The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-01-05
FRIDAY, JANUARY 5. 1900
REFORM

Oh, good Lord Now we know
Editor Hudson has gone entirely
daft. In venting his personal spite
against Cy Leland he has lost his
head completely.
Below we give quotation he
makes from the Parsons Eclipse,
and his comment thereon:
''If the Topeka Daily Capital sue
ceeds in enlisting many Republicans
in the cause against trusts and bosses
it will prepare them for good Demo
Pops. They will find no congenial
associates in the Republican party"
"The logic of the above is that good
Republicans are for the bosses and
the trusts. Are we correct, Mr..
Eclipse? Do you mean to 20 before
your readers as Republican assert
ing that opposition to bosses and
trusts is Democratic-Populist doc
trine? We believe the Republican
readers of the Eclipse and every other
organ of the gang will repudiate the
idea that the Republican party be-
lieves IN and will support in this or
any other state the rule of bosses and
the tyranny of criminal trusts. Such
doctrine would give the party the
greatest defeat since it was born, and
it would be deserved. How can the
Eclipse square itself with the utter
ances Of President Mckinley on trusts
and the sentiments OF Comptroller
Dawes so recently quoted in these
columns? President Mckinley and
Mr.. Dawes are good enough Republic
cans for the Capital, and their Oppo-
sition to the menacing power Of trusts
only proves that their Republicanism
places them where their party must |
stand if success is to be expected in |
1900"
The idea of CELSIUS Lambs paper
going before its Republican readers
and he trying to square himself
with Mckinley and Dawes
Why, Uucle 10, this CELSIUS Lamb
whom you would coerce into being
good orthodox Republican, is one
of the most foul-mouthed, scurrilous,
filthy Pop editors in the state. The
idea of such man trying to square
himself with the great leaders of
the Republican party. That man
would be spurned by the imps of
his Satanic Majesty as too contemp-
tibly mean and filthy for the society
of hadeS; and here you are trying to
work such nauseating stuff over into
a good Republican. Bro. Hudson.
we are surprised beyond measure;
Republicans are made of cleaner
stuff.
There is something very peculiar
about the makeup of a great re
former, however, Uncle 10, that
may account for your efforts to-
ward reforming this hyena of the
Eclipse. We once heard of very
piouS old maid who married a
drunken sot to reform him. The
results were, he choked her to death
in a week. We are afraid your eff
forts with this degenerate of the
Eclipse will miscarry in a similar
manner. OF course he is landing
your course nowadays and covering
you all over with his Shiny palaver,
but, Uncle 10, don't be pulled up
by such hattery; it is simply the
slime of the boa before it swallows
its victim.
There are whole lot of Pop pa
pers down in this district, Uncle
10, that don't have quite such an
insavory reputation in their own
ocality as the Eclipse, that are
quoting you now at length, and
our paper is getting to be standard
ext for them. 1t is very kind of
-ou to help them out a little; they
re, generally speaking, a pretty
ply, nice set of fellows, but Of late
ave been quite hard pressed for
matter" and have been wearing a