Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-10-27
Trying to Fool Big Eyed Ellis
County With a Saum Fake.

Hays City Sentinel.
We have before US two copies of the
the Wa-Keeney Omnicrat. They are
of the same date October 19) and in
every respect but one are identically the
same paper. That difference lies in the
editorial page. 1t is trick sometimes
resorted to by dishonest and disreput-
able journal to circulate matter among a
certain class of its readers which it is
anxious to conceal from another class
No reputable journal ever did such a
thing, and no honest newspaper man SO
disgraces his calling.
One or both of these fake papers-or
the fake issue of that one paper-are
likely to be circulated in Ellis county.
The Omnicrat is the personal and politi-
cal organ of W. E. Saum in this judicial
contest, and we view this journalistic
fake of his with contempt and amaze
mcnt.
The purpose of the Omnicrat in put
ting out two sets of editorials is manifest
at glance. One paper is prepared for
perusal by the pops and the other is in
tended for circulation among the demo-
Gratis. In one the pops are given their
usual rations under the regular populist
ticket, upon which W. E. Saum appears
as the regular pop nominee, and the
other contains in place of the Saum pop
matter a column of Saum democratic
matter which labors to prove that he is
a stalwart and unterrited democrat
When Mr.. Saum devised this brilliant
journalistic fake, he seems to have over
looked the possibility of both papers
falling into the same mans hands
We never yet knew of a man trying to
convince two political parties that he
was in sympathy with both but what
he made miserable failure of it. Saum
has made particularly perfect mess of
this. Down here where the democrats
have no use for pop, they have turned
against him for his ceaseless and ignoble
tagging around after pop endorsements !;
for his collision with Frakes, Bill Baker
and the pop state committee to swop off
every democratic candidate but himself,
and because they think he is not much
OF democrat anyway. As for the pops
of this county, they utterly repudiate
him. He stretched his supposed demo-
cratic strength in this county too much
He came down here and lallagaged with
Governor Lewelling. He came down
here and whispered around with old Bill
Del Ar,I tho, he. /
the stage with David Overinyerl He
was pop enough to go down to Topeka
and bring up Secretary Osborne to man
age his fight in the Oakley convention,
but he was not democrat enough to get
up on the stage last Thursday and sit by
the side of Mr.. Heard, the democratic
nominee he and Osborne were insoIently
trying to trade off in that convention.
But the worst blow to Saum's demo-
cratic pretentions was launched at the
last Oakley convention. Before ballot
ing commenced a resolution was ADOPT
ed providing that no candidate should
be considered unless he was in SYM
pathy with populism. Mr.. Rathbone
was vouched Tor by some delegates, as
was also Mr.. Towne, and then silence
fell. Finally Mr. Cox, democratic clerk
in the U. S. land Office at Wa eeney.
tip-toed up to delegate Gorsuch of Wal
lace county, whispered in his ear, and
that delegate at once arose and said:
Il am authorized to announce that
Brother Saum stands aquArely upoa the
Omaha platform with both feet
Now the democrats of Ellis county do
not stand on the Omaha platform with
either foot, and they have little use for