White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-10-04
correspondents.
(FOr the Chief) .

n. "Doniphan Ooun's .Th.
Ii 'ne eo,b fine an article headed "Ine
unser 1. Ticket" With regard to the gen.
Rspa0n. = The article, it is about as good, OF
,i"d, IS could be expected from POI! po',' e.
'1 ,..-s.r,. It amOunt' to about this; 'o.' VIC
'd'e, IT,, nominee. are, on the whole, inien-
RepoDi -;,b no chance of election; while their
"n'D' ,. A.. singled out by name, in another
0p ~ n. same issue, and separately laud'
.'nu ui,,cles of honesty, c.pability and popu-
Cd I'D hound to win an easy victory. With
sn'' niece of Buncombe, which proves no
DID, ..,,Ie, nothing, have no disposition t.
''pt, But I find in it some literary rarihes
gum . .ssna worthy of ventilation. Genius
'ol. .D,, Genius, is scarce in these degenerate
ons .,on,s: and whenever the real, genuine,
'' !.,;.I .n.rk flashes up, though obscureiy' 1t
mhe the effort of every well-wisher To-
'''ss s,m,nitv, to remove the same from the
,sA.ln or peck measure, which may cover
..a "..t il upon candlestick." 1t is to
,t,nea that the philsnthropic motive which
.,.d this endeavor, will be perceived and
o., n these scintillations Of genius. In
..r;,. NJ our candidate for Assessor, the as
y. individual who graces the chair editorial
s,.. I,ispstch, after referring to Mr.. BENEFITS
s.s;,oorapby," thus discourseth: "While his
,p.,nst.,., knowledge of orthography is about
extensive as six year old child's knowledge
.f,nc;eut languages" Now, that is rather q
,;,o,ous smile. In fact, the only way oil
.,,snabening it that can suggest, is the ad-
dt;on of the following: "or our own knowledge
of,be English language" Now. behold the
odeiuaIity of this genius in respect to orthogra-
n, Persons of inferior minds, men of "small
mental c.liber," Ito quote from the Dispatch,)
a,maJl potatoes" of men, Ito quote again.
,n,,7el over the respective merits of Webster
md Worcester; but this individual, this, so to
reak, "Long Tom" Of humanity, this speci-
men of a mammoth variety Of Murphies,"
sscsrds the conventional forms laid down by
those photographers, with the scorn of a noble
shirt, and boldly inaugurates the Biggerian
System. r-
In running the prospects Of our candidate for
the Council, he stigmatires Mr.. Prices at
,empts at argument" as misti6ed." Now
how could you, Mr.. Biggers7 how could you be
50 nerciless as to employ such unusual imple-
ments of destruction1 Why not, considering
Mr.. Prices unfortunate lack of " considerable
to bring him up to the standard Of intellectual
mediocrity," why not have been lenient, and
slain him with the old fashioned word mysti6ed1
1t vas original, but how cruel! Oh! the &C.
centricities of genius! Then comes the " most
upkindest cut Of ALL" which might be termed
she shoe knife cash, namely: the assailing of
Mr.. Prices foot, under the novel and original
figure of understanding" with the startling
assertion that " it (the understanding" afore-
said, remember the joke,) is so great, that no
thing short of side of sole Heather can keep it
from being comprehended in its naked form"'
Nov, after that onslaught, how can poor Price
make respectable" hobble oven' Ito say
nothing of "race,'') his feet famed, and, to
follow the Biggerian style, I" CRIPPLED" by being
knocked against such English as that! Just
think Of the eiRy -heartedness Of man who
can deliberately proclaim candidates foot to
be in what Mr.. MaataEm would call such
"demned statc'' as to require the services of "a
side Of sole leather to keep it from being com
pretended in its naked FORM" and then ask the
same man to "work," and "work hard" to
make respectable race" Ask "criple
to "run" "Making bricks without straw
vas as easy as grease in comparison. "Com
Pretended in its naked FORM" What mas
,eriy use of language No "mistified attempt
there! Oh, no! bat Biggerian triumph!
But time would fail to follow out all the ne
anderinss Of genius. A few specimen brick
from what might POLITICALLY be termed the state
" Jail THAT being now the standard synonym
Tor symmetry of the Biggerian photographic
al System, must suffice. He refers to "down
troden humanity" and speaks of lash as be
Ing "well laysd on" He then converts tn
tripod editorial into the tripod prophetic, an
predicts. with humorous pleasantly, which
in striking contrast with the digni6ed severit
which charcteriles the rest Of the article. tha
"Mr. Williams Mark led ham will cripple him.
0fMr. Hough he says, "the justice he renders
always hapsns," &c. Notice here, in additio
to the economy of the Biggerian method, q
displayed in the saving of one p in the wor
happens, tvulgate,) the happy blending of pa!
and present tense, both referring to the sam
time. "Jim Lane" he scathes as "meraut
En-" and leader of bandit" Mr.. Pierce
a"Black Republican Of the dertiest stripe,
and yet "psrfect gentleman" 1t seem
then, that man can be a Republican and
gentleman. The President of the Democrat
Convention, however, thought it necessary
make distinction between Democrats and gel
hemen. The phrase "a slopy barn yard" ms
be cited as containing another evidence Of D.
nocratic frugaity. What is the use of lavisl
ing two p's where one will answer every pu
posei
But to deal seriously with this matter: In b
nrst Issue, think, the editor of the Dispat'
referred to the Republicans of Troy as "men
small mental caliber," leaving the public to !
Ter that he was man of great "calibee," (whic
IN q certain sense, is correct; for the definite
OF calibre is bore" and he is unquestionah
IN '.}ernal "bore.") In addition to the num'
Gus evidences furnished by the files Of his
per, OF sheer inability to write decent Englis
We have this last with regard to his attainme'
In spelling, In the very article in which
charges Mr.. Bennett with being poor spell
are found no less than nine blunders in the
biography Of some of the conmonest words