The Leavenworth weekly times., 1877-11-08

working men and farmers who sometimes
take less care in investigating details than
their duty and personal interest requires
they should.
Now l would say to the p. p, as a
working man, and in the name of working
men, that We are very naturally willing
and anxious to hear the merits and the de-
merits of the respective candidates discuss
ed. And If the q. r., previous to its
issue of October 18th, would only prove to
the voters of this county, especially to the
farmers, mechanics and laborers, that the
election of Z. G. Lowe would be adverse to
their interest, they would feel grateful for
! such information. And such a course
would gam for that paper the respect and
confidence of honest citizens which it has
now forfeited.
But no. Doubtless it requires no proof.
} The mere assertion of the p r. is
sufficient to mould the maleable character
of what that journal must deem the unsO-
phisticatei clod-hoppers of this county.
Now nv fellow workingmen and farmers
let us pause for moment and consider to
what extent we should give credence to the
bellowings of this T. T. Let us carefully
investigate the sources from which they
emanate and ascertain the motives that
impel this paper To so zealOusly espOuse the
cause of certain candidates, and to sacrifice
everything dear to an upright journal.
that is honor shame and truthfulness in its
frantic endeavors to secure the election OF
Mr.. Spalding. Does it pursue this course
from an honest zeal in the interest of the
people? II so, why did it not raise its
warning voice previous to the nomination Of
Mr.. Lowe. Has the pseudo philanthropy of
tk ~ mat
received its October stock Of sympathy for
the people, since the day of he nominations
If not so why then such sudden zeal in the
cause of the taxpayers. 1t requires not
very penetrating Judgment to discern what
causes now move il IL such active sympa
thy with us poor taxpayers. Hear its mo-
tives, voters of Leavenworth. 1t is a we'll
known fact that The TINES has ever pos
sessed happy mack of wiping out rival
newspapers in Leavenworth. The r. p
started there People were led to believe
that this paper would be non-pOlitical. 1t
might if it could survive, but it was fast
following in the wake of its predecessors.
There was only one thing could save it. If
it could secure the election of Spalding,
through the means of the sheriff adver-
tisements, it might earn "by patient toll
subsistence scant" But if those advertise
ments should pass to THE TINES, that the
| T. r. would become a thing of the past.
You see then, my Acknowledgment,
whence springs this yell in your and my
behalf. Had any other candidate been
nominated on the Republican ticket the p.
L. would be to-day silent las the advertise
ments would in that case inevitably pass to |
The Tines or ii not silen, perhaps extoll- |
ing to the Seventh Heaven the man
it now seeks to calumniate. Had
not Mr.. Spalding been nominated |
the r. p would have gone down to an hon |
orable grave, as there would be no incen- |
tive to pursue the disgraceful course which |
it now follows. But shadows Of bread and |
butter shone out in his nomination. 1t was |
a last resource. The lingering rick of |
dying man. In the lunacy of its expiring |
agony it became desperate, and concluding |
that existence was Of greater moment than /
honor, it donned the garb OF hypocrisy and /
launched forth in its reckless attempts to /
work upon the credulity of the voters of the /
county, and make the peoples ruin the ba-
sis OF even temporary and degraded ex,
istence.
Working men, farmers, mechanics, /
would say to you beware. We are often
missed by designing men who have no SYM
pathy with Us. Whose every movement is
controlled by unscruplous selfishness, and
who are ever ready to make foot stool of
the poor man, if it will only, in any degree
promote their own personal interest. There
Is need of caution !. he old saying that
the evil one shows his clOven foot, appears
in another form. This time the old gentle
man must have grown tired Of stretching
ont his foot for exhibition and in lieu of it
showed his horn amongst the voters Of this
cou
Hear voters of Leavenworth what this
organ has presumptiOus audacity to tell We.
1t says that "THE TINES supports a candi-
date in the interest of the bOndholdersrI
| would ask any man in this county, even
the greatest enemy of The TINES, If there
ever appeared in print an assertion bearing
more palpably on its face the impress OF
an unblushing falsehood. There is not one
voter in Leavenwor,h county who does not
know that The TINES has been the earliest
and most unwavering champion of the
people against the bondhOlders. l, even
feel in my very soul, that Mr.. Spalding
would blush at such barefaced, audacious
and unqualified lying on the part of his Or
gan. II the r. + would ask the laborers
of Leavenworth county, if they believed
that The TINES aided in the election of
Sheriff in favor the bondholders. they would
answer no! If it would ask the mechanics
and farmers the same question, with re-
doubled emphasis, they would answer no !,
And if it would only condescend to ask the
from the street boys of the city
in the prolific exuberance of their rich vo- ].
they would most probably respond !
hat The TINES had proved itself the friend
If the poor man and taxpayer, and the bitter =
,nemy of the bondholders, long before the
Devil showed his ''Horn" in Leavenworth :
To-day, then, workingmen Of Leavenworth,
Iou can find no better security, no surer
ign that P. G. Lowe is the friend of the
act that he il supported BY The TINES
IN avOwed and open enemy to the bond
FOLDERS
Can this be said of Mr.. Spalding Every c
ational being must answer, no! If Mr..
;palding had any claims on the confidence
1 the people he has unquestionably for
cited such BY his association. "Tell me =,
our company, and I'll tell you who you = =
re-" is an old and trite adage. Let the T.
oters of Leavenworth county then consider =,
he associations of Mr.. Spalding. II in this
ounty there can be found one rational
eing who will not say that his organ and -
Mouth peice is liar; If there can be found
ne decent Republican who does not feel
shamed Of such barefaced assertions, If in :,
ne there can be found one intelligent citi- -
en- who does not deem it an insult to his
to have such shallow sophis- % =.
lies and giaring falsehoods placed before :. -
i'm in anticipation of his belief, / will, to o'
se the threadbare expression of that Jour ..
al, show him = ~hite black bird
And nov let me mention fact in connec-
on with the question Of the bond holders q.
nd the candidate of the p p Ii is
plain abatement which every man in this
art of the country can verify. The most
rtive canvasser that put in an appearance
behslf of Mr.. Spalding and the candidate Of
Y commisioDer for the third district, in er
lis part Of the country wa in the employ r..
the bond holders, and this is one reason
~ namben Of The Republicans in this io
Vt Of the country are working 20 strenu- on
laly against those tvo 0en. ho
Nov Il ths r. r. viii saly prove to us ve
'unfzy 4oAaUh. thet - vezs under Ii. Pa
1us6se q = eRtieal illnljan, h this ease u.
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