Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-12-10

NOW PLEASE, Mr.. HUDSON, DON'T.
The result Of tho recent election is
likely 10 prove injurious to Baxter
Springs In moro ways than one. Just
at u time when our city was recuper-
ating from the effects Of panicky
money market, when our merchants
were doing more business than ever
before, when building boom was
Just under way, when our prospects
for manufactures, railroads, spurs
and dummy trains were SO hattering,
when first class weddings were taking
place AT the rate Of three or four u
week, when tho city council had just
got into working order, when tho ,ur-
Key buzzards and Indian claim agents
had all gone to q warmer climate,
when our revival meetings were about
10 opcn up with renewed vigor, when
IN fact everything was lovely for Bax-
ter and her people, now comes the IN
suitable greed for Office and like u
chilling, killing frOst knocks all our
plans aud calculations aft agley.
The liberal increase In our popula-
ton during the past year has been not
only a surprise 10 many, but \ subject
of congratulation to all, but II one
half or twO-thiids OF our most es-
teencd citizens are to he sacrificed and
taken away from us in order that
demo.populist form Of government
NAV continue to exist, why then all is
vanity saith tho preacher and Baxter
Is no more city OF the first class.
What will Baxter Springs be when
Capt. Kennedy, Hathaway and Lon
Adams receive their appointments as
Wardens aud superintendent OF the
penitentiary? With Bill Tenelze ac-
credited to the Zuyder Zee, with
Mai. Downing representing tariff re-
form aud stump tail currency at the
court of Ballagautz, with Capt. Kane
secretary of state to Mrs. Lease, with
LEROY Harvey as ash barrel Inspector
Al Kokomo, with Peach Miller as
keeper of the privy seals at Topeka,
with Alderman Patterson as min
lister to Dublin City, with Jim Lud-
lum. as chaplain at the insane asylum,
with Chief Justice Hodgkins on the
supreme bench, with Uncle Sammy
Binns sailing over the western prai'
ries on his pot bellied pony aud the
wind whistling "Good bye, old party,
Good bye" through his burnsides,
with, in fact, all our brightest ana
most eminent citizens filling places OF
honor and trust in far distant lands,
what, we say is to become of Baxter,
or in other words "Wbere will we be
atT
The poet says at is better to have
loved aud lost than never to have loved
at ALL" but to lose all that has made
Baxter so pre-eminen;ly superior to
rival cities is indeed cruel. It is true
we still have some eighteen pOstinas-
tiers and a few staunch, stalwart,
stand up" republicans who never,
never, that is hardly ever. would &C
cept an Office of any kind, such men
for instance as Norton, Price, Collins,
Tom Smith, Ben Warner, Clarence
McFadden, Bud Simmons, Frank
Hemstreet, Col. March, Henry Scott,
Bert Corse, Bob McGregor, Mack Gill,
Ira Perkins and few middlc.of-thc-
road democrats, but the flower and
perfection, the pink and cream, the
pride aud glory of our city will have
departed. We hope Mr.. Hudson, Mr..
Iewelling and Mr.. Cleveland will
have some consideration for our poor
little town and try and fill their cabi.
nets and portfolios and places Of emol-
ument in part at least from Columbus,
Galena and other neighboring cities.