Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-11-21

all. but l scarcely expected your
frank and square; admission of the (
fact so soon. Did you make that adj 4
mission unthOughtedly, or through /
ignorance of plain English, or as an
exhibition of gall because you thought !
the campaign was over? Do you think
you can now evade that admission to
the satisfaction of an Intelligent jury:
1t il small wonder you would like to ,
consider the campaign closed
You mercifully spared your friends
and my supporters the indignity OF Il
Scandalous connection in print, but
the feelings, reputation and character
of the object of your tender and
sympathetic" SANDER was of no con-
sequence TO you, so long as you could
advance your own interests. as L shall
show.
Justice demanded that Mr. B. should
have fair deal. but your notion OF a
fair DEAF was to Islander his oppo-
nent. Would nothing short of SIAN
der do Justice" to your candidate or
satisfy your ally, Rich? Ii this is
your idea OF tender and sympathetic
feelings | would prefer to have your
frank and square opposition, if you
are capable of such ii thing. Your
ally is not.
Now, Mr.. Olson. you will not deny,
because it is well known to all, that
your chief and almost your only inter
closed, WAS centered in the county
printing. The life of your SANDER
publishing paper was at stake. The
\ county printing was the only excuse
for its untimely birth and the only
\ hope for a continuation OF its trouD-
lous career. 1t was the fight OF your
4 life to get control of the public pap
! so necessary to insure your position as
Il reform journalist. To this end you
bent your every effort to elect Il com
missioner who would favor you, and
you did not want candidate nOmin-
ated except you had that understand
/ ing before hand. You made your chief
! fight in the first district in electing
successor to Mr.. Marquand. You
thought you needed every vote you
could muster to the support of your %
candidate IN that district. and the re-
suit has shown that you needed that
many at least. Consequently when
kicn handed you that SANDER for pub
LEGATION you could not refuse because
you needed the two votes of that
family On the other hand, you dared
not publish the SANDER about Mr..
Burns and Mr.. Mapes and his daugh-
tiers, as you thought you needed three
votes there. That these votes would
be lost by the publication of the whole
article your candidate If not yourSelf)
was sharp enough to see and. L be-
lieye, he was frank enough to point
out and emphasize the fact in lam
guage more torcible thin / am accus-
toned to use. Hence you published
part and omitted part, and formed d
partnership with Rich as authors and
publishers in the SANDER business. To
gain your private ends and to secure
d contract involving Il few dollars you
deliberately Slandered a neighbOr who
has always treated you kindly and who
was not even voter in that district
L was not interested in the county
lFArrI inf rnss hat
other taxpayers, but L am now, and
, you will need all you can eXtort from
1t. NO consideration for the charac-
) ter of Others was allowed to stand in
the way of your getting it. To the
verbal lies, which the RichS take
pleasure in circulating for no cause or
unknown reasons, you have added
) printed SANDER. 1t was not done
, Through Solicitude for Balloon, but fol
. the money you hoped to squeeze out OF
the county printing. Take your re-
ward, and with it, be assured, you
have the contempt of all decent citi
Zens regardless OF party. Take it as
the price OF graSplng, little, SANDER
bought soul, and hold it, if posi- BILE
by the narrow margin of two or three
, illegal votes cast by anarchists, whose
: only reason for few DAYS SoiOurn il
the county is the furuherance of {
Swlndling scheme to part fools from
t their money. Take it, but do not ado
t further insult to injury by attempting
: any Justification or explanation O
.. your despicable course. 1t is impos
sible, and nothing of the kind can de
l ceive me or my friends-a discrimin
r ating public-whO are just beginning
I to size you up correctly.
r Now, don't deceive Yourself. Dom
/ mistake this for the whine of a maj
n you vainly imagine you have downed
!. Did you think that because l have n,
e paper and because you have a littl
e 3X4, which your friends sometime
: help you to get out, in order to kee1
e alive the legal ads in it, that yol
could SANDER me with impunity, an,
a then admit it with impotence? /
J. you did your inciSorS have severed
/? greater portion than your molars ar
/ capable of maSticating. do yo
I, catch on?J If you and your Islander
+. writing ally want a round with me i
e pure, plain English, just trot out you
o Merganthaler and don't forget for
:. minute that the men who deliberatel
'e publish cowardly and maliciou
IS SANDER are public enemies. Hence
e until you make full reparation, 70
are mine, and L am, yours truly,
d y. 5. PEACOCK.
e, Every member of the legislator