Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-05-03
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ABSOLUTELY PURE

The CreBset as usual. last week, un-
der the guise of an interview with Tom
Fades shippers around like some silly
old maid, trying to impress on us
without jumping up and cIapping it's
heels together, its own praises and.self-
designated superiority in the "little
tits" with the enemy. Now if there is
anything betrays ignorance, vulgarity
weakness, despicable lIttlenees of soul
and narrowness of brain capacity, it is
the constant self-flattery and boastful-
ness OF med'Ocrlty. The self-ostenta-
ton that puffs up itself like toad try
ing to sing, invariably produces a mus
ic like the frog, hideOus TO all persons
of any culture and intelligence, but
sweet to its mudloving self and its kin,
political mud-lovers like itself. In all
controversies where we have differed.
you have failed to produce argument in
answer, and have resOrted to ridicule
and abuse, which many, even populIsts.
we have discovered, consider the
GROWING argument of newspaper.
1ou have not shown brains, but you
have shown wonderful ability to be-
mean and belittle, which comes alone
from base thoughts and base motives.
Because we have not met you in the
same style and degree, believing such
Things to be a disgrace to a truly re-
form press; and because we have not
therefore tIckled the ears of many pop
ulists, is no proof of your ability. If
we have dissatisfied our pOpulist friends
1T ought rather to be communication
in your eyes after all the abuse and rid
icule you have lin the dearth of real ar
gument) heaped upon the populist move,
and you ought to thank your lucky
stars that we Lave not followed the adj
vice of some, and written ''brainless i'd
lot, brazen liar, Handicapped scalawag,
etc." in every column of the INDEX.
But no, it is an Unborn desire to
rldicule and bellttle and falsify, which
you stick to as naturally as a hog does
to his mire. And wherever yon can de-
Jude populists and break down their
confidence in the truest men in cur
ranks. you know too well you are shak-
ing the foundations of their success.
Every opportunity you try to pit one
pOpulist against another. Let us IN
form you that, however much we disa-
gree with one another, when it comes
to meeting a common and dangerous
foe, an enemy to civil government and
friend of INSTRUMENTATION as our par
ty has proved itself, you will find us
standing shoulder to shoulder and strik-
ing blows squarely between the eyes.
Now. dear Cresset, we are about to
cease to disturb Your peace of mind, ed
itorially: but you have Intimated that
we were ignorant and incapable. We
challenge the sincerity of your charge.
We ask you to give column of your
paper to the discussion OF any plank in
the populist or republican platform,
and we will meet you on your own
ground. Dare you do it? Can you
stand fair argument, or does the
thought Of decent things make you feel
sick? If you are SO great and so might
and superior. accept our challenge
and prove it, or shut up your disgrace
full, contemplate boastfulness and self
praise that is only revolving to sober
judgment and good sense, and only
puffS you up like some blOated intellect
ual carcass filled with noAio4s gases.
generated from it's own corruption.