The advocate., 1890-12-24

ANMAAAhls
The purihcaton Of politics is an irrides-
cent dream. Government is force. Poll
tics Is a battle for supremacy. Parties arc
the armies. The decalOgue and the golden
rule have no place IN a political campaign.
Tho object is success To defeat the antag-
Onist and expel tho party In power Is the
purpose. The republicans and democrats
are as irlconcilably opposed 20 each other
as we're Grant and Lee Ia the Wilderneea
They use ballots instead OF guns, but the
struggle Is az unrolenting and desperate,
and The result sought for the same. In war
10 Is lawful 30 deceive the adversary, tO hire
HesBians 30 purchase merconarieB, 10 mutil-
ate 90 kill, 30 destroy The commander
who lost q battle through the activity OF his
moral nature would be tho deriaiOn and iost
OF hiBtOry.-IntervieW published In the Now
York World, April 13, 1880.
The old Romans had a sayings "Monoy
does not stink, no matter how acquired
So the politician considers that votes do not
smell bad after they are cast and counted,
no matter what may have been tho method
by which they were procured. Numbers,
not quality, obtain the certificate OF election.
The ambitious politician therefore endoav-
Ors TO ascertain what is popular rather than
what Is right, and the possession OF an ac-
UlNd NuuhUleNeo OF n houhlulN0 AhnEh uhbWAU
is a formidable II not an insuperablo OBJ
staCle 10 success. Extract from an article
published in tho Topeka Capital, February
rs, 1888.
Compare the foregoing with the fol-
lowing words Of President Lincoln ut
tered on the occasion Of the dedication Of
thesoldlers' monument at Gettysburg, Pa,
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate
we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow
these graves. The brave men, living and
dead, who struggled here have cOnsecrated
them far above our poor power TO add or
detraCt. The world will little note nor long
remember what we say here. 70 is for us,
tho living, rather, 20 be dedicated here TO
the unfinished work which they who fought
here have thus far 80 nobly advanced. II is
rather for us TO be here dedicated TO the
great task remaining before us-that from
these honored dead we take increased deyo-
tion 60 that cause for which they gave the
last full measure Of devotion, that we here
highly resolve that these dead shall not have
died In vain, that this nation, under God,
shall have a new birth Of freedom, and that
government Of the people, by the, people,
and for the people, shall not perish from
the earth.
The foregoing words invested with a
glorious immortality are here supple
ment by my Faith" as presented by
Hon. T. d. Sullivan, a member Of the
British parliament, in the following Ian
guage:
I've heard enlightened persons say
With show OF logic keen and clever,
The world win roll IN the ancient way
And the honest man will be down forever.
Honor and truth are an idle dream;
Self is the rule good sense advises,
Worth will sink like dregs I'm the stream,
And tine sun will shine on all that rises,
But l say no,
10 cannot be sol
And II my reasons must be given,
80 weak am |,
That my sole reply
Is, q just God sits on the throne OF heaven.
When men grow rich by the fraud OF years,
LOll In their rooms or COuCheB splendid,
Laugh when they hear OF the poor mans tears,
And say II Is all as heaven Intended;
When proudly meath the summer sky,
DeCeyeT liar, cheat and spOiler,
with gaudy gllt 80 flashing BY
And sCOrn the care worn, thin-clad t0ller.
Still mi weak
Enough To speak
MY Changeless faith In the old, old story,
The martyrs trust
That God Is JUST
And virtue still the way TO glory.
The following deductions on the fore
going quotations are made by an active
member Of the peoples party in Shawnee
county, who fought the fight for the peo-
pie and kept the faith for them In
valiant contest he made in their behalf
In the campaign Of $780,
Il is impossible not TO recognize striking
ability and the wonderful force and strength
of each Of these utterances. In spirit and
moral grandeur, however, they are as wide