Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-12
a Personal Attack.

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character, reputation and integrity
in vain effort to apologize to the
public for the carelessness and bad
management of the postoffice at this
place. Fuhr attempts to cover up
his blunders by trying to excite sym
pathy. Poor thing, how awfully,
shamfully, he has been abusedl
We resent most emphatically the
charge that we are maliciously try
ing to destroy his business and in
fluence by fabrications. The truth
is all that needs to be told about
him and his checkered political ca
reer in Meade County. AS far as
he is personally concerned he is too
small to do any good and not large
enough to do any harm-in fact a
nonentity. AS far as trying to de-
stroy his influence and character is
concerned we are reminded of the
story of the Irishman and the pole
cat.
AS public official we have a
right to criticise his official acts and
point out instances of carelessness
and neglect, whereby the public
may be benefited. We presented
cold facts which can be easily prov
en-. He has a right to make an ex-
planation to our charges, but his
vicious personal attacks prove moth
ing. We recall another instance of
recent irregularities. A week ago
Monday Lem Kyger mailed letter
to his father at Lakeland; the letter
got to Lakeland the following Thurs
day. Where was it all this time?
Will this egotist, who thinks he is the
best postmaster in the U. S., please
tell us? Also what was the reason
that registered letter from Dyke
Ballinger, of Beaver, to the Meade
State Bank, sent some time early last
spring, laid in the postoffice IS days
before it was delivered? Why he
wrote an insulting letter stating that
it had been delivered on certain
day when in fact the register never
left Beaver until the day after his
letter was written. This matter was
reported to the department. These
are only few instances which go
to show his CD competency. We
know personally that for several
weeks after he was appointed he
could not determine whether his
daily postal account was ''short" or
''ahead" and also for over three
years the writer and Will Osgood
made his money-order statements.
We said there are plenty of COM
petent Republicans who could COM
petently fill the Office. We chal-
lenge you, sir, to point out a single
instance where we ever cast any in
sinuation against any member of the
Republican party in this county on
account af his political or religious
belief. You know that that state
ment was an Infamous falsehood
when you made it, and strictly in
keeping with your hypocrisy, hoping G
that it might prejudice members OF
that party against US, who are now
our friends. He says our definition
of a good Republican is one who
would vote for Democrats. What
an excellent Republican Fuhr used
to be, according to his own lexiconl
How Loyalty CD he supported Price
for judge few years ago; how he
bolted A. J. Byrns and Len Follick
in 1899; later boiling B. F. Stivers
and Ben White, the year he ran fol
Commissioner. Everybody will re-
member the memorable commission
er's fight between Chas. Plymel
and J. H. Ellis and Plymell gave
Fuhr the printing; later the Hayden.
Stamper contest in which Fuhr 10y.
ally supported Hayden and confined
to for several years until he got the
postofice in 1896. Then he qui
Hayden and all his friends who hac
Loyalty stayed with him. Fuhr i:
now fighting Harry Hayden, th'
man who did more than any one els'
to keep the wolf from his door, at ;
time when he was unable to bu,
enough coal to keep his Office warn
and the writer voluntarily would g
and set type for him with the cas-
within two feet from the stove will
old newspapers for fuel. This wa
the situation the day A. J. Byrns, a
sheriff, had an execution to tax
possession of the Globe Office. Nov
like the serpent which was foun,
half frozen and was taken in by
kind friend and nursed back to life
and when by good care and treat
ment it had resumed its norma
strength, it viciously attacks its kin
friend with its venemous fangs an
seeks to destroy him.
: T., -rorI Girr