my plan
without consulting any one and am
perfectly willing to bear the blame"
THE LAND QUESTION.
In its statement that the REGISTER
was bulldozed into taking its position
on the land question, the Courant re-
lies for its authority upon Mr.. Wyck-
off, who, he says, "in formed US Of the
circumstance wherein he and several
others went to the REGISTER office
and under threat of a withdrawal of
support, they promised to wade into
the leaguers." In reply to this we
submit the following statement from
Mr.. Wyckoff;
I distinctly remember CONVERSE
ton with II. A. Perkins at the South
ern Kansas depot last summer, and l
did not say that 81 and several others
went into the REGISTER office and
under threat of withdrawal of sup
port they promised to wade into the
Leaguers.h The facts are these.
Some time last June l went to the
REGISTER office alone and told G. f.
Scott that wanted to stop my paper.
He did not ask me to give my reasons
for doing so, but quietly turned to his
books and told me how much I owed
him. 1 paid him and had started to
leave the Office without a word when
SD. Wilmington came in. Weimmedi-
ately began talking about the land
question and 1 then said 1 had stop
ped my paper because I did not like
its milk and water course on that
question. Mr.. Scott seemed very
much surprised at this statement and
said that several Leaguers had already |
stopped their paper because it had
come out so strongly against them.
He further said 81 want to send you |
one more paper to let you see an arti-
that we have already prepared on this
question. If you are not satisfied then |
will stop your paper. Iagreedand
have taken the paper ever since.
VIM. WYCKoFF.
We need add nothing to Mr.. Wy
,kof7s statement futher than to say
that if there are plenty of men in the
Union who know that we were bull
lozed, one ought to be found who is
Wiling to say so. AS to his denial
# our statement that while editor of
THE REGISTER Mr.. Perkins was bull
iozed into refusing to allow Clarence
Norton to correspond for him, we eau
My say that both Clarence Norton
md his father told us that such was
he fact.
IN CONCLUSION.
AS to Mr.. Perkins denial of Jour state /:
nent that while controlling THE !.
REGISTER he sat on the fence as re- '
ards the land question; as to his de- !
ial that he issued a double entry edi- +,
ion last fall; as to his denial that he
yer tried to injure our business; as to -,
lis denial Of personal attack upon I
8; as to his denial that the Couyant {
ever contained any insulting slur 7,
nuendo or insinuation against US, we {
cave the readers of his papers to 6
ldge: as to his assertion that with the
RECEPTION of Mattocks) THE REGIS {
ER did not give the ticket hearty i
uppot last fall; that whenever a con- t
roversy between the two papers has
risen THE REGISTER has alwa vs.
cen the aggressor, we leave the read ,
rs of our paper to judge.
Memorial Day.
-Four hundred thousand men In
The brave, the good, tine true
In tangled wood, in mountain glen, d
On battle plain, in prison pen :,
Lie dead for me and you. II
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