Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-11-21
Peacock's RejOinder.
IThe Independent. NovemIer U
NE. PEACOCK ANSWERED.

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In the last Issue of The World Mr.. 4. :.
Peacock seelas very anxious to reopen the
campaign | iudge from number OF cum
ming question he put 70 me vii an implied
request for an answer First. he assumes
tiiat there were some lames 5uppIr,SSss'1sa IN
the liIch article which appeared III he lnue-
pendent of October il For the sake of
izument, grant that to be fact The parties
named by Mr. Peacock are personal friends
of mine and were true and loyal supporters
of MIR. Peacock. and he knows, well as my
self. that these parties would have felt insIis-
nant had their names appeared il! print in
would have been my reason had these names
appeared as assumed by Mr. Peacock As
presunle) never talked with him ON politics
during the campaign; a Mr.; Mapes will yer
list Then he asks why did not suppress it
and sympathetic feelings for Mr.. Peacock
Justice demanded that Mr.. Balloon. compare
tive stranger in the county. should have a
fair deal and have faisehoods which We're
circulated as to his qualifications set at rest.
Mr.. Peacock is mystifed because copies of
that issue OF The Independents were sent to
parties other than oar regular subscribers;
the official ballot and desired it to have as
wide circulation rs possible and in placing
the order for material 1t was made large on
purpose to send out sample copies This
der was placed q week or ten days before
knew heard of Mr. Richs article.
l have endeavored to answer Mr. Peacock's
queries in a frank and square manner with
out evasion ana nope it will lay matters at
W. q. OLSON.
l have always been able to look
circumstance, and to hope for the
cloud with the silver lining, when /
cannot find one with golden uphol-
STEERING, and / am fully aware that
life is too short to be frittered away in
useless chickering's; but, aside from
the fun derived from it, | dearly love
to pc found on the best side of a good
fight, worth fighting, and that is my
position right now, Mr.. Olson.
l am not re-opening campaign.
As between You and me, it has hardly
begun. and l do not expect to let up
until you admit, directly or Indirectly,
that every assertion L have made, or
now make, is true, warranted by cir
cumsUances and justified by provable
facts. In this connection remember
that your silence will give a consent
equalled in force by only frank and
square admission. You can choose
either plan OF closing the campaign.
Such evasion as exhibited above, al
though you make one liberal admiS-
sion, will simply prolong a controversy
wherein | modeStly believe L can keep
even, at least
You will please take notice that this
is not the pOSt-electiOn SQueal of a
defeated candidate. Had you begun
in fair season the end might have
come earlier. l will get around to all
my villitierS yet, in good time; and as
you allowed Ben Rich to begin his
dirty work (the only kind he ever
does, just on the eve of election, |
claim the right to finish by rubbing
it in on both of you. You are as
guilty and no better than he, and he
is utterly devoid of both principle
and courage.
Take further notice that | did not
use the word benjamin in my for
mer article. / said 'Benjakin,' which
means Ben and Kin-not Mr. MapeS
Are you dull, or just lodging?
hardly think you will dare say you
had no word from Mr.. Mapes as TIC
what you might publish, and it does
not matter whether you talked poll
tics or not.
/ do not assume" and you need not
grant, for the sake of argument, thai
you suppressed part of the Rich let
ter. l know you did. You said so
yourself, on the morning of election
1t was no news to me, as / had known
it from the day of publication. You
pretense, then made, that the omitted
part would have made it "appea
much worse" for me was weak an(
fruitlesS attempt at a deception which
you now try to extend to your readers
i knew then your real reason for tn
omissions, and l expect other peopl
to know before | get through. Publ
cation of the whole article would hav
made it worse for you-if possible.
So you supposed Mr.. MapeS to be
true PopuliSt and still a loyal SUI
porter of mine. Is that possible
Then you are not true Populist.
have always thought, and still think
Mr.. MapeS respectable Democrat
and no decent Democrat can be tru
POpuliSt if you and Ben Rich are t
be taken as a standard of the party
That is hard on the Populists to b
sure. but until the party repudiate
both of you it will have to take tn
consequences.
Just tell US why Ben Rich attacke
these personal friends and true an
loyal, supporters of yours and min,
and / will tell you why the omiSSio
was made-I will anyway.
You now pretend that you publishe
the Rich letter to set falSehoodS /
rest. If you will point to sing
falsehood set at rest by that article
will show you dozen original in i
and all made of whole cloth for use
that particular time. 1t is hard
possible that you were ignorant
them, and you had no right to eXpe,
anything better from their autho
If anyone was circulating a falsehoC
in regard to the qualifications of yol
comparatively strange candidate f
superintendent, why did you n
point out the falSehood and the falls
fer? Why don't you do it now?
have done nothing of the kind.
true and loyal supporter would Giro
late falSehood. 1t was unneceSSa
tory to US. l have proof of what
had to say. and presume they had.
you want to see them? If your cane
date needed aOV adyartiSinu or N