Sharp County record., 1891-04-30
I'll e r RECORD.
E. G. HENDERSON. Editor
Be Reasonable.

it as a last resort at the present. The
election was advertised according tC
law, the polls opened and closed IL
regular form; that the voting was
regular and right has never been
publicly questioned, although rumol
says it was not. Now, then, what's
the matter? Why didn't the county
seat move? 1t is charged that Even.
ing Shade kept it from moving. This
accusation is foolish and false. Not
that the RECORD would make any
apology for the part Evening Shade
has taken IN the matter. Just stop
and butt that notion out of your
cranlum, if you have conceived it.
Because every man in Sharp county
that has braln-pan the size of or
dinary bullet>moulds, whether it be
empty or full, knows that every cit
izcn of Evening Shade was opposed
to removal. 1t was expected that
they would be; it was natural for
them to be; but what did they do
They sat still and let the friends to
Center have their election without
obstruction. we speak of the final
election The election over, the re-
turns in, county court convenes and
the vote for removal and for Center
is examined by the law prescribed
for such elections, and the law said
that the returns did not show a
sufficient number Of votes for res
moval and for Center to warrant the
court to make order for removal.
Evening Shade did not make the
laws, but employed counsel to see
that they were rronorlu.- e,a.l,eA u,
this case. So did Center. Mr.. King,
the prime mover in the fight, said
the proceedings throughout were
according to law.
Now, with these facts before HIM,
how can any sane and unprejudiced
man blame Evening Shade or any
individual living here, with the way
the votes were cast or counted The
tickets were not printed here. The
circular, setting forth the sundry
reasons for removal, were printed in
another county. Now then: For
what are our election laws made but
to govern elections? There were no
new laws cited in the case. There
was no quibbling or claiming done
If the court and counsel on both
sides had lived in Center the result
must have been the same.
The RECORD is informed by letter
and by rumor that it is condemned
by a few who feel sore at the result
of the election. We are indeed sor
ry that any of our friends should
be so narrowly constructed as to not
see and realize that we all live in a
free country, and to remember that
the promoter Of every public enter
prise has private interests to guard
Just the same as other citizens. The
RECORD IS a Sharp county paper and
has a patronage its publisher is
proud of, extending all over the ter.
ritory embraced by the county lines.
The editor, publisher and proprietor
lives in Evening Shade, owns an
humble home here; loves the people
here; knows they arc good people
and knows too that they are most
infamously misrepresented by parties
who, for mercenary or other motives
cry out "ciquo!" "ring !" and al
such nonsense, when we know, ant
they know that no such factions ex'
ist. All county seat contests engen'
der more or less strife and pre- ejudlct
between the opposing factions, whicl
Is derlora6le IN the extreme; and W.
are proud to say some OF tins paper
best friends, and who are among th'
best citizens Of the county, az
among the removaliSts. They voted
that way because it was to their in
tercsts, and they are liberal enougl
TO accord to the antis the same PRIV
ilege without grumblmg at the re-
suit.
We ask pardon of our subscriber