Year: 1875

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If the reader finds much that is personal in
this issue Of the Chief he will please refnber that
IL all goes in n lifetime. From the very COM
meneemrut uf the Fall political campaign, per-
sonal warfare has been kept up on ms indlyidu-
ally. as If we were the particular person to be
mt down; and now, after the election is over, it
is still kept up. Our uDpardonabie crime has
been. that we supported the Republican County
ticket, to the best of our ability. In doing so.
we treated the opposition candidates courteously
and gentlemauIy. We used haIsh language
against but one candidate, and that was because
he, in public speech, denounced the entire Re
publican ticket as a set of thieves and plnnder.
ers. Not another candidate on the Peoples tick
ct has any cause for complaint. Then, why is il
that all the dirty missiles and stink pots that
have been hurled at us for years past, are gath
cred up and again flung at usi Are We in some.
body's wayi


For many years past, it has been favorite di.
version with some folks, about once q year, to
play the Chief ont; but it doesn't play worth a
cent. II has lived tn to preach the funeral Sc r.
mon of scores of fellows who undertook that la.
Dor of love, and it will live to perform the same





out again-as usual.


The thing that troubles them now, is limited at
in the last Wathena Reporter, and is more direct
ly announced by its right bower, the Waterville
Telegraph, edited by man who went into an
honorable Office with bright prospects, but went
out trembling and whining to secure an investi-
eating committee that would cover up the evil
dences of bis corruption in Office, to save him
from disgrace, and who, on leaving Topeka, left
numerous gambling debts unsatisfied from the
proceeds of his squandered property. These two
papers have been echOing each other, and unit
ing in the chorus, in abusing the editor Of the
Chief. They assume that something would have
been attempted, if things had gone thus and so,
in order to find pretext to try on little SC heme
of their own. 1t is all about County printing.
The Chief has not mentioned County printing in
two years; but we have promptly done all the
work in that line that has been awarded to us,
at the prices fixed by law, and have faithfully
carried out, to the very letter, all agreements
with other publishers of the County. Then,
what is the occasion of the slurs of the Reporter
about County printing, and the direct assertion
of the Telegraph, that Capt. Larzelere will put a
quietus upon usi They are showing their hand
a little too soon. 1t is questionable whether
Capt. Larzelere has ever intimated any such
purpose; but if he has, it is all the same to us.
Perhaps Capt. Larzelere will discover that he is
not the County Board, and will not dictate all
its action. He will find that he is just one out
of three, and that the other two will speak and
act for themselves. When Capt. Larzeere puts
that qnietus upon us, we shall try to be some
where about.


But the Telegraph threatens us with still an
other Larzelere-with George Larzelere. We
think We have heard of him. The Teleqraph saws
he always makes us squat. We are aware, that
in almost every election, this man, George Lar
zelere, is hired by somebody to edit some news
paper for few weeks, to oppose the Chief Three
years ago, he was imported to this town for that
purpose, and he proclaimed that the Chief would
not live more than six months. 1t has lived to
bury two or three papers with which he has
been connected since that time, and it will con-
tinue to live. We understand that he was en-
ployed to abuse the Republican County ticket,
in the columns of the Reporter, this Fall, and that
he is still employed upon that paper. His ap-
pearance in any paper, is almost invariably char
acterized by personal attacks upon the editor of
the ChiT. We have always endeavored to let
him alone, as much possible, in consideration
of his well-kDown infirmity, and out of regard
for the feelings of his family-some of whom, by
the way, have little regard for the feelings of
Others. We had hoped that this course would
lead him to reflect upon his habits, and to make
q reasonable effort to reclaim himself, and occu-
py the useful position in society for which he
would then be qualified. But we discover that
this forbearance has been misconstrued by him
aud his friends, and that they imagine we stand
in mortal fear of him, and dare not answer back.
1t is about time they were undeceived. If it is
war of personalities that he and his friends want,
now is as good time as any to put in few
months of that kind of work. If he thinks we
fear him, let him take the responsibility of his
own articles and not seek refuge behind the
nominal editor of the paper be writes for. We
promise him he shall have a belly full, and some
over for lunch between meals. We shall at
least stop this old gag that are afraid of some
body. We don't propose to squat to any black
leg or sot, from Waterville to the Missouri River.