The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-01-03


about the end of the old year, tn,
flight of time and how we are ali grad
ually but surely approaching tn,
"other shore" and tell one of those in
cidenrs of true life that professional
correspondents manufacture at hi.
season, but can't do il and ! wouldn't
If | could. These letters of mine ar,
written for Il
LIVE NEWSPAPER,
which is printed for the people NOW oil
earth and ii the people now on earth,
having such Il newspaper to pos, them,
don't know where they are al" with.
out being told 80 by men who know
no more than themselves. they
haI all better Join the
republican party and 90 to that
bourne from which no traveller re-
turns.
Ny policy Is that the holidays
should be real holidays AMI all per
sons be allowed tn enjoy them in their
own way-this thing of fetching in Il
skeleton or Il religious fanatic nj the
feast l. neither christian or human.
We have suffering and preaching
enough the'year around, God knows.
Let III, then. at least, begin the New
Year in such manner, that We will
have hope to cheer and encourage uS.
Some people may think that am,
perhaps, Il little too previous in this
matter, but am not; I've lived in this
world of ours nearly 50years and had to
take care of myself and Others for
forty years. know what Christmas
and New Years are to the people and
| say, let them enjoy them in their
own way, Let u> have
No CAN'T OK HYPOCRISY,
no advice gratis or "rca'J' yarns: we
don't want them and instead nf i'm
proving, they disgust.
We will all begin the New Year
with renewed hopes and aspirations
and Il glad anticipation Of better times
Hang this puritanical AMI Calvcni,tic
talk that We are "n the road - perdi-
ton an | only grace ran save III. The
people who Talk til. wa. don't know
what -rncn i. they are conceived.
born aHi !ivr Ia :lc GALL If bitterness.
Tomorrow night, City Treasurer
VI. j. Focr~'ei i, expected 10 appear
before the city council AMI answer the
charge brought against him. Mr..
FoerStel has already sent in hi> re,ig-
nation, he does not deny the shortage
in his office and it l. very well under
stood all around, that he will make
good the deficit. Meanwhile, there i
something ola dispute over the ap-
ppintmcnt of Il successor. The MAYOR
claims the right. and 50 does the city
council. Several very good men are
named, but there * not one of them
who can give better and stronger
bond than Mr.. Foer>tel. even under
the present circumstances There is
this much about the present
complication. | hate to state
it, but the newspapers of st. Louis
SEEM AFRAID To.
Politics in 81. Louis have always
been under the direction and man.
agement of men who had an axe to
grind and these fellows have engin-
eered things to suit themselves. Mr..
Forestel was elected treasurer on the
strength of his popularity and the
prospect of what could he made out
of him. His friends" used him and
now he is in the lurch. 1t will cost
Mr.. Foerstel all the money he has
earned legitimately to pay the short
age in his office. but. | understand
that those who know him best, 10th
republicans and democrats intend to
stand by him and help him through
his trouble.
80 far Us /, myself, am concerned.
have this much to say that Foerstel
is an honest man, but-he don't know
much of politics a. now managed.
notice that Larry Harrigan, the
present chief of police and
PRETTY GOOD THIEF CATCHER,
il putting himself forth as the only
man tit for the place he now holds.
Now | know Larry about as well as
any one and concede that he is
pretty good man in his place. But,
there are dozen better men now I'M
der him. who could fill the office with
less style perhaps, but great deal
more effectivene->. am an .'old timer"
remember the days and nights when
the veteran Jack Loouey posted Harri-
gan on many good thing.
When old Jack came to- the end of
hi, stretch and died poor and almost
forgotten, the man that he made
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