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ortnaV\? 8Due:iienyiiL-ifcyoneior;teak;astsfw-:heonIns:me-he3mmslaye-edle.hehem.ue38.iheimIT-menkw-\xftlotret-10 - 4meir-salerheheRepublican Answers ***Editor Record:It is an easy matter to find fault and criticise other people’s actions. There are many who can see the mote in other people’s eyes, but fail to see the beam in their own. (These fault finders are like the MethodiseSreadier who wrot e a book criticising'apoieofl’s battles). This is also true of political parties. As everlasting and eternal fault finders the Democratic party of this county and state is the cbampiou and euthled to the medal. The Lord knows they have nothing to be proud of in their own political history. See tie amount of Democratic defalcations that are taking place daily in tie Democratic states. In- the Republican states the principal business of good Democrats is 10 find fault with everything Republicans do either in an official or party sense. They are like the dog barking at the moon—notwithstanding the dog’s barking the moon keeps right aioiig in its course without paying any attention to it.Would it not be sense as well as good policy for our Republican officials to keep right along in the even tenor of their way in the path of good government and true fidelity to the people who put their trust in them by electing them to office? I am surprised that a newspaper calling itself a Republican will* so bemean itself as to open its columns to grumblers and defamers of Republican officials. Let these fault finding nondescripts take their vile grumblings and mutterings to the Democratic newspapers where they will be harmless.* But pray don’t make them semi respectable by publishing them in Republican newspapers. From the amount of discussion that has taken place over the killing of Mr. Chevalier, one would conclude that some serious offense had been committeed by onr county coroner in refusing to hold an inquest over a transaction that is known to everyone. He showed good sense in refusing to spend the people’s money when there was no occasion for it. Would that all our oounty and city officials would show the same amount of back bone in their official expenditures, tf they had, our taxes would not now be so heavy. The doctor has been raised amongst us. We all know him to be a high-minded and public spirited man whose character is above reproach. He hastea nothing to fear and everything ton-in:al3irasusK.ithesrsgain by his high minded silence to these grumblers and fault finders, and when he comes up for reelection thegood people of Douglas county willendorse his action on this matter by an increased majority.I have no sympathy with this constant fault finding with the railroads. What would we do without them? It would be a sorry day for Douglas in | county if the railroads should get disen gusted with the action of these ever-e- lasting grumblers and take up their or rails and move them to some place d-I where they would be better appreeia-atjted. Suppose a Republican official tie i should occasionally get a free pass over a railroad; what of it; do not allthe Democratic officials ride on free passes? Would not the grumblersthemselves do so if they had the opportunity? Is it not that which makes j UP them mad? I think so. Railroads !we are a blessing to the land—let us cherish them, and make the railroad companies feel that the people are their friends and not their enemies.The killing of Mr. Chevalier wasone of those unavoidable accidents that is of daily occurrence all over the civilized world, and was more the fault of Mr. Chevalier himself in run-xeley-fhdahitfrconsu;tinonwi;nolecairgoas re asidletozatol-i-18 ! ning along the track in front of theie-4-641tuibytiningheheanlt;thetai:whHeonliljiybetha*kamg1105infengine than of the engineer of thetrain. Let us be just to the railroadcompanies if not generous. They havebeen generous with us. They paythousands of dollars into our county•treasury ever wear. They pav thous-andsof dollars annually.to their employes, all of which is spent in our midst. The Union Pacific generously paved Bridge street on the north side, f10 erected one of the most picturesque station houses on the liue of their road, spent thousands of dollars in beautifying Bismarck Grove and made it one of the glories of Lawrence. They have contributed thousands of dollars towards paying the premiums offered by the fair association. This generosity on the part ofhiswhcitjsayeorupotiiaw;tbiO » 4 | • *Jthe Union Pacific has been the cause' tioi| of thousands upon thousands of dol-j lars being spent in Lawrence that v | would not have been spent other-\witpi USti-wise. 1 r.nl
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Lawrence Weekly Record
Lawrence, Kansas, US
Fri, Jul 10, 1891
Page 6
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Lawrence P.
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