People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-23

Judge, and is another thing, which is
no concern Of the reporter.
Mr.. Ray says that the commissioners
! told me that l was entitled to S6 a
day for every day l ATTENDED court
and that was the reason he certified
| to those days. have stated in a for
mer letter, most emphatlcally, that |
never did appear before the county
commissioners, or any one else, to ad.
yOCate the allowance of any Of my
bills by said commissioners ! defy
any one to prove that l ever did eth
er individually or in their official ca.
paCity. That assertion Of Mr.. Ray
rests upon the same purely imaginary
foundation which l shall show that
the following does:
"The eighteen dollars paid Charley
DOdd, which Mr.. Welch so much GOV.
cts, would have been paid him had he
not deserted his post, but his absence
made it necessary to appoint tenn
pOrary stenOgrapher."
During that month | had severe
attack of bronchitis, on account OF
which | had to quit work in the mid
die of a case on the 3rd and do moi
remember of having been able to re-
sumo my duties again until the 27tt
of the same month October, 1890.)
made arrangements with the Judge
to have Mr.. R. L. Davidson take my
place, which he did, and | went home
(Wichita) to bed. On the 18th
wrote the Judge note that | haC
suffered a relapse, that this would
prOlOng my absence, and also said, in
substance, that as Mr.. Davidson was
a practicing attorney he might be in
terested in some cases that might
come up to be reported, and in the
event that he was objected to on that
ground l could probably have arrange
mentS made for court repOrter1o e
down from Wichita. Mr.. Ray replied
as follows:
WELLINGTON, KANs., Oct. 10, go
| c. E. Welch, Esq, DEAR SIR
Your letter to hand. You need give
yourself no anxiety about a reporter
as | can get on all right. Take cart
of your health and return when you
feel able. Yours truly,
(Signedl JAS. A. RAY.
And the next three days (l6, Il
and 49, after this letter was v1Aeer
were the days that | would have been
paid for had l had not deserted
my pOst!" Does that letter read likt
l had "deserted?"
1t may be fair, it may be manly tt
charge one with deserting his duties
when he is in bed sick, but to say
that any person in Sumner county
besides Mr.. Ray, believes it is, would
be casting a reflection upon the aver
age intelligence of the communit,
which all candid people will hasteI
to Indignantly repudiate. Then Il
say that my ''absence made it neces
sary to appoint temporary StenOgra
pher" when had already arranged TO
| Mr.. Davidson to act as such! This i
another illustration which great,
discreditS the idea that Mr.. Ray
vocabulary contains the wOrc
consistent" Again, that senteDc
is so adrOitly worded that one wOult
suppose that that was the Onl,
eighteen-dOllar bill of the kind eve
certified to. Here is the evidence O
another attack of nepOtism littl
later in the same month:
Office Of District Judge, 10Th Judicial Dist
James A. Ray, Judge, Wellington, KaI
This is to certify that Charles B. DOdd wa
appointed by the Judge of the District cOur
for the following days and reported the fol
lowing cases:
Oct. 20, 1890, Massey VS.. VanVoirs ..... IS {
. "A, Gooch VS.. McCray ......... &C
., Myers VS.. Myers. &C
Total otal............................lsC lsC
JAMES A. RAY,