The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-12-02
The wathena slop.Bucket.

Last weeks issue of this model moral and TEN
perance sheet is out, and is pretty much filled
mp with abuse of us, the result of the combined
efforts of its talented young editor and the be
sotted outcast whom he has picked up to assist
in dealing out morality and temperance to his
handful of readers. However, but few persons
will get to read it, no one is buying and eirculat
ing extra copies, since the election. 1t might be
good idea to send from twenty-five to thirty
copies to different post-ofices addressed to per-
sons who never subscribed, and some of whom
do not live there, and prepay postage on
the same, at transient rates. In this Is
sue, the sot returns to his ambush behind the
Talented" Any ish-womau or drunken dead
beat can scream Billingsgate, and howl the cpl
thets, "liar," .thief" "scoundrel," and fabricate
baseless charges in retaliation for unpleasant
truths concerning themselves. This is about all
the Talented" and the picked-up have attempt
ed to do. And a sweet-scented pair they are,
too.
There is the young Talented" whose practic-
es are common gossip in Wathena, and who has
escaped exposure only because it would compro-
mise the families of respectable citizens.
This other wretch, who is allowed column or
two every week in the Reporter, in which to
sling his slime-this George Larzelere-is one OF
the filthiest, most debased and abandoned brutes
that ever infested any community. He is the
man who has frequently been the inmate Of the
Troy Calaboose, because of his indecencies; the
man who staggered through our streets in broad
daylight, befouling himself as he went: whose
bed and whose room, wherever he was permitted
to lodge in hotel, had TO - washed, scrubbed
and disinfected afterwards; who, covered with
his own filth, sat down at hotel table, and had
10 be led out; who was kicked out of every ho-
tel and saloon in Troy, and who was picked mp
at late hour of the night, frozen stiff and al.
most lifeless; whose life in Watbena has been
mostly spent in the wallow. This is the man
who, but little over year ago, was sent as del
egate to a State Convention, but got drunk
that he lay on the streets in beastly condition,
and placed his signature to proxy authorizing
his vote to be given for q man whom he was sent
to oppose. This is the creature who is so brutal
and filthy, that his own family were driven to
take refuge in distant part of the country, to
cape his beastliness, and be where he never could
raise the means TO follow them. This is the
wretch who, in maudlin state, invaded the pri-
Vacy OF "a man IaHlllyi tne nian c'tine noue anu
discovered him, dragged him out of bed, and al
most stamped the worthless life out Of him, then
pitched him into the street, battered and bloody,
with no other clothing than his shirt; in this
condition he was found groaning by some citizens
passing by, whom he begged to go and get his
boots and breeches, and carry him home.
We do not notice this foul thing because we
care for his drunken Trades against us. He has
long been past hurting in that respect. But we
do it for the purpos of directing attention to the
fact that this is the creature who is given the
freedom of that high moral and temperance sheet,
the Wathena Reporter, to keep up the tone of the
paper; and to remind the people of Doniphan
County, that this is the brute who is fshed up
from the wallow, almost every election, and en-
ployed to pour his filth upon respectable men
who are candidates for Office. When he comes
from the gutter, he always comes with both
hands full of mud, which he slings over decent
people. When the mud is gone, his argument is
gone, and he returns to the gutter again. From
the gutter be will be carried to the POtter's Field
which is the fittest place for sucb pot.