Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-17
A VERY CoNTEMPTIBLE wHELP.

A special dispatch was sent out from
this city to the Kansas City Times for
its Sunday morning issue touching the
special train which pulled Senator
Plumb to Kingman and back, which dis
patch for a jumbled mass of misrepre-
entations would be hard to equal. The
dispatch itself not only brands the
writer as falsifier to every man on the
special train and to every man who
knows anything about it, but as skunk
who for the sake of making a point
against political enemy would involve
the. good name and manhood of party
friend. The arrangement was made for
the train by the editor of the EAGLE and
superintendent Hill neither demanded
pay in advance nor threatened TO hold
the train. Mr.. Hill is gentleman. AS
for Pat Healey he is a gentleman also,
and was one of the party which was IN
no sense political one, but one which
desired talk with the senator in the in
terest of the city. Dir. Healey did
not pull out any 800 bill to pay
the expenses of the trip simply
because there was no occasion or chance
for such thing, although from what we
know of that gentleman we would not
have hesitated moment to ask him for
that amount if it had been desirable.
The rip snorting fool who sent that dis
patch leaves the readers of the Times to
understand that such information had
been obtained from Mr.. Healy, who was
not the only Democrat in the crowd,
which was another lie out of whole
cloth. With such men as L. d. Skin
ner, A. w. Oliver, Oak Davidson, Geo.
w. Blackwelder, w. A. Thomas, Col.
II. w. Lewis, G. w. Clement, N. F.
Niederlander and a half dozen others,
any one of whom could have drawn
their check for an amount which would
have bought the train out and out, 1t IS
not likely they would have failed to pay
for its use couple Of hours had they
been called upon, or that they would
have otherwise made spectacle of them
selves only to be relieved by Mr.. Healy
who was on that train just exactly upon
the same footing that all the rest were.
AS it would be worse than useless to
ask the Times to make a correction and
as their dirty tool at this point has never
an idea above misrepresentation, and
generally of the meanest possible
character, it is only left us to say that
Mr.. Pat Healy, in the first place, never
gave any authority for such dispatch,
nor did Supt Hill, and neither did any
gentlemen composing the party. AS to
the train was paid for by the
state central committee who appointed
+he Kingman meeting, or by the King
man central committee who telegraphed
for it, or by the Sedgwick county central
committee who held the senator over for
The sake of his presence in the parade in
or by the senator himself, or
5he gentlemen who accompanied him, is
A matter which probably interests no.
body outside of the parties named, I'M
ess it is the Times or its hired whelp
who viii not be permitted to see the re-
;eipted bill, or to even ever learn any
hing else in connection with the matter
'urther than he is dawplucker of too |
,ircumscribed sapience and circumrotary
and compass to even attempt |
he defamation or belittling of pack of
much less the characters of a !
company of respectable gentlemen.