The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-03-23
Not So Very singular.
The Atchson Champion, of March ill,:
following. We copy its remarks e"'''0'

,ain.d and xplainabe Tefson ti most 1T n.r s'
itor of fine Troy Chief has always e has failed to
sstent hostility towards t I Preense 1ft lust 81
,bai tcbson has ever done 10 IMAGINE We know that
inspire such feeling OCCASIONS treated MIN win De
cded kindness and given fI such annosity toward
port And Why m ne never been able TO uhae,
Atchison, We have he CHIT contains an article
The last issue ovoring o. provoke prejudice against
this spleen Kansas Inc vote 81 co Ie
bers from this made the for of the chez charac-
nsces denouneng M oS H. .Iaa paper
0nlits any mr. voted against this appropriation We're
SIp scnsie thus voting BY hs seo nS ana s sens &
ness O. fny agreed with the Champion for years past
IN tbe opinion that the policy wSn 'ne'e ins
tuiios one of our nearest neighbOrs and we have
no disposition to quarrel a. are eeeT SeDtse% p n
. and will continue to be friendly, we think not
understanding the "gty G9 have manifested their fepdi.
& 10 those of Donphan County on many different occa-
sons They will not tSsm gSsn and We shall we think
] 70 oe along peacaby neighbOrs in the future as in
t We shall occasionally disagree, probably but we
hone it will be friendly spirit and without any sort OF
bitterness
Here are a number of counts, to which it is
perhaps expected that we rise aud explain We
acknowledge that Atchison people have treated
us with kindness, and given us support. we
have many friends in Atchison; but if they have
been our friends, so have we been theirs. We
have given Jealous and hearty support to Atei-
ison men, for public Office, many time, never
raising the objection that they were Atchison
men, and we are prepared to do so again. We
have no desire to damage the business OF Atchl-
son to the extent of one dollar, even if we had
the power to do SO. But because We have friends
there, who have supported US, it is no reason why
we are compelled to endorse Atchisons public
policy, whether we think it right or wrong
The Champion cannot truly say that our course
is unexpiaiDable, for we have given our reasons
time and again. What we have complained OF
and objected to, is not Atchisom men, as men, or
to Atchison prosperity, but to that peculiar thing
called Atchison policy-different from that OF
any other town in Kansas. 1t is peculiarly self
ish, opposing or depreciating all that does not
tend to her benefit, and taking all she can get,
by fair means or foul regardless of the rights of
Others There is virtue in doing all in ones
power for his town; but if we cannot get every
thing, there is also virtue in letting other peo-
pie live and prosper. We might enumerate ex-
aples. by the column. We have spoken so often
of the Henderson Amendment, that it has become
monotonous and threadbare. But it is neverthe-
less true, that Atchison gained that advantage
and took from Northern Kansas what rightfully
belonged to il, by downright lying and misrep-
esentation-obtained support for her side OF
the measure by promises that she never intended
to fulfill Northern Kansas was deprived of rail-
road privileges for almost ten years by that
fraud, and a piece OF railroad built that has
been of very little benefit to anybody. She has
opposed by ali means in her power, every rail-
road enterprise ever attempted from Leaven-
worth west because Atchison wOuld not receive
any benefit from them She opposed the Leav-
enworth Bridge, and has done all in her power |
to render it useless. She opposed the building
Of the narrow gauge road west from Leaven-
worth, foot by foot, and finally, by her emissa-
ries, defeated aid for it in the Counties west OF
Jackson. She has not given those Counties
road instead of it, and no prospect OF It, She Sc
cured the defeat of bonds in Jefferson County,
bv promising a road South through Oskaloosa,
to Lawrence, and has failed in the fulfllment |
of thar promise. Everything that her neigh
bors have undertaken for their prosperity, that |
Atchison could not monopOlize, she has tried to
kill. Northern Kansas has suffered by her, on
the pretence that our prosperity would hulld up
St. Joseph, city in Missouri
Yes. Atchson has shown her friendship to Don
phan County on many occasions. She built
railroad for us, after we furnished the means
with which to build it. After some of her prom
nent citizens had squeezed all out of the County
.hey could get, and then robbed the people OF
he little towns of thousands, they managed to
,winde the County and the towns out of their
stock, by transferring it to a Company that
agreed to build the road, inserting a special
clause in the agreement, that the road should
never make any arrangements or form any con-
lections detrimental to the interests of Atchison
And that agreement has been carried out. So
hat Atchison and her railroad system are ac-
,ommodated, it does not matter picayune
whether single interest or person in Doniphan
county is accommodated or not.
In politics, Atchison is unfathful TO friends,
inless her local interests are guaranteed above
IL things else. Either party will sacrifice ITS
icket, if some advantage is to be gained from
he opposite side. When Doniphan County has
ecured candidate for Lieutenant Governor on
he Republican ticket we have found an Atehi-
on Republican becoming candidate against
lin on a conglomerate opposition ticket. When
Doniphan County man, who fought to the last
or an Atchison man for Senator, became a can
lidate for Congress, with some prospect of sue
less, we find Atchison furnishing candidate for
he purpose of diverting support from him. And
he officer elected is always saddled with
pledge to work for AtchiSon interests.
We admit that we opposed scattering the State
and we do not recolect that we ev-
,r voted, in the Legislature, in favor of an ap-
lropriation for any of them. They have COM
bined into rings, for the purpose of Ieeching on
he Treasury. We know that the Doniphau
County members voted against the appropria-
ions. But here is the difference: Dominican ,
County has never professed to be the fast friend
and champion of the great West and North West. =,
She has never drummed for their trade, nor ask
I'd them to so shape their railroad policy as to
make Doniphan County the great railroad and
business centre. AtchIson has done all this, and
then gone back on them. If she had been con-
sistent in it, there would be no ground for crit-
,ism; bnt the Atchison members labOred and
voted for other appropriations involving steals to
the amount of thousands, because, somehow, the
interest and pride of Atehison were involved.
But we conld write month on this subject,
aud then not finish it. We trust the Champion
will no longer be at a loss to understand what
We mean. Do not accuse us Of being unfriendly