People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-01-28
THURSDAY, JANUARY %, 1897.
Still Suffering.

Inc very excellent gentleman WnC
edits the crisp little sheet at the heac
Of Pig alley-the sheet which seems
to get reading constituency only
by its being given away-appears tc
be still suffering the pangs of Nov
ember defeat. NOTWITHSTANDING
nearly three months have elapsed
since the close of campaign
throughout which he was as help
less as a babe, and which could have
no other ending but ignominious de
feat, following party and persona
qualification, the malice which was
then engendered toward the editor
Of the little daily VOICE and its &C
accompaniment, tie weekly VOICE
is still ranking his in breast. The
conflict seems to have been fully a.
serious to his acideous mind as 1t.
biblical counterpart between Davic
and Goliath.
We regret that our neighbor feel.
so sore. We like to get along
pleasantly with everybody. We
never felt more charitable and kind
ly disposed toward all mankind thar
at present. We are sorry that he SO
vigorously coveted our defeat for
stateprinter. The Voice is quite
sure it would never lay a straw in the
way of the editor of the Mail becom.
ing postmaster. That is matter the
republicans can take care of them
selves. 1t is not our fight. We sin.
cerely regret that our contemporary
still suffers from campaign sores in.
ficted.
In the course Of a column of crit.
iclsm in his current issue, touching
upon points made by the VOICE in
last weeks issue, he says:
Naugle has been accustomed e
sucking pap SO long that he has nat.
urally come to consider that his ex.
penSlve mode of life must be paid for
by MS party. No newspaper man ever
lived in Sumner county who has re.
ceived to much for nothing as he. II
took a liberal bonus to get him nc
start his paper. He got half of the
proceeds of the probate judges Office
Tor two years under Chapman. He
was probate judge two years. He
made good thing out of the cyclone
Dy getting more cash donations than
his whole outfit was worth before The
cyclone. And even last fall the bust,
ness men of this city were successfully
worked for much EOre than enough tc
make his campaign daily a very prof
ltaole enterprise. He has neve,
struck lick for his party without ex
pectlng and receiving very ample cast
remuneration therefor.
The TACT that in all of the above
there is but one truth-that che wa,
probate judge two years"-show.
that our contemporary had to di,
pretty deep in the mire to find some
thing to censure US within orde
to give vent to his smouldering, effer
vescent, ill-timed malice.
Let US analyze his statements
Make the first one-that at took
liberal bonus to get him 20 start hi
paper" Exactly the reverse is true
10 the committee with whom the ed
itor Of the Voice conferred relativ
to its establishment in ls9O-com
posed as we remember it of A. c
Lambe, J. W. Chapman, Carey Til
bury, Geo. H. Fish, P. v. C. Poo,
Geo. A. Camp, W. B. Caldwell. A
u Forney, G. E. Meeker, J. NJ. Dou
bleday and others. We directly stat
ed that we would prefer no bonus
that we had a printing outfit and wer
willing to ship it to Wellington an
30 to work, taking all risks Of sufici
ent patronage upon our own shoul
ders, provided the Alliance peopl
would give US their good will an
such assistance as they could i
gathering list of subscribers at $40
per year. We did not receive dol
lar of specific guarantee. Othe
parties were figuring with the com