The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-01
Can the Republican Party, at the Die
tation of G. W. C. Rohrer,
And the Disreputable Gang Of Office
Seekers Who Surround Him,
Afford to Excuse or Defend an Alleged
Minister of the Gospel
Who is Reeking all Over With the
Filth of Moral Impurities

DR.. Philip KrOhn, prohibition leader,
Methodist minister, editor of the Gazette,
libertine and liar, makes a defense TO
the public which shows that his re-
sourceful mind has recovered from the
confusion which fell upon it when he
was discovered in bed in Junction City
with young woman, with not even the
sword of Aladdin between them.
1t is simple justice to say that Dr.
Krohn lies from one end of his state
ment to the other.
To his sin of unchaStity he adds the
contemplate qualities Of falsehood and
cowardice. Net in town two months
vet he has made infamous proposals
to at least one young lady, with whom
he has been actually found undreSSed
and in bed with. To cover up this last
escapade he seeks cover behind the re-
publican party of this county. He does
this on the advice of such republican
leaders as G. W. C. Rohrer and the pO-
litical satrapS who surround him, all
of whom are reekIng with moral infamy
and filth. The question is, will the re-
publican party of Dickinson county
consent to let DR.. Krohn's moral char
acter be made question of politics and
then consent to defend it? That IS
what his inconsistent, illogical and as
SHINE statement, inspired by Mephis-
topholes Burton and RefOrmer Rohrer,
means. That is what DR.. Krohn's
determination to stay here means. II
the republican party can afford to be
led by this brace Of moral lepers, they
do more than any honest set of men
can afford to do.
For be it understood here that
the amorous DR.. Krohn, assisted by
his two morally decayed friends, were
the first to raise the cry Of political
CONSPIRACY Why? Because they
knew the case to be indefensible on its
merits and sought relief in party feel
ing and prejudice. If party resentment
could be aroused, DR.. Krohn might be
saved by being enveloped III it. That
is all there is to DR.. Krohn'S defense.
His abuse of Sheriff Miller, Alex II.
Martin and Henry Lifts cuts no figure
in the matter. The public know them,
and they also know the men who sur
round DR.. Krohn.
The Rev. DR.. KrOhn needed no urg-
ing to meet the girl in this city and in
junction City. lie admits this. The
conspirators to whom he charges the
plot did not work on him to persuade
him to do wrong. He met the girl. He
went to Junction City with her. He
told her to register as MARY Jones
for her protection. Why was an as
sumed name necessary? What pro
tection' did Mary Jones or any other
girl need against Rev. Dr.. Philip Krohn,
a minister of the gospel and spiritual
adviser? DR.. Krohn confesses himself
a fool and an idiot in his statement. II
there was trap no one forced him TO
walk into it, but we aver here that he
did walk into it, that he did go into
the room with the girl, that he did I'M
dress and go to bed with her, and that
if he did not accomplish his Infamous
and diabolical purpose it was no fault
of his. Elsewhere in these columns a
true statement of the facts are made
which can be proved by half-a-dozen
creditable witnesses.
DIR. Khron's record in AtchiSon is not
frst-class. When this Junction City
affair first came out it was telegraphed
from that city that his fall was not I'M
expected nor surprising. DR.. krohn's
record in Troy, n. Y, in lS79-SO, Is
not one to recommend him favorably to
any community. There he is charged
with having rented rooms for one Mrs.
Howard: there he is charged with hay
ing accomplished the ruin of one Miss
Van Hoesen, and there he is charged
with having made improper proposals
to one Mrs. Mary Mabin. On account
of these charges he was forced to fly
the country, going to Chicago and from
there coming to Kansas.
This is the man the people of Abilene
are asked to defend and screen at the
bidding of such men as G. W. c. Rob
rer, who, as secretary of wildcat in
surance company of Washington, DC,
was forced to fly from justice, who is
charged in the courts as wife-beater
and law defyer and breaker, and OF
the unworthy, immoral and thoroughly
disreputable lot of political aspirants
who hang around the Gazette and at
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