The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-08-08
RYAN is RATIFIED AGAIN
Says he did not say it, but
Facts are Stubborn things.
HIS SAD PLIGHT
He Boasts that he Is a nnlitical Cor
He Boasts that he IS a political Cor
ruptonist and that he is a McCon-
nell man, and the other things
are proven on YIN.

After two weeks of meditation
on the seriousness Of not keeping in
the straight and narrow path of
political reclitude, Sheriff Ryan has
sufficiently recovered from the
mental and nervous effects caused
by the exposure OF his double deal
ing, made in these columns on July
%, to indict the following, which
was received at the HERALD Office
yesterday morning:
RATHDRUM, Idaho, August g.
S. D. Taylor, Esq, publisher of THE
KooTENIA HERALn-Dear Sir: AS
Il matter of justice and fairness l
ask you to publish my answer to
your editorial of July %, headed
BILLY Ryan's Big Knife"
Yours Respectfully,
WILLIAM RYAN.
We are happy to accommodate
the shining deciple and imitator Of
McConnellism in Kootenai county.
1t puts Mr.. Ryan in a very unen-
viable light, over his own signature.
1t is as follows:
EDITOR KooTENAI HERALD; DEAR
SIR:-In the issue of July 25th, Of
the KooTENAI HERALD, there is a
scurrilous article entitled, Billy
Ryan's Big Knife In that article
S. d. Taylor has made certain
charges which can not permit to
pass without notice.
First, he says ! stated to Attorney
Herren that | was "going over to
Bonner's Ferry to turn those fell
lows inside out and bring them into
line" This is false and Mr.. Her
rem will bear me out in saying so.
Second, he accuses me of enter
tanning a poor opinion Of Dubois.
What ! said about Mr. Dubois was
this: That if any man in Idaho
deserved the name of "pie eater" it
was Fred 7. Dubois, who came to
Idaho to hold the position of United
States marshall by presidential APP
pointment and who has held office
ever since. l did not say that Dubois
paid less taxes than Mcconnell
What l did say was this, That
Mcconnell had been actively en-
gagged for thirty years in developing
and building up the west md was as
good a silver man as Dubois. Tay-
Tor futher says To clinch the
whole subject he (Ryan) declared
himself for Mcconnell first, last
and all the time" So be it, but ]
never used those words. What ]
did say jokingly to gentleman
present was, 'You and | are th,
only two Mcconnell men left il
Kootenai county" My feelings to
ward Mcconnell are well known
and have ! not the same right to b'
a Mcconnell man as Mr. Taylor
has to De a Dubois man? But here
will add that l am not making
fight for Mcconnell politically,
am satisfied that Dubois is th
choice Of the people of Kootena
county for United States Senator
l merely object to being quoted
Taylor further says: "Mr. Ryan
was particularly vindictive agains
the KooTENAI HERALD and Ceur {
Alene Press, and said in effect tina
he could buy either paper for
very small sum" | am not vindiC
tive against either paper Of thes
papers, and l never said | coul
buy the Ceur d. Alene Press fc
any sum small or large. What
did say was that | bought the SUI
port of the KooTENAI HERALD tw
years ago for twenty dollars, an
any one who will refer to til
files of the HERALD for Septemb,
and October, 1894, will find tn;