People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-11-05

s. Lawrence, J. D. Share, John Staub.
Jacob Stotler. S. H. Smith and ]. X
HASTE, in a court Of justice to i'm
peach bis general reputation for truth.
This was case before Justice Cox,
July -, 1892, wherein Leila King was
plaintiff and p. H. D. Cleveland, de-
PENDANT; W. W. Schwinn was at.
torney for the plaintiff and found 1t
necessary to impeach richards testi-
mOny or lose his case; some OF these
witnesses swore positively that rich
ards reputation for veracity was So
bad In the community that they could
not believe him on oath; the impeach-
ment was successful and Schwinn won
his case; the jury was composed OF the
following gentlemen, viz: Geo. Cot
ton, A. B. Cheever, Henry Horn,
Cbas. Bowrum, Enos Pray and j.
+. HARRISON. And this explains
why, when this campaign opened, he
began to SANDER me in his paper, the
Mail.
His first SANDER was published soon
after the appearance Of my letter 10
which / declined to support the St.
Louis platform, wherein he stated
that l had said that If l was out of
debt and had money would be gold.
bug. The second one was on Wednes-
day when he published the statement
that l owed the grocerymen of this
city $4,000 when he well knew that !
did not owe grOceryman in this city
one cent. This SANDER was published
at the instigation of James Lawrence
and after consultation with him.
That Lawrence is dead beat anG 4
traitor 10 his party is we'll known 70
every man in Wellington. Mr.. A. Y.
Parker told me that he had had hun
dreds of collections against Lawrence
and never in his life succeeded in col
leCting a dollar from him. In the
month Of November and December he
bought of a liQuor-dealer at Kansas
City, Missouri, $1,000 worth Of liq-
uOr and he has never paid one cent on
the bill AID they would be glad to get
SOC on the dollar for the amount.
This man, when | was a candidate.
wrote letters over this county attack
ing my character. When Hon. Geo.
Douglass was a candidate he made an
attack upon him in our Republican
convention because Douglass had
passed tue eighteen months redemp-
tiOn law. and he now wants to 90 to
the legislature to repeal this law in
the interest OF his client and master.
He voted against St. JOhl, Sam Ham,
ilton, John A. Murray, Isaac G.. Reed,
John S. EppersOn, D. A. Lewis, Dick
Millard, James A. Ray and D. A.
Espy, when they were Republican
nominees for governor, county at
torney, legislature, county commits
sioner, sheriff aud Judge of the dis
trict court. richards treachery to his
party is as well known as is Law
rence's; in fact they are Siamese twins, |
Ing and Ching, and belong as com.
pletely to one man as did the cele.
brated twins when on exhibition. |
And as for their Indebtedness they
owe thousands OF dollars where owe
one hundred dollars. richards faith.
in-law is today laboring hard to pay a |
hundred dollar judgment
which was taken against him as Sc
curity for richards money which he
borrowed, as the plaintiff |
IN the case said, to buy quit claim
titles on Sumner county farms in Or
der to steal them from the farmers.
These men were the leaders of the
once great Republican party.
IN CONCLUSION.
That there is much in this paper
that is unusual and undignlfed, not
to say disgusting Is confessed, and
that l am yet 10 debt is admitted,
but having liquidated over $1,000 90
ot Indebtedness 10 four years, and sup.
ported a family Of nine, having paid
put to my creditors every collar of my
salary which could be spared from my
family necessities, having gone out OF
office without dollar, when not a
dollar OF my salary could have been
touched by creditor, the payment Of
the 100000 having been voluntary,
having never drawn a dollar from
Sumner county, but having brought
many thousands into the county. bay.
Ing never denied or refused to nav.
an honest debt when able to do so.
then to be prosecuted and slandered
by few fellows In Wellington who.
themselves, owe not less than
100000; is such an outrageous in.
Justice as to justify any means to
reach vindication.
If this effort to set facts before the
public, in order to refute SANDER, Is
met by the parties concerned, with a
new supply, as it will probably be, ] |