The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-26
THE ARIZONA KICKER
The Editor Was Elected State Senator and
Comments on the Fact

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The Editor Was Elected state Senator and
Comments on the Fact
New York Sun.
WE Cor THERE.-While the returns from
Dead Mans Hill, Strawberry Gulch, Lone
Tree, and GriZzly Corners are not yet oil
in, sufficient returns are at hand to show
that the editor and pro prietor of the Kicker
stor In this district by the largest majority
ever rolled up for q candidate.
1t was q triumph of integrity over fraud
and corruption.
who would have torn down the buiwarks
of American liberty.
Vice has been buried under six feet of
wet snow, with o cold rain still falling to
make a hard crust, while virtue (which is
us) sits among the roses and calmly sips her
lemonade.
By our election the safety of this glo-
rious Republic is guaranteed for several
years in advance. without extra cost to a
single citizen thereof. The grand and sa-
cred principles taught by Washington and
Jefferson, and hidden away in the chapar-
raj for the last fifty years by order of the
sordid and corrupt machine politicians,
Will now be dragged forth. FURNISHED up,
and used as q headlight to guide our foot
steps.
The underpinning of the bulwarks of lib
crty will be renewed with live oak timber.
new props put in, the height carried mp at
Jcdsb tWcuty loots buu tuIcc SOOu CObtS OF
whitewash slapped on to make things
smell sweet and look as If the family had
got back home right end up and meant
business.
1t was q fierce fight and 9 glorious victo-
~. The enemy was alert and vicious.
From start to finish he was determined on
our defeat. He ambusbed us at Jackass
Bend, and put two bullets through our hat.
He fired on us from the bush near Lone
Tree, and spoiled the looks of our left ear
foravar He fhraU aUua md hlaa
and dead rabbits at us, as we stood on the
platform at baskerville. he stole our
running mule, tried to blow up our Office.
slandered our mother. lied sbout our
sue us for breach of promise. and in o hun
dred other ways sought to force US OH the
track.
But we were there. We came to stay.
We came mp smiling after every round. and
in the end victory porched upon our BAN
ner. She can't be pulled OF the perch. The
wild screams of the American eagle can be
heard to-day all over these United States.
and IL IS principally on our account that he
screams. Each scream falls upon our ears
like the soft notes of q mouth organ float
ing on the bosom OF q summer evening, but
the effect upon the opposition is like being
kicked IN the back Of tie head by q land
slide. We are a little excited ct the pres
ent writing. and may be q little wild in the
way we sling the English language about,
but we mean well.
We feel sorry for the opposition candi-
date. He hadn't "a ghost OF u show from
the start and be has come ont of the fight
with his character ruined Tor life and his
finances in such a state that it will be years
before he can afford q new pair of two
shilling suspenders. He hadn't been be.
fore the people three weeks when It was
proved beyond a doubt tbst he was a biQa-
! mist, a horse thief. an embezzler and a
dead beat. While his party friends have
dropped him like q hot potato and know
him no more, we have extended a brotherly
hand. and tomorrow he begins to saw
cord.
And our ~sympathies 60 ont for our &C.
teemed contemporary. rs saw the hand.
writing on the wall from the outset. and