The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18
A Catastrophe, with Some Observa-
lions Thereon.

CeaIise, tor want nt pati"naSo'e' ~ No0 ~
a losing business and has not been appreciated
by those fos whose benefit if labored.
This result was foreshadOwed to Mr. Yard, be-
fore he locared at White ClOud, by number OF
perso,,s who were dsinterested, and who were
well acquainted with the situation But he turn
ed deaf ear to all such warnings under tile con-
ceited iara that his advisors in the interest
of thoss who feared his mighty influence. He
has zone to that school taught by experience, and
he has paid the usual rates Of tuition.
The truth is, he was induced to go to White
Cioud by those who had axes to grind, and spite
to crafty and who wanted their.dirty work done
at the expense of somebody else The confession
has leaked out, that the inducement held ont was
that "sol. Miller published little, Insignificant
sheet that amounted TO nothing; that he was
played out and had no influence, and his paper
would die out in a short time after that one was
started" The Leader was brought there to fight
us and our friends. The ring who brought it there,
fastened itself on it frYu the very beginning and
did not permit man 10 enter the Office without
keeping an espionage upon Eisu. They literally
ran the concern, and the publishers dared not
utter word known to be opposed to their views.
The Leader appeared on mammoth sheet, larger
town IN the West-the managers apparently
thinking that its bulk would break down or
ffighten out all opposition; or as we told them
at the time, in imitation of the Chinese, trying
to scare their enemy to death with big gun
that they could neither load nor handle.
Mr.. Yard came to us with professions of good
will, and the hope that we should get along
peaceably; but in the very first number, the
Leader had several uncalled for attacks upon MS,
pretending that we had given proyocation, and
alleging very fimsy grounds for it. Our friends
at White Cloud (Of whom We have many) patrol-
lied the Leader, but rarely got a respectable no.
tice in its columns. Even when they did, it was
coupled with the notice of some bitter enemy, as
if it were designed to neutralize everything said
in favor of friend Of ours.
The Leader boasted that It would not 60 back
the people of White Cloud, after receiving the
support that we did from the people there. We
reminded it, that when it had remained there for
fifteen years, or fifteen months, and showed its
faith in the town by its works, as We had, it could
talk about going back on friends. 1t has wiggled
through just fifteen weeks, and gone under. We
also notified it that whenever it ceased to do the
bidding of the men who had taken possession of
its editors, and undertook to express a thought
contrary to their wishes, they would drop it, and
bestOw the saue favOrs upon it that they had up
on u.s. The result verifies the prophecy. The
keeper of whiskey hell was most devoted in
his friendship. The first impression of the Lead
er was submitted to his inspection, and was re-
modelled according to his suggestions. The first
few numbers tecmed with notices of the beyer-
ages he was bestOwing upon them. But present
ly preacher took to contributing temperance
articles for its columns. The whiskey-seler de-
mandod that they shut down upon this; ard not
being obeyed, he withdrew his patronage, and
set about inducing all under his influence to do
-sesDes The reaction had come, and the Lead
er began to encounter frowns, as well as smiles
Funds were getting short; and at this crisis, the
men who had never omitted to spur up the Lead
er TO keep punching up SOL Miller, and had
thought it great sport, as long as their dirty
work was being done at other peoples expense,
now cooled of, and instead of coming down with
the material aid, hauled off, and let the thing
play out. Or, as We said at the commencement,
it was brought there for purpose and had to
fulfill its mission, and then die. We gave it un-
til freezing weather to reach that point; but it
seems that we placed too high an estimate upon
it's vitality, and that of the cause to which it was
devoted.
The Leader also set out with the assertion that
it was the only honest advocate of the farmers
in the County; that the other papers were the
enemies Of the farmers movement, and some of
them were scouadEels. 1t confesses that the
farmers took no stock in its professions, thereby
paying tribute to their good sense. 1t was a
poor compliment to the farmers of Doniphan
County, to assume that they such fools
not to know men who had been here with them
from the beginning, but required perfect stran-
ger to come along aud enlighten their ignorance.
The Leader will start up Hiawatha in a few
weeks, where, it says, fattering inducements
have been held out to it. 1t may live there for
fifteen weeks, or may not; but, sooner or later,
its fate will be the same as at White Cloud.
There is one thing that is settled, in this age
of the world: that newspaper that is known to
be the month piece of au individual OF little |
ring, may as well make mp it's mind TO drag out
a miserable existence, and be of no force ac-
count Those who patronize it, outside of its |
political ring, do merely for accommodation. |
but ever regard its sayings the inspiration of
power behind the throne, and its ostensible con-
ductors merely as the beasts of burden that go as
Another fact shonld be settled, from the numer-
ons demonstrations it has had. That is, that the
Chief is not one of the kind of papers that ars
played ont. II has been tried time and again, at
the expense of those trying il. and of those gull
lible mortals who paid in advance for the paper
that was guing to do the business. No doubt the
Leader has cut the eye-teeth of number of this
class. They will begin TO learn, sometime, that
IL they, want to get their money back, and to rc-
r.iy. the aews, their only safe course is to take
paper that hey know, and that has stood the
test of time.
We want 10 ssy fsN words about White Cloud.
Probably the Ei,1l- work will be set in melton to
induce some ether poor fellow to start paper
there, and perhaps they viii find a smoker to I'M
iertskeit. The people Of White ClonS have been
rs liberal in supporting papers as the psnpie OF
almost any town we know Of But it is fact that
,anpot be overcome, that White Ciond of itself
cannot sustain paper, nor can any other town
in Kansas Of three times her population. The
.aper must command general support through
,nt the C, unity, and the surrounding country.
Il is n question which We considered carefully
.,fae removing from there, and we gave our
reasons in full. That support il is impossible to