Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-09-01

with honesty and purity is a grand
victory as compared with success
with dishonesty and corruption. Re
member the humiliation that we have
in the past through the con-
duct of corrupt officers, and elect no
more doubtful men.
4" We prefer the following list of
grave charges against George T. An
thony, and for proofs sustaining each
particular charge we refer to accom-
panying documents.
"The documents herewith pre-
sented convict George T. Anthony of
First Defrauding his creditors.
Representing himself as solvent when
he was bankrupt. Obtaining goods
from innocent parties through such
false representations. selling the same
and keeping the proceeds; for which
an unsatisfed judgment now stands
against him in the district court of
Leavenworth county for over $4,000
(See document No. 10.
Second Defrauding the school
fund of the state of New York by
falling to pay over money belonging
to said fund, entrusted to his hand as
a loan commissioner in said state, for
which an unsatisfed Judgment now
stands against him and his sureties
in the supreme court of the state of
New York. (See document No. 81
Third Defrauding his creditors
and evading the payment of his hon
est debts, by putting all his property
liable to execution in his wife's name.
See the records of Leavenworth
county.
"Fourth-False swearing, by pub
licly swearing under oath, that the
property now in his wlfe's name was
bought with the proceeds of the sale
of property, real and personal, which
she owned before he married her.
(See document No. 81
''Fifth-Holding the most lucrative
federal Office in Kansas for eight
consecutive years, without devoting
one cent of the salary thereof to the
+ payment Of his honest debts. (Refer
to George T. Anthony
ESixth-Cowardly as an officer in
the army, and cruel and tyrannical
treatment of the men under his com
mand. (See document No. 4.
Seventh DefraudIng private sol
diers in the union army by taking
several thousands of dollars of funds
belonging to the men Of his company
and appropriat1ng the same to his
own use. (See documents No. and
4.
Notwithstanding the friends
of dead soldier by taking SIS con
tributed by the men of his company
for the purpose of embalming the
body of a deceased comrade, and ap
proprlating the same to his own use
leaving the dead boys father to pa.
the bill (See documents No. 2,
and 4.
ninth Publicly utterlng a false
hood by denying the charge in tn
above count eight and exhibiting t
the people of Leavenworth a bogu
receipt for the embalming aforesaid
(See document No. H.
"Tenth-Having failed in bushes
several times under suspicious Gil
cumstances, with seventeen unsatis
fed judgments in favor of his cred
, tors standing against him in th
courts of New York. (See documer
, No. 81
! EEleventh-Treating the soldier
under his command so cruelty an
, tyranically that he was obliged
. leave his native state, after the wa
! for fear of personal violence from th
men he had maltreated. (See docl
. ments No. 2 and 4
a "Twelfth-Treachery and swine
s ling, by betraying the confidence
q an aged colored man who had truste
n him as a friend, and swindling hi
out of his little home and everythin
4 he possessed, in consequence
: which the old man is now eompelle
: at the age of seventy-three years.
q earn his living by daily labor. Isl
q document No. g."
IS It will be observed that the
If charges are not ours. They are n
d made by the Peoples party. v
n know nothing personally as to the
IS truth or falsehood, except as we C;
3 judge from the documentary eviden
b submitted. The resolutions we
d adopted by great mass meeting