Wichita daily eagle., 1885-09-03
OUTRAGEOUS AND INFAMOUS

/ an. NJ. Murdock asked the legislature
through his representative, TO give him the
exclusive use and ownership of what Gilbert
had donated and granted TO the public and
the county had accepted as trustee "-Bea-
| con.
| The above is lie and the writer, if he
knew anything about what he was writing
about, knew it was lie when he wrote it. And
further, everything the Beacon has published
of this matter wherein any reflections or
inuendoes touching the actions and motives
Of NJ. NJ. Murdock were INDUCED in, are
contemplate falsehoods begot.en of envy
or something worse. And still further, any
man who, by inuendo, or in any other man.
ner, attempts to convey the idea that NJ. NJ.
Murdock, or anyone else, acted corruptly in
the matter Of securing the vacation of the
streets and alleys in Gilbert's addition, is not
only contemplate liar but a skunk too
offensive for the society of decent
men. The reflections Of that paper
on the editor of the EAGLE, in
ifs Saturdays edition, were simply inta-
nous and outrageous libels on the name
and record ofone whose highest ambition
has always been TO serve the people accept
ably and honestly and whose good name is
as precious to him as such name can be TO
any man who has been before the public
for twenty years as an officer and public
writer. So broad was the SATURDAYS ar
ticle in its charges that until the suplemen-
tai matter appeared yesterday we simply ac-
cepted it as burlesque. The articles taken
together show only the Shiny tracks of
would-be assassin of character There has
not been a board Of county commissioners
since the passage of that bill up to the time
few months since, when If became the in
terests of some property holders to open up
said streets, who would not have
declared the streets and alleys
vacated upon mere request.
Blu: nobody dreamed that the city or any
body else would ever lay claim TO them.
Lots between that plot and the then town
for years were held at from $5 to SIS each
and the whole plot alluded to was offered for
SS5 per acre, ard sold for fifty dollars an
acre, exclusive Of improvements, within five
or six years. NJ. NJ. Murdock has made no
fight over the matter although IT threatened
TO ruin his homestead, and lie even did not
know a suit would be brought till it was
actually done. He hoped right would be
done finally. He talked to some of the MEM
berS Of the council, and also TO Judge Camp |
bell, all privately, about what hardship it |
would be to upset the calculations and hon
est expectations Of years, but has made no |
fight through the paper. And he Is not now,
but he don't propose to rest under the out |
slanders of a man whose infamous |
course in this matter seems beyond compre-
hension. As to the Gilbert addition and |
our little home up there and how we came |
possessed of it. and all our actions, public |
and private, with reference TO the addition |
or the home, We court the closest scrutiny
and investigation. There is nothing |
that we are ashamed of-nothing |
that we would not that the whole world |
should know. That home never cost Wich- |
ita cent; the money with which it was
built we brought with US to this valley All |
ne have made since we came here together |
with all our thoughts and labor have gone
10 the building Of this city. When we are
pulling might and main, night and day, for |
the material interests of the people here and |
are criticized by the Beacon, we don't par
iicularly care, because we think we ought TO |
stand it ii the people can. But the Beacon
and its editor may just as well understand |
now as at any time that when undertakes |
to reflect on our motives and actions as IA
sworn officer, or upon the only thing We
have 10 leave 20 our children-Our good |
name-that we will be on hand TO defend TO
any extreme. In public matters and politics
FOR its low epithets and reflections we have
cared little, taking them as philosophically |
as even cur best friends could have desired,
but when he gets down TO attempting TO
make the people believe that we would stoop |
10 as mean things as himself, we must protest.