People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-05-05
RAYS ROAR.
He Trys to Vindicate Himself-Says
He is Very COmmOn-And that
is No Lie, Either.

well as | do, |, of course, did not and
do not now, expect you to be candid
with me, or state facts in your COM
ments upon the WelCh matter, and
am not in the least surprised to see
that you falsely charge me with at
tempting to suppress the last letter
of Mr.. Welch'S, when you know the
facts to be that | informed you that |
had received an answer to my last let
ter to Welch and asked you if should
send it up; that you answered me
that you did not know whether you
would use the letter that week or
not, and that you would see me again;
that you afterwards wrote me a card
stating that ''if you want the other
letter published send it up" which |
did at once. 1t was very little in you
to pretend that you had to send to
California for Welch'S letter, when
you know that | offered to furnish it
before you ever concluded to publish
the letters, and did furnish it at the
first opportunity and on the first day
you would allow me to do so. In the
language of President Cleveland,
''Tell the truth"
|, of course, knew when | handed
you the correspondence, that you
would not publish Welch's letters
without writing him, and patiently
waited two weeks for you to get an
answer. | also knew, in view of
what you had before published, that
you and Welch could not afford to re-
fuse to publish the letters and now
that they are published, they convict
you of having made false statement,
when you charged that | discharged
Welch because he voted the POpuliSt
ticket, for they show that | did not
know how WelCh voted, he going so
far as to refuse until February 2Oth,
to tell me how he voted.
But | am not going to waste time
in discussing this point, for had |
known how he voted, and had | dis.
charged him for that reason, | would
have only been following the prece.
dent set by Judge Mckay, who dis
charged Republican lady stenOgra-
pher of his court, in order to give her
place to POpuliSt. Ia short, every
body knows that all persons fill posi-
tiOn under their control with their
party friends, and no one ought to be
deceived by such fOOliShneSS as your
celebrated "AutOcrat Editorial" D."
had as early as August
last, about determined to dis
pose of Mr.. Welch, and in that
month so informed Mr. Davis, my
present StenOgrapher, and also spoke
to Superintendent Rhodes at the
same time, telling him that | was
liable to take Mr.. Davis from
him in September. Now see these
gentlemen and ask them if this is not
a fact. | have stated to Mr. Welch
some of my reasons for the change.
know what my reasons were, and
you profess to not believe my state
ment, and your unbelief does not con-
Germ me in the least. You are so ac-
CuStOmed to having your ISLANDERS &c
unn0ticed, that it fretS you to be ar
ralgned for them. | read your paper
weekly, and in every issue you vii.
fully SANDER and insult Republicans.
If you will permit me to do so. | will
IN my next, point out nearly a dozen
false and SlanderOus statements in
one issue.
You seem to think that Welch's let.
ter, of February 20, written forty
days after mine, is important. and |
will therefore notice it, and allow
you two weeks more, if you see fit ia
do so, to send to Welch for an answer
Gle begins by saying, II specially OBJ.
serve that no statement in my former
letter is cOntradicted." Sou to Feb
ruary 10Th, | had not disputed
Welch'S statement, and am sorry t0
nnd that during the forty days which
ne TOOK to prepare his defense, that
ne determined to preyariCate in many
particulars. His first untruth is the
statement that | 'Tecollect some
thing about it being explained to me
at the time | was appointed, of the
custom of not allowing any per diem
etc" The exact converse of this is
Lhe truth. | informed him of the
custom in other districts, and inform.
ed MN that that custom was not the
law in my district, and he agreed to
work for what the law allowed Sc M
per day. The second untruth is his
statement that my recollection is
That you wanted me to find ont nosi.
lively about the custom, etc. The
facts are, WelCh showed me Raw.
mond's letter, and wanted me fo
auOpt the custom as against the stat
uteS, which refused to do, and which
my certificates on file in the comfy
clerks office, made after December
1871, and which | will herewith snh,
init, will show. The third nntrutb
is the statement that 81 made ont
my bills on this theory and they were
certified by James A. Ray, Judge
and | supposed that the general ems,
Tom Of the state was to be followed
thereafter" My certificates herewith
submitted also prove this Statement.
to be false. - =
Ihe fourth untruth is the state.
ment In regard to the request to tran
scribe the COrbin speech. which hy
the way, was the cause of yOur as.
sault upon ME, for in that speech yonr
ieellngS were wounded by nv exnoS.
ing you for using Santa Fe pass, and
reading extracts from the VoIcE
showing your endorsement of Rel.
iamylSm. When | asked Mr. WeIcb
70 transcribe the speech, | informed
MIN that it was for the Rennhlicsn
committee and stated to him that he
and | were under more obligations to
the Republicans of Sumner conntv ~
than any other two men in the com
ty, since we held the most lucrative
positions in the county. and that we
could afford TO do this work free of
charge. NV Vi