The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-08-07
sIiehtIy EgotislicaI.

The Chief has many warm friends, some OF
whom date back to the first issue OF the paper.
All these will be highly gratihed, as we are our
self Rratiied, to see the prominent position "
occunies. II is acknowledged, by large ma
jorty Of the press of this and the adjoining Sta'eS
70 be the leading paper of Doniphan County-not
acknowledged by pufIs, but by the more signin-
cant test of being extensively drawn upon, ooth
for County news items, and for opinions upon
public question.
Another sure Indication that the Chief Is
power, is the fact that two papers in the County,
ard two or three outside of it, devote all their
enercies and cali to abusing the Ckie, and the ed
itor personalIy-endeavOring by all means known
toepyy and malice, to break us down. The public
are told, every week, Of crimes which ought TO
eonsicn us to the penitentiaryi yet We are still
at large II is proclaimed that the Chief is utter
ly without influence; yet the almost superhuman
efforts, week after week month after month,
without intermission, to pull US down, gives the
lie to the assertion. Sensible people do not take
such extraordinary pains to break down a man
or a paper that has no influence.
Read the columns Of brace Of newspapers in
this county, and the monOt0nods burden OF tbeir
song is ever of the misdeeds and meaness of the
Chief Run across one of their editors on can
vassing tour in some odd corner, and you hear
how hot they going to make.it for Sol Miller.
Slip into the little knots of shysters which are
assembled here and there in the County, laying
plans to dupe the people, and elect themselves
their tools TO Office and you learn how jealous
they are to beat the Sol Miller clique. Yet we
are played out, and have no influence! We have
already lived more than twice thr:time granted us
in Troy by these vigilapt wire-pulIers; but so
far from "playing ont" and thus fulfilling proph-
ecy, we are daily making friends, and adding to
our patronage.
At the Senatorial election Of 1871, q lobby from
Doniphan County went to Topeka, and made ar
rangements to sell out the members from this
County in a body, and pocket the money, as
usual. We stood in the way, and knocked the
scheme into q cooked hat. For this we can never
be forgiven; but the mouth pieces and tools of
those who attempted the bargain and sale, have
charged us with the thing that they attempted,
and have repeated, and chewed it over and spit
it out SO often, that even those whe at one time
were disposed to believe il, have became nauseat-
ed and disgusted with it.
Two years ago, the Chief refused to be made an
instrument in perpetuating certain ring in pos
session CT the offices and the use of the revenues
af the Ccznty for speculative purposes; and since
then, Sol. Miller must be beaten, if it takes all
the money the ring can bleed Senatorial candi-
dates out Of to do it.
The Chief refused to worship at the shrine of
clique of horse-thieves, whoEemongers, ex-BOrder
Rufians, deserters, or persons dishonorably dis
charged from the Union army, land-steaers, and
swindlers of their honest creditors; therefore,
the Sol. Miller clique must be beaten. The Sol.
Miller clique is understood to be any person who
is our friend, OF who votes for any candidate
whom we favor.
We have probed the sores and taken the hide
.of of certain shysters and hypecrites regardless
of fka;r calling or position; and those who have
felt the smart, have raised the cry that We have
laid unclean hanSs On things holy, and have VOW
ed that the Chief mNst be put down, and the Sol.
Miller Clique beaten.
So keen and ranking is the jealousy, that even
news items copied from the Chief have the same
irritating effect upon the envious beings that a
red flag has upon a savage bull; and whining
homilies are preached for the benefit of editors
who copy from the Chief, setting forth the impro-
priety of so doing, whereby the Chief is kept be-
fore the public, aud strangers led to believe that
II amounts 10 sOhiethlnS-"neh,i iu punt Vi iacSS
the Chief is of account, and utterly without
influenced
In the meantime, while kicking away half q
dozen NANCY cnrs that keep barking at our heels,
we find room for more news matter than any
sceuutEy paper in the State, and find that our
frieAas are in excellent spirits. Let them con-
tinue on in the good work, and we will show
them how q person without influence can stir up
the animals, and make them squeal!