Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1913 — BABCOCK DISPLAYS VERY BAD TEMPER [ARTICLE]

BABCOCK DISPLAYS VERY BAD TEMPER

Editor of The Democrat After Losing Postoffice Takes Vicious Digs at Party Leaders. ■ _>**’ ■■ The loss of the postoffice has almost driven Editor Babcock to the bug house. Instead of being a good loser, coming out like a gentleman and acknowledging his defeat and wishing his opponent well, he literally burned the ink with his scalding criticism against the man who had defeated him and all of his assistants and endorsers. He charged Congressman Peterson with being a tool of Charles J. Murphy, the district chairman, and cute capers that would make a bench hound with turpentine under his tail, look like a piker. J. A. McFarland, the grocer, a leading citizen and a staunch democrat, is spoken of in the most scathing terms, libelous if Mr. McFarland were to pursue the tactics of Babcock and start a legal action. Not content with assailing the very flower of the democratic party in this city and county and with attacking District Chairman Murphy and National Committeeman Taggart, he assails the democratic legislature as being composed of political freebooters and highwaymen. , Bab acted very much like a 5-years-old boy on a tantrum and his cheap wail has been a ery amusing to both democrats and republicans.

Mr. McFarland realizes that not many people who have known him for so many years will take anything that Babcock says very seriously and the attempt so maliciously made to do him a business injury is having no effect, while the puerile tantrum of this comic supplement editor will probably be corrected with a dpse of castoroil. It will be interesting for some of the good people who have trusted this self-praised editor to get out the flies of his paper during that period ten years ago when he was telling how corrupt everybody else was' and then place before it the agreement Bab had with the other publishers. Bab is the finest living example of the old saying “Give him rope enough and he will hang himself.” His-tirade of Wednesday makes h'im the joke of the decade. He has outdone his bitterest enemies in making himself ridiculous.