Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-09-13
What a Chaos there will be.

| AND say that they II forever be the same,
But they'll soon reverse their attitude
And drop out of their place.
When the boomer gets to runnin for his
claim.
The sun will become paralyzed
| With terror at the sight,
And draw veil to cover DER his fame;
And the darkness as a consequence
| Will be rs black as night,
When the boomer gets to runnin' for his
claim.
The lunar orb of radiance
Has caught on to the scheme
And proposes not to be roped in the game;
| So it has made arrangements
On the antipodes TO beam;
| When the boomer gets to runnIn' for his
claim.
And the stars viii take a tumble
To the racket here below,
| In their haste better vision to obtain;
They'll break away from gravitation,
Turn loose all holds and go,
| When the boomer gets to runnin for his
| claim,
Even earth in endless quantities
Will rise up in the air,
And float around in clouds above the plain:
The whole universe will tremble
With the strain it has to bear,
When the boomer gets to runnin' for his
claim
The Cresset and the Tax List.
Ever since the first publication of the
delinquent list, six weeks ago, the Cres
set has been firing the public with a
continual howl about errors. That pa
per has been in the habit of using per-
sonal epithets in speaking of the editor
of this paper when they had no provo
cation whatever. 1t is the lowest kind
of journalism, and the public should
understand its true nature. We can
not indulge in common newspaper ex-
change of points without the sheet
across the way retorts in an insinua-
ting personal fling at the INDEX editor.
1t never tries to keep even by decent
methods or common newspaper courte-
sy, but always resorts to that low black
guardism of depraved nature which is
calculated to raise horse laugh among
hoodlums having no respect for deem
cy. The people will remember that
even before the present editor of this
paper assumed control the Cresset ap-
piled epithets to him that were disgust
ing to public which expects newspa-
per instead of vulgar sheet that some
times is hardly permissible of entering
the mails. No one need to look for ar
gument or facts there, they will only
see some sneering personal allusion to
Hudson. Wehave so far desisted from
attacking the Cresset in the same man
ner in the hope that their contemplate
policy would wear off, but instead 1t
seems to improve with age, like GER
tain we'll known fertilizer. We came
here to run newspaper in the interest
of the people of the community, and
not to be annoyed by the vile epithets
of sheet from which we could reason
ably expect only honest competition.
We dislike personality, and if we are
aggravated into using it, we hope our
readers will bear with us, remembering
that one has to stoop if they handle
low objects.
The people are undoubtedly tired of
hearing so much talk about the tax list,
but we beg their allowance this tiIoe.
We made the assertion, after the Cres-
set became rampant about mistakes,
that it had set up part of the list. This
fact it has never dared to deny except
by implication. The Cresset set up
orfn of hn iCf in nh
allowed to publish the whole as an item
of news, and after this mutual agree
ment was made and carried out they
had the discourtesy and dishonOr to at
tempt to affix the entire blame for mis-
takes upon this paper. We do not know
who was to read proof, as we had no
connection with the paper at that time,
nor do we care red cent. 1t is the ma
| ture of the case that we are looking at.
One column of the proof was preserved,
which the Cresset says it did not set.
The INDEX printer, whom they say set
it, says he did not, so we suppose the
| festive ghost of some tramp printer of
| Olden time must have did the job in the
still night watches. Allowing that they
did not set the proof IN question, as we
have no fight with the boys at their
cases, they certainly did set a part of
them, which were equally as bad as any
| the INDEX set.
That part of the matter is neither
here nor there; it is the dirty and sneak
ing manner in which the Cresset has
acted that challenges the amazement
of every honest man who has read their
almost continual TRADE of abuse
against the editor of the INDEX. The
low calibre local genius on the Cresset
seems to be endeavoring to earn for
himself the odious distinction of being
the lowest down newspaper blatherskite
IN the profession, and he is in fair
way to succeed if he has not already.
He dare not deny that part of the list
in which the awful" errors occurred
was set IN the Cresset Office, and when
| that fact is established, more blame
rests on him than on the INDEX editor.
who had nothing whatever to do with
1t. Lorton, who can not refer to a con-
temporary in decent language, is a
beautiful specimen to be pratlng of
"manliness" and honor" two things
as absolutely foreign to his perverted
nature as the law of extremes will per-
NIT. As we said before, we are COM
PEELED to stoop if we handle dirt, and
the almost incessant virulent personal
slurs the above hideous malformatlon
of decency has given us is the cause of
what otherwise might be termed strong
| language.
The INDEX will commence this week
TO set up the corrected errors, part of
which were made in the Cresset office.
for which we get no extra pay. The
tax payers of the county are not out
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