The advocate., 1891-11-25

party PopoGs III AauSaSS IL Wlu De seen GnaG Gnefo
10 crafty method In It's madness. Such papers
perfOrce need In their peculiar line Of business o
mathematical Juggler, logical legerdemaln and
Blelght-Ot hand performer, and this week THE
ADVOCATE man certainly earned his salary, A
large table 10 printed by The ADVOCATE In
which one or two columns contain the returns
from the recent election and seven or eight ad-
Joining columns contain alleged deductions
Briefly, the table shows that the third party this
year pOlled about 116,OOO votes. The Republicans
pOlled about 10000 more and the Democrats
pOled $4,000 votes. Last year the Alliance pOlled
over 100000 votes for Congressman and about the
same number for the various county officers,
while the highest Republican vote was not 1885,
OOO And yet In the face Of these very things
The ADVOCATES sword sWalloWer has per-
formed turn which Is intended to make the
people believe that the Alliance has gained In
Kansas.
The sublime assumption, the appalling self.
satisfaction Of party which can calmly look at
loss Of 5000 voters from It's own ranks and
an Increase OF q Ike number OF voters amOung
the ranks Of It's adversary, and then claim glO.
riouS victory, would be refreshing were 1t not
for the irritation which comes with the knOWl-
edge chat q Lie travels faster than the truth. And
further: After having seen tw0-thlrds Of the
county officers elected by the Republicans, the
claim Of the Alliance that they have won vic
tory Is not relnqulShed. But Whistllng, though
It may scare graveyard ghosts, only makes sem
sible people laugh. The laughs on the Alliance
this year without any dOubt.-KdnsGs CtEy
Journal.
Eighteen days after the election the
poor old stumpy Journal of Kansas
City, Mo-, in which state it wlelds
next to no political influence at all,
makes q predatory excursion into
Kansas and awakening from a long
Rip Van Winkle sleep sends out the
foregoing stuff.
The errors, not to say falsehoods,in |
the Journal editorial are so numer-
ous that il is far from a pleasant task |
to review such matter, ssvoring so |
strongly Of ignorant infernalism, ut
terly unworthy of metropolitan
daily making any claims to respecta-
bility.
The ADVOCATE has never stood in
need Of a mathematical juggler,"
and, in fact, has never had one. But
can the Journal anywhere near say
as much for itself and its party?
Does it remember when Robert T.
Van Horn had seat in the National
House Of Representatives and when
visiting statesmen" were sent in No
vember, 1876, to the three disputed
states OF Florida, Louisiana and South
Csrolinsa And can it have forgotten
sundry trips that Republican mission
aries made on the soil of Kansas just
after the state election Of 1890?
Why need il, with the "large table"
in view, have uttered the following /
Munchausen:
A large table Is printed by The ADVOCATE, in
which one or two columns contain the returns
from the recent election and seven or eight ad-
Joining columns contain alleged deductions
Could the malignant falsifer posi-
bly, explain hotU with the four tickets
that were in the feld-Republican,
republican, Peoples and
Democratic the returns on this
four set of Uotes could be got in zone
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