The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-07
Wherein Higgins Writes Let
ter and "Gets the Idea"
About a Kicker.
VIOLA, Tenn. August /, 1898.

liable citizen of all. You take a
genuine kicker and he is peculiar in
two respects. He is not an office
seeker and is usually noted for tell.
ing the plain truth, and is usually
unpopular with sporting characters
and Doodle takers and bond toters.
This is true from the very nature
of the case. This kicker never
stands we'll with the two.faced ras.
cal, either. This long-faced, tight.
laced thief, who expects to enter the
kingdom on what he "appears to
be-" another fellow. The meanest
and lowest down pup of all, who
calls and pats you on the back and
says "give it to 'em" until the
kicker exposes some rascality he is
party to.
Well gentlemen, the kicker is
great man for any town to have.
The kicker is benefactor. The
kicker stops bond toting; did it
right here in Tennessee. The kick.
er stops Doodle taking, stops mon
keying with our schools, stops city
officials from violating business
laws. The kicker stops illegal
salaries. The kicker nails up fin.
ger boards pointing to the rascals.
The kicker favors obeying all laws.
The kicker calls attention to the
poor. We know kicker who ate
dinner on Saturday with a preacher
in kentucky whose sole food was
buttermilk and Irish potatoes, and
then went to two rich neighbors,
where the preacher preached, and
related the fact, told the plain
truth and kicked, and Monday a
big load of meat, flour and fruit
rolled up to the preachers home.
Great is the kicker who truthfully
kicks. The kickers took the
schools of Waco from party
politics and placed them with the
hands of competent business men.
The kicker has made Texas bet
ter governor, kickers made Waco
better mayor, kickers have made
Marshal Neil better marshal, but
we need few more kickers yet to
have the laws fully enforced; let us
all "kick." We kicked about the
laws of Arkansas forbidding col.
ored nurse riding in the car to take
care of my children. l was in.
formed that my kick would be the
cause of more kicks and this kick.
ing would result in kicking this
law off Arkansas law books. We
kicked about the dirty depot of the
L. & n. at Memphis. We are in.
formed that the kick did good.
Great is the 'kicker." The kicker
very seldom gets any benefit of his
kicks. Thus you see the kicker
becomes a pure, disinterested pa.
triot. The kicker, as it were,
kicks the plum tree-others get all
the plums. You notice that in
Waco. The most unsel6sh man,
he is usually the kicker. The
kicker kicks things away from
himself How noble his unseltish
ness. The kicker is great and
often good. If Waco had
kicked more as a city
and the newspapers instead of licking
the boots of big-bugs, if all Waco
had kicked like she could and
should kick, we would to-day have
nice passenger depots like the Cot
ton Belt on all our railroads. Wa
co, if she had raised big kick long
ago might to-day have had $50, coo
spent each month in Waco by the
railroads; in the place of the Katy
blowing about how much money
she gets out of Waco, she would
have been telling how much she
put into Waco. l mean a good de.
cent kick, business-like and honor.
able, not the high kickers. Some
of Waco Aldermen wes once liked
we mean men, business kicks.
Grover Cleveland made a big
kick when he was president before,
and the people let him out, but last
year they "got the idea," and said