Hutchinson gazette., 1901-03-21
MARTINS REPLY.

Y. Morgan which appears on the in-
side OF this issue, brought out o re-
ply which was abusive and deDnn-
clatory In tone and character. Fol-
lowing Ia Mr.. Martins reply;
HUTCHINSON, KAN, March 10, 1901.
W. Y. Morgan, Chairman Repub-
can County Central Committee,
Hutchinson, Kansas.
MY DEAR SIR AND FRIEND:
Your undelivered letter published
In the News requires reply.
So far as making public our private
conversation Is concerned, your gar
hled and false version of II was IN cir
culation on the streets within two
hours after the same had occurred and
long before my letter was written AS
you are the one solitary republican
who asked me TO withdraw, II Is easy
to place the blame for the sacrednesf
of the private conversation being vio'
lated. was forced to make portion
of our conversation public TO offset
the false reports which no one else
could have SET In motion but yourself
Your statement that agreed tC
, withdraw II Baker was nominated Ia
proven false by your letter which
have In my possession, written at To
peka Wednesday morning following
our conversation on the Monday pre-
vious, in which you beg me to still con
slider the proposition to withdraw and
to see you upon your return from To
peka on Friday.
1t is q maxim that when one Is found
false In one proposition II is fair to
consider him false in every other. And
your statement that l promised to
withdraw is not more fslse than your
statement to ne at the telegraph Of
fee on Friday last, after you had had
my letter half day, that you would
publish the same, which you now ad-
init you had no intention of doing,
You were either too Cowardly to pub
lish 1t and try to answer the arguments
therein contained or else you must ad
nit that all your pretensions Of super
lor Publishing facilities over other
newspapers in the city are false, be.
cause the excuse you gave me yester'
day for not publishing 1t was that II
had already been published,
Your editorial in yesterdays paper
is very good answer to all your insin'
uations and attacks upon me person
ally, Whether your letter and editor
ial we're written at the same time l dc
not know. Your failure to answer
argument except with personal at
tack is a full confession that you have
permitted the republican organization
at the eleventh hour to be pushed into
q contest where it must at best receive
the worst of 1t, and that you and some
of your associates are attempting to
carry water on both shoulders and de-
ceiVe the people into voting for two
years more Of infamY.
Your campaign slogan to make
Hutchinson better place to live in
and your personal declarations in favor
of temperance are satisfactory, but l
challenge you to publish one line you
have ever written editorially either
condemnlng or protesting against the
revenue system of handling joints. As
your ticket was brought into existence
as an attack upon the work Of the
large and respectable organizations of
every character which have constantly
worked for temperance for many years,
you are personally very much in the
position Of "poor dog Tray"
l emphatically deny as false the
words which you put into my mouth,
which were in fact used by you as rea-
sons why you thought l should with
draw. Your statement that l men
toned the name of any Of the men
named by you, with the exception Of
Mr.. Vaughan, is a willful and premedi-
tated fabrication, willfully written for
the purpose Of trying to create q divi-
sion, dlscord and hatred among men
who have long been friends. The in
suit offered to those gentlemen came
from you when you said las a joke)
that we had never received Zines as
revenue until we elected a temperance
council; and you stated further, that
"if there was one councilman who was
opposed to the taking of 6nes he could
stop it," l deny that l sanctioned the
statement or intimated that the tenn
perance people had gone back on their
friends and that they could not be re-
elected, As matter Of fact, not one
Of them is candidate for reelection.
In answer to your assertion that one
man can stop the fines, told you Of
being present at meeting Of the city
council at which Mr.. Vaughan made a