The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-05-05
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4 He ulHSE UdS Al tue Ndti0NNi n.y.
tel In Topeka, ] 4. Junkin, editor
OF the Sterling Bulletin and regent
uf the Kansas state normal school
was slowly pacing the diagonal
length of the lobby of the hotel 'as
one who treads alone banquet halt
deserted. Whereupon this deponent
overhauled Mt Junkin and asked,
Well-it's funny business isn't 1t?
Which remark set off Mr. Junkin as
follows and to.wit.
at is indeed funny business,
there's no other In the world like
it, Lawyers, doctors. merchants, me
chanies, and unskilled laborefs all
have their holes. but there is no place
for the editor to lay his head, When
te is in trouble, he has no hole At
ter the smoke of battle has cleared
away, after the spring election is
over the doctor goes back to his
pills and no one seems to bother
him again; the lawyer slips INTO
court, and what be said Is forgotten,
the other classes and conditions of
men fade into the background and be-
come part Of the landscape But the
editor sticks up like sore toe in a
Eigh wind What he said, and what
they thought he said, and what he
should have said and never said, ana
what he might have said. but didn't,
assume an historic importance, and
men lay awake nights hating his IN
ternal arrangements
If he stands by the ticket he is
accused OF bossing the town, ii he
takes to the brush he is called COW
ard who is playing both sides; Ii he
clearly indicates that he doesn't care
a tinker's obstruction whether school
keeps or not both sides claim he Is
secretly helping the other side
Its funny business, quoth the
runny business Just now they are
lolding an Indignation meeting In
Sterling and passing the hat to start
"A new paper And l. who for twenty
long years in Sterling have been for
every good movement, who have set
up miles OF advice, asking the peo
pie 10 vote bonds and boost the town,
who have stood for good roads. gooo
schools anu railways aud public Inn
provements Of every kind, am called
81 old knocker And all why? Heav
en- knows, ! don't Because | get
cfossways and on the nerves Of a lot
Of good fellows who We're doing some
thing or other that didn't cafeI
about much one way or another Butt
still ] am a knocker, and what Isl
more, I'm double dealer and AM
and every other iightngl
word In the dictionary And why1I
IN tell YOU why-because run al
newspaper
II was the gentlemaniy chamber
maid In a livery stable, ii / was thel
IIbane proprietor OF the Palace bar-E
Ger shop, II took in ana done law
nd abstract and insurance, II III
bounded pills and sold cotton batting, !
m a laundry or beat carpets. could
.ve Il simple and peaceful life. with
,nly debts and transgressions 20 load
ne full OF woe. But running news
laper | am soaked with public sor
'ow.
"lts funny business, sighed the
Rice county seer, as he looked einto
purple past and peered into 4 hazy
uture In times Of great publicI
tress over the election Of q memher
Il the school board or the choosing
y a sovereign people of candidate
er the council. the editor whose
cal business Is to furnish q reliahe
medium for the purVeyor of drugs. |
,aints and spiral corsets, OF prmesi
md farm implements, TO ADVERTISED
It's wares, the editor becomes storluE
enter. Nay more. he is a doormat +
kicking post, red rag aud casns
ELI all wrapped In one neat package
md sold at q dollar a year He hasH
l0t right, title or interest to his own