Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-04-16

business that cannot stand publicity
and it is only because of these notices
that you and your color rear and de-
clare that "1ry" misrepreseRts, has no
interest liz Claflin. If not uphoiding
parties who insist on violating law of
the state they rely on for protection.
misrepresents and shows a want of
interest in Claflin then 1 misrepreseat
and have no interest in Claf1in, for do
not uphold joints and propose to notice
their presence as long as write from
this locality. TRY" has an interest in
Clafiin, perhaps as much as the rec-eant
who signs his name ''Theodor Staeber.-
at least :'Try" has never yet taken
aims from lodge to support his family.
And by your attack on the ssshebang''
man you show plainly that you are still
sore from the dose You got from the
"shebang" man one morning last sum-
mer on the street. Well Theo. we did
think that when your eyes got well the
soreness would be all gone but you still
insist it is not. L have no doubt you
too vile" to mention; 1 would not mem
tlon it ii [ were you. your awkward
position is really laughable. The
''shebang" man has never denied sell.
ing one party half pint of alcohol on
the day the fight took place in Lunz's
saloon; but we all wonder how seven
men got drunk on the half pint and
then had some left; you ought to know
Mr.. S. as you were there when the fight
began You forgot to state that you
and these men for whom you are tool
were trying to coneoct plan to get a
hold on the ''shebang" man by getting
the man who bought the alcohol to.
swear to lie In order to get such a
hold. He would not be used that way.
and this is what caused the fight. See,
Mr.. S. see? No my dear brother, the.
less you say about TRY" the better it ?
is for your lost saloon cause. The
county attorney will get to see and
know that Clafiin has saloons after
while and may be he will look after you;
you know he has refused to be bought
once and might refuse again, at least
we know the attorney general cannot
be bought with your money.
am now done with this Mr. S, SO far
as answering any thing he may say in
the future through your paper is con-
cerned, and very sorry have said SO
much. but have interests and did not
like to leave people under the impression
that Mr.. S. was an ordinary, common,
everyday liar and 1 therefore felt it my
christian duty to enlighten them as to
his speciality, the one and only thing
for which he is noted, the one thing-he
does with the great ability of master.
THE OTHER SIDE.
From Theodore Staeber."
On March 26th there was an item in
the DEMOCRAT concerning Clafin
saloons, in which TRY" says he s'leayes
it to the people whether there are any
saloons OF not" If he called those
places where "hop tea"is is sold, saloons,
he would be all right; but, what does
he call the ''shebang" where is sold
rotten whisky and alcohol under the
different name of "horse medicine
which is surely the worst place of them
all?
In the item of April End, L asked
but it looks as if it had struck him like
a thunderbolt, which makes me believe
that Try" and the manufacturer of
this criminal medicine (very well
known in this part of the county, are
one and the same individual. Then it
is no wonder that he is down on Mr..
Hawthorne, for the reason that Mr.. =
Hawthorne did not want to soil his cen-
science when this said criminal medi-
cine was offered to him by the manu-
facturer, at wholesale price, to canvass
for it.
Mr.. Paul Schmit bought farm near
here and will move out pretty soon.
Wheat never had better stand, and
our grain buyers are paying top prices
right along.
Mr.. Henry Fredricks sold his place
and wants to start for California; says
he is tired of staying longer with such
triffiing things as Kansas laws. We
wish him good success.
WE GIVE considerable space this
week to our Clafiin correspondents who
appear to be wide apart in their opin-
ions as to the position of that town on
the '.joint" business. While we do not