The advocate., 1891-09-23

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tury past with as much bitterness as
though it were in actual progress
upon the bloody field to-day-still
seeking TO keep the two sections Of
our country "estranged only to prey
upon them and TO maintain political
supremacy by their alienation"
Now about John Livingston--this
patriot (O from New York. Lest our
readers may have forgotten who he
is, we will refresh their memories.
First, however, we desire to correct
the false statement that he is or ever
was president Of any Alliance in New
York, unless it was an Alliance of
thieves and cut-throats. OF such q
gang more suitable president could
not be found. At the time that John
Livingston pretended to be president
of the New York State ALI
ance, not q single sub-Alliance
had been organized in the state.
No State Alliance could there
fore exist, and hence no president.
This man never figures except as a
fraud of some kind, In order to
show just the kind of "union loving
patriots" the Western Veteran and
the Capital are holding up as their
highest ideal, We cannot do better
than to reproduce for the second time
from the Locomotive FSremGN's
Magazine Of April 10, 1890, a chapter
OF his history:
We sympathize with the Interstate commerce
commission The learned and dignlfled gentle
men composing that body, however profoundly
schOoled in the philosophy Of patience, must, at
times, most devoutly pray 10 be delivered from
such compound Of rogue and rodent, wind
and water, as John Livingston.
This malOdOr0uS creature has all along pre-
tended that he is president Of 1.-THE Railway
Shareholders Association" and he has played
the fraud with the skin Of three card monte
thief or bunkO gteerer, No thimbleT1gger ever
played his deceptiOns more adr0itly. He has
imposed himself upon Senators Reagan and Cul-
l0m and the interstate commission and made
them believe he was president Of an association
OF railway shareholders, and has sent out printed
copies Of letters purpOrtinG to have been written
by MesSrS. Reagan and CullOm, and which,
whether fOrgeries or genuine reflect precious
little credit upon the writer's.
But the point that We make is this: That John
Livingston is brazen fraud. Let US sec.
The Railway Shareholders Association" Of
which he claims to be president, Is myth; no
such association exists or ever did exist. It's
creation Of John Livingston from behind which
he has been keeping up continuous fuSilade at
the interstate commission, Senators, railways
and railway employees for months past. This
rogue, this impecunlOus rascal this Vagab0nd
attorney and peStiferOus pimp and shySter, In
the name OF law, has formulated all sorts OF
charges and fled them for the consideration Of
the Interstate commission, OStensibly for the
purpose OF preventing railway corporations from
exercising the right Of permitting their employees
to ride without charge, or at reduced fare on the
railroads. In all Of this, John Livingston has
had but one purpose In view. As we have said,
his "Railway ShareholderS Association" Of
which he claims to be president, is fraud: . vul
gar deception; cunning device, wen calculated
to give the knave some standing In court, and
aid him In carrying out his swindling, black
mailing scheme.
There being no Railway Shareholders AssOcla-
tion In existence, no railway shareholder having
EoOmplalned because Q railway emplOye rode