People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30
A Campaign Of Education.

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It's candidate for state senator. In
strict confidence we don't believe A.
u. FOrney is either.-MOnitOr.
There is really not enough in your
trumped up story to warrant space in
the VOICE to give it a decent reply.
Col. J. W. FOrney, the present SEN
atOr, was administrator and agent
Of the King estate. The land had
already been sold under fOreclOS-
ure and the equity Of redemption was
about to expire. Col. FOrney, as ad-
miniStratOr and agent wrote the par
ties at interest that something should
be done if they desired to save the
land, but they failed to respond. He
finally suggested to his brother, Gill
bert, that the land was certainly
worth more money than the mortgage
Indebtedness against ii, that the
equity of redemption was about to ex-
pire and that if he would go up and
see them and they still refused to
handle it, he could afford to give more
for it than the amount for which it
had been sold. He welt and present
ed the case to them. They were not
in ignorance concerning the matter
at all, as the letters of Col. FOrney
had posted them before Gilbert eX-
planned the matter. The equity of
redemption would soon expire and the
only effort was, in the event of their
falling to take any steps to redeem
the land, to get deed from them,
and have it placed on record and pay
the judgment off before the court
should confirm the sale to the mort
gagee.
Mr.. FOrney states that they de-
clined to take action, saying that
they had all they wanted of Kansas.
He then offered them $50 for a deed
subject to all the legal liabilities exist
ing against the land, and they took it
and the mortgage company was headed
off and that was all there was in it.
The Monitor seeks to make the peO-
pie believe that it was a widow and a
lot of small children whom FOrney
was dealing with. The 'small chill
dren' were big grown up" men,
amply able to look after their inter-
eStS, and they were present when the
deal was made. The Monitor states
that Forney deceived them by stating
the court would confirm the sale the
next day. He stated that the six
months equity of redemption
would expire and then their interest
would be lost, which was the case;
the equity Of redemption does not ex-
tend until the court convenes.
FOrney paid as much for the land
as other quarters sold for in the same
locality at the same time, and doubt
less nothing more would ever have
been heard from it had not land
taken an upward turn about that
time and one of the heirs, after
finding that he had let good thing
slip through his fingers, concluded to
bring suit against Senator FOrney,
the administrator, and Gilbert, his
brother, alleging cOllusiOn and fraud.
The case is now awaiting decision
in the supreme court, the FOrneys not
having made much of fight against
it in the district court, thinking it
would be dismissed.
Now it is apparent to every one that
if Gilbert is at fault, the Senator is
more so, because Of his being admins
traitor of the estate; yet the circum-
stances Of the case were known and
we believe the action in court had
been commenced before J. W. was
nominated and elected two years ago
to the same position to which the
people are going to send Gilbert next
November.
These same charges were examined,
we are told, by the Union Labor COM
mittee with view to using them
against the present senator, but the
committee wisely concluded that it
was of no use in a campaign. Our
Republican friends, however, are
more closely pressed for campaign
capital, hence their resort to this
sort of thunder.
The FOrneys are well known as hon
Orable and upright gentlemen and we
do not believe this campaign rOOrback
will prejudice single person against
them. One Of the gentlemen who is
now making the most noise about it,
John Gilchrist, Of Belle Plaine, we
understand, now says privately that
the reason the Republicans did not
re-nOminate Senator FOrney was be-
cause Of this transaction, and yet he
voted for Senator FOrney's renomina-
tiOn to the last in the convention.
How does the Senator and his friends
cherish such undermining tacticsp
Now, finally, since it seems neces-
sary to occupy so much space with
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