The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-19
SOMEBODY PREVIOUSLY LIES.

Some time since the Topeka Capital
announced IN very emphatic language
that Judge Caldwell, of the United
States circuit court, had issued an order
directing the receivers of the Santa Fe
road to ignore the judgments and
awards made by the Kansas railway
commissioners in the Wichita freight
rate cases, some phases of which had
been, in fact, affirmed by the supreme
court of the state.
Accepting the unequivocal declaration
of the Capital as true, the EAGLE ener-
getically roasted Judge Caldwell for
such outrageous usurpation. Our Ian
guage was not minced, by any means,
and marked copies were sent to Judge
Caldwell and to some of his Santa Fe
appointees.
The Capital of Tuesday morning APP
pears with long editorial in which it
goes on to explain that it never had any
warrant for its declaration, and to fur
Their retract and apologize. concluding
with the gratuitous information that the
courts are wide open in which Wichita
may seek redress for the noncompliance
of the railroads.
That is pretty kettle of fish, detes-
table mess of lies, brass and ignorance.
AS no official of the Santa Fe, or of the
commission, or of the court has come
forward to deny the far-reaching declar-
alton of the Capital, or to criticize the
protest of the EAGLE, it looks as if there
might be large sized Ethiopian sequest-
cred somewhere in the cordwood As for
the Capitals after information and pre-
sent consent that Wichita may now
appeal to the state courts for
redress, it is piece Of assumed superior
intelligence and presumption unworthy
OF note or comment, much less de-
The people of Wichita ale
advised of their rights and legal re-
sources and want no advice from the
Capital, railroad attorneys or other Mis-
souri, river interests.
If, however. the Capital now speaks |
the truth in admitting that it was guilty |
of an unwarrantsd falsehood in the first |
place, the EAGLE was not only led into
doing Judge Caldwell grave injustice,
but the receivers of the Santa Fe,. their
attorneys and the master in chancery in
failing to deny the Capitals positive
assertion and to protest against the
EAGLES vehement cauterizatien are left |
In very questionable light. The Capt.
tai was in position to have had its pur-
ported information confirmed or denied
in three minutes, Judge johnson
representing the circuit court and
A. A. Hurd representing the
Santa Fe, both being in Topeka at
the time.
As it is the whole matter is left in
doubt. In the meantime, as the EAGLE
could, under no consideration. be in
duced to do Judge Caldwell an injustice.
all that we said touching his supposed
outrage is Withdrawn until such time as
The truth at the bottom is known, when,
# the last declaration of the CAPITAL
proves reliable, the most ample apology
will be forthcoming at our hands.
However, In conclusion, we would
lot have it understood that we believe
hat the Capital lied in the first place.
my more than we believe it tells the
ruth now. In the face of all that &C.
cured, and of all that was said and left
lnsaid, there are grounds for believing
hat either Judge Caldwell gave the re-
'eIvers to understand that thew mipbt
gnore the order of the Kansas commits.
toners or otherwise that the attorneys
II the receivers gave it out that said
rider was to be ignored and that ,Jndpa
Caldwell would protect them.
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