Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-09-16
i'm REPLY TO THE MODERN LIGHT.

EDITORS News: The management
of the late reunion needs no defense.
The most successful meeting OF any
kind ever held in the West, an i'm
mense crowd of from 10000 10 10000
people camping together for n whole
week without Il fight, or wrangle, or
dis urbance of any kind. gives the lie
direct to sil defamers VI the manage
ment, but / wish TO say a few words
with regard to the Modern Light, a
paper published in Columbus IN the
inleres, of anarchy, Repatriation, dis
loyalty aud general cussedness.
The editor OF that paper claims 10
have visited our camp ground, but
whether he ever get farther than the
whiskey end of the town and the ten
cent women OF Babylon l have my
doubts When he says ''it was a
coirupter OF The morals of our people.
perfect hell hole, blot upon tho
fair name of our county, u disgrace TO
Baxter Springs, aud cast a shadow MP
on every one who attended the reun.
ion" he is certainly talking through
his hat. Poor, foolish idiot? The
only shadow that has ever been cast
on the people of Cherokee county was
| thrown from the Office OF this same
| Modern Light when IL advocated Pc
uudiation OF honest debts and induced
a majority of the voters to place in Of
flee the class of men who manage the
Modern Light. These canning, whin-
Ing hypocrilcs have done more in the
last few years TO besmirch the fair and
honorable name of the people OF Kan
sas than all the soldiers reunions that
have been held since the war. The
driving out Of all loan companies and
money loaners, the loss Of farms, the
abandonment Of homes, the turning
ava, of all immigration and the gen.
eral decentralization of all kinds Of
business in Kansas is due in Il great
measure 10 the doctrines and senti.
men,s of such vampires and ignoram-
uses as these self-samctified editors OF
the Modern Light.
The Inter. State Reunion Association
can well withstand all such attacks.
The reunions will continue 10 grow IN
numbers and briliancy when all the
pessimistic newspapers in Kansas are
dead and forgotten. Every one OF tn"
managers was unanimously reelected
by the stockholders Of the association
in spite of the fact that "they resorted
to every sort of scheme for plucking
the unwary."
The trouble with the Modern Light
is. the gathering at Baxter Springs
was chiefly composed OF loyal citizens,
aud there WITS no place on the grounds
for disloyalty or calamity. The people
were all happy, well pleased and salts
fed with everything they saw or
heard. The nlournful wall of calami-
iv aud the rebel yell were missing:
there were no funeral professions, no
tombstOnes erected no misery or woe
of any kind. 1t was joyous, happy
meeting of tue defenders of our coun-
try and their friends, and the copper
head defamers who were too cowardly
10 ipin their rebel friends when they
were in the field were out of place al
such q meeting, aud were no doubt
more appropriately located on the out
side where they could fimd more cot
genial associates IN the gamblers ia
kris, schemers, bOotleggers ants ssiied
females ct the bush.
There used to be one loyag ccrnrade
connected with this salne Modern
Light. but he has reforIaed aud like
true man has bid the whole outfit an
eternal farewell and Joined the ranks
of hi. friends. And 81 II will he with
all who wore The hue and carried the
flag. They will forsake the rotten
crew which has delnded them In the
pas, and who, in order TO gain little
county Office. would defame their
mothers memory and defile their
fathers grave.
The aa,,sgers Of the reunion are
open 10. fair criticism and honest cen
sure when they deserve IL. but TO he
perked' at by bnzzards and other foul
birds nf the Modern Light feather is
too mach II smells too strong OF cop.
pnrheadiam and secession Ia have any
eflict an the association. aud In tile
IUtlTe NONiu uuN'NV va WV" P"'''
OTIS, who are patriots tor revenue only,
10 STAY at hoGle aud let the managers
run the reunion IN their own sweet
wsy.. II they can gull and delude the
farmers OF Chprokrr county Que more
year they will have their hands tull
wi,hrui interfering with our manage-
ment.
And in r0ncIu non | would say 10
the al veterans of Cherokee county:
Can You longer vote and net with
party or set If mrn who will stigma
tie snrh meeting ~ we have re-
Gently held IN Csmp Logan with our
wives. aud tnnilrs, aud friends of ihr
union ~ shell hole &rethey MOI
Sc, ot ropp"rbead liars comrades!
DU YOU not etr tile aDlMus ot TIE