The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-11-17

it for illegal purposes. Will the Mer-
cary then explain the following cur
ious facts:
On June 26th, 1898, Mr.. Edmonds
drew $500 from the county treasurer
on a school district order issued by the
clerk, but not signed by the director,
as the law requires. But the district
clerk books show that the last pay
ment he made out of the school funds
in his hands was made on June 10th,
1898, and Mr.. Edmonds' own books
show that after he drew the $500 from
the county treasurer on the Goth day
of June, 1898, lie never paid out cent
during his term of Office. And the
books also show that at the time he
drew the $500 from the county treas
urer he already had IN his hands $3.50
which he had previously drawn.
This money was school money drawn
by him from the county treasurer by
school orders issued by the clerk, and
his own books show that 10 part of it
was paid by him for school purposes.
That money was certainly not lost in
the Edwards County Bank, nor in the
Kinsley Exchange Bank. What he
did with the 81 900 after the 26th day
of June, 1898, we do not pretend to
know, but it is not claimed by either
himself OF the Mercury that he lost it
in bank If he put it in some other
place, and lost it through others in
whom he placed confidence, as We are
informed he has stated, we are sorry
for him, and now that he has paid up
the shortage, or the larger part of it,
We are glad of 1t, aud we would gladly
have let the matter rest without COM
ment if the Mercny had haG sense and
decency enough to have kept its mouth
shut. Bat when Mr.. Edmonds drew
the money ont of the county treasury,
(as his own books show he didl, us late
rs June 26th, 1888, and used that
identical money in his own business or
for other purposes than i'll paying 1t out
OIL school orders, as his own books IN
contestably show he did, he converted
public money to his own use, and in SO
doing, violated the law and laid him
self liable to public censure.
In view Of the foregoing facts, all of
which are shown by Mr.. Edmonds'
own books, what must be the colossal
gall of man who will charge body
of citizens with malice because, for
sooth, they did not submissively bow
in silence while the public funds, for
which they had taxed themselves to
provide All education for their chill
dren, were openly being looted. Our
aristOcratic, nonresident mayor must
have been feasting himself OH some
very fashionable foreign food, or absorb
ing large quantities of the exhilarating
fluids dispensed at his pet joint, to
have gotten his gall inflated to such
an extent Of asinlnlty.
F. Dumont's self-glori6cation over
his editorial style, i'll the article re-
ferred to, Is very amusing, especially
when his obscene fling at Mrs. Lease,
on the opposite page of his paper, is
considered. This, however. is strik-
ingIy similar to the vituperative squibs
he has been firing at the peoples party
and its leaders ever since he took
charge of the Mercury.
THE GRAPHIC is perfectly willing to
have its editorial style compared with
that of the Mercury. in every respect,
and we are not afraid of being con.
demned by good citizens when we pro-
tect their interests, as we have done
Ill the matter of the school money of
this district.