Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1894-07-26
LAFLIN NEWS.
And Still Farmer Jones Keeps
Coming.

Health is good.
No births to report this week.
Our farmers are about through
threshing wheat.
The stock of goods in our town
assigned by Hon. o. J. Snider has
been inventoried.
The boys raised several disturb
ances at the threshings last week.
The spirit of the lawless and crimi-
nal sheet edited in the Hillside city
was put into execution, and the
blood Of our ccuntrymen was free
ly spilled.
Two Of the boys of this place, az
ter reading this criminal sheet were
induced to try shopIitting. Enter
ing the store Of Snider & Clippard
they extracted pair Of shoes u lot
Of handkerchiefs etc. They did
not get far, however, until they
were overhauled and made to dis
gorge their booty.
| notice one of those cOpywright-
ed missionary sermons on Republ-
canism in that filthy little Banner,
signed by One of the Boys, of Latin,
in which the Parson, after erron-
eously identifying Farmer Jones,
proceeds to attack him personally.
He slings at him the usual volley Of
profane slang and heaps upon him
the usual malicious and slandcrous
false allegations that are known
only to him and published only in
his lawless and criminal little sheet
Farmer Jones' head has been
sprinkled by the trosts of many "a
Bollinger county's winters. He IS
familiar with the dolngs ir BolIin-
ger county for half Il century and
has not nor will not write one WORD
that is not as true as Divine Reve-
lation. He has never even as much
as visited a lodge OF the Union o..
Alliance, he never attended q Third
party meeting nor listened to Il
Third party speech, he has never
been a candidate for office and
never expects to be. He knows
the distinguished citizen who is in
dicated in this slanderous article,
however. and knows HIM to be a
consistent Democrat who has nor
affiliated with the Third party fur
ther than to try to convert them
from them from their wild and
visionary theories. He like
all good Democrats has
high regard for that band of our
most worthy farmers who consti-
tute the Third party of Bollinger
county because he knows that they
are prompted by spirit of patriot.
ism and love for our common coun-
try, and unlike the hot-headed Rep.
ublicans in whose nostrils the mere
name of Democrat or Populist Gre
ates a stencil, and who never known
to speak the noun Democrat un,
less they apply the adjective fool,
liar, scondrel or theft. Farmer
Jones knows fifrther that this dis
tinguished citizens has been robbed
by The Boys who, through frand and
false pretense obtained his goods,
and from time to time burglarized
his grocery store at this place, and
finally through malice had him in
dicated by the United States grand
jury for a crime he never commit
ted and now The Boys,i in an endeav-
or to hide their guiltattempt to SLAM
der him through a dirty little crimi-
nal sheet whose pages are always
open to profanity, ,slang,false charges
malace and all forms of corruption,
and which is now engaged in sis
TEN of black mail by threaenting to
denounce and otherwise expose the
nominees of its own party if they
do not pay its specified tribute. Far
mer Jones knows further that the
circulation of this corrupt sheet is
the leading cahse of our heavy
criminal costs this year, and as
proof he calls the attention of every
fair minded man in this county to
the fact that soon after its cifcula-
tion there was organized in Liberty
township band of The Boys
whose object it was to murder and
rob eleven of our best citizens.
They proceeded to carry ont the
object by entering the sleeping
apartments of a worthy citizen, and
under cover of midnight darkness
blew his brains into the face of n