Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-10-06
A Reply to "a Soldier"

AthhA6N ~ NssfNef @A@&cs D~~'-'
EDITORS NEws:-In last weeks
Baxter Springs Republican ap-
peared an article signed "A Sol
der, rejecting seriously on the"cor-
rupt and puerile municipal govern
ment", of this city which he says
was greatly aided by species of
permits and licenses granted by
our reunion authorities and Off
Gals"
will not attempt to. extenuate
the corrupt and puerile city govern
ment," but leave the mayor and city
council to defend themselves. The
reunion authorities have issued no
licenses for "unbridled gambling"
as he asserts and il the said soldier
had taken the trouble to look more
closely into this matter he would
have saved himselve the trouble of
publishing this Islander. l doubt If
a meeting of any kind or of such
magnitude was ever held in the
state or in the West where 40 little
disorder, so little immortality, so
little incbriety. so few unlawful acts
and such uniform good order was
observed az at our last encamp-
ment. II seemed to be the univer-
sal opinion of all that il was the
most pleasant and most agree
able meeting of their lives. One
good old methodist deacon assured
the writer that he never attended a
camp meeting where such good
order prevailed.
With 5000 witnesses to deny the
allegations of "A Soldier il would
seem like folly to answer his COM
munication. but he says I is ito b.
continued" Now, | don't bol eve
he will be so foolish as to continue
hts slanderous articles. The Of
Iicers and directors of this associa-
tioI are about as well known in the
community as he is and their pri-
vate and public records are per-
haps as fair as his They are all
business men who have ncglecte 1
their private affairs to make our an
nual reunions u success-and they
have made them II success, unpar-
allelleI in the history of the state,
and these aspersions come with
very i'll grace from gentleman
who has never made n success of
anything.
If this reunion was a meeting OF
the Chautauqua Circle, The Epworth
League, Christian Endeavor or Dor
cas- Society, or a conclave of he fe-
males in bloomers we might accept
suggestions fion a Soldier" but
the boys who wore the blueandcar-
ried the flag don't come all the way
TO Baxter to attend pray e. meeting.
they want games as wella speech
cs; they want songs as well as ser
mons; anusements as well as de-
votional exercises. We have been |
running the institution ON these
lines. and while il may he impossi-
BILE TO please everyone, we believe
we have given almost universal sat
isfaction as we were all unanimous
~ reelected at the last meeting of
the stockholders. 1t should be I'M
derstood the stockholders have "a |
right to condemn and remove the
officers, and if a Soldier" l. not
stakeholder he should not be so
sudden with his condemnation.
But the record of the past reun-
ion is too appalling and transpar-
ent i'm dissipation and crime So
says "A Soldier" Now. Mr. Sol
dier. don't You know that you never
saw "a drunken man or a crime COM
mitted on the grounds: Don't you
know we had ten policemen whose |
duty it was TO arrest all drunken
utCIi anu tiut OhN WIS ih |
during the entire week: The. may
have been some gambling, and
some Bookkeeping, and some licen-
tiousness outside our grounds, but
what business h I'd you with your
high moral sentiment" mixing in
aud taking part with those critters:
You surely had to go out of your
way to find something to criticise,
and why did you do il, and why do
you use your pen in defamirg the
association that brings so many |
thousands of people aud so many |
thousands of dollars to our city |
every year, and the fame of which
has gone into so many states? You |
know the old boys say they have
more solid enjoyment and comfort
at our reunions than anywhere on
earth and they are the ones we have
endeavored 10 please.
So long as we retain the manage
ment we shall continue TO run on
such lines as we see fit, and propose
TO give them bigger show. a better
show and more of it next year, even
IL our educational and high moral
interests do suffer little. Please
do not continue to Islander the re-
union, but you may jump onto the
city government with both feet for
all care. A REUNION OFFICER.
The Discovery Saved His Lie.
Mr.. G. Caillouette. druggist. Beavers
vile. ILL.,. says: ITO DR.. Kings New Dis