Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07
MOORE WRITES
Us A LETTER
COUNTY CAMPAIGN MAN
AGER FOR RED CROSS
DRIVE ANSWERS
THINKS OTHER PAPERS COPY
Says Our Complaint Is Unjust
and Pays Good Old Baxter
Springs" Belated Com
pliment

ten to w. J. Moore at the same time
by US has been answered by Mr.
Moore. The article and the letter
censored Mr.. Moore for giving his
statement out only through county
scat newspapers and forgetting to
give Baxter Springs other thin bare
mention in the Red Cross statement,
he being county campaign manager
and his statement being official re-
port for the Columbus chapter.
Along with q letter in which he
complains Of our complaint, Mr.. Moore
sent his original statement given to
the Columbus papers, which is the
same that was published in the Daily
Citizen on Friday. He, however, adds
a postscript as follows: "You will no.
tice that Ross leads the list in the
townships, while Gold Old Baxter
Springs tops the list over all"
Mr.. Moore says in part in his letter:
"Mr. A. Z. Pfremmer, Citizen,
Baxter Springs, Kan.
my Dear Sir:-Your spicy letter
of yesterday wherein you seem to
think l have not complimented your
city as should have done for it's work
for the Red Cross was duly received
by me today.
81 am sorry you feel so, for if you
feel as you write, no such spirit
should characterize anyone or any
thing in our great work for the sake
of humanity" (This paragraph is al
most word for word our own opinion
as stated to Mr.. Moore of his act in
sighting Baxter Springs and paying
compliment to other towns and or
CARNATIONS of the county, II had in
tended to eulogize Baxter Springs in
my report through the papers and
had it written, as you may see for
yourself as / am herein sending you
the original I wrote, but it was the
thought by some we ought not write
more favorably of one place than an
other as it would make no difference
to any loyal man who thought Of his
work first and his section of the coun-
ty last and so / feel that you have
abused me without just cause as !
have not in any way spoken more
highly of one part of the county than
another"
(lf this were true we never would
have made any. complaint, but
it is not. Mr.. Moore pays compli-
ment to the C. C. H. S. in flowry Ian
guage for having raised by a play
the sum of 500. He almost loses Bax-
ter Springs in the Columbus chapter.)
"All who read see that Baxter
Springs is far over all other parts OF
the county, and l can assure you that
not even yourself appreciates the
great constant and fine work in your
city"
(This statement is evidently malice
because the Daily Citizen not only
gave as largely in money as any 9th
or business in town in proportion to
ability to give but also gave columns
of space to the drive and did not So
licit the town for Red Cross adver-
Using. We also have much better
idea of the work and sacrifice neces-
sary to raise subscriptions Of almost
$l3, 100000 in Baxter than does the
county campaign manager.)
81 have always thought well Of
Baxter Springs and ! am glad that
she is part of our chapter, not only
because of her good citizenship, but
for her loyalty to Freedoms cause
and her desire to do all she can for
suffering humanity. Baxter Springs
has my best wishes, and l believe the
good will of all our executive COM
mittee, for when / read what had been
done at Baxter there was a cheer Of
delight from all present. But we
never once thought you wanted us to
give her special praise, or had even
thought Of yourselves"
(Another camouflaged statement.
We did not and do not want special
praise, but where there is praising
done we want our bit.)
81 supposed in making the state
ment through the two papers here,
the Modern Light and the Daily Ad-
vocate, that other papers in the coun-
ty would copy the result of the cam
paign as a matter Of news, Of course"
(Mr. Moore practiced law in this
county for a great many years and
was one time county attorney. He
knows perfectly well that newspapers
have no particular desire to publish
two days old news unless there is no
help for it, as in this case. We do
not blame the Columbus papers for
being first If they could, but Mr.MoOre
knows there should have been no par
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