The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-06-19
PR0PERLY ANsWERER

Under the head OF . Common Sense
View" the Republican Of this city is
sued this cheeky and presumptuous
editorial . few days ago, which We
should cali anything but comnios sense /.
The attempt 70 hold John A Martin
responsible for the Atchison Championie
editorials on the prohibition or other
questions, Is we'll enough IN 9 general
way, but they do not ansNeE the re-
quireme1Is Of personaI declaration Of
bis principles and Intentions as & candi.
date tor office. The professional rights
OF An editor TO do editorial work or
manage the editorial course Of q paper,
partially or wholly against his own
personal convictions ami preferences, IL
as well established e the professional
right Of lawyer 70 ADVOCATE IN court
either side Of case of any description
ItiseEceediDgly pueriIe for Col. Mar
tin TO hold mp an Atchison Daily Cham
pion IN front Of himself as an answer
70 the plain Questions other candidates
reply 70 without evasion. Il Is neither
the Champion nor the owner, manag-
ing editor, majority stock palace, or
anything elss about the Champion
which seeks the Republication koVer.
nor. The aspirant for that position Is
John A. Martin, and Il IL for John A.
Martin TO write, sign his name to and
publish In any paper he chooses his
answer To the questions propounded "a
him by the state Temperance Union
Failing 70 do thls be IL 10 be regarded
% 40 unsafe candidate lot The pTohIbi.
| lion cause. II the coltimns Of the
AtchIson Champion are not available fol
that purpose We tender him the free use
M 20 ON
can. an uDqtesti0nable prohibition pa
per, which has ne use for an sDtI-pro
bibition candidate on q prohibition
platform.
To this the Hutchinson News very
pertinently aud prOparly replies:
The above very grOtesque position
we found in half column editorial II
the Emporia Republican last week il
which it attempts 70 argue that Col. Jno
A. Martin, who Is editor, proprietor, and
publisher Of the AichiSo Champion, il
not responsible for his editorial utter
Ances. Now such ''hogwash" as the
above IL IN ~orthY the pen of Father
Eskridge and 10 the ut sentiments OF
only commercial papers whose conVic-
lions, II they have any, are on the mar
kct 20 the highest bidder. We deny the
assertion of MIR. Eskridge that the owner
manager and editor of paper has &
moral or professional right" TO advo
| cate measures he knows or believes 4
be wrong. II is Just that low, mer
conary principle upon which many pa
pers are conducted that enable railrOadl
and other corporations TO buy them uE
every time . question ARISES between
them and the people. But as the Re
publican holds to that principle, il will
be In order for Mr.. EskridRe to in
form Its readers down In this part o.
the country, If Il was advocating IL
true principles when uphOldInR the
railroads as against the people of Kansas
IN that controversy q few months ago
II not, an article over Mr.. Eskridge's owl
signature.will now be In order and If the
columns OF the Republican are not avail
able for that purpose we tender him the
free use OF the Hutchinson News, an un.
questionable prohibition paper which
has no use for . railroad candidate on q
prohibition or any other platform.
| Col. Marlin has day after day in his
paper, the Champion. given utterances
that have no uncertain sound. Every
| saloOnkeeper and hummer In Abchison
are fighting him. and every minister o.
the gospel there is supporting him, on
account of those uttPrances.
Mr.. ThAcher, the Republican candI'
date, Is railroad attorney and the mar
who two years ago was fighting st. JohT
bitterly aud was the candidate of the
Walrnfis, and the church burners. The
fact is we don't believe that Father"
Eskridge Is q Thacher man at all. He
is only exercising his ''professlonaP
rights because 1t is TO his INTEREST
Anyhow we shall not believe he is IN
til he writes an article and signs hi
name to It,"