The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
TAIL WITH HIDE.

1AiC OtSAIC OO0iId4 AWAY Wallis "
be fair Yesterday it made a special
effort to be fair toward Mr.. Coleman, in
as much as the attorney general Ia
mented the fact that he did not possess
newspaper although a few could re
had for the asking, in which to air his
explanations.
In attempting to reprint Mr.. Cole
mans reply, just as he had written it.
through an error in the composing room
the extremity of the communication, the
final part, or the end of it. was left off,
including the date line and signature,
although it was in type in its entirety.
Believing thoroughly in the generally
accepted theory that the tail goes with
the hide, especially when the hide is
Mr.. Coleman's, the State Journal pre-
sents the dire conclusion of Mr. Cole
mans address to the press in general,
and this paper in particular, as follows:
''The matters mentioned by you as
pertaining to the purchase by the state
school fund commissioners of the
Comanche county bonds are all in
volved and pending in the suit which
I have brought against you for
SANDER and which you are afraid to
face. Those matters we will try in
the courts, where you will testify I'M
der oath. All that 1 shall now say on
the subject is that your charges are
false, and if you believed them to be
true you would be less cowardly
about going to trial. What I have
done during my term of Office has
been done with the one motive for the
best interests of the state. What
! have RETAINED from doing I have
omitted to do because I believed the
best interests of my client, the state,
required that it be not done.
you assert that 1 have been a
1 Ct
the records show that no attorney
| general of this state has been sue
cessful in larger proportion of his
cases in the courts than l have, and
none has been sustained by the courts
4 in a larger proportion of his opinions.
Besides this, I have the satisfaction
of knowing that your reputation is
such that, with a great many people
who know you best, your assertion of
a proposition is strong evidence that
it is untrue.
at realize that words are inadequate
to deal with you according to your
deserts. 1 have not the legal right to
deal with you as you richly deserve,
own conscience and the contempt
which all men feel for one who will
SANDER the name and character OF
another and then sell his Islander for
a price. c. C. COLEMAN.
Topeka, July 10, 1906"
In order to kill two birds with one
stone, not to make two bites of a cherry
nor to repeat the long center shot taker
at the attorney general yesterday. ant
to bring Mr.. Coleman up to date, hi:
latest contribution to newspaper liter.
allure, as. printed in this mornings To
peka Capital, is given herewith, namely
towit, as follows:
Being asked by a reporter what hs
thought of the State Journals editorials
THE CALLED jade seems to be doing al
unusual amount of 'wincing'. No matter
how unbridled his tongue when it take:
five columns of editorial to say it. tht
. editor hasn't much to say that's wortf
| reading. I have read it and I am salts
fed that my open letter to him wen
where intended it should go. The TRAD,
| and fairness. The truth concerning tn
single matter of the Kansas City orosecu
5 lions is Indicative of his entire methods
> The grand jury found ten indictments
: ruling which the supreme court said wal
wrong Four of the cases were appealed
and of the four two were reversed ant
two affirmed upon ground for which
was not responsible. And yet Coleman
got the worst of it on all of them TIL
supreme court decided in effect that tn
cases, yet according to MacLennan Cole
man got the worst of it After the re
c versal of the cases followed up the prin
cipal one. and personally tried the case
| bribery of a member of the board of edu
t cation of the largest city in the state. Tn
. fact of the conviction was news to ever
newspaper in Kansas except the Stat
1 Journal As news it didn't touch the Jour
& nal and the Journal didn't touch 1t. I
: the conviction had occurred In Missouri
l as the result Of a prosecution by a Dem
orrat prosecutor. If would have been new