People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-09-26
Correspondence.
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mitted by the Mulvane Record man
The Sumner county convention,
known as the great bear dance,
seemed 10 take it that the time had
come when men were wanted and
not measures: when party and not
principal was the great and crying
need as a remedy against corruption
and a proper substitute for measures
and great political problems that are
today agitating not only the people
of the United States but the nations
OF the world. County conventions
voice simply Estate and national
ones and vica versa. II we may
reasonably infer that the Sumner
county Republicans had not heard,
when they assembled, what tune to
play. whether it would be in good
form to rattle off God Save the
Queen or Yankee Doodle" on all
questions in which the people are
interested. county, state or nation
al. they were as silent as dumb cattle.
They seem to have been at sea so far
as unity on any question was concern
ed. save the question of how to get
an office and how to get the little
bears to ratify the state of the great
bears for county office. The cOnven-
ton had not a principal to advertise
and what it had it dared not. 1t
neither denounced or sanctioned not
even limited that Morrill, was TO tread
on an adder. As for county expenses,
they surely kept off the grass. And
now what does the Record man do On
his return? Sore at heart Of course,
but really we don't feel like eXCusing
lin when he failed to get an idea or
a resolution worth its room before
his patrons, why did he not say so.
but he simply limited that they re-
fused him anything to build
glowing account upon; in fact they
gave him nothing to advertise and
now if we are justified in looking at
things in this light and being sure Of
his unutterable disgust and contempt
for the whole affair, we may account
FOR his poetry under the head of
Take Hint from Mary" What
tempest he must have had in his
breast to contend with. while he sang
SO Sweetly in measures of our child
hood OrationS. but if we are at fault
IN diagnosing his case we beg pardon
and we will accept his explanation
for he is. we think, a16 to l and
clear grit too and he don't care who
knows itj
First this convention had no princi-
pies they wanted advertised and
Friend Reed ought to have known it
and not got mad about it, In his first
verse he hints how the Republicans
Looked surprised-Why? Because they
didn't advertise. Now had they TAX
en- the VOICE they could have seen
the whole program weeks before and
would have known just when and how
the bear would dance. In his
second verse he hints, in fact Just as
good as SaySit, that they were set of
clans. Why certainly, you see he is
becoming aware that they have no
principles to advertise any more than
a clam. Again in the third verse, he
gives them broad side charge and
certainly hints what other Republic
cans boldly assert, that votes just
what are wanted will appear on the
wrong side of the tally sheet. In the
fourth verse he tries to cheer up their
tagging spirits by holding up the bright
side of what might have been. But
to do the Record man Justice, and
that every one may judge for himself
and not take my version of the mat
ter, would you please print his piece
in full which l enclose, taken from
his last issue of Sept. 20, 1895, Vol
XIII, No. 43.
TAKE A HINT FROM MARY.
Mary had little lamb
You needn't look surprised.
OF course you don't, for Mary has
Been widely advertised
And something you may learn from this,
Ifyou are not clam;
You canbe just as widely known
IA Mary and her lamb
Your name can be a household word,
Aud you be known so well.
That folks will confidently buy
The things you have to sell
And when you once have got yourself
Into the cheering rays
'Of the sunlight Of publicity
You bet your life it pays
Now | submit it as a fact, this is |
what he should have sail plain out
and no eVasiye hints in the matter