Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25

VI 'IODIl II w y IlNsD.
published, but Joe Waters, the Topeka
lawyer, made the best score of any of
them.
In Introducing Mr.. Towne at the
Free Silver Republican meeting at
Topeka July 2nd Mr.. Waters said:
That Il very recent publication Of
a distingtIis shed gentleman about Kan
sas required notice at the very first
opportunity and | porpose to say it
now, as much for the amusement of
the speaker as for the edification OF
the audience. We have in this state "a
gentleman, statesman and lawyer, the
only poet. the only man who wieldS an
iron quill, the philosopher of Paint
Creek: and who in the 30 years he
has lived i'm Kansas, has gathered fame
honor and riches. In that time Kan
sas soil in all probability had in lbs
household, been blessed with birth
and made sacred by death. With his
gray hairs. he has attempted to line
his own nest. The very land that
has sheltered him and his brood he
seeks to malign. He has published a
pamphlet 10 pages in extent in which
he has sought to prove than this state
has lost 100000 of people and SIS
100000 of valuation by the success of
the Pops in the last ten years and by
the downfall of Ingalls,. He AYERS in
it that a Republican majority of 49,
600 ould be better than raising these
stupendous crops of corn and wheat
and says # the Pops are again sue,
cessfuI this year, he is going back tc
Innna.t ipIt WHARF he lNn,-n l.
made this rash promise once
before when Lewelling ran;
and sold out his home anC
started for Omaha and friends OF
his arrival mere, importuned him tc
forego his i'll considered threat. If ne
had lived in Connecticut 3:
years as he has here. he
would be now nothing. but ;
plug Of a harness maker and had he
attempted to sling verses at them as
he has AT us, they would have killed
him as they did his ancestors -four
hundred years ago for being witch
eS"
Mr.. Waters then dropped into verss
as follows:
gentleman will not name.
Is going back from whence he came
lie says IL Pops again shall win.
That hell would presently begin;
And II they win this year, he sWears,
He'll load his traps and household Wares
And then without an II or but
Hes oil for old Connecticu
Forgetful OF his own had verse,
Claims Ingalls, Knockout was our curse.
That deaths exceed the births each year
And everything Is ont of gear.
In nineteen pages air, his woes.
Ungrammared ryhme gives way to prose
And then ne leaves the beaten rut,
With threats of old Connecticut
This pamphlet seems 10 my weak eyes,
dandy way to advertise;
II will he mailed to men who hold.
DchcntureS payable in gold,
Which on some town have been imposed
And ought just now 10 he roreclosed
Here's milk within the cocoanut
And why he shouts, Connecticut
No bowler ever howled rs he,
Such graveyard yawps OF misery.
If just for once to think he'd stop,
His very IngaIls.was Pop
Who gave calamity a cue,
And turned the'sky saffron hue.
OF poets, .Gene, we have q glut
ON. take'him back Connecticut.
He's going to the nutmeg state,
OF old blue laws and witches fate;
A land of garlic rum and rocks
And old Seth Thomas wooden clocks,
or safety pins and wooden hams
And shoe pegs. oats and rubber CLANS,
And where they speak with mouth all shut
With nasal twang, Connecticut.
We will admit the Pops raise hell.
The half of which no man dare tell
That Democrats would rob and wrong
The washerwoman of her song.
But just one thing they have not done
TO pull their freight and cut and run
And leave this state with pomp and strut,
To live in old Connecticut.
oh that my foe would write book.
Is in the Scripture If YOU look.
The book is writ; hell, hot and grim,
Is cool beside this state for him.
Just once before, this man of law,
Struck out to go TO Omaha;
And If he goes, Why hut,y tut,
The joke is on Connecticut.
\ state tennis tournament will be
held in Abilene in August.
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The l'aptists at Leoti are advertising
their church property for sale.
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Kansas City capitalists will operate
the linseed oil plant at Fredonia.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon preached to
10000 people in London this week.