Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-10-23
MEDICINE LODGE, Oct. q.

| LOT any Lnlng ne says about me, but the
cause l have struggled TO help along
might suffer if some of his statements
are allowed to go uncontradicted.
In the CresSet OF Oct. Sd, he came out
in long-winded letter advising union
labor men to vote the republican ticket.
and gives, as his reason, that some dem
ocrats did not vote for me last fall, and
three years ago-that they voted for a
republican instead-which they had a
right TO do; right which every fair
minded man will grant them. Then he
charges me with being a democrat. If
| am, why did democrats vote for re-
publican instead of for me ? Pretty
thin argument, isn't it e? In his haste
to repeat the senseless cry ''he IS dem
ocrat, (which his republican masters
have used with such effect in working
on the prejudices of the people in times
past,) he shows that he has not learned
his lesson well; so he upsets his own
argument. 1t is easier to scream dem
ocrat!'' at man than it is to answer
when he asks you how it is, if protec-
ton provides home market, that ii
takes bushel of oats to get pound of
sugar, and whole crop of wheat to pay
for the Irvine that binds it? Oh, yes.
call him "democIat!' That Will settle
him. The republican bosses have been
trying. ever since l came into the cOun.
| ty, to fasten the democratic party collar
on my neck, so they could create preju-
dice against me.
| Now, this man Mobley was a demo
crat when the southern wing of that
party dictated the policy of the party
when it stood as the champion of black
slavery. But when it came out of the
war, somewhat purged and purified, he
left it, and has wandered homeless, I'M
til now he finds himself in his fathers
house again, under the reign of the Plu-
tOcrats, who are In for white as well as
for black slavery.
In his homeless wanderings In search
of party congenial to his makeup, he
has picked up a few crumbs which have
fallen from the union labor table; but
1t was noticed that he never cared much
! tor them. The union labor men are
asking who is this man MOhley many
having never heard of him until he made
himself notorious by betraying their
| trust.
AS to what he says about our commit
tee meeting, l do not think it proper
matter to discuss before the public. 1t
seems that he Wanteda ticket. Nothing
but a chance to vote will hold him to q
| principle; so, having no clean water in
which to battle, he must needs wallow
in the mud, and vote for Long for state
senator! Ye gods what pill tor pro-
fessed Christian to swallow
am not going to charge him with
selling out TO the republican party, and
with trying to deliver the goods, though
it does look little that way.) That is
cheap political clap-trap, in which the
paid attorney of the e. o. p. is INDUCING
to some extent, and they seem to have
a monopoly on that, as they have on
everything else in the country at pres
ent. l read his letter carefully, and
could discover nothing in it but what l
had heard from the republican press and
speakers great many times when they
needed the prohibition or union labor
vote. 1t is all old chaff, that has been
threshed over and over again. Nothing
new or original about 1T. Union labor
men have reached point where they
cannot be frightened by scare-crows
They have examined those men of straw
and old clothes that have been set up
in the political field and labelled dem
ocratic party" whisky VOTE" and so
on. They do not scare into the repub-
lican party as they used to do.
The republican party, in its youth,
did some good for the human race, but
as it grew strong 1t gathered the cor
rupt elements of the country into its
ranks, who depend on bribery and cor
rupt:on to get themselves into place.
| Representing and controlling the wealth
of the country, they take advantage of
the poverty and necessity of voters, to
control elections. MIR. Mobley knows
this as well as 1 door, at least, he
pretended to know 1T as late as a month
ago.
1t is told of certain Florentine agi-
tator that when he had received pail
Of new boots he concluded that all pop
ular grievances were satisfied. / hope
Mr.. Mobley is not In need of any bOotsI
However, am sure of one thing The
republicans are at present using him
for purpose, and when the election is
| over they will have no further use fol
him. Then he will have lost what little
influence he might have had. He be-
comes a mere unit, and will be counted
as a straight vote hereafter when the
republicans make up their brutal ma
iorlty. Outside of the old parties meI
who stand out for principle WELD pow
erful influence for good. 1t was the
influence of abolitionists on all parties
that forced the slavery question to the
. | front, and forced the republican and
| democratic parties to enact their prln'
ciples into law. 1t was the greenbacE
party that stopped the destruction OF
greenEackS, and re-mOnetiZed silver. II
was the influence of the union labor
party in Kansas that made the last leg
lslature pas the antitrust law and the
interest law. 1t IS the influence the
prOhlbitiOnists bring to bear on the re.
publicans that makes them pretend tC
be the temperance party, The men who
! stand out from the crowd, and declare
for principle, no matter now few they
may be, become power. whoever
becomes imbued with noble idea, kin.
. dies flame' from which other torches
are lighted. Mr.. Mobley is not salts
fed to leave off trying to keep this flame
alive, but is trying to throw cold water
on it, and trying to get others to helK
him.
: 1t is told of Charles III, of England
e that while he wandered, an exile, ont
: OF his servants threw himself into muC
hole, that the king might pass over
clean. History does not record it, bui
: It Is safe to suppose that while the kinS
;, went over drv, the servant got verl
: dirty. am afraid this will be Mr.. Mob
ey's fate.
D And now, in conclusion, l want Il
say that L never was a democrat, anC
am not now a democrat; but also tina
s never reject truth because it is adj
G vocated by democrat or a republican
- All the yelping and barking of all th,
ours in the county cannot turn me from
u a cause think is right. 1 know tina
Il for the man who sees the evils of tn
) times-the want, ignorance and miser,
!, caused by unjust laws-who sets him
u self, so far as he has strength, to RICH
IS them, there is nothing in store but rid
II ieule and abuse. The bitterest thought
and the hardest to bear, is the hope
lessness of the struggle, 1.-The futility O
: sacrifice" But to us, who have take
y up the crusade, there should be no halt
il ing: and as our ranks grow thin b
: death or desertion. we should close uI