Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20
SUPPRESS HIS GALL

ITO MILL
The editor of the Wichita Eagle last
Saturday got his ire stirred up to the
boiling point and went off half-cocked
thusly:
The BARBER COUNTY INDEX, popu-
list, reprOduces an editorial on silver
from the Eagle, leads 1t, places 1t in its
owD editorial columns, and then, in an
by saying that the Eagle would not
have dared talk that way before the
election.
What an estimate the editors of the
INDEX must have Of the duties and re-
spOnsibillty of a public writer The Ed-
gle not only would have dared talk that
way before the election, but has talked
that way for years. There are demands
and claims upon an editor higher than
any party claim and he who will not
stand for the right, as God gives him to
see the right. is totally unfit to be an
editor of public journal.
1t is our observation that the pop
editors of this state have been the most
sOrdid and venal set of men that were
ever i'm the history of this or any other
country. permitted TO have say IN
public affairs. Many of them we're nm
Others with their arms up to their ell
bows in the public crib hOwled them
selves hoarse for reform and honesty
1t was an ordinarJ thing for pop pub
fishers to give per cent as a rebate.
or bribe in money outright. TO secure
county work at the hands of pop Off
Gals. So far as we know the INDEX
has been decent and honest. but its
criticism of the Eagle shows it to be
partizan to downright narrrowness.
In the first sentence of the second
paragraph of the above commentator
the editor of the great inconsistent
daily Should have said republican
instead of public" and be would have
read our mind to some considerable ex-
tent. However it might have been a
Typographical rather than an editorial
error. and we Will be fair and candid
enough to overlook the blunder. As
to the Eagles stand on the silver ques-
ton before the election, with all defer
ence to the editors authority and pom
posity and Notwithstanding our mod
esty and Discrimination TO vie with his
majesty as regards the editorial sayings
of his own production, we must take
issue with him when lie says the Eagle
has talked that way for years" We
| will admit that the Eagle has talked
that way part of the days of part OF
the years and right there is the place
wherein we claim it to be cOwardly and
| inconsistent. 1t was noticeable fact
during the entire campaign last fall the
Eagle was painfully silent on the sill
vely few Instances, and when it spoke
it presented itself In a great big par
| ity" hobo. 1t is true that the Eagle
wasn't quite as rash as its brother, the
Topeka Capital, IN coming out square
ly for the single gold standard but it;
editorials would never have led one tC
believe that it favored silver coinage a
it's present ratio; and we claim that III
who is opposed to silver at its presen
ratio, is it's worst enemy-a gold bug.
More than this. the Eagle has sup
ported men for high and responsible
| places of public trust who declar
ed openly that they were opposed tt
any monetary basis other than GOLD
We refer more particularly to Morrill,
Long and Blue; these men have public
ly declared themselves and even the Ea
gle can effect no change.
The Eagle strikes responsive corr
when it says, There are demands AM
claims upon an editor higher thar
any party claim and he who will no
stand for the right, as God gives hin
TO see the right, is totally unfit to b
an editor of public journal" Ant
we are of the opinion that the edto
of the Eagle can conscientiously includ
himself in the category of those VIII,
are unfit TO be an editor of a publ,
journal" Possibly God and the Eagl
are perfect strangers and lis editor ma,
have been getting his light from tn
evil one unknowingly, or under the de
fusion that it came from the Almighty
but it is the only plausible excuse tina
can, in our opinion, be offered.
The Eagles opinion of pop editor
will not go very far with the average
Kansap, and the charge that they art
IN the habit of giving brides to secure
county work is one which we doubt i
1T Can Substantiate in a single instance
1t admits that the INDEX has neve
been guilty Of such an act and doesn'
cite single populist paper that ha
been. Be that as 1t may, we are con
fident that in point of honesty ant
stralghtforwardneSs the populIst pa
pers of the state will shine among thei
republican brethren like the moor
among the lesser stars.
But all this does not explain the Ea
gle's varying attitude on the silye
question and it Is a matter cf suprem
gall tor it to declare that it spoke a
freely and as favOrably on the silve
question before the election as it doe
now, and the constant reader of tina
sheet Will bear US out in the statement
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By this issue will be seen that tn
Wichita Eagle has taken occasion t
literally tear us into shreadS for on
| criticism on its peculiar position OH tn