Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-06-22
STREAMING AT A GNAT.


The Omaha Bee, the leading republican
newspaper of Nebraska, rises to Il lues-
ton of personal privilege to remark that
it will not support Chauncey Nj. Depew if
he ia nominated Mt Chicago. 1t speaks,
it says, in behalf of those republicans
who "still remain uudefied from the con
Elimination of corporate influence" and
it declares that Depew's election would be
the triumph of confedorated mouopolies
over true republicanism.
The action of the Bee is the most lu
dicrous exhibition of gnat strainiEg while
digesting the camel that has been seen IN
long time.
Everybody knows that the "oontamin-
alton of corporate influence" has detiled
the party through and through. At the
command of 90, porats influence it has
given hundreds of millions of the
public lands away. At the command
of corporate influence it has poured out
millions of the public money as sub
NlultHs AZ lut Cbululhlu pI tbI pbIAtt III
huenne it has passed the most unequal,
unjust and iniquitious tariff laws. Con
federate monopolies rule it, own it, vote
it. II is the abb ject. cringing slave of the
trust" 1t despises and ignores :he
rights of meu, until they form II corpora
tiou and stock it with capital. In Ne
Iu = hna hy- nrI
that the state was owned and
run by railroads. They have
ruled it's legislatures as completely as
they ruled their own brakemen. Van
Wyck, its late senator, dared TO make out
cry against monopolies; and the nome mt
he denounced corporations that moment
his republicsnism was under suspicion,
and he was kicked ont OF the senate, the
FIRST opportunity. The moment he be
gan to denounce corporate influence he
was considered crank. People could
not see how republican could inveigh
against corporate influence, unless he was
of unsound mind. Itwas like Il professed d
christian assaiNng the gospel plan of sal
vation. Corporate influence is that in
which modern repEblicsnism lives, moves
and has its being. 1t believes in gov,
ernment of the corporations, for the
corporations aud by the copper
stions. IL is now engaged in
an attempt to prevent all relief from
taxation merely for the benefit of few
thousand porstions. 1t is assessing
its campaign FUND frem corporated com
panies. Its voters are the led cattle of 4
few managers, who, were made by cor
porate inference, and maintain their
strength by it alone.
For a republican newspaper to show
signs of nausea at Depew is the richest
joke of the season.
Depew is the president of great rail
road. But were he to resign that connec
tion he would be quit of corporate sssocia
tion. But Blsine-Blsine is rssitied
woven into, mixed up, and dovetailed in
to corporate connections from one enc
of the land to the other. He has hant
i'll railroads, iron, coal, manufactures
he has an anchor to wiudward in NOR,
jobs, schemes, speculstions, etc, thar
would keep all the navies of the worl,
from drifting. Yet the Bee can swallow
Blaine, corporate influence and all
It can support repCblicanism which i
now only the varlet and lackey of cor
porate lordlipess, but it can't stand Nj
Depew. This is, indeed, strsiniug at
ynat and swallowing a camel
j. h. Blackburne, the famous ches
player. will probably make tour of thi
country next fall and winter.