White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1863-08-13

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fully betrayed the latter, BY swindling
them ont Of large sam Of money which
they had raised 70 sssist him in resuming
his business He proved himself unwor.
thy Of the eon6dsaos Of any class Of peo-
pie. from the best to the worst. and show.
"a that be only ussd the friendship Of
others in order to deceive and betrsy
them. His charsetsrissies wsrs foppish
pride. religious bigotty. and psrddious
trescbsy.
Bot Of what interest l. Ill this to the
Union people Of Holt Comfy! Perhaps
. great deal. We now come to another
chapter Of the psdipss. In May last. .
man calling hinsslf Rss. J. r. Watson.
made his appearance IN Forest City; sta
ting that hs was . good Union mar; bad
Published . paper = Glsawood. Iowa ;
that the eitissns sstpp ; mob. and be.
bsing . Law and order nAa. had publish
Cd an article dsnouncing It. in conss-
quence Of which. como person engaged in
the mob. who held dead Of trust on his
printing ofice. had shut it up; and now
be was in search Of another press. Pre-
cissly the same old story of hsving been
driven awsy BY mob. on account Of
his law-abiding principles: and still sail
ing under false colors Of Unionismi The
owners Of the press at Forest City refused
to sell it to him. bot offered to give him
the use Of il for one year. If bs would
publish an Administration paper there.
This be consented to. prov;dsd his name
s1oald not appeo, IN tie paperi He had
been publishing > political papsr. for the
Democratic party, and expected to re-
vive it again. and could not publish both
papers in bis own nsme, a. the senti-
ments of the two would be different
However. with 800 Of Copperhe.ds'
money in his pocket. be was willing to
engage to publish An Administration ps.
per for one year. while bis dupei friends
were looking in vain for bis return. It
was finally sgreed to publish the paper
in the name of Dan. Zook & Co. Zook
was to have entire control of the editorial
department. and Watson of the local de-
psrtment. with the privilege of clipping
from other papers matter not Inconsistent
with the policy Of the Administration.
This would just suit him. as the greater
portion Of his editorials, while ct Glen
wood. were clipped from other pspers.
We understand that radical Union man
was prevailed upon to get up the leading
political editorials. Some folks may
wonder what they wanted Of Watson,
whom they must BY this time have known
to be political skunk. and whose prin
cipal duty was to clip from exchanges.
It is beyond our power to explain the
matter. ITO = man up a tree" it looks
queer.
The paper came out in the early part
Of July. Notwithstanding the promises
given in the Prospectus and the Sslutato-
~. that it was to be stsunch Admins
tration paper. it struck the public as sin.
gular that nothing Of . political chsrsc-
ter appeared in the paper for two or three
issues. With the exception Of . shor,
editorial description Of the country. soil.
ETC., the paper, outside aud inside. was
filled with !" clipping" such as "ReAec-
tions on Dsstb." "Thoughts in Grave
Yard" and similar articles. The great
victory at Gettysburg was confined to q
brief space: and We cannot cay whether
the New York mob wss even 90 much q
mentioned. for We hsve not sssu the ps.
per since the second issue.
At the time Of the recent Union meet
ing ct Oregon. the Reverend clipper
vas thsre. boring The comaittss on rsso-
lutious to name his paper among the
journals that were requested to publish
the proceedings. But the COMMITTEES
didn't like the looks Of the snimsl, and
respectfully declined. From that day.
the Sentinel bas taken political position.
Some Of the family squsbbles Of The con.
oern have come to ligA through Wss-
son's Coppsrbsad eroniss, Who cannot
keep from chuekling ovW than "out oi
the family" It sesms thst the radical
editor had written % editorial. taking
The same ground on The Emancipation
question and the ordinance Of the Con.
vsutios. thss the Oregon Dsstipg did.
This waS submitted to The responsible
editor. who endorsed it, and Il was put
IN typs for the third issus ftbs SsatinsI.
WAtson. wh6 hsd bssn sbssae :rsturned
just - the pspsr was going to pres,
wbsn b immsdiatsly threw out the sr-
ticls. declaring that I" this Radical party
must b put down." and that The paper
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