Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-05-01
A Voice From the SECOND District.

A Voice Frsm the Second District.
EDITORS INDEX: My attention wa
called to an article in the Kiowa Re
view OF last week, wherein the pub
Usher takes occasion to censure Com
missioners Wyer and Rowely becaus,
ne. Mr.. Hull, did not get pull at tn,
county printing. He does not Civ,
this as his reason in so many words
but by reading between the lines thu
cause OF his unrest can easily be de
tected) Now, Mr.. Editor, let us lool
into the propriety of giving the county
job work TO an Office outside of the
| county seat. Consider the inconyen.
fence to which it would put the coun.
ty officers and the extra expense 10
the county. Suppose, for instance
that the Review had the contract to
do the job work for the county, and
the county officers were compelled to
nave their work done at that Office.
Every officer would necessarily have To
make his orders to that Office and wait
at least three days until his orders
could be filled, and perhaps longer than
That. am reliably Informed by those
who are IN position to know that it
often happens that an officer frequently
nndS that there is some material that
he must have on the spur of the moment
and the failure to command this ma
terial Immediately often discommodes
him as we'll as the patrons who, in
many cases, live at distant parts of the
county, and perhaps don't get to the
county seat more than once in six
months. This alone would be sufficient
reason to keep the job work in The
town 1t is used; but there is better
reason still. Think of the amount the
codnty would be out III freight and ex-
press in the delivery of this material
III year. dare say 1t would be quite
an Item, and a very unwise step, es-
pecialiy when the home offices are bet
ter facilitated to do the work L have
1t from reliable sources that the little
scent office in the border town of this
district could not, though it had the
contract, supply the county's needs,
for the simple reason that it requires
material to do legal work in a salts
factory and workmanllke manner.
L am neither an editor nor politi-
can, | am common every day farmer,
but L don't like to see my esteemed
friend. John Wyer, attacked in such an
ungeutlemanly way all because M. A.
Hull failed to be in the right town to
do the county printing. and didn't have
the machinery and parapherna,la with
which to do it. It would be just as reas-
enable for him to ask the commission
ers to buy him an Office, move him to
Medicine Lodge and set him up in
business. There is one little sentence
in his whining commentator that l
cannot leave unnotlced it is a follows:
Review worked and voted for John
Wyer because we belived he was a
true man; but if we had 1T to do over
again we would work and vote against
him." Great Caesar! Milton th Great!
Here 1t is in cold type-we voted for
Wyer because we thought he was dis
honest enough to give us Doodle, but
since he is not we're mad, and wish We
would have voted for one that we KNEW
was. If Mr.. Hull would have come
out in plain words he could not have
conveyed the idea more forcibly that he
was for Wyer only because he thought
he had chance of getting stake from
the county and not because he had
principle to defend. But l seriously
doubt that Review worked and voted
for John Wyer." If the editor will
give me access 20 his files L will show
him several tiatterlng Stranathan puffs.
am really sorry for Mr.. Hull; l HAYS
had considerable business with him
and always took him to be gentleman
of worth and honor; l have read the
columns of the Review with interest
and have often applauded his bold and
commendable stand for the farmer,
but when he attempts to throw a cloud
of suspicion over my farmer friend,
honest John Wyer, my heretofore re-
spect and favorable opinion of that
periodical and Its editor leave me like
a vision i'll my midnight slumbers.
Let me say in conclusion that I am
neither an admirer nor a lover of the
Cresset; know 1t has fought hard and
long to bring me and my children into
the strong and unreleDting chains OF
abject slavery, and most enthusiastic-
ally aided the money sharks for, To-,
these many years; but yet, am willing
to lay aside my adherence to that
news dissemination long enough to
view the facts as they exist. Under
republican rule l am informed by one
of the editors of the INDEX, that the
INDEX was allowed the county job
work last year, and cannot see that
the popullst board has gone far wrong
by reciprocating. L would be willing
to deal fairly with everybody and very
slow to call everyone traitor and
"blathersklte" that is of a similar
mind. l hope Mr.. Hull will recover
from his severe bellyache affection by
the time my communication appears
in print, if he does not, l sincerely hope
for the sake of candor. right and de-
cency, he will retract from what he has
said in so far as it reflects on our eff
cient commissioner from this district
BY publishing the above you Will great
iy oblige
A VOTER OF THE 2ND DISTRICT.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT
:. or the Financial Condition of the :.
Citizens State Bank