Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-06-20
THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1895.
A Tempest in a Teapot.

ger; and purposely, and with the
hatred born Of jealosy," made a ran
dom thrust into the frame OF our
muchly esteemed friend up the street
that its point would penetrate 30
vulnerable place in his armor, and
tear open spot 80 sore. Ii Brain
erd's conscience is 80 tender on Hop
ping" that he winces and turns pale,
what must be the condition OF our
dear neighbor when he founders and
tumbles through a column and more
shrieking forth in his agony the same
old tune that his predecessor played
threadbare. 1t is amusing to see our
dear friend taking up the old fiddle
of single string, and with the music
before him that was left behind by
one who is with us no more, scrape,
and scrape, and scrape away, at the
same time giving utterance to the old
wall that has welled up for years from
the Dispatch Office of 'Flopper, Flip,
Flip, Flopper, We are all Hopping,
Hopping Through the Land" We
supposed that his hatred for Brother
McNay was such that at the time he
took charge of his present station that
a general renovation was given the
Office. But it seems not.
Something must be wrong when
two lines will cause veteran of 80
many hard fought political battles to
thunder forth in such distress, Is it
crime to flop? II so, how can our
dear friend support for office men
who have left the populist party and
gone into the republican ranks? Or
does the crime consist in the way one
flops? Suppose Bralnerd did flop for
public printing, don't our dear friend
suppose that he knew that ninety per
cent. of the notices controlled by the
attorneys of the place would go to a
paper of their own political faith, and
don't that class of business at 100 per
cent. pay better than county printing
at twenty. Come now dear friend,
you forgot that, didn't you. Again,
do you not know that at least eighty
per cent. of our business men are re-
publicans, and that naturally they
place their lads" and job work with
political friends, rather than with the
opposition; you didn't think of that,
did you? Brainerd knew it, if you
did not.
Lastly, Brainerd turned his coat in
March, 1891, with the county all fixed
for that year In 1892 your running
mate was given the county printlngj
and in 1893, Brainerd & Danforth
were given the contract at twenty per
cent. Of legal rates, and the job print
ing at much lower figure than you
are now getting. Everybody knows
the members of that firm, and if they
Topped as you say they did, most
people will doubt your story when the
real facts are known. We did not
seem to have a very clear understand
ing with the commissioners, did we?
A year and ten months elapse before
we get our reward.
If our friend wants people to be-
lieve in his political honesty he should
give to others the right to do as they
see fit, to vote and act with such polit-
zeal party, as it best pleases them.
So poor crops mean populist sue
oes and big crops republican victories
do they, and in time Of trouble the
people turn to the former party for
relief. Well the time may come dear
boy when the people will like that
son of old, come back to their fathers
house.
Brainerd has lived in this county
for over five years, and most Of the
time has had more or less to say
about the political policy of the
paper. Now ask some Of the many
people who have told you of the race
between McNay and Brainerd to tell
OF one unjust or brutal attack upon
sny opposition candidate or party
during that time Has he not been
reasonably far? Has he ever COM
pared the republican party to a dog
that could do nothing but sit upon
his tail and howli You fired that
shot at the populists a week or two
ago.
Now dear friend, Brainerd is going
to tell you something that he never
told before but to one man, and that
is that when he took charge of the