Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-05-25
A Few Words About the Scow
Editor and His Man Friday
With a Little Good Advice.

W 45u q AlBGl6 LfOOo ADVICE
The HERALD very much dislikes |
anything like a personal controversy
in its columns, but sometimes it seems |
necessary to depart from our usual
rule and defend ourself against the
attacks and Misrepresentation Of 9th
ers. For several weeks we have 81
IentIy submitted without retorting to
sundry sneers and slurs and personal
misrepresentation of the Phillips
burg Democrat. Last week nearly
two columns Of ''slushy'' sarcasm was
fired at us. It pleases the Democrat
to frequently allude to the HERALD
editor as the ''straddler." Just what
editor Covington means by the use Of
this word we do not know, but he
probably wishes to convey the idea
that we do not accept as infallible
all the teachings of the leaders Of the
Republican party-in short, that we
are not SO strict a party man as to
contend that our party is always right
and other parties always wrong.
Leaving HERALD readers to judge
whether this paper is or is not true to
the great cardinal doctrines of the Re
publican party we are disposed to in
dulge in a few reflections about our
Democratic contemporary. After his
long continued and lengthy 'going
for us" he will have no cause Of COM
plant if we criticise him a little,
which we viii do In no unkindly
spirit.
First we wish to apologize for Civ
ing general publicity to the fact that
the Captain acquired his title not in
the army, but as a commander Of a
fat boat. That was the truth but
perhaps it was an unfraternal thing
in us to tell our readers about it.
Now we shall have no squable with
our neighbor even if he does call us a
straddler and other inelegant names.
/ We might retort that the fat boat
Captain is a straddler too, but we will
not do so. In fact he is not a strad-
der No, no, he is a straight demo-
crat and always was one and we do
not doubt always will be. He was
born that way and will die in the
same faith. A man organized as he
is can not help being a democrat.
Some democrats are intelligent pro-
| gressive men from education and
from conviction, Not so the r. B..
Captain; he is a democrat because
his father was one and he probably
believes what his father believed-no
more, no less. We do. not say that it
| is so, but we have little doubt but
that our contemporary firmly believes
that he would be a political hereto if
| he held for a moment an idea that
| Andrew jackson, John G. Calhoun,
James Buchanan. or Grover Cleve-
land did not entertain. He IS no
straddIer, not he. He is a straight
democrat, so straight that when
Judge fancy decided that "a negro
had no rights that a white man was
bound to respect" our fat boat hero
responded amen, that is so. When
the southern wing Of his party fol
fancied wrongs attempted to destroy
the grandest government on earth
and the call went out for defenders
of the flag, where was our friend who
now so proudly accepts the title
Captain" Did he with Thousands
: of loyal, progressive democrats sinl
his partisan preiudices, rise above
party and rally round the flag? W.
guess not. Once a straight part!
democrat, always one. No mixing
/ politics or straddling with sucl
straight democrats as G. L. VaIand
. inghan, Dan Voorhees,, JEFF Davis o
the Democrat man.
But we will desist. We are loaded
for our fat boat friend and his MAJ
Friday but we won't fire it of now
We are reminded that the slushy sar
casm about US which has of late ap
. / peared in the Democrat, is pOintles
and harmless, and that the HERALl
should be magnanimous toward them
!. and so perhaps we ought. Men are
$ not to blame for having been bon
!. with their eyes In the back Of thei
heads, and being thus rendered incap
;. able Of looking to the future; the,
: are not to be too severely censure