The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-07
EXIT. SAM.

This will be about the last week OF
the noiorious Sam Wood il Emporis- |
He cannot profit himself ly remaining
here. His motives are understood, his !
infamous character Is known. He Is
nomadic in his habits, and always moves
when his ncighbors find him oui. He
has disgraeed the party he came to maii-
age, and bankrupted the paper he tried
to edit Influence and office are beyond
his grasp here. He has no more use for
Lyon county, and not even the Green
back party has any more use for him.
The public is surfeited, gorged, disgust
ed with him and his paper, and will
gladly say farewell TO their weekly dose
of SANDER and billingsgate. Wood is
not to be pitied. He is n chronic failure,
and never makes more than a temporary
fluiter anywhere. He had II good
chance TO reform himself here, to be-
come respectable and abandon the low
and cunning practices that have blotched
his career and brought failure to every
thing he has undertaken. He might
have published decent paper, but he
couldn't resist the chance 10 indulge in
his habitual buffoonery and blackguard-
ism. The Era in his hands has been a
miserable libel Of a newspaper, sheet
that every candid man confesses to be a
disgrace and an injury to anything, par
ty, county, city and even the proprietor,
/ that it pretends to represent. The sheet
picked up by stranger or read abroad
would convey either the impression that
Lyon county was nest of thieves OF
that the paper was edited by some one
who surpasses the scum of Leadville it
self in irreverence to God and insolencC
TO man. Wood has even dragged unof
tending ladies into his columns to sian
der them. The meanness, the cowardice
the beastliness of Sam Wood has put tc
shame those who are fond of billings
gate.
The general public has never co,cnten
anced or encouraged his scurrilous sheet
OF its circulation, not four hundred art
paid for or ever will be. 1t has beer
forced on people, against their will, ant
the expenses are greater than its backer
are willing to stand longer. Its materia
is all mortgaged, its advertisements ar,
mostly to settle accounts that cannot b.
collected in any other way, and now tina
It's noisy campaign is acomplete failure
its establishment ON paying basis is
hopeless enterprise. 4 good Democrat
ic paper would give us twice the compe
ton that it does; we speak as citizen
on this matter, having desire to see GU
city and county represented by respec
able press. Had the Greenback part
had a decent paper, it could at least hav
maintained its self respect even if it dit
not secure success at the polls. But NJ
"Sam Wood party no ticket that depend
on him for success Can ever be swallowet
by the citizens of this county. ThOs
who have supplied the money to keep
going now see they have made hug
political mistake, and they have worth
less book accounts TO console themselve
with, while Sam, from whose smart
ness they expected so much, Sam VIII
was TO crafty their hatred and spleen
Sam who was to BLACKBOARD the Repul
lican party of Lyon county out of Office
Sam who was to beat down and boost Vi
anybody he undertook to, Sam VIII
was to reform" us all,-Sam, cute
smart, witty, sharp, funny, brainy
bully Sam, nice, sweet, pretty Sam
will as his BOSOM friend Eskridgc s.
classically remarks, grin like chatter
ing ape at the verdancY of those wht
hired him to come to Lyon county; ant
while they take sad inventory of OLE
type, Sam will roam away in search O
new victims. We have, as his bosom
friend Eskridge also remarked, had to pei
form the disagreeable duty of "skinnin!
this Chase county skunk" and now tina
the job is done we wash our hands ant
leave the Spoon river statesman TO "blov
the breath of life into the putrid carcass
Exit, Sam, and fare thee well.