People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-11-01
WHICH AND 'TOTHER.
The Monitor Arralgns the Star for
Misrepresentation.

The Monitor Arralgns the Star for
Misrepresentation.
Andy Richards Star is the recogs
nized official organ Of the republican
party Of Sumner county.
The Monitor has lost its hold on the
party, but still poses as republican
paper, and is supporting the republi-
can county ticket, fawning at the feet
Of the ringsters who have tried to
cast it out.
In support canFarry Woods for
f secretion tto hhBBearisine,,S Star found 1t
necessary SprNstancy, aa-n.. -.
tried to make IL a,lear that he is and
always has been a scoundrel.
Andy and Harry got their heads to.
gether and invented story to save
Harry.
Now; the Monitor comes along and
denounces Andy for attacking Mr..
Curtis, Notwithstanding the attack
was made at the instigatiOn of Woods.
aud that the Monitor is supporting
Woods, the Monitor pronounces the
Star a falsider.
How the Monitor can support
Woods and denounce his methods of
campaign, is a queer problem.
If the Monitor tells the truth Harry
Woods is liar and swindler, and
yet the Monitor wants him elected.
The Monitor should be careful how
it roasts the official organ and the
party pet, if it wants to stand in.
The following is the view of the
Monitor:
TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH"
zone of the regretable features of
this campaign has been the dragging
into it the private affairs Of some OF
our business men who have been so
unfortunate as to get mixed up,
through no fault OF their own, in the
local political scrimmage. The state
ments. appearing In Andy Richards
Star of last weeka concerning the in-,
debtedness Of C. G. Curtis and the
Curtis Hardware Company have no
real relation to the issues before the
voters, and as presented are both dam
aging and unfair.
while 1t Is true that there are on
record In the district clerks Office OF
this county personal judgments
against c. c. Curtis aggregating $751;
09l.23, yet II the Star had wanted TO
be fair 1t would have explained that
scarcely dollar OF this amount rep
resents a debt OF Mr.. Curtis own
contracting, or for whose payment
he Is morally responsible.
Between sixteen and seventeen
thousand dollars Of this large sum Is q
judgment against Mr.. Curtis as one Of
the endorsers on note Of the Frisco
Town Company OF cxecrated memory.
Mr. Curtis was stakeholder TO the
amount Of 500 In this Inflated enter
prise that has taken so much money
out Of Wellington, and with some
eight or ten other local stockholders
allowed his name to be used to float
the company's paper. The enterprise
was failure, the suits were decided
against the company, the sureties on
its notes went busted" one after an
other, till finally Mr.. Curtis remained
the only nominally solvent one In the
lot and the whole load was dumped
on his shoulders.
1.-THE balance Of this thirty-one
thousand represents judgments
against Mr.. Curtis as a member OF the
firm OF C. G. Larned & Co. When
Mr.. Curtis bought out the interest OF
his two partners In 1885, they agreed
to assume certain share OF the la
bilitics Of the old arm. Instead OF
doing this they ''laid down" on him.
and being legally bound. he had the
whole thing TO pay. Mr.. Curtis stxug-
gled as well a be could against this
mountsin Of debt, but was finally
forced TO the wall. His failure under
these extraordinary circumstances,
those who are acquainted with the
facts, consider no reflection on his In
tegrity, and the Stars insinuations OF
crookad nsaa arc anffreIv 0ratultOus