The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04
Gov. Click Pulverized in a Local Way

Gov. CLICK PulVerlZed IN Local way
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. meet
ing in the opera house last Monday eve
ming adjourned without demOliShing
single argument advanced by Governor
Click. The opera house was not more
than half full. Rev. MOffatt, the Meth
OdiSt politician, presided. Rev. Shuck.
an itinerant preacher. offered prayer,
and the Solomon Glee Club, the major
ity of them, we understand, being Click
men, sang several campaign songs
Rev. Love. of the Christian Church,
looked at the question from a moral
point of view and did not degrade his
profession by indulging in politics.
But it was not so with Rev. Politician
Wake, who has been commissioned to
follow the devil only when he enters
the democratic party. The reverend
Politician is an extreme partiZan, and
he began his talk with the statement
that the democratic party was whOllS
| bad and that nine-tenthS of the demo-
Gratis were full of ignorance and iniqui-
! ty. That statement established his
status. y third rate politician would
| have known enough to not make such
an assertion. Mr.. Wake. however, was
humorous. eve1 witty. and the audi
ence did grea, deal of laughing. But
/ the political Sky-PilOt failed i'll his eff
| forts to answer Gov. Click. We know
I that the reverend Politician miSStated
the Mitchell county pardon case. and
the evidence he produced in the Allen
county case was unsatisfactory. How
10 thnf ha hn
after was the pardon Gov. Click refer
red to? The Gov. gave no names. it
will be remembered, and how did Mr.
Wake frame his question to the Allen
county officials? We do not hesitate to
say that we have just as much faith in
Gov. Clicks veracity as in Mr.. Wakes. /
Why shouldn't we? They are both pol /
iticians. but Gov. Click is a trained and /
straightforward one. and knows enough !
to make no statement that he cannot /
substantiate. Our professional pOliti- /
clans, who were too cOwardly to attempt |
to answer the Gov, and who threw the |
responsibility upon meek and lOwly |
ministers of the gospel. were given a /
very black eye by Rev. Politician Wake. !
Mr.. Wake was generously applauded /
during the first part of his talk, because |
lie ignorantly abused the democrats. |
but when he said that the republican |
party was not reSubmiSSiOn party. !
the enthusiasm cooled. When he said |
that men who advocated reSubmiSSiOn !
were false to republican principles and |
aims. and could no longer be considered /
republicans. the enthusiasm got colder. /
And when he said that it was the duty |
of republicans to refuse to vote for any |
republican candidate for any office who |
advocated reSubmiSSiOn. the enthusiasm |
frOze solid. The political prohibition
lists did not expect that such practi
cal and consistent application of prOhi
bitiOn would be made. and they were |
astoniShed and bewildered. But such |
an application is not only legitimate; it /
is the only right statement Of the queS- |
ton that is possible. The issue has |
come to this. and Rev. Politician Wake |
saw it; man who is opposed to resub-
mission cannot consistently vote for |
Click, and a man who is i'll favor of re- |
submission cannot consistently vote for |
Martin.
Rev. Politician Wakes effort salts
fed the audience, and at its conclusion
the people began to leave. Rev. Herr
very sensibly declined to speak, and
Rev. MOffatt, who wanted to speak,
was forced to bow to the stampede and
dismiss the audience with song from
the Glee Club. Taken altogether, the
meeting was a successful Click affair.
The REFLECTOR does not treat Mr..
Wake seriously, because he does not
deserve serious treatment: it does not
treat him respectfully, because he does
not deserve respect. At pretended
temperance meeting he comes before
his audience with coarse and vulgar
abuse of the democratic party and Gov.
Click, and glOrieS in his republicaniSm.
He proved himself to be political pro-
hibitiOnist. In coming down to a level
in intelligence, common sense and de-
cency with the pOt-hOuSe politician, he
disgraced the sacred cloth he so unwOr-
thily wore and exposed himself to the
ridicule and contempt of honest people.