The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-07-15
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The RspaBilC6h CONVENTION Of the
Fifth CongressiOnsl District wac held
at Coneordia, last Week, and amer q
prolonged and obstinate fight on be
half Of bis friends, John A. An
dersOn was defeated, by the nOmina-
ton Of Judge A. 8. Wilson. The
dose is like gall 10 the rei-headed
George w. Martin, ABdefson's chief
fugleman. who ct one time gusbed
over In fulsome praise Of the late de-
feated, BY vOciferously announcing
| that John A. Anderson was "the
best man God ever made" In Mar
tins paper, the Junction City Us50n,
Of the 50 inst, be gives vent % q
lengthy sereed OF abuse Of the nOmi-
nee, and straightWay eOunsels q bolt.
he violently attacks Wilson, calling
him ''drunkea duffer,n aud points
out numerous occasions when Wilson
bOlted the republican ticket, just as
though that were q crime In the afore-
said Martins esteem, when be has
never been known 10 equaFeIy sup
port the republican ticket since they
ehOked him offfrom the official teat
Considering the sort Of man that Geo.
w. Martin Il, John A. Andersen h
bound 10 be damned a. well as de-
feated by having him for q champion +.
for we look upon the matter now as ~
IN great measure ehargAble 10 such
support rs that rendered by Martin
and other quasi republicans, but not
altogether, for II there was q man in
Congress who was q sleeker dOdger
than john A. Anderson, we have
failed 10 note bis name or votes. On
several occasions MF. Anderson failed
70 identify himself with the republi-
can party by voting according TO re
publican tenets. On the contrary, he
several times voted IN support OF the
rAnkesi dOgmas Of democracy on the
vital question Of the tariff, exactly
crossing his record in the late tussle
on the Morrison bill, when he voted
with the republicans-dOubt.ess 20
try and save hlmeelf 81 the then fat
approaching convention, but ~ he
had sltadfhsily euddled With DemOc
raey, that vote was too we'll known %
be the act Of q deulngogue, and it
niscaFried. He had gone too far
had Over.reached himself Ia the de-
fusion that all republicans were too
1NAA ~ No1A us ALEAA0AA4r 8l4
that he was 20 comparatively wise
that he could play Chem for fools. He
sOwed the wind and has reaped q
WhirlWind.
To our personal knowledge John A.
Anderson Is not an honest politician,
TO say the least, and we insist that q
man should be reasonably honest In
politics, II he desires 10 be considered
so In any vocation Ia life. So that, Il
is with no particular qunlms that We
announce 10 our readers that he has
been defeated. He belonged, soul,
body and breeches, 10 the school OF
republicans whose political principles
were bounded by the pelf and hOnors
OF official position. Paraded as the
unFelentiBg foe 10 inonOpolles, his
chiefest hackers were high magnates
10 railroad circles, and yet bis sore
headed fuglemen have the imperti.
nence 70 cOme before the people aRd
howl that Il was railroad money that
defeated him. Suppose e was, does
that eXOnerats John A. Andersen?
Did he not entrust his chances 70
these very same men ? Did be not
submit everything to . denomination
by these very same men whom they
30 blstantly denominate "railrOad
cattle ?" aud would he not gladly
have taken the nomination at their
hands? How much better, then,
would these men have been? Would |
they have been any less cOFruptible, |
any less honorable? Faghl The |
very logic OF their own reasoning Il |
squarely against them. Mr.. Ander-
sOn and his friends would as freely |
use money a. would the railroads, and /
since he has never harmed q railroad, |
nor even mOlested one, is the best /
evidence that the railroad Doodle did |
not do the work. He was defeated |
solely upon the grounds Of incOmpe-
.ency aud because the fifth district
bad got tired Of his demagOgery, and
because he was on trial solely upon
bis merits, being shOrn of the privi-
lege Of dispensing patronage or even
pr mise thereof. Time levels things
md we are glad that our days have
'een sp AIRED TO witness the dwelling
4 John A. Anderson down TO his
,lane.