Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-08-03
Is One a Traitor Who Critioizes
the Record Of a Democratic
CandidaGs9

Four years ago the people Of this nation, by
their ballots. proved their opIaiOn Of suea fllse
hoods as the Herald published, editOriallys last
Week II regard 70 O9E president Sucn etteE-
ances against the president OF our country repre-
sentng as he does this people and their free an
ussus are the uLterancea OF Thsse no are 90
heart traitors % the government THE state
ment that he is coarse liCeutiOua man. has been
reteEating certain statements do At entire /
sacrifice OF truth -Phiilipsburg Democrat.
The recent allusiOn to the Demo /
crat candidates moral character by /
the HERALD, was occasioned by that !
papers unsparing denunciation Of ali /
those who dared even by inference, to /
hint at the charges made against such /
candidate by a Baptist Democratic /
minister, at the late. st. Louis Con
ventiOn. Now the HERALD has re-
spect for the high Office of the Presi-
dency of the United States, but no
respect for a seducer and heartless
libertine who may by chance occupy
that or any other official position.
We have greater regard for a day
labOrer, "a hOd-carrier is hon
est, who is a good and true husband
and father, than for an adulterOus,
untrue man occupying a Governors
or Presidents chair. The practice of
white-washlng rascals IN high places
is one of the curses of the country.
We do not care to discuss In these
columns nor any where else, the his
tory of the cruel betrayal and in
human treatment of a woman by the
modest man in American as the
Democrat styles its candidate, but if
the Democrat thinks it can ride rough
shod over US and brighten US by max
ing the astounding statement that the
HERALD has made a false statement
in regard to the charge that his ''nO-
, BILE man. has an illegitimate son bear
, ing his own name, then our cOntem-
porary might as we'll learn now as
, later, that he cannot scare us into
? silence. George William Curtis, the
New York Independent, the Judge
/ of the Buffalo Court, the Superinten-
4 dent of the Asylum, the Pastor Of the
, Baptist Church of Buffalo, and scores
of others gave evidence OF the Truth
fulness OF the said charge and the
Democrat knows all this as well as
q we do, and that even his candidate
9 did not dare to deny it personally, and
the only defense he or his friends
ever made was that the betrayed of
) the woman was youthful indiscre-
2 ton George William Curtis said
, that he admitted the truthfulness of
the charge but claimed certain ex-
tenuating circumstances. It is one
of the strange, the phenomenal things
S that this great Nation would elevate
= such man with such a record to so ex-
allied a place, for never was fact more
] clearly established than that alluded
It to. What strange things happen in
g politics! Just think of it! Here was q
s small lawyer with but little practice
E an old bachelor who spent much Of
s his time in a favorite saloon near his
r dingy little Office, a steady whiskey
drinker, frequenter Of places where
few men cared to be seen, a man o.
= inferior education, owning no library
4 worth mentioning, was unknown out
is side of his county, had never beer
> identified with any great public move
:. ment, had never held public Office
Il except that of hang-man, had neve
1. had an important suit in court, was I
/ stranger to the leading Influential
y business men of his own city, his &C
! ouaintance confined mainly to TIN
" salOOn-men and what was known a
u the tough element of both sexes
S. this man, brought first into a it'll
+ prominence by becoming the candi
- date for Mayor on a local issue Il
which he received the solid supper
of the saloons and rowdy element
The Democratic party following It
s. old time custom Of electing its can
s. didate from the obscure men, chOs
II him for higher positions. The DEN
S. ocratic party contained In It's rank
p, a thousand men who for culture, 70
L ability for real moral worth, stood S
- - far in advance Of this man, tha
n. his selection can be accounted 10
only on the ground that it is II
remarkable political phenomenon
These are facts,-Plain, well estai
e lished, unassailable, cold, stubbOr
y. u facts-and there are tens of thoul
he ands who blush because they Al