The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-12
CONCERNING ABUSIVE NEWSPAPERS.


From the tone and language of a
great many of the Peoples party pa
pers in the State it is evident they rec
ognize that they are beaten in the ar
gument and that their only hope of
success is in a campaign Of falsehoOd
ard abuse. y favOrite topic with most
Peoples party orators is the defama-
ton and Misrepresentation which they
allege is to be found i'll old party pa
pers. Even the REGISTER has been
attacked on this score, although we
will stake all that we possess that not
a single vulgar epithet, not a word Of
abuse of any honest and honorable
man, and not a single wilfUl perversiOn
of the truth can be found in its files for
ten years past. And we venture to
say that the Peoples party papers of
Kansas, within the last six weeks,
have contained more defamation of
character, more vituperation and
abuse, than can be found in all the Re-
publican press ofthe State for six years
past. Here are a few samples:
The Belleville Freeman, the leading
Peoples party paper OF Northwest
Kansas, refers to \. w. Smith in IT'S
last issue as a "coWardly blatherslite
and blatant demarogue,n and speaks
of ''lot OF cowardiy sllumlls like \.
w. Smith who travel with such cattle
as J. Il. Burton
The TCoDIc'S De5eRdcr, the organ of
the Peoples party OF Cheyenne county.
says: "The RepU blican ticket is made
upof Dag0s, defaulters and gamblers"
The Clay Center Dispatch, edited by
w. Vincent. who aspired to be the
nominee OF the Peoples party for gov
ernoT, says: -. ". Smith is a great
big chump.n and vet this great big
chump was & member OF the legisla-
ture six years, was unanimously chOs
en- by the Republicans speaker of the
house of representatives, was presi-
dent of the State board OF agriculture
five years, was president of the Kan
sas Worlds fair association, and pres
ident of the farmers congress.
The Ottawa Journal, the organ of
State Printer snow Of the Peoples par
ty, refers TO Bruce Lynch the Republic
can nominee for State treasurer, as a
common everyday deadbeat and
pimp.n
The ConcOrdia Pladc, the Peoples
party organ Of Cloud county, devotes
considerable space to abuse of -. Rats
Burton, Fog-horn Smith, Bloody Shirt
Dawes and that other fellow J. b.
Johnson
The Lawrence TefersORiGn, the PeO-
pies organ of Douglas county, calls
Bruce Lynch ''scab, " and concocts q
lie out of whole cloth TO the effect that
he took the place OF a Missouri Pacific
Brotherhood engineer in the strike of
1877.
The Minneapolis IadCr, the Peoples
organ of Ottawa county, states that
"Smith gets a big salary from the
Santa Ee company for his services, that
he makes his home at the SWEETEST no.
tel in Topeka, and that his family
spends part of each year on a farm to
catch votes" every word of which the
writer of the article knew was false
when he wrote it.
Then comes the AllidHcc AdC0cdte
of Topeka, which announces it is the
official organ of the Peoples party of
Kansas, and refers this week to the
Republican ticket as follows: "The
Republican ticket is surely a nauseat-
ing mess TO dish up TO honest voters.
A soulless demagOgue for governors a
defaulter and all-rOund scoundrel for
congressman-at-large; a gambler and
scab tradesnan for treasurer. And in
the Fifth. J. II. Burton, whose Teputa-
ton smells loud enough to drive hog
out of lanyard
A short time ago The Topics, which
was then the Peoples party organ Of
Shawnee county, had the following:
ben Harrison is the most cOntempti-
BILE, the most despicable. the basest,
the narrOwest and shail0west, the
meanest and most offensive fellow who
ever sat in the presidential chair.
There is not 2 moral disease that he
has not in the very worst form. He
infects the air. SHe is gangTened TO
the very core. BY the necessity Of his
vile nature he hates anything large.
or great, or generous, or decent. Ben
Harrison is the chief night scavenger
OF the political parties Ofthe day. And
indeed we are very low when any po-
Iiticai party can bee bought like slaves
to accept such al Egyptian hog rs a
candidate for President. IT shows that
the ultimate of plutocracy is the filth
beneath SNedenborE's hells.n