The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-10-16
Weller and Fuller.


Prom the dreasy depths Of poverty
and obscurity Weller fought his own
way 10 the front.
Fuller II distinguished principal.
~ ~ the son Ct his father.
awhile Weller hus worked the
farm earned by his own hands Fuller
has clerked for his pa.
"Crnmped by clos. economy Wei.
Ter has wruny from the stubborn soil
u scnnty fare.
Fuller with his fathers money
has shaved notes behind u mahogany
counter and grown rich On the shaw
ings.
by his own sweat Weller has pro.
dneed his own bread and helped pro.
duco the wealth Of the country.
Fuller has lived Il lcech upon the
loins OF labor. He has been nurtured
upon milk squeezed from the faint.
ing veins OF the weary toiler by the
infamous clutch OF usury.
weller has borne his share Of the
worlds burdens and represents the
wrongs OF labor In his person.
Fuller has always been a sucker
upon the stalk OF industry; a wart
or bunion on the body polite. A
consumptive force, a blightinG curse.
How came these men before the
public?
awhile toiling on his farm Weller
saw the Insurer and the railroad shark
ride on the back OF labor into power.
He heard the peasants sinews crack
under the weight OF the fat prince
He saw the silly peasant smile. proud
to feel the gildcd thief upon his neck
He heard the populace applaud the
public plunderer, as they, In meek
and fawniny attitudes, cmptied their
wallets into his hand. He saw the
millionaire grow like the spreading
banyan tree while naked labor shiv-
cred in his baleful shade. He saw
Justice bound by fraud and hurled
from her hall. He saw her mantle
used to mask fond. Before the
ear OF proud monopoly he saw the
sycophantic people fall In praise, like
sheep kissing the hand that fieeced
them. He saw the government
bought and preserved by patriots
blood, turned to o robbers tool by
which the people were induced to
rob themselves and give the spoils
away. Stung by these wrongs
heaped on his neighbors and him.
self Weller, like CiIcinnatus left his
farm. Unhired, unpaid, almost alone,
he fought monopoly and fraud kni,
in the nations laws. With purpose
pare he drew the sword Of truth and
cut the curtain that did hide the
robbers den. CONTEMPORARY they
looked at him and sneerad. Frown.
ing with wrath he plead with all his
soul, with truth SO clear and argu-
ment SO strong that he did make the
terror stricken rascals quake upon
the golden thrones as he demanded
justice for the poor. Nor did he
plead in vain. Labor, long pininG
in despair hearing his voice in hel
behalf. looked up with hope and Of.
fered him her hand. The suffering
poor, long blinded by the mists In
which monopoly had masked ITSELF
began to see the thief behind the
veil, and seeing, blest Weller fol-
his noble work. The night OF wrong
threatened to break into the dawn;
the sun Of truth began to gild the
morning sky. when fraud insane
with rage employed the imps Of he'll
A thousand little ugly devils, checked
with brass, and flanked with malice
belched forth their Shiny ISLANDERS on
his head. With hellish assiduits
they stroye to make him seem al
mean as themselves, to have his pur,
pose look rs black as theirs. Awhile
his worth and honor they obscuret
behind the fog raised by their pesti
lential breath, but rank and heav,
with the rot from their polluted lungs
this fog fell at his feet. Spawned
from the spleen of envy and remorst
their fetid falsehoods passed ava.
in stencil. Aud noble Weller still
stands forth unframed and bravely
battles for the peoples cause,
by one term in congress Weller
has won the high distinction Of beiGs
worse hated by monopoly and fraue
than any other man in the nation
His name means more calamity" K
them than any other name beneath
the flag. They hate him as they
hate the truth. They dread him as
they dread the light. And why
Because he served his constituent.
well. With pure intent he fears nc
foe. He pits his individual though,
against the clamors OF their hireline
crew. He is the pure spirit Of anti.
monopoly made manifest in the
flesh;' it has been fused into his
bones by oppression and every vent
hole sealed up by SANDER. His name
and life will always be standing
protest against monopoly. He per-
fectly represents the peoples cause,
"But while Weller fights for the
people Fuller feels for their wallets.
For years Fuller has skinned the
carcass OF labor with the razor oil
usury and he now reaches for its
kidney lard with the carving knife
OF the monopolies whose candidate
he Is.
weller challenged him for a joint
discussion at Nashua; he refused
with the same arrogance that caused
him to decline to shake the honest
blacksmith's hand.
THE republican press advise Wei
Ter to beware OF Fuller's cold steel
1t Is the many cold steals Of his back
ers that causes Fuller TO skulk dis
cussiOn.
LET childlike faith and soft crcdu
lily that creeps submissive to tn,
party lash look at this Fuller as he is
behold his razor face, his cold an,
soulless eye, his bloodless lips, sour
ed with scorn or curdled with con
tempt, his thin and skinny feature
that seldom wear a smile, and whel
they do that smile is just as cheer
less as q graveyard grin. Conceal
ment hides in every lincament OF hi
face, and avarice minces in ever,
motion OF his body. Monopoly in
carnate! How long they must hav'
culled to find a form SO lit to repre-
sent the frauds Of 20 years.
Monopoly misguided hopes I,
i Tiff this Euftar into aapur.-S An,