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A REPUBLICAN BOOMERANG. A man may be a charlatan, knave, liar, thief and character assassin, and at the same time be consistent. The editor of the Capital has clearly demonstruted that he is inconsistent. On Thursday evening the evening paper made a villainous attack on E D. Nix, charging him with having misappropriated money while receiver of the Commercial bank, and terming him dishonest in his dealings. This has been the Capital's method all along. It has never any foundation for its measly assaults, and has earned an unenviable reputation for making a wild crack one day and retracting it the next. Those of its readers who have taken the paper for any length of time place no credence in its asser tions and regard its policy as one does the shifting sands. In the present matter the Capital outdid Itself is attempting to cast odium on Mr. Nix Last evening it retracts all its statements, and adroitly endeavors to cover up a well-meaning apology by a citation of figures which amount to nothing. The court has to do with figures now-subsequently the public will be given a chance to judge. THE LEADER will not undertake a discussion of the case at -this time. There will be opportunity enough when it comes up in court, and then it will be seen that Marshal Nix handled the defunct bank's affairs in an honest, straight and intelligent manner. He has vouchers to show for every cent handled and if some of his accounts were approved orally by Judge Green, that was the court's fault, not Nix's. What amuses us is the flat and speedy turning down of the blatant sheet after such a laborious effort to find a parallel for the Republican loot of the De Steiguer bank. Hereafter when the Capital wants to say something in order to make a political point and levy blackmail, it will-say nothing.
