Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-10-05
ooWARDLY POLITICS.


and fair minded voters in Barton
county that the old time prctices of
politics; of political bushwhacking, of
letters and communications
filed with unfounded assertions and
groundless charges for the purpose of
creating prejudice and misleading
voters, would not be resorted to during
the present county campaign. But it
appears that such hope was unfound-
ed; that the most questionable political
practices will be resorted to by the
party of Dudley, Quay and Bill Higgins
in the hope of winning a few county
Offices in Barton county. Let it be said
to their shame that the managers of
the republican campaign, and at least
two of the editors of republican papers
in the county have apparently lent
themselves to coutenancing of one of
the most false and cowardly communi-
cations concerning two of the leading
democrats of the county, one of whom
served four years as an official whose
honesty, integrity and ability no man
has dared to question, and the other
one standing as high in the estimation
of the general public and being fully as
worthy of the popular confidence.
We refer TO the publication of let
ter in the Register and Tribune of last
week, under The heading: who do the
tax payers want for treasurer" and
signed Taxpayers"
Assuming that the favorable COM
ment given Mr.. Fred Fl. Miller, our
candidate for treasurer, in the DEMO
Graf of September 18th furnished an
excuse for personal attack upon Mr..
Miller and Mr.. j. nnard Krause; the
Writer-who had not ii.:> honesty, the
manhood or an appreciation Of the first
principles of right and justice to sign
his name to his article, but must hide
himself like the political trickster he
apparently is behind the fictitious name
of ''taxpayer,''- attempts to cast slur
upon the honest integrity and ability
of Mr.. Krause and Mr.. Miller for the
sole and only purpose of creating senti-
ment in favor of his candidate who is
opposing Mr., Miller for the officee- of
county treasurer. We have not per-
sonal Knowledge that Mr.. Bosse sane
toned such letter or is party to the
despicable business; but the inference
is that he knew of its being prepared,
that he furnished information upon
which to base the latter part of the let
Ter which attempts to show what a
wonderful philanthropic, public spir-
tied and disintereSted official Mr.. BOsse
has made during the year and half
that he has Eeld the lucrative job of
county treasurer. If Mr.. Bosse is in
nocent of any Connection with the letter
we hope he will say so through the
press.
Upon reading ''taxpayer's'' article we
called upon Mr.. Krause and Mr.. Miller
to ascertain what element of tuth. if
any. there was in the thing. Each
gentleman assured US that the whole
thing is a network Of ealsehood from
beginning to end, with the exception
possibly, of that part which referred to
MIR. Bosse collecting back taxes due
from the state to Barton county, and
also possibly the reference to his having
collected taxes unpaid for the years
1888 to 1891. No treasurer has held
the office since our first treasurer but
who has collected more or less of back
taxes for former years. 1t is their
duty to do so, and not an act of mag
nanimity or public spirit to be hawked
about in fiattering praise for the pur-
pose of making political capital Mr..
Krause never made a practice of blow
ing about such simple acts of duty.
The supposed taxpayer" weaves his
tale of falsehoods into a reflection upon
the ability of Mr.. Miller; that is the
sole object of his article He would
lead his readers to believe that-lf his
charges were true Fred Miller was
the man who is to blame. The facts
are that Mr.. Miller was a deputy for
Mr.. Krause but part of his term; that
he was called in to aid in the office at
busy times off and on, and that no man
ever had more careful. painstaking
and trustworthy assistant than had
Leonard Krause in the person of Fred
Miller; and all the slush and SANDER
that is thrown upon him in the sneak
ing article signed by the assumed s'tax-
payer" will not change the opinion of a
single voter who knows Fred Miller and
the work he has done.
Why did not the writer of that letter
sign his name to it? Is he ashamed of
his own name? His letter would irdi-
cate that he had been blessed with an
it is SO ingeneously worded
to avoid being chargeable as criminal
libel that we suspect the writer has
studied law. Pity he had not studied
honesty. fairness and decency as we'll.
We challenge him-this greatly inter-
Al