People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-24
An Open Letter.
Mr.. A. A. RICHARDS.

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told me that you had been helping others
get Office for a long time and that you
thought it was time for you to have some
thing and you tried to capture the nomi-
nation for county attorney but c. Everest
Elliott, H. L. Woods, w. w. Schwinn
and other friends combined against you
and nominated Whitinghill. Being out
of job YOU went into the newspaper
business and have been helping the boys
into office ever since.
In 1894 you again tried to secure the
nomination but failing you put up
great fight for your friend, Harry Woods,
landed him in the county attorneys Of
flee and you no doubt are mindful of
kindly treatment Harry and his crowd
have ever since given you.
1t has often panied me to see these
friends of yours whom you have so often
helped, crowd you back from the pie
counter. So long as they can use YOU to
fight their battles, you are pretty good
fellow, but you must know your place.
You must not ask for Office, appoint
ments, or other honors because you are
very bad man. 1t would not do for you
to be county attorney because you would
enforce the laws. It would not do for
you to be postmaster because YOU would
read the postal cards and do hundreds of
other naughty things. These friends Of
yours said you were very, very awful
bad man when you wanted the postofice.
They said all that you were fit for was to
whoop it up lor the boys during the
campaign and secure postofice and state
appointments for these friends of yours,
not yourself.
And then, after all of these many
years of hard work for party and candi-
dates, and not having received any hon
ors whatever from your party, you have
repeatedly asked for the small and insig-
nifcant honor of being chairman of the
county central committee and that too
has been denied you. And worst of all
after making hard fight for the chair
manship this year, four out of the six
candidates whom you are expected to
elect this fall decided that this paltry
honor was too much for you. OF course
Dan Holiday and w. S. Nelson would
not want you for chairman. Two years
ago. the morning after the election,
standing i'll front of the Monitor Press
office, Mr.. Holiday made the statement
that you were to blame for his defeat
and said if you had not mentioned his
name or Heskett's in your paper during
the campaign he would have been elected
sheriff. Nelson time and again attribut-
ed his defeat to the fight you made on
MILFORD Wood. This is a cold, cold
world.
l always thought you were a shrewd
politician but John G. Campbell who APP
pears to have the support of therank and
file of your party says you are a chump
and a regular pudding for the Pops"
Is he right, Andy?
l saw you If the county convention a
few days ago and it grieved me to see
You so pale, careworn and such a defect
ed and defeated expression upon your
face. l saw as chairman of the conven-
ton and as its ruling spirit c. Everest
Elliott, who only a short time ago swore
that your reputation for truth aud veraci-
ty was bad and was informed by several
members of the convention that your
slate had been smashed into smithereens
and l knew what had hit you. felt
very sorry. l saw in this convention
arrayed against you several of your post
masters and state appOintees and several
who will want to be census enumerators.
Again, remark, this is a very cold, cold
world.
But never mind these little things,
Andy, whoop it up for the boys, push
the ball along and you will surely get
your reward in the next world where it is
not so cold.
Affectionately Yours,