Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-08-08
AIRING ALGER.

Gov. VIM r. Alger, of Michigan, late
candidate for president made wild and
foolish speech at indianapolis last week.
He went down to see Harrison and a
delegation coming in about then, Alger
was asked to address them. And he
did. He ranted about what the demo-
Gratis would do if they were kept in
power and this man actually predicted
that the supreme court would be re-
organized and democrats put on the
bench who would, at the first opportun-
ity, decide that the national govern
ment was responsible to the southern
people for the losses they sustained by
reason of the war. This Michigan
statesman who was considered sensible
enough to run for the presidency talked
such rot to an intelligent audience and
and the speech was sent broadcast over
the land by the associated press.
And this prompted the Kansas City
Times to rebuke him in way that he
should remember. The Times says:
''This General Alger of whom we
write has lately been getting himself in
a multitude of bloody shirt republican
newspapers. He goes upon the record
as an alarmist whose every garment has
about it the fetid odor of a sepulchre.
He revels in the memories of the civil
war. The south IS still an execrable
thing which ought to be shackled-
bound hand and foot, as it were. and
given oyer to more torment, robbery
and cOnfscation. Wounds are to be re-
opened. Skeletons are to be exhumed.
"At this devils work General AIger
goes with exquisite cunning of ayaric-
| iOusness, and the still more potent
factorship or factionalism. He swears
volubly to the north that the south
through the democratic party means to
demand pay for all its freed men and
get it, for all property destroyed and
get it, for all debts Cancelled through
forced reputation and get it--in short.
everything settled by the sword is to be
unsettled, and everything done by the
stern arbitrament Of arms to be undone
| and LETT TO chance, preadventure to
chaos.
1.-The democratic partyI Is General
Alger a fool, that he should thus talk
to the democrats of the north? Who
saved the Union? Who kept the con-
federate flag from flying this day above
the dome of the national capitol? Who
prevented absolute ACKNOWLEDGMENT. as
when physical body, in the old davs.
was hanged, drawn and qu2rtered? Who
| fought the fight and kept the faith
from Bull Run to Appomatox?
"Who, indeed, but the democrats in
the federal army? The old time apita-
tors and abolitionists never fought
They hired substitutes, speculated. and
got into bomb proofs. They printed
| greenbacks by the bale and appropriat.
ed them. The bigger the bale the big
ger the belly. Everything was swat.
lowed up. They laid in wait for demo.
cratic heroes and hamStrung them from
the rear. They pulled down Mcclellan
the man of all men who met the confed.
eracy in its splendid prime and struck
it such blows as made it to stagger and
barely bold up. They sought to cruelty
Hancock. that rock which abode in the
tempests of Gettysburg when REYNOLDS
had been slain and his whole division
strewn by deaths hand as wheat is
strewn by the hand of the sower. They
came after the war was done with the
hatred of speaks and towards to pillagt
what was left of the south, insult whai
was weaponless and steal whatever wa,
in sight,