The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-09-25
The Great Campaign Il ohio.

III Great Campaign In Ohio.
The Peoples party state convention It
Springfield wasa great afair It was an
epoch marking event. 1t rounded out.
the preparations for the greatest politi-
cal contest ever witnessed in a state
campaign. 1t flung a battle gage into
the political arena that must be taken
up by both old parties, followed by a
fight to the finish. Now begins y mighty
struggle for political supremacy. Sham
battles for the spoils Of Office waged by
the Democrats and Republicans for the
past thirty years are, by the attitude Of
the Peoples party. transformed into a
life and death struggle for continued ex-
istence. The powers that be- see the
handwriting on the wall and, with the
desperation born of despair, will fight
for the -postponement of the inevitable.
The game of politics is to be played
differently this year in Ohio. There is a
new dealer of cars. Bluffs don't count;
marked cards will not be tolerated. The
game must be played fairly. with hands
above the board. The personalities, vi
tuperations, campaign falsehoods,, the
usual stock in trade of the old parties,
will be met by the writer's and speakers
of the Peoples party with facts and
truths. sustained by argument. Wool
gathering issues will be swept aside.
Old %prejudices and hates will be laughed
to scorn. Faction creating dissensions
will be side tracked, and the Peoples
party, with an eye single to the general
welfare, will keep in the middle of the
road and press steadily toward the goal
of success.
Thisis to be an educational campaign.
Men are thinking, and the gauzy senti-
ments that commanded applause in the
past will only excite contempt this year
from the awakened and thoughtful null
titue. The bloody shirt waver will
run amuck, the Union and Confederate
soldier are bent on fraternizing the
north and south. The one idea tariff
man, hoodwinking the people over a
minor issue, will find stern facts staring
him in the face at every turn, sustained
by unanswerable argument. Political
sophistries will vanish like the dew be-
fore the light of revealed truths.
Brag and buster about 1.-The most
prosperous country in the world" will
be met with the array of idle men and
women. bankrupted business men, mort
gagged and tenant farmers, starvation
wages. child t%oilers, locked out en-
ployees. declining values. farm products
q glut in the market, and a score of evils,
the existence Of which is sustained by
the highest tatisticalinformation. The
truth is what the people need. and the
truth is what the people are going to get
in this campaign.
The Peoples party wants no vantage
ground in any other way than by travel
ing the pathway Of truth. Political
spoilsmen playing on passion and preiu-
dice will have their influence, but the
average man is a searcher after the truth
today. and when he finds it he will EN-
brace it. We have no fear of results.
Boodle and buncombe will play theis
part with the mob, but the awakened
conscience and intelligence of the aver
age voter will ind expression N votes
cast FOR political truth and human wei.
fare.-PlOw and Hammer.