The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-12-22
Edwards Errors.


t. our article of last week or the hight
barded attempt OIL the part of Edwards
and Smith to wreck the GRAPHIC, and
although the GRAPHIC for this week
was nearly made-np we will take the
SPACE necessary to expose few of the
most glaring lies the article contains.
leaving the remainder to he answered
later.
He says that n receiver was appointed
not to wreck the GRAPHIC but to col
lect amy bills OF accounts due the
GRAPHIC, and that the receiver was
advised by him that while it was nc
part of his business to continue the
publication of the paper, lie might per-
nit the paper to be printed. This
statement is false. lie not only ad
vised the receiver not to let the paper
be printed, but objected and kicked
when the receiver stated he would lei
the paper be printed, after having re.
ceived other advice.
He states that lie never offered Ed
wards $500 for the franchise of the
paper. If he did not then Edwards
lied. 1t can be proved by more than
half IL dozen witnesses that Edwards
stated on the street, the night of the
attachment, that Smith had promised
to give him S4OO for the franchise of
the GRAPHIC.
Now let US see what Smith was to
get for his $500, and how he was to
get it.
MIR. Hine, the cashier of the bank,
stated to Mr.. McCanse i'm the presence
of Edwards, after lie had just consul
ted with Smith, that the bank did not
claim to have attached the franchise
of the paper, and made 10 objection to
the paper being printed, they only OBJ
jected to the press, type, etc, that had
been attached being used for that pu--
pose. Now if the good will OF right to
publish the GRAPHIC, popularity known
as the franchise, was not attached,
and the bank had no lien OH it, which
is the fact and Which they conceded,
how was Edwards to deliver the fran
chise to Smith for the 800? In one
way only, and that was 10 allow Smith
to use the name of the bank with
which to attach the press and type and
have Il receiver take possession and
prevent the paper from being printed
that week. The attachment was levied
late Thursday, just before publication,
to give as short Il time as possible for
Mrs. French to get the paper out OH
some other press. They thought that
Mrs. French being here alone would moi
know what 10 do, and that she could not
get the paper printed that week.
Smith would then claim that the
GRAPHIC could not legally be designa-
ted lis the official county paper, and he
would try to get the county printing,
and while such claim could not lie
maintained in the courts it would be
enough for him to base some kind of
Il llocus pocus proceeding upon, us he
has done Il number of times.
If Edwards lied when he said on the
street that Smith promised to give him
S4G0 for the franchise, then the attach
ment proceeding against the GRAPHIC
Was instituted out of pure malice on
the part of Edwards without the slight
est expectation of deriving a cent
therefrom for the bank. Edwards
and Smith well knew that the GRAPHIC
press, type, ETC., was held by oursel1
and Messrs. Carter and Bingham on Il
redeliverv bond in an action of replevin
and therefore, under the decisions O
our supreme court was.not subject tt
attachment. They also knew that thu
property was covered with mortgage
to Il greater amount than the properL,
would sell for at a mortgage OF sheriff
sale.
Smith says he gave his opinlou tina
the entire plant WAS worth about $500
Tie amount due OH the mortgage i
about $3.50. How then was it possibl
for the bank to realize anything out o
the attachment proceeding against TIN
GRAPHIC?
According to his own statement tn
property could not have been sold TO
enough to pay the mortgage and costs
The sole object of the proceeding Wa
to bleak up the paper. Everybod
knows that was the object of the suit
Business men closely connected wit
Edwards says that was the only objec
and that it was an outrage.
Smith says that if he had wanted t
break up the GRAPHIC lie could hav
done SO anytime during the last eigh
months, rs the GRAPHIC was not pull
lishel one week last March until tn
following Sunday. This IS wanto
lie and he knows it. a year ago las
fall Smith came to US and said that tn
GRAPHIC had not been distributed frol
the postofiice unit! Sunday, ard lha
there might be question raised on
under the statute. He also told Sal
Andrews about it when the count