Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-02-18
CITY AFFAIRS.

EDITOR NEWS: dot agree with
South Slider In that scurrilous let.
ter in last weeks NEWS as to the
needs of Baxter Springs. We need
an attorney for mayor. Skidmore
is gone, but we have Hogan, Mac.
donald, Hornor, Smith and Norton,
So long as our city is in constant
litigation we should have an attor-
ney ut the helm. II we must pay
big attorney fees, why not employ
home talent? opposed the pay.
ment of Bill Perry's big fee, not be-
cause of the size of the fee, but be-
cause II did not go to home talent.
I favor putting a Baxter pettifog-
ger in every Office until the offices
or the pettifoggers run out.
Should we follow the above rule
quite a number of attorneys who
have left for parts unknown might
be induced to return. With Down
ing, Markland, Webb, Cheesman
and others back in Baxter, and all
holding some lucrative Office we
would think the millennium close
at hand. Selah!
The effervescence of South Slider
Is better adapted to a mushroom
boom town than to staid and steady
old Baxter. We don't need lot of
young, active, energetic, progress
sive men in our city council, who
would be likely TO turn things up.
side down and put up the prices of
property and rents. If we can drill
along in the good old way and pay
our attorney fees and court costs
we know where we are at all the
time. II we cannot have a lawyer
/ favor some sedate, pious, steady
old citizen for mayor like Willard,
or Harvey, or Austin, or Eastman,
or Welch, or Mullen, but prefer an
attorney IL we can induce one to
run. / do not agree with South
Slider as to the school or school
board. II is doubtless true there is
very little English spoken in the
school, and grammatical language
is brushed aside for the idioms and
eccentricities of Arkansas and In
diana, but we have the satisfaction
of knowing our bad boys get sound
lickings whether they need them or
not, aud that the school board is
gradually paying off the public
debt. What do we care whether
our children are taught English or
Aztec If our school orders are paid
promptly in coinr What matters
il whether child "seen a man" or
haven't saw him." providing tina,
child 10 substantially punished at
the proper time? II we need any
thing at all in the school board II is
more whiskers aud fewer apologies.
South Slider ISLANDERS our worthy
street commissioner. Many time
have seen that poor old man down
on his knees picking out grass
roots and broken whiskey bottles
from cracks in the sidewalk with a
pen knife. II ever a man did his
full duty for glory and salary that
man il our self.rsteemed street
only wonder he is
not now in Luzon assisting the
Ygorates in their magnificent bare
backed fight against imperialism.
Again, we need n city attorney
who is not 80 exclusive as our last
one. We want man who will fear.
lessiy beard the tiger in his den, or
Ia other words man who is moi
to go round occasionally
where liquors are sold. where craps
are "thrun." and where other eccen-
are of almost daily occur
renee. What profit city attorney
10 hide himself under q bushel
when things are going on which
ought to be left undone? Selah!
Upon the whole, South Slider is
lead wrong on every proposition.
and / trust his views will not Oh.
tain. But prefer a lawyer for
mayor and all the salaried Offices.
Selah! WEST SIDER.