Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-01-28
THURSDAY, JANUARY %.

soldiers. whose only ambition wac
to free the niggers, and incidental.
ly get running horse. think Bob
had company of nine months
men in the Kansas MALTA who
charged rail fence one dark night
and lost a number of horses, and
two niggers.
But as l was going to say, are the
negroes any better off since they
have become free men and broth.
ers? Look at their happy condi-
ton in the good old slavery days,
with no care, no anxiety, no power
ty, no Jail sentence, and look at
their respondent condition today.
1t won't do. And how much better
off is Kansas? Don't you think she
would do better with less schools
and more breweries? Don't you
think she would do better with
more coon dogs and fewer lawyers
who wear their hair parted in the
middle? How would it do to drop
some of the Chautauquas and tutti
frutti literary societies and have
more good old fashioned camp
meetings. where the Old exhorters
preached for the souls OF men till the
women cried, and a pound of but
ter or coon skin pelt was good for
bottle of rye. Don't you think il
would be as we'll to have less grand
jurys and less taxes; less pauper
high schools and more manhood;
more distileries and less bootleg
gers; and more common sense:
According TO statistics there are
six hundred kinds of religion in
the world and Kansas has five hun
dred of them. Missouri has but sew
en- varieties all of the good old fash
Toned sound doctrines from the
Hard Shell Baptists TO the NJ. +.
Church South. When a man dies in
Missouri he knows where he is at
or where he is going to. In Kan
sas, If man is not cremated here
the Lord only knows what becomes
of him.
And again, do you realize that
these old Abolitiouists, Jayhawkers
and founders of the Republican |
party have been so troubled in their
conscience that they have nearly
all deserted their old party and re-
their former principles:
Gov. Crawford, Gov. St. John and
Gov. Robinson have all followed
strange Gods and most of the rank
and file are today standing on their
hind legs shouting for prohibition,
ism, populism, socialism or any
other ism except Republican. Look
at Carl Schurz, Horace Greeley, Ly-
man Trumbull, Charles Sumner,
Wendell Phillips, every one recant-
ID, voted the old Jackson Democrat
ticket and would have gladly return
ID our slaves were ii in their power.
don't think any of you would give
Up the mules, race horses and coon
logs, but am sure you would be
ylad to let US have our Negroes
back.
And look at Kansas politics to-
lay. Your ringsters are worse than
he Missouri boodlers. With .Cy
leland and Mort Albaugh on one
ide and Dick Blue and Farmer {
ninth on the other, there is not
much choice. In your own county
f Cherokee, the calling of grand
ury costs the tax payers over $780,
90! And for what? Why, to pay
ff political debts and throw out
ne set of shysters to put another e
4. It won't do. Kansas can learn c
from poor old Missouri
4 the way of good government {
God politics. good religion and 1
ommon sense. T.
The noble lives of our two great ?
Longstreet and Cor
on, who nave recently passed :
way, should be lesson to all, and
Iay we, Confederate and Jayhawk-