The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1919-08-07

sting, or gnash with alligator-like
nippers, but whose aid The Herald
has been unable to elicit In the ap-
preaching battle of courthouse bon
combe; but they are not the sort to
stand for insinuations,, bluffs, dares,
insults, etc, and we feel The Twice
a-Week has already, by its squak
aided us considerably in securing this
aid, should we need it. (By way of
parenthesis. The Twice-a-Week has
already spilled lot of beans we can
see the colder heads" yapping for
him, but it should be remembered
he's new man on new job, and
he'll know more ancient history
than he thought was ever written be-
fore he gets through with the under
taking, and before the sparrows
build their nest in the dome of that
$150,0O0 Charlottesville courthouse).
What's it to The Twicea-Week, any
how, about our employees? Is't this
rfee American right? The Twice
a-Week only shows itself to be pet
ty, piffing sheet to try to intimi-
date our employees, or prospective
employees, by it's screeching twaddle.
If that is it's aim, it will fail, for we
are sure none of our citizens can be
skunked in this manner
The Twice Week squirms, twists,
crosses and re-crosses its tracks,
pokes out it's forked tongue. hisses,
hoists it's button begarnished tail
and rattles. but after all, the facts
remain the same. Its editor did ask
those Republican politicians, Spencer
and Hays, for big greasy slice Of
political patronage The question is
why did not the elleged Demochatic
editor call upon Democrat, and let
the Republicans help if they chose?
That was the only logical course for
a Democrat. Had such request
came from "a Caruthersville Repub-
lican, the scheme would have been
regular, and occasioned no comment; /;
but no one ever heard of Republi-
can with two good eyes making such
a blunder. Not only satisfied with
his action, the editor of The Twice
a-Week has continued to gaff Reed
in tn back, but adds insult by blaming
him for not going to these Republican
politicians for advice and informa'
tion. Reed has done all he could
do, and and more than could be ex-
pected of him in the face of such a
malicious snub. In the interest OF
the people of Charlottesville he has in
troduced bill in accordance with
stipulations, and if he can get the
support of the two mushroom Re-
publicans, he will succeed in getting
the appropriation for Caruthers-
vile. However, as we have before
said, why argue? The Twice-a-W Week
says it doesn't give a"tinker's'
dam for the Democratic party, or any
body else's party, just so Caruthers-
vile succeeds in touching the Govern
ment's purse to the tune of $4,000
for ornamental purposes. That's the
answer and the only answer, no mat
ter how crooked trail it may weave
in it's zig gag in it's back track. And
that is the same spirit that inspires
the grab for the new courthouse al
this time, when the people are strain
ing every nerve to pay high taxes
taxes on judgments for stealages
taxes for roads, taxes for bitches
taxes for levees, taxes for this, tina
and the other, while the high cost o
living stares them in the face like /;
gaunt spectre of coming famine
whose dark shadow falls across th
path of the future. Insult! Wha
else?
THE CnIrNTRy,S DIJ EMMA