The advocate., 1891-06-03
CAN'T THE scATERED FRAGMANTs r-GE'


day, is, SO beginning to. complain OF
s:machinep Republicanisna and boss
rule among the invalid factions of
- the once great party IN Kansas; which
= in 1864 had 81,7 per cent, OF the pop
+, ular vote, while in 1880 it dropped to
81 per cent, that it gives, it's readers
an. exceedingly solemnchely article
ON i"Crowds VS.. Crowds ~ .rror'
,n.' Ifit were to fail to excite Mdlgna-
=, tion towards, the active, ,;.scrOwds" who
are 'energetically bent upon beng
,:ther grand old party to, put ap
,:.::jobs" upon the meek andlunsuspect-
ing yotsries of thesgang''who are now
at the front, ON the psrtof the aver
,,age ,idolatrous, voter of the "OrowRsY
ticket, who is expected toobey the
word of the ,bossess command, even
as mechanically as a a.saw cuts timber,
it, might invoke the pathetic, and
cause the solemn wall, 'af oye have
tears prepare to she'd them now
But, Aesrken, to this iEptrod F;,c1
Just now very much is being said in in KSrsaS by
political farmers and political editors and poptE
cal railroad men and political mechanics and
political politicians about the 'Oldcrowd'' and
the .'yOung crowd" in the state. Each man IAN, is
beginning to lind it necessary to "line up Win
crowd or the other, and while 1t is difficult
to determine by the number Of years q man may
have lived to what crowd be belongs, yet there
is scoming to be distinct line between them;
and the old crowd consists Of fthOS6' who areAn
Office or have been in office or know where there
Is an office they can get when they, want 1t. Inc
,yOing crowd IS made up 6f those WHO want Of
cesand, can't get them or orwhOwant, 9ffces for
some OF their ."fellers" and can't get them.
In fact the definition Of the two terms may be
made as follows; the old0crUwd is made upOf
.tbose who have office, and the yopngerowd OF
those who want Office. as t..,,t
How il, might shock one Of weak 9sI
nerves and Of feeble muscular power
to read the following precious erp0se
of the general lnfrmities Of these
patriots in the Republican party
the only political organization that
holds any of that class Of citizens as
ordinations and recriminations are
SO indeIicately protruded to the front,
and the following speaking out in
meeting:
without discussing the question as to which is
or may be entitled to the spOlls, 1t seems more at
point to look at some other phases Of the cOntr0-
yersy. What would the most verdant member
of theyohhg crowd even, say Of a general Who
would stop at a critical moment In the battle to
prove to his senior officer that company ZAP
could shoot better than company "B"? And
what Of the senior commander that would order
thetwo companies to step out and shoot at each
other In order to decide as TO their relatiye tner
its? >. Z r n.gr.,st7 I
And vet this just what certain members Of the
opposing ''croWds" are doing to-day With their
old enemies massed sOldy in front OF them,
with new enemy augmenting its forces by deS-
ertions from our own ranks, with a new nation
al party ready to execute a flank movement and
capture the whole party, the leaders, or the pre-
tended leaders, sit still and quartet With each
other as to who shall have an Office that win peri
haps not pay the expenses incurred improperly
executingits trusts. We have had, wehaye now,
toomuch talk about crowds. We also have too
many crowds. There should be but one crowd,
and every man who loves the Republican party
and its principles, who is patriot a96 who
thinks more Of his country than he does Of an Of