People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-04-01
WAR OF THE ROSES.
Judge Ray Makes the Quill Fly in
Response to the Monitors ISLANDERS.
SAYS CAMPBELL WOULD HAVE
GosBTED THE WHOLE POT
HAD He BEEN JUDGE.
A Feeble Effort 10 Describe the Monitors
Lying Propensities.
Judge Ray 10 Editor Campbell.

From tie Daily Mail
MARCH 10Th, 1892.
EDITOR MAL:-It would seem that by
this time the public was heartily tired oil,
il not disguised with what is called the
Bribery Case" But Notwithstanding
this ! am compelled to choose between
submitting to ialsehoOds and misrepre.
sensations which are detrimental to me
and to the position which l hold or
again appear III print, and having
chosen the latter, | ask the indulgence
OF the public.
In the Monitor Press OF the 10th inst.
there appeared an editorial on the
Bribery Case" which, when stripped OF
its verbiage, simply said that "Mr.
Elliott denied that his conduct on the
occasion in question was susceptible OF
the construction that | placed upon it;
that l had probably misrepresented
him; that this was the opinion OF
majority OF the bar; that Elliott's word
was as good as mine and that the peo-
pie could as consistently believe Elliott
as believe me. Feeling the sting Of these
insolent thrusts, | called on John g.
Campbell, the author OF this matter,
and asked him if he had heard major.
ity OF the bar express an opinion re-
garding the matter; il be had talked
with Mr.. Elliott, and il be had read my
construction OF the language used, to all
OF which interrogations be answered in
the negative. After some further talk,
inferred, but without any special prom
ise, that in the next issue OF his paper he
would either retract his unwarranted
statement or give to his readers the con.
struction which ! had placed on the Ian
guage OF Mr.. Elliott and all OF the facts
in the case and the explanation OF my
course in the matter, by doing whateach
of the other wellington papers had done
publish my statement to the bar. But
in the next issue, Of 18th inst, no men,
ton OF my interview was made, neither
was the statement published. Upon
observing this, | addressed very
few lines to Campbell, stating sub
stantially that since l was nominated
and elected as a Republican and on the
Republican ticket, that the Republicans
had a right to know OF my official con-
duct; that most OF them read his paper
and that he had done me an Injustice.
concluding with request that he pub
lish my statement to the bar. When
the manuscript was left a request was
also made that he inform me whether he
would publish my communication. |
heard not word from him, but when
the next issue of his paper appeared, on
24th inst, was coolly informed that
the columns OF his paper were closed
against me; and instead OF retraction
or modification OF the first insult, he
proceeds to add Others and publish willful
falsehoods and make ga false statement OF
the contents OF my statement to the bar
and knowing that by publishing the
statement his ISLANDERS would be refuted,
he declines publishing it.
Because OF this unprincipled conduct,
l am compelled to ask room in your
paper to refute his ISLANDERS. 1t is not
possible for me to say how others may
regard this conduct OF slandering a man
and then denying him space for a reply,
but to me that action is SO dirty and
cowardly that it cannot be properly de-
scrlbed without shocking the senses OF
every respectableperson. Thehypocrisy
OF the man 10 pleading that he could not
afford the expense Of publishing the
statement is apparent when he consumes
nearly enough spacein garbling the state.
ment; in making other insolent com.
ments and in prevaricating, as would
have been required for the statement
The first series Of falsehoods are in the
following fourteen lines:
while unwilling to do injustice to
Judge Ray or any OF the other parties
interested, we must decline at this late
day to go to the expense Of publishing
matter which Judge Ray, after denying
to the newspapers for publication fol
several weeks after its delivery, finally
! saw tit to grant the exclusive use of the
manuscript to a single paper, the Voice
thus selecting that paper as his medium
! OF communication with the public
, rather than giving all an equal chance to
present it to their readers while it was
' still news"
lchallenge any master Of language tc
encompass in less than fourteen lines 8
. greater number Of direct, inierential anc
patent falsehoods than are herein con
tanned. The first palpable ialsehood i.
bis declaration that he is unwilling to Dc
; me an injustice, which is proven to b,
a false by his seeming gratuitous defens,
, oil Mr.. Elliott and contradictory state
ments. In the issue OF 10th inst, b,
says that the conversation he had Will