The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-27
AN OPEN LETTER
That Concerns the Public as Well "a
G. w. Collins Jas. w. Coul-
ter's Vigorous Arrangement.

SIR iou have lately seen fit
various channels To attack the
of republicans opposing your
election by calling them sundry names
and by imputing to them improper mo
tlves, and III AN obscure publication,
marked copies of which you have sent
to divers voters, you single me out and
by insinuation ascribe to me IA base
motive for my political action.
\ little reflection would have shown
you that the motive which prompts Il
man to act is not so important : the
act itself One with bad motive may
perform praiseworthy act; and blum
ders, if not actual wrongs may he com
mitted by persons actuated by the best
motives.
The insfnuatiou you make as IA cause
for my political action was and is false
as you we'll knew, but your nscribing
improper motives to all republicans who
oppose your election carries with it the
implication that no other reason could
exist, and is challenge to produce such
reasons if any there be.
If there were no other objection to
you, republicans might well oppose your
election on account of the unholy ALI
ance you made with the corrupt gang,
who, by the use of money and other i'm
proper means controlled the nomina-
tions on the judicial ticket.
accept as true your public statement
that you used no money in securing
your nomination and that you had none
to use. But if three men engage in Il
bunco game requiring $4,000 capital
and one of them has not a cent but goes
into the scheme, helps to carry it
through and shares in the result, he is
hardly less responsible than his pals be
cause he was impecunious. The rule, |
take it. holds good whether the one
buncoed by an individual or com
munity. The very fact that you We're
taken into the combination under the
raises a grave suspicion
that the schemers selected you, not as a
man who would fearlessly perform the
duties of the office, but as a man whom
they expected to use as u pliant tool
when elected.
There are other reasons which war
rant opposition To yon. Those who
know you best have the least To say in
your favor. Your former partners unite
-, iaI Il
honorable and Enthusiastically. One of
them openly expresses the belief that II
you were district attorney he could buy
your official action at any time for $50
your friends were herded together in Il
bunch there wouldn't be 5-year old in
the lot
1t is something like four years since
eblo. But the people Of Kansas have
not forgotten you. They have u very
distinct if not pleasant recollection of
you and your doings there.
Hon. Theodore Botkin, district judge
of the Thirty-second judicial district,
where you lived prior to your advent in
Pueblo, has made somewhat lengthy
statement concerning you in the course
OF which he says among other things;
"There is nothing | shall state but
what you have my consent TO give it the
very widest publicity and l
,.m willing to be held responsible for
every word in this letter
my attention was first called to him
bv hearing him roaring on II street cor
ner in Wellington. Kan, about his har-
ing studied law under Pettis ~ Stine of
Indiana He there | learned had II good
practice and was thought 10 be II fine
lawyer. but i'll short time the gliding
wore off and exposed the brass, and peo-
Pile found that he was addicted to the
and unmanly habit of
nosing into cases unsolicited by litigants
and of ''monkeying" with the affairs of
other attorneys. and of double dealing
with his clients, and of using deceit in
his treatment of the courts. Then he
fell like collapsed balloon and migrated
to western Kansas locating at Meade
Center. At that point he soon by his
noise attracted attention and worked up
some practice. He entered into partner
ship with Dick Riggs at Meade but hav-
ing been caught at double dealing with
some clients and having robbed Dick of
his share in the receipts OF the firm,
moved west and located at Springfield
in Seward county, where he remained
from 1887 until he moved to Pueblo.
In his practice he is as INSCRIPTIONS
as to methods as the veriest Turk.
"In his dealing with his clients his
forte is to make them believe that their
interests are worse off thousand times
than they really are, and then taking
advantage of their fright, bleed them of
every cent. He will take retainer
from one side and then quietly sell out
TO the other, and it don't take very
much to buy HIM off in suit either. |
know of one case in this county
ISeward) where Sl5 did the work with
him. He will not only cheat and de
fraud his clients. but has never missed
an opportunity of cheating his associate
counsel of his part Of the fees. He is a
great fellow to roar about the Common
law, and he knows as little about it as
an office boy.
PERSONALLY he is dead beat. *
"As for his veracity, he hasn't
any.