Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-26
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pearance in the Medicine Lodge
Cresset last week and it is entirely
too tame for the ante prominence
given it. 1t is signed by ]. N.
Tincher and is devoted entirely to
personalities and ugly charges
against the publishers of this paper.
We do not often use our columns
to answer personal matters but we
will depart from the rule just for
once.
Mr.. Tincher's grievance is in the
article published in the Index two
weeks ago giving the city officers
credit for being clean men and
publishing their side of the Proth-
eroe controversy. We took occa-
sion to say that man who would
either write or cause to be written
such an abusive mess of falsehoods
concerning them, as appeared in an
unsigned article in the Cresset of
July 0th, was pretty bad, and Mr..
Tincher took it all home to him
self. We did not say that he wrote
it, but if he insists on putting on
the garment and wearing it, he has
that privilege.
Concerning the personal matters
to which he devotes so much space,
we are persuaded to say that he
has wonderful memory for recall
ing things that did not happen and
for getting things wrong that did
happen. He recalls suit for $3.50
which we brought against the
county, and says we promised to be
nice to him if he would confess
Judgment. Such suit was never
brought; we refer to it merely to
show that, being wrong in this, it
is possible that hs is wrong in 9TH
er statements. We do remember,
however, of bringing a suit for
about $500, money due us as coun-
ty printer, and we also rem ember
that Mr.. Tincher volunteered to
come to us and say that the claim
was entirely just and should b e
paid, but that he would have to
fight it to keep on the right side of
certain politicians to whom he ow-
ed his office and to whom he was
looking for future political honors.
Accordingly he filed suit against
us for $500 which he claimed he
could collect from us. He explain
ed to us privately that there was
nothing in it but he took this
means of forcing us to get newspa-
per men from all parts of the state
to prove our bills correct, so that
the cost would be greater than the
amount due us. We note that he
still insists that we beat the county
out of a lot of money, yet he delib-
erately dismissed hissuit. 1t seems
to us that he did wrong if he was
satisfied that we owed the county
anything and other clients should
take warning. We hardly believe,
however, that he thinks that we
owed $500 to the county. In
common with many Others, we be-
lieve that he discovered, after
bringing the suit, that he had care
lessly gotten hold of hot brick
and had to get somebody to assist
him to pry his fingers loose. A
man who has faith in his position
won t throw away $500 to save
$500.
The meanest thing that Mr..
Tincher says about us is that we
complimented him in his campaign
and as county attorney. Possibly
we have been guilty of publishing
undeserved compliments in some
instances, but in Tincher's case
never! When we publish compli-
ments, we want to have at least
some semblance of provocation.
He also charges that we tried to
work ourselves into his confidence
and get official favors out of him.
We would be as apt to do that as