The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-02
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
A western Editors Experience with II
man Nature.

a WfHLern EUttOr'h EApeTleuCS Wttu uu-
man Nature.
We extract the following from the
last issue OF the Arizona Kicker:
WE ARE LEFT.-For the past four
weeks our friends have been eagerly
pressing us to take the nomination Tor
mayor on the peoples ticket. We do
not crave office, and are a very busy
man, but the pressure became so great
we had to give in. Last Tuesday even
ing the city caucus was held, and in
stead of being nominated for mayor
we received only three votes out OF
were mistaken when they insisted that
we were wanted. Instead of being the
unanimous choice of the patriotic peo-
pie, we had the pleasure of seeing
Jerry Baxter, the meanest man in
town, given the nomination. y, well,
that's human nature right enough, and
sn editor fool enough to go into politics
deserves to be driven head first into
the tan-bark as we were. We have g
word to say, however, the Kicker will
not only bolt every candidate on the
ticket, but we guarantee to have nine
tenths of the nominees in prison before
they are month older. Tent cum
grants! which is Latin for saying:
Don't monkey with a newspaper man.
A BASE FALsEHooD.- have as
certained that it was Colonel Kehoe
who started the story that we had the
proprietor of the Red Star saloon
lynched by a mob last week in order to
avoid paying him liquor bill of S1S.
We encountered the Colonel in Davis
livery barn yesterday, grabbed him by
the throat and backed him against the
heels of stage mule, and between us
and the mute the Colonel received a
drubbing which will last him life
time. He acknowledged that he was a
liar, slanderer and thief, and that his
course towards us was actuated by per-
sonal spite. At that very moment he
had ON our second-best undershirt, our
Sunday necktie and the pantaloons that
we never wear except on holidays, and
was in debt to us for many other favors.
AS to the lynching. we suggested it be-
cause Tim o. Mel, the victim, had fallen
into the habit of killing a man about
seven times week, and there was eve-
ry reason to believe that the coroner
was standing in with him on the fees.
We should have suggested stretching
the coroner's neck little at the same
time, but as he brought us in club OF
thirteen subscribers we didn't think it
would look exactly right.
HAVE Cor A FEw.-A correspondent
inquiries if The Kicker has any libel
suits on hand. as the result of its in
dependent and outspoken course. Well.
yes, it has a few-about four dozen, we
believe, but we are not worrying any.
They have all been instituted by second
class ducks, who haven't any character
to be damaged, and the whole batch
will probably be thrown out of court in
a lump some day. In the beginning OF
our career a libel suit used to give us
the collie for three days and nights,
and we'd wake up from troubled sleep
to find our cheeks wet with tears, but
we soon got sunburned. Indeed. we
rather prefer to see them come. 1t
looks like business.
MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE PROFESSOR.
Ever since we took possession of our
Office on Sioux avenue certain people
have taken malicious delight in
heaving rocks at the doors and through
the windows at midnight. We put up
with it the first six months because we
were afraid. and the next six because
we liked to see people enjoy them
selves. Then we warned the public to
let up or somebody would got hurt.
Last Wednesday night rock weigh
ing three pounds came through a win
dow and barely missed our head as we
lay sleeping on our cot AS we got to
the door with our shotgun some one
could be seen making off over the
commons towards El6ins' saloon. We
drew on him and pulled trigger and
something uttered yell. Yesterday
the body of Professor jenkins was
found in the sagebrush about two miles
from town, and it was plain that he
died of dose of buckshot in the back.
just as likely as not he was the chap
we aimed at in the darkness. We
didn't owe him any particular grudge,
and we didn't know that he did us, and
we are willing to foot half the burial
expenses at a venture.
A BASE CowARD.-The item in the
Chicago press Of recent date that we
had been fatally wounded by Judge
for publishing a slander was not ex-
actly correct. In the first place, the
individual was a cowboy named Rose.
In the next place the article was true,
and in the third place, after he had
fired five shots at us without touching
a hair, we knocked him silly with a
squash which we picked up in front OF
Snyder's grocery. Then we stood on
him for about half an hour, and when
he went out of town our brindled dog
was chasing him at the rate of twenty
miles an hour. r.-Detroit Free Press.
Porous Earthen-Ware Floors.
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