White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-06-10
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scabs, at the tail end of creation. TIC
this latter class belongs the subject of the
heading of our article. He calls himself
Joseph Thompson, and does the scrib-
bling for a monthly concern issued in thi:
County, under the name of "Geary City
Era" All living bodies are provided
with an outlet, through which the excre.
ments, and refuse of the matter taken into
the body. are elected. Surprising the
universal Thompson family to represent
a single living body, this Joseph Thomp'
son would bear the relation to it of the
outlet alluded to.
When a sensible man writes while in
q passion, he usually makes a fool Of
himself; but when a natural fool, like
Thompson, undertakes the performance.
he makes himself the lowest grade of an
idiotic nincompOop. This Thompson is
sick for office. For Office he would sell
what, in other people, is called soul; and
wo be to the person who favors anything
which has the slightest bearing towards
keeping him out of office. Like the thief
who yells "Stop theft" the loudest, so
Thompson is loudest in accusing those Of
seeking Office, who do not favor his cleo
ton to Offices which he would disgrace.
We saw proper to oppose the action Of
a swindling affair in this County. called
a County Convention, by which Thomp-
son was nominated for Office. This put
him in terrible wrath; and while in
that condition, he sat himself down and
wrote a mess of slang for the last month
ly issue of his machine, all for our bene-
6t, in which he exhausted the treasures OF
his buzzard's nest, (called, in decent
people, the "brain.') This pink of an
editor accuses us Of. supporting a ticket
which the enlightened folks down his way
would not touch, because it smelt too
strongly of Democracy. Since we, who
have never in our life knowingly voted
for a Democrat, not even for the Office Of
dog Pelter, have been accused of support
ing a ticket which smell Of Democracy,
Thompson is great at Smelling-that's
the way he finds the carrion upon which
he feeds, } we will give brief outline Of
what we personally know of this Thomp-
sons career in Kansas, for one year past.
Over year ago, a paper was started
at Geary City, called the Era, which had
three editors-Edwin II. Grant, Joseph
Thompson, and Earl Marble. The pa
per was called Free State in politics; but
Thompson, who processes to dislike the
smell of Democracy so much, fearing that
people might take him for a Free State
man. placed the word Democrat" con-
spicuOusly after his name: and the names
of the editors, at the head of the editorial
column. read something after this style /:
EDWIN H. GRANT, Republican;
JOSEPH THOMPSON, Democrat;
EARL MARBLE, American.
1t will be borne in mind that, d few
months before this. the Pro- Slavery party
had met in Territorial Convention, and
resolved henceforth to call themselves
Democrats. 1t will also be recoIlected
that, as things existed previously to the
October election, it was extremely doubt
full as to which party would carry the
Territory, and still more doubtful as to
which would carry Doniphan County.
This being the state of parties, Thomp-
son boldly proclaimed himself a Demo
crat. But he was not satisfied with this
he feared that, notwithstanding the
at the head of the paper,
he might not be regarded as a Simon
Pure Democrat. He accordingly, short
lime before the October election, announ-
led that it went against his grain to be
associated with a Black Republican,
mark it, he used the slang phrase Black
Republican-a term which Pro- Slavery
men and Democrats apply to Free State
men, when they want to express contempt
or them-a term which we have never
been in the habit of using, although we
avored a ticket which, to Thompson,
melt Of Democracy)-and therefore he
would retire from the paper for a while,
md go to digging coal-( IAN employment
It which he should have continued, as it
vas better adapted to his capacities than
'diting a psper.) Thus he eFectually
brew of all responsibility for any article
which might appear in the columns of
he Era, smelling" too strongly of Free
State.
The October election came, and the
Free State party carried the Territory |
nd the County. After this, DR.. Grant,
hiding thlt the Era would not pay, re-
ired from the establishment, with the
alent which had rendered the paper en-
and useful, and Thompson de-
rived his community Of a good coal
Tiger, by throwing down his nick and