Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-09-20
He Got the Honey. All Right.

man begged the question when it
came to proving that j. r. Burton
ever borrowed any money from the
Belleville Bank. He never had
dollar and every one who knows the
true history of this institution, knows
| it. Not owing the bank anything he
could not very we'll have been the
means OF the county losing anything.
-Scsndia Journal.
Just what the Journal is driving
at we do not know. It may be that
Burton never borrowed & dollar from
the bank, but when the editor OF the
Journal says she never had dollar"
meaning, presumably, on that 81 900
note, the editor of the journal is very
badly mistaken j. r. Burton never
had closer or more sincere personal
or political friend in Republic county
than was the editor of the Kansan.
He defended the business honesty of
Mr.. Burton in that transaction, when
1t was mighty unpopular to do it. He
staid in the republican party in the
campaign of 1896, sgainst his own
conscience and his own conviction Of
what was right as a government pol
10y because he had been instrumental
in naming as candidates for legislR-
tive honors men who had but one OBJ
iect in vIew-the election of j. r.
Burton to the United States senate
The men who are now up, IN that
county. on the republican ticket, for
senator and representative are as sure
to vote for Burton, if they are elected,
as were Gulick and Arbuthnot in
1896 Mr.. Burton told Us then, if he
did not win in the election of 1896,
he would absolve his friends from
further feslty, he would give up his
aspirations for political honors, and
would devote his efforts to the prac-
tice of his profession until he could
pay his obligations, such as the one
in Rebublic county. He said: ST
will pay it dollar for dollar, and when
I take up the note want to make
speech in the city of Bellevllle and it
will be my own meeting, and not In
the interest of any party" The re-
publicans lost the legislature, Burton
did not go to the senate-neither has
he made an effort to redeem his
friends of Republic county, from the
embarrassing position in which ne has
placed them. Burton did get the
money and he never denied 1t hereto
fore. We had always believed he in
tended to pay 1t back, so that the tax
payers of Republic county might be
reimbursed to that extent, but when
he sent an agent from Abilene to at
tend the receivers sale of the assets
of the bank and bought his own note
aud judgment, which amounted to
nearly $4,000, for little over $500, it
occurred to Us that he is in poor bust
ness to be preaching an honest dol
lar" and berstiDg populists as repu-
diators for wanting to pay in s'dis-
honest dollars" Mr. Burton does
not pay out his dollar debts in even
dishonest" dimes. The editor of the
Journal is very thoughtless or he
would not make such raw statements.
Does he not know that if Burton did
not get the money out of the Belle
vile Bank he did get it from s. Ct.
Slower, who was state treasurer at
the time, and was elected as a repub-
lIcan? Does he not know that in his
endeavor to shield Burton, republi-
can candidate for senator, that he Is
besmirching state officer, who was
elected by republicans? Maybe it
does not make quite so much differ
ence to the editor of the Scandal
Journal if the good name of poor,
unfortunate, broken-down. old SOL
der, Sol Slower is trRiled in the mire,
if glory may be added thereby to the
candidacy OF j. r. Burton for the
United States senate-there may be
more in it to the editors of republican
sheets that way. But it lacks heck
of sight of beng either honest or
manly. Sol Slower had fault of be-
ing a big-hearted man, con6ding,
generous msn-that was his fault
bat he was honest. Burton got 81, 600
from Slower. Slower got the money
out OF the Belleville Bank and depos-
tied Burton's note in the bank in the
place of it. The bank failed and the
Burton note Was part OF the assets
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