The advocate., 1890-07-09

in a vote Of 1880 Blaine had i07 ma
iority in a vote Of lO04 and Harrison
lacked ~ votes OF majority In vote Of
1891 In the results as above stated, re-
publican supremacy Is declining. In 1878
the republican candidate for governor
lacked lll votes Of having a majority.
WIlson-ThIs county has been one Of
republican maioritica though In 1882
Governor ~. John lacked 1870 votes Of
carrying the county lts showing In
presidential elections Ia as follows: Out
Of 20 votes in 1864, Lincoln had 10 ma
iority, Grant in 1858 had i70 majority
out Of 500 votes; in 1872 his majority
was $40 out OF 1903 votes. Hayes had
on majority in 9,2s7 votes; Garfield, 87s
majority In 2,876 votes; Blaine, 094 ma.
jOrlty In 3,8G9 votes, and out OF 8,94l
votes, Harrison had 439 majority; thus Il
may be seen since 1872 the republican
party has been declining. John s. Gil
more, Of the Fredonla Citizen, in 1878
was for the second time elected to the
House Of representatives, lie then bad
one majority IN vote returned Of tl6l,
THE VALUE or GILMORE As A JOURNALIST.
In its issue Of June 10 the Citizen thus
airs itself.
The republican papers, Ike the Mcpherson
Freeman ElDurndu Republican and EmpOria
Republican will reap the whrlWnd II any crop
results from their sowing. 10 h not the election
Of farmers % Congress or 20 the legislatures that
IN uppeTInOst with the controlling elements I'm thB
alliance, any more than Il N thG welfare OF prOh-
billion thnt Is the object NJ the political pTOhibl.
tlonlsis or third parlytes.
A rebuke of Messrs. Kelley, Murdock
and Eskrldge, editors Of the papers that
Gilmore above names, may seem fitting
TO such puny nonenity, who % blinded
political slave would mislnform the
readers Of the citizen, and II may be In
complete harmony with the course Of such
an inconsequential trucker to institute
his course, stale slander Of the "polltlcal
prohibitiOnists" whom he designates az
"thlrd partyites" That sort Of newspa-
per force In the third congressional dis
trict is still clamOrous for still moro re-
turns TO Congress Of Ingalls, and Perkins,
who are western men with essential east
ern, or more definitely speaking, Of thor
oughly monopolistic principles. And
this yerdant Gilmore would iain make
the people Of Wilson county believe that
remedial Legislation lnurlng to the bene-
ilt Of the wealth producers Of the state
and nation would flow from the acts,
speeches and votes Of an Ingalls, and
Perkins
AN EXCERPT FROM BISHOP W. PERKINS.
The South Kansas Tribune, at Inde-
pendenco, the home organ Of Governor
Humphrey, and q newspaper beneficiary
OF Ingalls, and Of Perkins, receives the
following in letter from Perkins:
know Oi no reason, moral or economical, why
| the mlnts NJ our country should not be- open tO
! the free and unrestricted cOlnagp Of silver the
same as " gold, and believe that II the coinage
| Of the silver metals found In the Rocky Noun
| tnins Of the west WAS free 10 would add % the
volume OF our currency and would prove benelc-
lal to the agricultural scctlOnsOf our country.
Now let it not be forgotten that this
Congressman Perkins, just once, when
his vote in the interest Of the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver would not In
the least frustFate the demonetlzlng
scheme Of Harrison, Reed, Window and
their Wall street and foreign allies; CON
descended 10 stand and make a solid