The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-06-23
AID WANTED.

The Greenback leaders are getting
hungry and make an appeal for aid.
Sam Wood, the honest (0 reformer, who
would be tho nOn-est reiOrmer If he
could get an opportunity to rob another
school district, writes an appeal and pub
fishes it in the State Journal, the Mitch
ell and Wood organ, begging for money
To this call he signs T.. b. Maxson's
name. or course, Sam knows
nobody would trust him. Sam saws
money is wanted for the mitchell
fund" He wants the Greenbackers to
contribute from 81 to 800 each for
the Mitchell fund. Sam don't want any
of that money. o, no, he wouldn't take
any of 1t. There is To he no dizzy. 1t
all goes TO the Mitchell fund, you know.
What do they want with il? They say
they want to organize an aggressive cam
paign. What forS To keep Wood and
Mitchell in employment. The long and
short of il is that the people who work
for living arc asked to
contribute from their hard earnings to
support these worthys, one renegade
preacher, who can't get n congregation,
and the other a-well, VIC are stumped
rs TO the proper cataloguing of Wood.
He Is anything To keep his name before
the public. Having run clear down at
the heel these two rambling demagogues
must raise some money. They are Just
the kind tn throw themselves In the lead
of anything that offers To keep them
alive. They want an aggressive
campaign. What forg To keep Mitch
ell and Sam Wood going. Nobody has
asked them to roam over the state, but
some political organization they have
worked up. They are self-constituted
patriots. Mitchell is working under
pay for n paper published in Topeka.
But he is none of your ordinary news
paper canvassers. II takes money to run
him. His wants are numerous. Then
he is ilnancier. When he went to the
general conference of his church last
year it cost. so We are told by reliable
party who knows, some 5000 more TO
send him than it did the other delegates.
o, he is fine haired rcformer, and must
be kept up by liberal contributions.
He likes to deal in stall
lions, cattle and chestnuts.
Any Grcenbacker who has $40 bill to
spare will ut once send it to
swell the Mitchell fund" It
will take the product of many
acres of wheat or corn many head of
sheep and cattle; many days labor at
$1.25 each TO support Mitchell and Wood
over the next campaign. But If the
money is not forthcoming the down
trodden masses are liable TO be cut pr
from the immense benefit of their "gab."
This pair of pure and prosecuted politi-
cal hacks must he kept up. II is true
they are of no benefit tn the state.
They toll not neither do they
spin" They produce nothing
that is nothing but "yawp."
They are exclusive wholesale
dealers in wind pudding of the thinnest
kind. But the people must pay for It, If
they buy. Mitchell and Wood both
know more about the national finances
in minute than John Sherman can think
of in a year, and yet neither of them
can, on their own names, make a raise
of five dollars ut any bank where they
are known. They are failures in every
thing they have undcrtaken-fiat failures
except speech making. Either of
them can mount u store box on short
notice and make speech, They can
speak by the hour or by the day, or by
the week. They can rip and tear and
snort and BLACKBOARD and sling tears, as
occasion may require. Mitchell can live
in u store box and eat corn-On the
stump-in behalf of the dear people, but
it takes lots of money TO run him, all
the same. They have worn out the "old.
old story" OF finances, but so long as the
people will contribute to keep
them up so long they will
make aggressive campaigns" So
long as that COW will give milk, SO long