The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-09-15
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Its Editor Comments on the Bitter and
Sweet of Western Journalism.

who is here to look after his mining
interests. The Major had on the first
real billed shirt we have seen in six
months. His boots were also BACKED
He sat for two hours and never asked
us for a chew Of tobacco, a drink Of
whisky or free puff. He did't have a
gun strapped to his back and he didn't
use cuss-words.
We were lonely when the Major
went away. Westward the Star of
Empire may take its way, and we
coyotes out here may get up and howl
over the way we rush business, but
when an Eastern man drops in here
with clean neck, shaved face and
store clothes there's never a one of us
who isn't ashamed of his onery self.
AN INGRATE.-Mrs. Major Dubar
drove up in front of the kicker Office
in her dog-cart yesterday and called
us out and consigned us to the place
which is hotter than this. She talked
so loud and so vigorously as to attract
a crowd, and it is only due us that we
explain. She sent us poem entitled
tWhen L Am Dead" and expected us
to print it. We found it one of the
--LATEST, silliest illusions ever written
hand, but desiring to please
vthe lady we wrote beautiful poem
lourself, placed her title to it, and
signed her name as the author. That
was why she kicked. She had the
nerve to declare that she would hang
herself sooner than father our poem.
Great snakes and black bats! but the
gall of some persons! Do them favor
and they turn and sting you! Seek to
help them up, and they want to crush
you down! Mrs. Major Dubar a poet
ess! We will leave it to any unbiased
man or woman in Arizona if she knows
rhyme from jack-rabbits! When we
chucked her poem into the waste
basket and sat down and dashed off q
delicious little gem to replace it, we
expected word of gratitude. In its
stead we received insults and abuse.
Such are some of the trials and heart
aches incidents to the publication of a
great journalin the wild West.
OUR PoLITICs.-We established the
Kicker as an Independent paper-inde-
pendent in politics, religion, the labor
question and all else. We haven't been
running it on exactly a Biblical foun-
dation, but we have kept pretty close
to the chalk-mark as originally laid
down. Colonel Scruggs came in the
other day and offered us two dollars
to print an article in which Cleveland
was called a hypocrite and deceiver.
He was followed by Judge Shackem,
Offering the same amount to print an
article in which Harrison was charac-
terized as thief and fraud.
Gentlemen, we have got our pro-
/ gramme laid out. We amt purity and
we amt none too good, but we know
Z brick-bat when we see it. We stand
I'D the middle ground. 1t amt our
fight. Durn your politics! We've set
out to get rich by printing patent medi-
cine ads at thirty cents yard each in
sertion, and by making q family paper
so chuck full of horse stealings, lynch
ings, Indian raids, seasonable poetry,
household hints and farm experiments
that every body is bound to subscribe
or burst his biler. Every newspaper
has its way. This is our way, and we
| shall stick to it until we see something
better.
SOME STATISTICS.-That fraud upon
earth, old Jim Huston, who earns his
whisky by acting as correspondent for
aSan Francisco dish-rag, sent off a let
ter last week in which he stated that
we had been kicked and cuffed all over
Arizona. Old Jim is a liar of the first
water, as we shall prove! We began
our publication May 9TH and our little
affairs are recorded as follows:
May 7th-Licked on Apache avenue
by Colonel Shackem.
May 19th-Pursued by Major Wig
fall down Jerusalem alley, but got
away.
May 27th-ChoBed by Tom Dustin
at the post office. Not much of a choke.
June 3d-Kicked by Major Rising as
We left the Frontier House, but nothing
like the kicks of mule.
June 18th-Had our eyes BACKED by
Judge Dunn, but it was our own fault
in letting him up after we had his head
in the gravel.
June 2Sth-Kicked by Register o.
Deeds as we came out of Snyder's gro
Gerry.
4 July 5th-Knocked down in Sioux
I Park by Pete jackson, but not struck
in vital spot. We have always re-
GREETED that we got up and ran away.
July 23d-One black eye, the result
of meeting ex-city clerk Bill Reynolds
in front of the Palace Hotel. We
didn't stop to ask why he hit us.
August st-Considerably broken up
by a meeting with Colonel Davis in
front of our Office. We had him down
once, but were foolish enough not to
hold his nose to the sand.
The above completes the list, and