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Year: 1876

The last issue of the Wathena Reporter affords
fair example of what the Support" of that
concern is worth to any candidate for Office
| Several weeks since, the Reporter announced its
support of Albert Perry for District Judge. In
doing this, it but reflected the sentiment of the
people of this County, and no one impugned its
motives. We also, some weeks previously, had
declared our support of Mr.. Perry for the Office
We have, in several issues, given our reasons
why the present incumbent, who is a candidate
for reelection, should not be re-elected-giving
facts and figures which no one has yet contro-
verted, and which stand unanswered. In its
last weeks issue, the Reporter says: Hubbard
started out in this campaign very weak man.
Few dreamed he would be reelected,
but the Chief commenced one of its slime-sling-
ing TRADES against him. Perry started
with good prospects of success but it looks at
pr esent that, with such load to carry as the
Chief, all that his Doniphan County friends can
do for him will be of no avail"


The upshot of the Reporters article is this, and
nothing more The Chief supports man for of
fee, therefore nobody else will. The Reporter
does not com plain that our charges are not true;
that the people ought not to be informed of the
facts we have published; but the Chief is the
medium through which the facts have been COM
municated to the public; and because of this,
the Reporter willing to sacrifice its candi-
date. The Reporter asserts that Hubbard is unfit
for Judge, and should be beaten; but when the
Chief presents the facts to prove the same thing,
the Reporter flies back, and says that will re-eect
Hubbard


We made charges against the present Judge
which, if true, should drive from him the sup
port of right minded people. We have publish
ed them thus early, that an answer might be
made before nominating Convention was held,
that it might not be said they were concocted
too late for reply. The squirming, prevarica-
tion, and raising of false issues to draw atten-
tiOn from the true merits of the case, which this
discussion has caused, show that Hubbard and
his hackers do not rely for success wholly upon
the opposition of the Chief.


The concern at Wathena does not merit one
tenth part of the space which we have given it
but it is well enough occasionally to show the
principle by which it is governed, that the pub
lie may know how much weight its frothmgs are
entitled to.
Year: 1876

This ia the first number of the Goth volume of
the Chief. We do not propose to give an annual
review of the past, or to make many promises for
the future. The Chief is known to the Oldest in
bsbitants, to whom it has been weekly visitor
for the past nineteen years. 1t has better pros
meets ahead than at any other time in the past,
and with year of good harvests, will enjoy full
prosperity. Itis firmly established, and proposes
to 90 right along as heretofore. The old citi-
zens have read it, their children have read it,
and their grandchildren have read it. We
recall one couple, whose marriage was announced
in the Chief the first year of its publication, and
now they have grandchildren. This is an ell
couragement to marry young, and take the Chief


Thanking our old patrons of the past years
and the new ones who are constantly coming in
to swell our list, we wade right into our twenti
eth year.
Year: 1876

We publish, in this issue, a communication
from c. w. johnson, intended to exonerate w.
w. Guthrie from all blame in the matter of the
call for Judicial District Convention. 1t was
entirely unnecessary, and leaves the question
precisely where We left it. We said that Guth-
rie had race of his own on hand, and did not
wish to be mixed up in this Judicial fight; we
said that he was in favor of calling the Conven-
tion at place which would be compromise
between the two principal candidates; we said
that he resigned before the call was made, and
that the remainder of the Committee were issu.
ing call that Judge Hubbard ad got up. Mr..
johnson says nothing to the contrary. We sta
ted the case precisely as we understood it, and
have been borne out by subsequent events.


Nobody in this County harbors any i'll will
against Mr.. Guthrie, on account of that call. We
know that We have a friendly feeling for him.
If he receives any opposition in this County, il
will have to 60 the credit of his ardent friends
in Brown and Nemaha. vast deal is being
said against running locality into politics. As a
general thing, it should not be controlling is
sue; but it cannot be entirely suppressed. When
one locality has a monopoly of the best offices
other localities have a right to demand some OF
the lesser ones, especially if they present candi
dates better qualified to fill them. Atchison has
United States Senator, United States District
Judge, and three or four other good Offices. Mr.
Guthrie is now candidate for Congress, with a
friendly feeling in his behalf in this County, and
a strong desire to assist him. Then comes an
Atchison man for the District Judgeship, who is
not the choice of our people, but is obnoxious to
them. Doniphan County has a candidate supe-
rior to him in every respect. But in Brown and
Nemaha, where the people appear to be unani-
nous for Guthrie, his leading friends are the
ones who have promised Judge Hubbard to see
him safely through the contest. There are men
in Brown and Nemaha who are tired of this hud-
ding of officers in one town, and are beginning
to chafe under it. They are friendly to Guthrie,
but have had enough of Hubbard. If Mr.. Guth-
ries friends think more of him than they do OF
Hubbard, they havei in their power to strength
en- him but they cannot do it by imposing Hub
bard upon the Republican ticket.
Year: 1876

COULDN'T STAND II ANY LoNGER.-Mr, w. r.
Smith, who edits the Champion in Col Martins
absence, has concluded to swing the weight of
his intellect in the Champion for the reelection
of his brother-in-law, P. L. Hubbard. Consider
ing that Billy and the whole Smith family are
out of meat, and need that woodchuck for din
ner, it is not surprising they all very anxious
on this point Billy is a great lawyer, in his
brother-in-law's Court, and it would be too bad
to blight the fortunes of this young man by
causing him the loss of his whole practice when
clients and lawyers need no longer tip Billy a
retainer for his influence with the Court. Is not
the Champion strongly in favor of W. r. Smith
for County Attorney, this Fallf
Year: 1876

~ The local of the Champion says it is very
clever of the local of a cotemporary to help a
fellow, when he is engaged in politics. 1t is, in,
deed, very clever of Vandergrift, a Democrat to
write up the account of Republican ratification
meeting, for the 'leading Republican paper of
Northern Kansas" filling it with laudations Of
tho editor" while that editor and the local were
on drunk. If Col. Martin doesn't get home
pretty soon, he will find there is little left of his
paper but the interests of the Smith family, and
the Champion their organ.
Year: 1876

II If Jesus Christ were on earth. and were
a Republican candidate for President, he would
find Puritanical New England opposed to him
Ralph Waldo Emerson would swear at him be-
cause lie never asserted that the world moved, or
read any of his transcendental works. James
Freeman Clarke would denounce him for advis-
ing the pulling of oxen out Of bitches on Sunday
The rank and file of rigid righteous would bawl
Whiskey Ring against him, for turning water
into wine, and would hold meetings to declare
that Bristow was the only man who could res
cue the country from snch corrupt influences.
Year: 1876

u We notice in some paper, that Secretary
Bristow has resigned, but have not noticed the
announcement in any of the news dispatches
He has done all the bumming he could for him.
self, under the guise of ferreting out rascality
and has gone aside from his legitimate duties &c
cast suspicion upon the best men in the Repub
lican party, and create dissensions and hatred
As he can do no more harm, he may as well re
tire to take care of his rebel wife's property
that the old man didn't take to he'll.


Since the above was in type, We have learned
that the resignation has been made.
Year: 1876

How IT LooKs.-We do not think we ever saw
nominations more satisfactorily received than
those of Hays and Wheeler. Even the disap
pointment of the friends of other candidates la:
not had the effect to make a single person hesi.
tate in his support of the ticket As the reports
come in from all quarters, the tide grows strong
er. The enthusiasm bids fair to equal that o.
any previous campaign, if not far surpass all
Others. Almost to a man, the Liberal Republi
cans and Independents are falling into line, and
hundreds of Democrats say they will vote the
ticket. Unless the st. Louis Convention makes
a very judicious nomination, we hear many Dem
ocrats declare they will vote for Hayes. And we
have not yet heard one Democrat say that he
had any hope that his party could beat Hayes
They have made up their minds that he is to be
the next President
Year: 1876

n The Independence Tribune, almost month
after the State Convention, suddenly wakes up,
and wonders " hy some Brstow man hadn't the
backbone to reply to Judge Price, when he pitch
ed into the great detective, in the Convention.
The reason was, that the small sprinkling of
Brstow men in that Convention were like the
Bristow party-had no backbone. They couldn't
think of anything to say in his favor; and now,
when they are just beginning to get mad about
it, their statesman is fiattened out thinner than
a buffalo chip.
Year: 1876

II We learn that the Hessian of the Atchison
Courier cannot issue his paper, because he can no
longer get credit for paper and press-work, and
that he is casting around for some one to buy
his foul carcass to raise the wind, with signs of
a negotiation with Hubbard When he manages
to get out the issue that is now hanging fire. look
ont for it to advocate the great jurist, Hubbard.
The Judicial salary must help the Hessian
through
Year: 1876

V Will somebody please tell us how many
legs and arms t-President Hayes hasf Some
of the papers give him but one arm, while others
take n leg. We know he was wounded in the
war, but we believe he came out with locomo-
tion unimpaired. But be the number two or one,
We don't think there is any probability that the
Democratic candidate will be short leg or an
arm by the grace of rebel bullets
Year: 1876

Il When the wood-pile climber again feels
like bowling about fixing up delegates in secret.
let him report the history of how "w. p Steven
son" erept into the Republican State Convention
as a delegate.
Year: 1876

~ The account which Bailey Waggener gives
of the Atchison meeting, in the local columns of
the Patriot, would lead the outside world to
think there was little of that meeting except
the clap of the "editorsr of the Champion. 1t has
been pretty freely limited that Billy has difficulty
in securing permanent washerwoman, but we
had supposed it was financial embarrassments.
Year: 1876

The proprietor Of this celebrated medicine Justly claims
for it supe rority all remedies ever offered to the
public for the safe eertaa speedy and permanent cure Of
Agus and Fever Chils and Fever whether OF short
or long standing He refers to the entire Western and
Southern country bear him testimony TO the truth Of
the assertion that in whatever will 1t fail to cure
il the directions strictly followed and carried out In


great many single dose has been sufficient for
and whole families have been cured by single bot
tle with perfect restoration of general health 1t
is however prudent and in every case more certain to
cure If its continued in smaller doses for week or
two after the disease has been checked more especially
in difficult and lOngstandng cases. Usually this med
cine will not uire any aid to keep the bowels in good
order Should the patient, however require cathartic
medicine after having taken three four doses of the
Tonic single dose of BuEs Vegetable Famsly Pub will
be sufficient
Year: 1876

Full often in cur lives has come day
When, pausing where two paths divergent lay,
We pondcrcd, deep and long, which one to choose;
Fearful that either followed we might lose
The rare enjoyment of happy hour,
Or graceful incense of fragrant flower,
Or glimpse Of some fair land where shines the sun
On giant groves, and where the rivers run
Through furrowcd fields and through the shadow


ranks


ofcypsesS trees that weep upon the banks
We fear 10 lose SO much; but, knowing not
The changcful chances Of our future lot,
We set out boldly on the chosen track;
And then-so oftcn comes the looking back:
The bafllcd strife our cherished goal TO win.
The mournful, hopeless cry" 1t might have been"
Sometimes the soul, when with great sorrow wrung
Recalls time, long fed, when lightly hung
The course of future years in FGte's great scale;
And see how, all unwiiJingiy, an influence frail
As morning dewS that on the grasses CLEAN
Destroyed the even balance Of the beam.
Unknown 10 us the deep decision made
And turned our path from sunshine into shade
passing thought n look q triding decd:
Aworl unsl"ken in an hour of need,
Or spoken wien twerc better left unsaid
Some written line that we by chance have read;
All these can shift the scene with subtle hand
And round our future draw an iron band.
We never think that such little thing


Can ever such tremendous sequence bring
Until too late; and then, we backward turn
The Tasc that we have filed. and dimly burn
The light OF other days, in vain regrets
For opportunities gone by. The spirit frets
Against its destiny, and deep within
our hearts we mourn for what we might have been.
Ah. soul. look upward, trusting kiss the rod;
And know there is no might hare been lritk God
From Him, Whenever lowly we draw near
We learn Of Love that castcth out all fear;
We find a faith that i'll oblivon's sea,
Whelms every dread and doubt ctcrnally;
hope unfaltering to us is given;


\ tender Charity, as broad as heaven
4 perfect Peace; 8 calm, untroubled Rest;
Through these all things seem ever right and best
We rise triumphant over death and sin,


Al pain and sorrow in our joy forgot,
And. looking backward on our might have been"


Thank God that Il 3caS not.
Year: 1876

| dwell on this point, for | would defer
others from entering that place Of torment
Half the young men i'll this country, with
many old enough to know better, would 20
into busincss-that, is into dcbt-to-morrow,
if they could. Most poor men arc so igno-
rant as 10 envy the merchant or manufac-
turcr, whose life is an incessant struggle
with pccunimy difficulties, who is driven to
constant shining" and who, from month
to month, barely cyadcs the insolvency
which sooner or later overtallcs most mon
in business; so that it has been computed
that hut one in twenty Of them achicvesa a
pccuniary success. For my own part
would rather be convict in the State
prison, a slave in a rice swamp, than to
pass through life under the harrow Of debit
Let no man miSjudge himself unfortunate,
or truly poor, so long as he has the full use
Of his limbs and faculties, and is substan-
TALLY free from debt. Hunger, cold, rags,
hard work, contempt, suspicion, unjust re
proach, are disagrce&blc, but debt is inf
nitely worse than them all. And if it had
pleased God to spare either or all my sons
to be the support of my declined years, the
lesson which | should most earnestly seek
to impress upon them Is, Never run in
debt Avoid pccuniary obligation as you
would restilcnce or famine. If you have
but fifty cents, and can get no more for a
week, buy & peck Of corn, parch it and live
on it, rather than owe dollar OF course,
! know that some men must do business
that involves risk, and must give notes or
other obligations. and do not consider him
in debt who can lay his hands directly on
the means Of paying, at some little sacrifice,
all he owes. l speak of real debt-that
which involves risk or sacrifice on one side,
obligation and dependence on the other
anG say, from all such, let every youth
humbly pray God to preserve him ever
morc.-IIoroce Gresly.
Year: 1876

Garibaldi's sympathios are always aroused
in favor of a people struggling for freedom.
Though unable on account Of illness and
increasing age to lend his personal aid to
the Servians he tries to cheer them with
these words Of encouragement; In the
the name Of oppressed peoples I thank you
for your indciatigable devotion to tho holy
cause. To-day every generous soul in tho
world ought TO contribute to the deliver
ancc Of the Christian Slaves from tho
horrible despotism OF the Crescent. From
Gambia to the Pruth all peoples more or
less oppressed must shake of the criminal
yoke of the yataghan. Ny heart is with
you and all other valorious souls that Join
in the holy crusade"
Year: 1876

A young man in western Wisconsin, who
was about to be married, the other day,
suddenly remembered that he hadn't fed
his horse, and the ceremony had to wait
until the horse had been cared for. He
explained that good horse couldn't be
found every day, while thirteen different
girls wanted to marry him.
Year: 1876

An eminent physician of western city
says he cures ninety-nine out of every hun
dred cases of scarlet fever by giving the
patients warm lemonade with gum arabic
dissolved in it. A cloth wrung out in hot
water and laid upon the stomach should be
removed as rapidly as it becomes cool.
This is certainly worth trying.
Year: 1876

DR.. Do Lewis having learned the
minimum quantity Of food on which life
can bc sustained, advises all young men to
marry and settle down in life. His idea is
that "until a man is married his life is
lacking in that which best develops his
manhood" He gives "old bachelors -
some hard raps in letter published in the
Green Bay wis., Adroca:c, and then
administers this rcbuke to that class who
are anxious to see the world before marry
ing: "Seeing the world as the young man
does who has to earn his living as he goes
along amounts TO very little. What he
docs see is nothing that helps him fight
the battle Of life more successfully. II
only keeps him from habits which are in
direct antagonism to y correct and happy
and successful life, and when he get.
through knocking about he has nothing
to show for the misspent years save the
habits which he must overcome if he would
mako anything of himself DO you cal
that gain or loss? So, young man, take tho
advice of man who has kept his eye:
open for more years than you have lived
probably, and don't knock around i
you think l have ovcrdravn the picture
look around you, and out Of the men yor
know select those who have knocked
around and see if they do not bear wit
ness to the truth of every assertion have
made concerning the class they represent.
Are they men you envy? tell you, boys
knocking around makes man good fol
nothing else, and l take it you have q
desire to be good for something higher in
life"
Year: 1876

Why does the average man when he has
finished eating piece of watermelon,
instead of quietly dropping the rind in the
gutter, always look around for stray cat
or dog at which to shy it?
Year: 1876

What do you mean, you little rascal ?''
exclaimed an individual to an impudent
youth who had seized him by the nose on
the street. "oh, nothing-only am going
out to seek my fortune, and my father told
me to seize hold Of the first thing that
turned up.
Year: 1876

Good for Josh Billings. He says: az
would respectfully say to all that class who
want to be an angel, and with the angels
DWELL please drop that notion, and go to
work for humanity in somo shape; if the
Lord wants emmy moro angels he will let
you know"
Year: 1876

The latest story Of brave though child:
like form, faithful at the post of duty,
comes from Ohio. He was the son of a
village editor, and, having discovered
broken rail just outside of the town, sat for
five hours on fence near by waiting for
the train, so that he might be the first to
carry the particulars of the accident to his
father! Such devotion to the parental
interest is very affecting.
Year: 1876

There is great JOY in the Democratic
camp. After searching in vain to frd
something against Gov. Hayes, they have
at last settled down upon a charge that he
is dandy, and the whole party rress-is
jubilant over the discovery. How long IS
1t since the Western portion of the party
was railing at Gov. T;lden and the gentle
men Of tho Manhattan Club Cor indulging
in the harmless luxury of ." swallow tails ~
This shows signs Of being great campaign.
It may come to public discussion between
the candidates, wherein each shall declare
under oath the number Of times during
year he has worn "boiled" shirt or a
" swallow tail coat. 1t would be a sight
tomake the cflcte rnonarchics " Of Europe
curl up with envy.
Year: 1876

The ad interim editor of the Homer Iliad
is making reputation for the paper during
the absence Of his chief. He is a mythical
and hard fact writer by turns. His spirit
is seen in an article which reads as follows:


"Well, he said he would go and prepare
for him He did so, by wrapping his coat
around big slug Of the crookeo.''


Another item is more direct, and it is
strictly local. 1t is no more than this.


"Crate Moore has let all his meat spoil"


Life is too short to consider this subject
in all its bearings, and yet there are hyper
critical city editors who complain that
country papers contain no news.
Year: 1876

A Methodist preacher travelling in the
back settlement Of Western State stopped
at 8 cabin where an old lady received him
very kindly, giving him q warm supper,
where moupht you be from!' "Mad 4m, l
reside in Shelby county, Kentucky Wall,
stranger, hope no offense. but what mought
YOU be doing out here!' Madam, l am
looking for the lost sheep Of the tribe OF
Israeli "Jobr," shouted the old lady,
here's stranger all the way from Ken
tucky a hunting lost stock, and III just bet
my life that old curly haired black ram
that came into our yard last week Is one Of
Year: 1876

am opposed to Samuel j. Tilden be-
cause he was opposed to the country in
its hour of trial, and its time of need
You all recollect the great meeting that
was called in New York few days after
Sumter was fired upon. 1t was a ques-
ton of immense importance all over the
world, how the city Of New York stood ;
it was a question OF importance in every
country and city in Europe, how does
New York stand-on the side of the
Union, or against it2 New York was
the monetary center of the nation; New
York had great influence in this Nation
and the question was, how does that
great and wealthy city stand2


For the purpose of giving public ex-
preston of opinion that should strength
en- the course all over the world, the pa
triotic men of New York all joined in
calling a meeting, to be held in Union
Square. That call was signed by such
men as Gov. Dix, prominent Democrat,
but ever since a staunch Republican. 1t
was signed by Bennett, of the Herald;
Raymond, of the Times; by Stewart and
by hundreds of thousands of the most
prominent citizens of New York. And
in all that splendid city of a million in
habitants, there was but one solitary
man that refused to sign that call for
that Union meeting in 1861. That man
was Samuel j. Tilden. lie has never de
MED that he refused to sign it. Some of
his friends denied that he refused to sign
it; but thereupon we proved that it was
offered him twice to sign, and on both
occasions it was proved that he refused
to give his signature when it was asked
for Now | say that a man who will not
give his name. to a call for meeting
whose object is to do something towards
saving the Nation, should never preside
over the destinies of that Nation lGreat
cheers.