The Globe-republican., 1890-10-22
THEY SEE THE HANDWRITING ON
THE WALL

THE WALL.
The efforts Of the Times, in last weeks
issue, to be funny in the article replying
to the GLOBE of last week regarding the
merits of the democratic and republic
can candidates for representative, is a
CHASTITY effort to make themselves brave
in the presence of impending defeat.
They see the handwriting on the wall,
and cannot escape the conviction that
the people of this county are this fall de-
termined to be represented by man
who is fully in accord with their views
and interests, and not by man who rep
resents all those interests that have been
the means of corrupting our sources of
legislation. and made it possible for the
laboring and wealth producing classes to
be subjected to the indignities they are
now complaining of. They made the
old cry of Mr.. Hoover's great interests
in the county. and we believe the people
are not blind to the fact that this same
argument has been used for the election
of every capitalist who ever obtained a
seat in our halls of legislation. They re-
hash the old cry that John l.. Finley, be-
cause he is poor man. has no right to
say what he believes the people of this
county should have in the matter of leg
islation. and exhibits the same old spirit
that the wealthy and Oppulent alone
shall say what shall be done for the poor
and oppressed. They cannot heap too
much ridicule upon the stand taken by
Mr.. Finley upon matters pertaining to
the interests of this county; not because
his views are not right; not because Mr..
Hoover did not break hamestring in his
effort to endorse it; not because his views
are not the views of the people of the
county. No! Not for any of these rea-
sous, but fOrsooth, because John l.. Fin
ley is taken from a class to which 95 per
cent. of humanity belongs; from class
to which more than that per cent. of the
people of Ford county belong; from the
ranks of those who earn their bread by
the sweat of their brow; from the ranks
of those who. according to the doctrine
of the Times. have no right to say wha:
the policy of our government shall be.
The Times asserts that the GLOBE
charged MIR. Hoover with being opposed
to all the things stated in Mr.. Finley's
platform. The GLOBE conclusively
proved that all of Mr.. HOOver's interests
were opposed to this legislation and left
its readers to draw their own conclusions.
So far as the GLOBE is concerned it had
no method of knowing what stand Mr..
Hoover might take. We simply knew
he had failed to take any stand so far as
we knew, and did not take one until
driven to do so by the Farmer candidate.
We knew, as we proved, that his interests
were opposed to the stand he was driven
to take. and we believe, as we asserted
before. that the people of this county are
capable of choosing wisely between a
man who of his own motion and because
of his sympathy with them is favorable
to them, and one who is driven to assume
the same position for political purposes
only.
Let us quote from the Times, first a
quotation from the GLOBE by them. and
then their comment:
'''It is the same old story of mOnied
men being demanded in the halls of our
Legislature. GLOBE"
"Hardly. dear brethren. 1t is the story
of a taxpayer against non taxpayer
OF man of ability against one that
hasn't. OF a self-made man against one
that isn't. OF one that has thousands of
dollars at stake, against one that hasn't"
Yes, we repeat, the same old story!
The tax payer against the laboring man
and the farmer! The man of ability to
make money against the laboring man
and farmer! The self-made man Gin
point of money! against the laboring
man and farmer! The man who has
thousands of dollars at stake against the
laboring man and farmer. If this is not
the same old story, we have failed to in
terpret correctly the struggle between
the rich and the poor.
The attempt to justify Mr.. Hoover's
equity of redemption law is simply pitt
able. The GLOBE stated, and correctly.
that in case where settler was absent,
though in good faith intending to hold
his home, and his claim was sold under
foreclosure proceedings, the settler was
at the mercy of the loan company as to
whether he would be allowed to redeem,
or he was compelled to bring suit to OBJ
tain the right to redeem, and then show
that he was not wilfully absent. The
Times says this is simply rot, but sug-
gests no remedy. The only reason as
signed for this iDiquitOus provision is
that it is a warning to spectators. Why
the settler of this county should be re-
fused the benefit of the law that Mr.. Fin