Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-01-23
PET.LLoMs PRoNuHcIMEnTo,
As it should have been written. J

In the year of 1888. a number of demo-
Gratis in Ford county held meeting and
decided to establish democratic paper
AMI subscribed several hundred dollars
TO that end,-they to take. stock for their
money invested Peter Petition donated
his services for the management of said
paper. believing it would pay better than
working az the BARRIERS chair
NJ that period there was large pat
ronage TO bestOw upon newspapers and
Peter seeing the vast amount of money to
be made out of the business decided to
get possession of the paper, conceived the
scheme of beating the stock holders out
of their stock by showing them the office
was tossing money. and if they would
give up their stock he would carry the
business on. To this all the stock hold
ers consented with the exception of DR..
Galland, Romero Cashmere, and A.
GluCk. Mr.. Gluck then received the pay
for his stock and Dr. Galland and Romero
Cashmere still hold theirs. The office
had in fact cleared nearly $500 during the
first months. but Petition told them it
was nearly 500 in debt.-He got the
paper. Petition did not have a dollar
when he started in but the paper was a
success, and he Peter lived high.
He was never able to make speech,
Int got in some elegant work on the
quiet. and to the sorrow and expense of
such men as r. J. Hardestv, &C. Il. Cox,
\. J. Anthony, Dr. S. Galland, Andy
johnson, II. b. Bell and other prominent
democrats. He bled them because, for
sooth he must visit Topeka, Chicago and
Washington occasionally ir order to keep
up his prominence abroad as the leader
of democracy in the gteat west During
all this time he failed to take advantage
of school books in order to become an
editor, but travelled on his gall and
shape
How well he succeeded is known by
all the leading democrats IN Ford county.
Not content with having got deeply in
debt to the democrats in our city he un-
dertoob 10 force them to still put up
more. and then it was that they rebelled
and started paper they could rely upon
10 support democracy in Ford county
without the enormous expense. Here it
was that Petition and his sheet went TO
the wall. But the smooth and cunning
Peter soon after found a new ally in the
person Of Mckinney who induced him to
start up again IN January 1899. with the
expectation of receiving a part of the
county printing. but in that they failed.
and the Democrat again went to the wall
the following May. Then the Sage of
Duck Creek proceeded to borrow from
those whom he had duped before and
managed 10 exist until the first of January
1880, when again he started up the Dem
ocrat for county printing. This time he
was successful, and received the contract
to do half of the work, and will no doubt
succeed in printing that sheet again for a
few weeks. Peter ran for office several
times with the belief that he could be
elected. but was each time defeated, until
finally lac became SO obnoxious to the
voters that they defeated him as a dele
gate TO The count. convention in his own
precinct. N5r i as l:ia: iron Called
Peter has aI,..s,;.!,.gl q, II. word that.
btc.iuss the DSa 'grats will hot support
him. his papc. VII hereafter be indrpen-
aeai in politics and states that he will
support republicans rather than weak
kueed democrats. This causes the demo-
Gratis 10 ieio;ce, because they have lost
that creates; of fool newspaper men,
beloved Peter. Generous Mike who has
arope around Peters dear" neck can
now have him and no democrat will say
nay.-Farewell, say all who know Ofly
Peter; farewell; farewell. The barber
chair awaits the.