The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-02-05
KILL HIM!
That Fiendish Field ofthe Journal.


has began the intraction OF every Law,
human and divine. In Yesterdays ST.
Louis journal he pulls the throttle of that
lying machine OF his wide open, and the
following gri-, is ground out in two min
utes and half
We warn that young man, ii ever he
pokes that pale and intellectual counte-
nance of.his inside the Pettis county boun-
daries, there will be a picture that will
glow with something worse than Promea-
tbean fret will resemble a fricasseed beef
steak on a red hot broiler. Listen to this
versatile prevaricator:
The Journa! is in receipt Of steel-plate
engraving OF Maj. William Gentry, Of Pettis
county. 1t is the most miserable likeness
OF good man We have ever been panied to
see. 1t il absolutely murderous, and We
shall call upon the members from Pettis to
introduce into the next Legislature bill
making it penal ofiense for any engraver
to 20 caricature respectable and handsome
man. In this connection, we may state that
Msj. Gentry never did have satisfactory
picture made OF himself. The photographs
and electrotypes that we're circulated during
the fall OF 1874 were outrageous likenesses.
In fact, we are inclined to think the pictures
were what beat tie major for governor that
il to say, the pictures were such abomina-
bic misrepresentation and so hideously ug-
ly that n real conscientious voter couldn't
find il in his heart to vote for the reputed
proprietor Of a countenance ~ criminal in
its every aspect.
The Journal was really to blame fer ihese
pictures. II sent a smart young man up to
Sedalia to talk iarm-politics with the Peo-
pies leader, and the smart young man
thought it would be an unusually smart
thing to get a photograph Of the nominee
and have it engraved for the press. II was
only after great deal Of persuasive elO-
quence that Maj. Gentry Was inveigled into
a picture gallery, and the result was 4
wretched likeness.
When the cut made its appearance in
the paper, the panic created among the tad.
pole following was so alarming that it was
deemed advisable to call an immediate
meeting OF the central committee at the
Laclede hotel. Here it was determined to
blot ont that odiOus cut forever from the
lace Of the earth, but the perfdious en-
graver had made duplicate copies which
the Democratic managers had got posses
sion OF and were sending 81 over the State
for electioneering purposes. To look upon
that picture counted one vote for Charles
II. Hardin every time. II was the most
ierocious atrocity ever palmed of on .
guileless public. 1, wrecked the hopes Of a
noble, generous hearted man and brought
defeat upon the honest party.
When Senator Schurz took the stump,
he artfully exhibited the monstrosity as
likeness Of the Democratic candidate, and
the ruse proved successful in some locali-
ties (Cass county, for instance.l but it was
soon treacherously exposed.
Maj. Gentry himself was 40 overcome by
remorse upon first seeing the picture that
he burst into tears and refused to recognize
it. Finally. however, he concluded to make
the best Of the situation, and being one day
in playful humor, he inclosed . copy Of
the picture to the editor Of the Sedalis
BAzoo, having first Endorsed upon the back
Of il the name Of the Democratic candidate
The BAzoo was one Of Gentry's Official
organs, and made haste to print the follow.
ing editorial paragraph: "The picture Of
the Bourbon candidate is before US. Never
have Ne gased upon more hardened and
villainous countenance. Crime is depicted
upon every ieature-from the receding,
narrow forehead, the small, cruel eyes, the
short, Hat nose, to the large, sensual month
the total depravity Of this man, Who has
presumed to crave the suffrsees Of the in
telligent and honest voters Of tbs State, il
stamped indelibly upon his fac simile
People Of Missouri, to vote for the original
of such a picture would be an appalling
revolt against the better and purer instincts
Of our natures?"
Mr.. Goodwin, the editor OF the BAzoo,
thought he had struck death blow at Mr..
Hardin, but il ceme very near killing Maj.
Gentry ~ he sat on . ten-rail fence out on
his farm early next morning, reading that
as@;snpssl and swOone,} over into the hnll
pasture.
lord. What liar.
Food generally benefits when given prop
erly at the right periods, bat to overfeed
the baby 10 to sicken it. and induces q de-
gree Of suffering. DR.. Bull's Baby Syrup il
the bert remedy for the discomfort arisina