The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-12-09

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Your friend,
OLD BUSINESS.
Troy, KANSAS. Dec :, 1s75.
REMARKs.-The foregoing is from Democratic
subscriber, whose friendship We value and whose
opinions we respect. We admit the general cor
rectness of his views, especially to the unprof
itableness of newspaper quarrels; but in this in
stance, We are enlisted for three years or during
the war, and must have our own way. We do
not these dirty fights, bnt it has been fore
ed upon us, and we going to see it out. For
years il has been the habit of few editors in
this part of the State, whenever We have pre-
snned to take issue with them upon pnblic ques-
tions, to raise { he cry that We want to pick
quarrel with them, and blackguard them, and
have thereupon gone off ON TRADE of epithets
and abuse, consisting, usually, of fixed set of
charges and pet names. We propose now to give
them their fill oft. We may be a few years
older than when we came to Kansas; but if we
were as old as Methuselah, We would see them
out in this BUSINESS
The first unpleasantness, this Fall, was with
that played. ont politician and gambler, Small
wood, who has just run himself and the Water
vile Telegraph into the ground, and whose de-
parture from that town elected a grand Thank
God" from the citizens We took occasion to
speak our mind regarding two individuals who
were arrested on the charge of defrauding the
Government, one of whom has been convicted.
and the other escaped it by fleeing the country.
For this, the dead beat Smallwood, who ought
to be in the pententiaIy for swindling the State,
pitched into MS; and because we answered back,
he filled his paper with the thin stuff that
brought him bushels of letters every day, offer
ing him 81 600 to go elsewhere and write the
same way-in horn.
As to the pu usillanimons scab Mt Wathena,
what was the occasion of all the filth that he
and his help have slunS at usf Simply this:
without cause or provOcatiOn, he commenced
denouncing the Republican candidates, and
made special point to harp upon the circum-
stance that several of the delegates and candi-
dates were Postmasters. In reply, we said that
W. 7. Stewart, Postmaster at Wathena, was not
a delegate. This was the sum total of the offens-
i've personality which wounded the hedignity of the
dirty little whelp. 1t seemed to cut him to the
quick. The facts in the case were, that he
sneaked around among some of his strikers, and
got up petition for the removal of the present
efficient Postmaster at Wathena, and the ap-
pOintment of himself. He did not even have the
manlness 10 mail it at the Wathena Office Col.
Phillips, to whom it was sent, wrote to some of
the reliable R: pnblicans of the County, asking
if it was all right; and upon being informed
that the character of the applicant was literally
rotten and sinking, and that he was a contempt
lille, overbearing upstart, who made it a point
to oppose and abuse the whole Republican ticket,
because some individual member of the party
had offended his royal dignity, the appointment
was respectfully refused. He called to his aid
debased, depraved wretch, an Outcast from his
own family, and together they have managed to
fill the shrnnken columns of the dingy little thing
called the Reporter, with all the bad names and
mean charges that they could imagine, usually
drawing upon their own experience for low-lived
tricks to attribute to us. And not satisfied with
this, they have assaled the wOrkmen employed
in our Office, who are not in the slightest degree
responsible for what we say or do. One of these
singers has just squealed, and by the
time we are through with the other one, there
will not be enough of him left to raise a squeal.
Our DtnOcTallc lTltHu Is uOt tno Oulg Oho WIN
has given us words of approval for our course in
the campaign. That is what hurts the jealOus
creature of the Reporter. While both Republicans
and Democrats approve our course, his was
such, that the Republicans despise him, and the
Democrats hold him in contempt. So utterly
despicable and mean hearted himself, he cannot
conceive of any man acting from good motives.
Hence, when we oppose a candidate, he calls it
SANDER for the purpose of blaekmal. If we
speak well of man, it is fawning for favors. If
we take no active part, it is non-committalism,
because of our doubt which side will win. If We
attempt to correct an injustice done any one, it
is cowardiy sycophancy. And if we (as we have
done) let such fellows 60 on in this way, year af-
ter year, without paying much attention to them,
it is because we are afraid of them, and don't
want them to expose our misdeeds.
This thing has come to focus, and We pro-
pose now to give the whole pack full satisfac-
tion, and mean to yank it to them, on every oc-
casion. With all due respect for our friend and
his protest, we mean to stay till the dance is
over, and take a hand in il.
nsuperfcialty prodigious self estimation. and "a