Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1898-04-09

tenths of the office seeking fraternity
is enough to turn the stomach of
man possessed not only of a liver in
normal condition. but with every
other organ in the highest state of
physical perfection = Ness County
News.
There is one thing we would admit,
which is, that there is too much bosh
not bossism, but absolute boSh. GO
ing the rounds of the state, destroy
ing and warping the vision of good
people. But when the matter is
thoroughly examined, does it not APP
pear to be towering absurdity that
a lot of .spfigs, noodles, warts, and
suck-eggs' can caucus in back room
in Topeka hotel and put up job
that will dupe the Intelligent people
of this state, in this day and age of
the world, when there is free school
on every hill side and free press at
every croSSroad?
Having examined somewhat the
workings of the so-called boss in poll
tics, we have reached the conclusion
that he is a man that keeps his ear
very close to the people and then with
much display he advocates what they
want, while appearing to lead he is
merely an echo. There is many a
humbug in politics, but we have not
found that there are more than in
other walks of life. If man have
integrity and ability he will hew his
way to the front, and he wont want
for ''prigs and noodles to shout for
him either. A political party is much
like an army. There are in it, de-
serving men, struggling for recogni
ton, an occasional noodle" in flow
cry plumage who makes a big display
everywhere except in front of the en-
envy, but the vast majority in that
army have the station they deserve:
some are content to carry musket,
some are after sword and sash, and
some want three stars and a marshal's
baton. Some fight well. and some do
not wax valorous until the camp of
the enemy is taken and it is time to
divide the SpoilS, but will any anyone
say that merit does not win in that
army because some struggle unSuc-
ceSSfully for recognition, or that the
noodle, the prigg, and the suck-egg''
are the leaders of that army, because,
forsooth. they meet in the suffers
camp and grow leonine over the con-
tents of the commisariat, and, like
the husband of the old woman who
killed the bear, say Me and my
Betty, we did it,"
One of the admitted disadvantages
of living in country, absolutely free,
is that every loud-mouthed galoot in
it has the unqualified right to make
as big dufce of himself as he
chooses, either in politics or religion,
and no sensible man is misled by the
braying of a quadruped of Balaam's
stock simply because he is adorned
with the epidermis of the king of
beasts
The News asks us to suggest
method of Kidding the world of this
kind of cattle. We fear we can offer
nothing new. 1t has often been Sug-
gested that the office of fool-killer be
established, but personally we are OPP
posed to it as we fear it would go hard
on some of our personal and political
friends, if this plan were adopted.
The WORLD does not discuss these
matters for the cheap purpose of hold
ing controversy with its respected
contemporary, but it realizes that
some one must furnish the backbone
to laugh these ''boSSiSm'' stories to
scorn, and if the lot falls to us we
shall accept it with becoming modesty
and discharge it with untiring zeal.