The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1904-06-10
EDITOR CHIPS, HUNT, ETC.

mined to crowd itself and nominee
J. T. Hunt before the public, and
to this end SHE'D more splint-
ers at the TRIBUNE last week.
This contemporary OF ours seems
to imagine that nominee Hunt Is
badly In need Of n defender and
from current reports we guess he
is-so II proceeds to dcnominatc
the TRIBUNE as a would-be guard
ian, wet nurse, buttcr-in, and
says Missourians can run their
own business without such carpet
baggers, etc. Such assertions as
these are fit only for boys, buffers,
and the man without an argument.
Who appointed our Chips political
boss, and on what sort Of meat
doth this our master feed to make
him so great. II he has pat
ent on the politics of Mont
gomery county let him show up.
nut Ht nus ntr huu ihSN'au ohiN
has a political record which shows
that he has been a Jumping jack
politician in this county for years
pasta democrat one year, pro-
hibitionist the next, an indepcnd-
ent, then dcmocrat-and what Is
he to-day? Anything, Lord, 80 II
Is for Joe Hunt for shcrilY, and help
&c 4oueh sheriff sale publlca-
tions to recompense Chips for his
efforts In Hunts behalf, and to
. this end he and his bosom friend
!, Hunt, would disrupt the party of
which they claim to be members.
One day our Bro. Chips howls for
prohibition and down with the
saloons; the next day he Is arm
In arm with "st rin" j. T. Hunt, an
old saloon keeper and would-be
sport Of Middlctown, ready to cap
turc anything political there Is
In sight. o hypocrisy, thou art
a jewel. II Chips was honest in
his efforts to get Hunt out of the
mire why did he not last week
answer the few sim pie questions
propoundcd by the TRIBUNE, in
stead Of publishing lot of bill
lingsgate Simply because he
could not. The TRIBUNE told too
many truths regarding the doings
of himself and Hunt, and will very
likely tell some more before next
November. Every man who be-
comes n party nominee for shcrilf
or any other important political
Office Is public property to n
certain extent, and the people have
a legal and n moral right to know
who and what they are. a man
h good or bad character by
what he has done, not by what he
promises to do. Ifpromiscs would
make good reputation the demo-
cratic party of Missouri would
have one in twenty-four hours.
But about the silliest publication
of all that the Chips has presented
lately in defense OF "sherifi" Hunt
was the letter published last week
from the assistant postmaster
generals Office. II all the Middle
town horses didn'. laugh about
Il then il was because they
failed to see it. On May 7th, as is
well known, an order was issued
dismissing Hunt from the rural
mail service. Then the rural mail
department was notified that he
had been nominated for sheriff,
and in the goodness of their re-
publican hearts the department on
the 10th inst, by request issued
another order saying in part as
follows: "Thc order removing
you from the service Is therefore
MODIFIED to show that your separ-
alton from your position as rural
mail carrier was BY RESIGNA-
TON" Now isn't that n letter to
-" proud of. An official lie sent
out by the department. Mr.. Hunt
ought to have that letter printed in
colors and large type beside of his
notice Of dismissal from the ser.