Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-11-03
"WINDY Benz AND HIS
COUNTY TICKET

UlCK0G anu close search Will reveal
the entire absence of anything re-
fiecting upon the competency or fit
ness of any of their candidates in
this issue. Whether the populists
candidates have authorized the sour
rilous campaign conducted by their
organ across the street and by
"Windy Ben in his school house
campaign we know not except that
the candidates were present at most
Of Ben's harangues and apparently
endorsed what he said. At least
they did not protest. Windy Ben"
is not a candidate for a county
office and will not be candidate
for any office unless Joshua Mus
grave is elected a member of the
Legislature for Trego county. This
explains Windy Ben's" intense in
terest in this campaign and this is
why he is belching forth volumes of
abuse and falsehood in almost every
school district in the county and
more especially against Mr.. Blair
our candidate for representative
'Windy Ben" claims the populist
county ticket as his ticket and says
they were named by him and has
further stated that he would see
that they were elected no difference
to what extremes they were COM
PEELED to resort to effect this con-
summation. At the Kinney school
house last week "Windy Ben,'
among other statements, said that
the entire republican county ticket
from district Judge down were gam
blers. A blacker falsehood than
this was never uttered-"W Windy
Ben" in his own heart knows that it
was as false as hell-yet it was
given out for the sole purpose of
possibly influencing somebody who
was not well acquainted with our
candidates on the republican county
ticket, We say-calmly, deliberate
ly and dispassionately, that man
who will thus maliciously and will
fully endeavor to blacken the char
acter and reputation of a neighbor,
merely for the purpose of securing
vote, is capable of committing any
crime in the decalogue. There are
imps in hell to-day who were DOOM
ed for committing lesser crimes. We
have too much faith in humanity
to believe that there is another man
Heaven save the mark } in the state
of Kansas who is so utterly deprav-
ed as to make such a statement con-
corning honorable men wholly from
polluted imagination as in this
case. Decent, honorable men should
shun his presence and society as
they would that of kissing viper.
These lines are only intended for
those who do not know "Windy
Ben" Those who do know him
would doubt any statement made by
him or upon his authority without
positive proof.
WINDY Ben's" chief characteris-
tic is wind and capacity for telling
much more than he knows. He
was once elected county superin-
tendent of Trego county and con-
Quoted the affairs of his Office in
such a weak and inefficient manner
that his own township-Ogallah-
repudiated him and Notwithstanding
that he spent weeks in trying to Sc
cure the Ogallah delegation for re-
nomination he was overwhelmingly
defeated by his own neighbors and
of course repudiated by the conven-
ton which met later. This is
Windy Ben's" political career in
Trego county. From that time un-
til the present he has had no use fol-
the republican party. It was not
the Alliance that lost 'Windy Ben
to the republican party; it was his
defeat for denomination for the of,
flee of county superintendent.
True patriot he, for be it understood
He left the party for the party's good
AS another evidence of ''Windy
Ben's" popularity among his neigh
bors we might mention his sons
candidacy for county surveyor last
fall. The young man was defeated
by 100 majority and this was almost
entirely owing to "Windy Ben's'
reputation. Populists, Democrats
and Republicans alike rebuking thu
young mans reprobate father. This
we say is the reputation-among
those who know him.-of the bag
of wind who says he nominated the
populist ticket and who says he viii
elect them at whatever cost. This
is the character of the man who
reads from the bogus house journa
printed by the populist admins
tration at public expense for cam
paign purposes prove that A
H. Blair opposed the forestry bll
when IN fact it is historical that ha(
it not been for the herculean labori
of A. H. Blair, of Trego, and Mike
Sutton, of Dodge City, both o
whom labored day and night tx
save the forestry stations no appro
priations would have been made ant
TIE property would have reverted
back to its original owner. w. s