The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-07-18
A Few Fact. For OLD .DsesAsy' 10 Ponder

Over.
The thing that signs itself 'Decency"
in the Mercury again infrudes it, wien
countenSnce and says that the
"GRAPHIC driven from one untruth
to another resorts 70 q grosser one
when it says that Colonel Lewis
stumped tho county with the Demo
cratic candidate against Mr.. Boies,
ing the author of Democratic ciruc-
lars, ETC." We would like to ask this old
dried up ancient mummy what he
knows about the situation any way,
and where he was about that timer III
we are right he was not within two
thousand miles of Edwards county at
that time or at any subsequent period
until within the last six months, and
vet, he has the unmitigated gall to
rush into print and tell the people
who have been here on the ground and
know all the sins and outs" Of Ed
wards county politics for years, that
they are liars. Now we want to re-
assert that the colonel was here and
rode day after day over the county
with the Democratic nominee, and
also that it was considered by those
best able to Judge of such things that
the colonel wrote the circular calcu-
lated TO iniure his successful COM
pititor.
Colonel Lewis as a farmeri Any
one that knows anything about the
colonel knows that he has made no
pretentiOns to carry on his farm for
years, If indeed, he ever did take the
trouble to notice the difference be-
tween a cOrn-stalk and a pea-viDe.
Jim" is the fellow that does what
farming there is done on the old place,
and is the only one that Ia entitled to
membership, or the support of the alli-
ance in the race for Congressional
honors. If the colonel can use the
members as puppets, it is all the use
he ever did have or ever will have for
.'poor whites" whom he classes as no
better than ''niggers," and either or
both about on the level with the brute
creation.
It would be vastly more to the
colonel's credit if he would make the
race in his true character instead of
masQuerading in the habliments of q
granger and an alliance man, when
he has no more claim on the farming
community, or the insight of the
craft than the man who spends his
days in u coal mine Or the sailor on
the high seas. And it may be well to
consider if man guilty of such SUBJ
terfuge, if Successful, would not entire
ly ignore his constituency and the
stepping stones that helped him to
the hon - and emoluments Of so i'm
portant an ONCE.
Then this ancient bric-a-brac takes
up the 'dirty Bird business and pro-
ceeds to mould that over into shapes
aud angles to suit his own palate.
Considering that the term originated
in the Mercstry and is doubtless his
own offspring, he can coddle it to his
ultimate satisfaction.
One thing more and we are done.
"Decency" says: SIT is indeed lament
able, but more and more despicable
in the sight of one who uses his brain
or the substance that nature has kind
ly lent him in place Of that organ, to
defame and injure by continual calum-
NOUS and false-hoods the man
who has perhaps distanced him in the
race for honors and preferments, or
WuOOO 1OpuIdOlOA 1OI dOIIIty lI0 ID
hopeless of attaining" Indeed where
did old "fOssile" acquire SO much infOr-
nation? Doubtless the same fellow
told him that has misled him in re-
gard to great many other topics he
is airing his opinions about. He may
rest easy however, that his ''dirty
bird" has "distanced" us in no race
for honors or preferments, that our
vacations in life are SO widely differ
ent that there are no parallels for a
test of speed or endurance. ..Decency"
is again misled by his benlgned infor-
mant, and if he cares to know the
truth we can direct him to an accumu-
latiOn of incontrovertible evidence such
as will perhaps shake his blind faith
in the perfection of his idol, if he has
not become so bigoted and warped by
his insane idOlatry that he would net,
If he could listen to reason or be con-
WINGED by facts and figures made so
plain that q "wayfaring man though a
fool need not, ere therein" The
GRAPHIC never makes q statement
about anyone, great or small, high or
low, that cannot be substantiated, if
1t were otherwise we would now have
on our hands suit for libel such as
the Sixteenth judicial district never
saw or ever can see in a generation.