The advocate., 1894-04-04

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fighting Vroomsu, and made Life so un-
pleasant that the latter pulled out and
lost all his interest In the concern. The
Office at once Lost its patronage and in q
few weeks Corning again moved be-
tween two days, this time TO Emporia.
Here IL was very much the same story
and il was afterward repeated with
slight variations at 81 Dorado, Council
Grove, Parsons and PAols. / am con-
vinced that St every place he has been
located some poor soul has been the VIC
tim Of his oily tongue"
The correspondent does not 60 into
details and even fails to mention some
places in which Corning has lived. Oa
going to Parsons he solicited aid to start
paper on the representation that he
must have money to pay q chattel mort
gage ON his material which was then at
FL Dorado. BY this plan he raised $500
on note endorsed by A. F. Edwards,
Wn. Cook, J. A. Jones and w. NJ.
Quarles. With this he established the
Kansas Workman, but never pretended
to pay the note. After . while he
worked his surstiss Cor another $75 for
which he was to turn over the Office
clear Of debt and get out Of town. At.
ter paying this his bensfsctors Learned
that Butler county man held ehattel
mortgage on the material, and that shsy
had been buncoed again.
AT Psola he leased an Office. aud the
owner, after trying In vain to get some
pay for the use Of his material, and fear
ing that he would lose the material
itself, took advantage Of the absence Of
the Corning outfit one day at noon, and
took possession of the office. At that
place ne even refused to pay his board
bill, and his dishonesty was 90 fragrant
while there that he lost the confien
OF men OF all parties. Having first
worked himself into the good graces OF
the Alliance people his outrageous 40.
tions greatly retarded the Peoples party
movement in that county.
One Of Corning's fAvorite schemes has
been to get retainer fee for contestinR
the foreclosure Of a mortgage, repre-
senting that it was illegal and could not
be foreclosed and then letting the case
60 by default. Numerous cases can be
cited similar to the one referred to in the
following statement made by j. G.
Whitney. justice OF the peace and
notary public Of GSlva, Kansas. This,
however, was not foreclosure case:
This is 10 certify that am acquainted
with one Cyrus Corning, and az che time Of
my acquaintance with him he was editor
and publisher Of the Kansas Workman. I
employed him to defend a case for me In
the district court Of MCPHERSON county. I
paid him $25 in cash as his fee, but whom
the case came on could not get Corning to
come, so l got the case continued and then
wired him to come. Bat he never came, 80
l got the case continued until the next term,
when, he promised me by letter, he would be
on hand. But the next term Of the court
was but q repetition Of the first. Corning
would NOT come, so lost my case also the
$25 I had paid him, as / never got cent
back from him. am, therefore, compelled
10 brand him an unsCrupulous knave and
shySter. This was in the years 1889 and
1880. J. g. WH1TNEY,
Justice of the Peace.
II there 10 still any doubt in the mind
Of the reader as to the character OF this
old hypocrite, the ADVOCATE will be
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