The advocate and Topeka tribune. [volume], October 26, 1892, Page 5, Image 5

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FEESISTE5TT MENDACITY.
There could be no more forcible
illustration of the desperation of the
republican party or of its faithful ally
in Kansas, the stalwart demoCcy,
than the persistent and willful Mis
representation of our platform. -The
railroad plank seems to be the faost
available for this purpose just now as
affording the means o! working upon
the prejudices of railroad employes.
The Capital first made the menda
cious statement that our platform pro
poses the disfranchisement of railroad
employes, and the railroad commis
sioners' stalwart demo republican
convention that assembled here on
the 7th of October reaffirmed the
falsehood. A. A. Harris repeated it
at Wichita, and the persistence with
which it is pushed forward as a men
ace to the rights of railroad men
shows the utterly conscienceless char
acter of the Kansas republican cam
paign. Now what is the fact? The
following is the plank in the Omaha
platform which is being distorted and
falsified for the deceptive purposes of
this demo-republican railroad corpo
ration combination:
We believe that the time has come when
railroad corporations will either own the
people, or the people will own the railroad :
and, should the government enter upon tu
work of owning and managing the rail
roads, we should favor an amendment to
the oonBtitution by which all persons en
gaged in government servioe should be
plaoed under civil service regulations so as
to prevent an increase of the power of the
national administration by the use of such
additional government employes.
Now, what does any person with a
thimbleful of brains understand by
placing government employes under
civil service regulations? He under
stands precisely what the republican
party pretended to do by the estab
lishment of the civil service commis
sion, but which its dishonesty and
hypocrisy has prevented it from
accomplishing. By an honest policy
of civil rervice reform, government
employes in all departments of the
service would be appointed and re
tained in their position upon the
ground of competence and qualifica
tion for duty, and not as a reward for
party service. Competitive exami
nations by non-partisan boards would
determine qualification without re
gard to politics, and employes would
not be subject to removal except for
incompetence or neglect of duty. This
is precisely what the republican party
pretended to accomplish in its
boasted civil service reform, but
which it has shown itself teo dishon
est and too much devoted to the
spoils system to carry into effect; and
now, when the People's party com
mits itself to the faithful execution of
this policy, and further, when it is
proposed to insure it by constitu
tional amendment, this hypocritical
stand-up outfit brazenly declares that
the application of civil service rules
to the government service means the
disfranchisement of employes. Such
mendacity shows the desperation of
the crowd, and the unscrupulous
character of the reminant that is left
of it
It must amuse Mr. Lewelling
greatly to learn from the republican
papers that he is a banker. He never
owned a dollar's worth of bank stock
in his life, but he got his reputation
trying to accommodate his friends
with a loan of the few dollars he had
saved, and he got nothing for his
pains, not even his money back.
Yes, he got the everlasting friendship
of those who knew him best, and that
is a great deal. Lewelling is a' man
who will not see a man suffer while
he has a dollar in his pocket
THOSE EGGS.
The Capital has just learned that
eggs were thrown at Mr. Otis at
Princeton, but says that they were
thrown by People's party boys. The
Capital has no information of this
kind, and the story is so improbable
upon the face of it as to mark it at
once as a pure fabrication. Those
eggs were thrown by men, and al
though it was too dark for any one to
recognize them, the people of Kansas
will be very slow to believe that they
were thrown by any one who is at all
in sympathy with the People's party.
The pretense is too thin, and the story
is a lie manufactured in the Capital
office.
But this is not the only instance of
the kind. Mr. H. N. Boyd was re
cently egged in Republic county by
boys who were instigated to the act
by a republican school teacher, and
that teacher is now looking for a job.
Then again at Smith Center, when
Jerry Simpson spoke there, the pro
cession was egged by republican
hoodlums in broad daylight These
things cannot be disposed of in the
flippant manner in which the Capital
treats them. The same spirit that
prompted the egging of Gen. Weaver
in democratic Georgia prompts the
egging of People's party speakers in
republican Kansas.
It has even been intimated that the
Georgia mob was incited by republi
can influences in order to manufac
ture political capital for the northern
state, and there is vastly more prob
ability in the story than in much that
is published for fact in republican
papen. The Capital, after suppress
ing the news of the Kansas outrages
until it has become universally known
to the ptople through other sources,
will now find sophistry and falsehood
insufficient to counteract the influence
of such republican methods. A party
that is burdened with the record of
the Coffeyville dynamite crime is
capable of any iniquity that human
invention can conceive, and the throw
ing of ancient eggs is only a milder
application of the methods of 1883.
A CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT.
Washington, D. C, Ootober 20. The re
publican national oommittee has suspended
the distribution of a campaign document
entitled "Wild Cat and Blue Dog Money
as National Currency" pending an investi
gation as to whether its printing and circu
lation is illegal beoauBe it contains fac
similes of state bank notes. Atchison
Champion.
What do the republican committee
or republican newspapers care for the
legality of their acta? They are vio
lating the law every day of this cam
paign and they know it. This is not
idle talk. They are sending out sup
plements printed and dated in New
York through nearly all the republi
can papers of the country, bearing
neither the names or the dates of the
papers in which they are folded. We
know this to be true and can testify
to it in court if called upon to do so
because they come to this office in
that way. We don't expect to be
called upon to"" testify, however, for
republicans can violate law with im
punity. Let a People's party paper
do the same thing and the publisher
would be behind the bars m short
order.
But this is not all. Republican
postmasters violate the law by the
distribution of republican papers and
documents sent to their offices in
bundles and not direoted to individ
uals. They distribute these in the
boxes and hand them out to the pat
rons of their offices contrary to law.
In addition tu this, republican
committees pay for these papers and
doouments to be sent out and dis
tributed in this illegal manner. What
nonsense then to talk of the suspen
sion of publication of a campaign
document pending an investigation of
its legality. There is no law that will
punish republicans for any act done
to advance the interests of the party
in a campaign.
There is no task too Herculean for
the republican state committee to
tackle. They have gotten out a circu
lar in the shape of a supplement to
country papers, in which they at
tempt to justify the state senate of
1889 for passing the bill lowering the
age of consent to twelve years. And
to prove that the bill was right, they
quote a decision in which Judge Val
entine condemns the old act which
was to have been replaced by this lat
ter day Brigham Young arrange
ment. This is the same Valontine
who sustained a steal of $5,000,000
worth of school lands which were
voted to railroad companies by the
legislature, and who is now a candi
date for re-election. The circular
also quotes Gov. Humphrey as a de
fender of the bill, the same Hum
phrey who went onto the floor of the
senate to ask members to vote for the
acquittal of Botkio, and who is now a
candidate for congress. It's a won
der they didn't offer some authority
from Botkin,and Bawdy H)use Camp
bell, and Buckshot Meredith, and
Murphy Barton, and Bill Buohan.
The last named sport was the cham
pion of the infamous bill which was
calculated to take protection from
girls.
The editor of the Western Veteran
is an ass with very long ears. While
he thinks he is capable of represent
ing the ex-soldiers of Kansas, he
probably doesn't know how ridiculous
he appears. A year ago he was villi
fying Sanator Peffer in everyway his
weak mind could conceive of, now he
is defending "Comrade Peffer," as he
calls him, against the imaginary in
terview of Mrs. Lease. Yes, this
miserable skunk who has been acting
in the capacity of a horn for the re
publican party to blow is now trying
to make himself appear respectable
by referring to Mr. Peffer as " Com
rade." And in order to make it ap
pear that there is some truth in the
Lease interview, and to carry tht
impression that he still possess
some degree of honor, he gets off the
following, How does rit sound com
ing from such a source:
But nothing she cm say will injure the
name of Comrade Peffer. lie may have
supported in some degree men and meas
ures in which the Veteran saw no good, but
he has always stood true to his oomradeo,
while Mrs. Lease has spent years in de
nouncing them.
Tee Kansas Democrat has got to
be a first class republican paper. It
has to be in order to sustain the
"stalwart" policy of the railroad con
vention of October 7. It now join
the Capital in the publication of the
letters of returning prodigals with
whom it ."was arranged last spring
that they should go into the People's
party, and just before election coma
out with these letters renouncing their
allegiance to it". Oae of the repub
lican speakers, thinking he was talk
ing to a republican, gave the snap
away, and that rather takes the wind
out of the letters, but they have to be
published just the same. As the
speaker said, "It is the only hope."
We see no further necessity of the
divorce of Charley Holliday and CoL
Whoop. They ought to get together
again.
Thb Topeka Advooatb (People's party
organ) speaking of Gen. and Mrs. Weaver's
treatment in Georgia, half apologizes for
it by asserting that the same methods are
employed by the republicans of the north.
Will the Advocats give one instance just
one. It cannot do it. Lyons Republican.
Fiddlesticks. The Advocati gave
the instance of the egging of Mr.
Otis at Princeton when it made the
charge against Kansas republicans.
It has since given the instances of Mr.
Boyd in Republic county and the
People's party procession in Smith
Center. Will the Republican acknowl
edge the corn?
The report that has been published
that Tom Watson was defeated in the
late Georgia election is false. The
congressional election in Georgia will
take place on November 8, and Mr.
Watson will be re-elected. The un
limited boodle that has been put into
his district will prove insufficient to
defeat him.
It is about time for the stand-up
crowd to make another arrest of some
prominent People's party man. True,
they didn't have first class luck in
the case of Mr. Breidenthal, but they
ought not to get discouraged on this
account. They might strike a better
lead next time.
A correspondent writes from New
York that the empire state is being
flooded with Perkins' speeches. That
is quite proper. Perkins always did
come nearer representing New York
than Kansas. New York can have
him and his speeches too.
How about the ex-confederate, Gov.
Buchanan, being assaulted with old
fashioned eggs in Tennessee? Talk
up, you bloody shirt howlers, and
keep your people posted.
"I am a Democrat," said the stal
wart A. A. Harris at Wichita, and
then he proceeded to advise his hear-
jers to vote the republican ticket.