People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-07-11
FAUROT DISCHARGED
Defendant IN the ALLEGED Political
Deal of 1898 INDICATED.
THE CLOSET OPENED.
Ali the Facts of this Political Dema-
goguery Given an Airing.
Wellington Daily Mail.

NOuuUy OOulDlSSIUutI j. L. duIOU
was held on Saturday in the district
court room before Justice w. e. Cox.
County Attorney H. L. Woods was
the complainant. He charged that
during the political campaign of 1893,
J. ?. FaurOt promised Ito whom is not
stated that if the Sumner County
Standard would continue to pursue
the course which it had pursued up
to that time, tOwit: To support only
. the three nominees Of the Democratic
convention, that he would vote to
give the county printing for the year
1894 to Carrie H. Herring, and that in
pursuance of that promise the Stand
ard continued to pursue said course
and that in January, 1894, Mr.. Eau
rot, in pursuance of his promise, did
vote to give the county printing 10
Carrie H. Herring.
There has been a great deal written
about this matter. The prOprietOrs
of the MonitOr-PreSS failed to get the
county printing for 1894, although
there were two Republicans on the
board of county commissioners. They
were sore; they attacked Mr.. Faurot
savagely in their editorials and charg-
ed him with bribery-with having,
Judas like, betrayed his party for sill
yer. Mr.. FaulOt at once employed
James Lawrence and J. A. Ray to
prosecute Campbell & Hood for libel.
The complaint was prepared, sworn
to by Mr.. FaurOt and handed to Coun-
ty Attorney Carver and he was reQues-
ted to have the warrant issued. On
one preteXt and another Mr.. Carver
delayed action from time to time
until he finally announced that he
had lost the complaint and all the
documentary evidence which had
been placed in his hands.
In July, 1894, Campbell & Hood,
under the alias of The Wellington
Printing Co., bought the Standard
and took an assignment of Mrs. Her
rings contract with the county.
Thus they attempted to get what the
commissioners had refused to give
them by their votes in January. The
commissioners met at once and re-
voked the Mrs. Herring contract and
let the county printing for the re-
mainder of the year to the Caldwell
News. But Campbell & Hood contin-
ued to publish all official county
news in the Standard and presented
their bills to the county commission
ers at their October, 1894, session.
The commissioners did not allow
these bills and Campbell & Hood at
once brought suit against the county
in the district court. H. L. Woods
was nominated by the Republicans
for county attorney in 1894 and was
elected. In order to pay his campaign
expenses he had to borrow money, and
at this juncture John G. Campbell
suddenly turned up as money lOaner,
and from him Mr.. Woods borrowed
enough money to get through the
campaign. After he was elected
county attorney, in view of the situa-
tiOn, the county commissioners
thought it advisable to employ some
other attorney to conduct the defense
of this Campbell & Hood suit, and
accordingly James Lawrence was en-
ployed. As one of the defenses he
set up the substance of all the charges
which Campbell & Hood had made
about the causes which led to Mrs.
Herring getting the printing for 1894.
This case was tried during the past
term of court. Harry Woods gave the
county's side of the case the cold
shoulder all the way through, while
his father and deputy, John g. Woods,
openly said that he hoped Campbell s.
Hood would beat the county. 1t be-
came very evident early in the case
that the board Of county commission
ers had acted wisely in getting some
one beside the present county attor-
ney to take charge Of the case il they
Intended to fight it. AS is generally
known, Campbell & Hood were defeat
ed; their claim was for over $1,000.
They saw fit to take the view that
they had been defeated because it had
been proved that Mr.. Faurot had been
guilty Of corruption; that was enough
for Harry Woods. He and his father
saw chance of gratifying several
personal grudges, some of them of
many years standing. Harry Woods
had Faurot arrested. He has said
repeatedly since the arrest that Eau
rot was not the man that he was after:
but through Faurot he was after
others-against whom, as we know, he
harbOrs personal malice.
When it came to the preliminary on
Saturday, Woods and his father were
ready to 60 on general fishing expe-
dition. James Lawrence appeared as
ottornnv for Mr. Faurot Ha nrocaod