The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-22
CHEWING THEIR PILL

To Kansas Democrats: Ii you have
bitter pill to take, gulp it down.
don't chew it. SO many people chew
their pills.-EmpOTid Republican.
1t has been extremely diverting,
these two weeks past, to note the diff
ferent ways in which our Democratic
exchanges have taken the pill admin
istered by the late State Convention.
Here and there one has "gulped it
down" and pretended he liked it, and
occasionally one has refused to take it
at all; but most Of them are heroically
chewing it, with an evident deter
minatiOn TO IVORY it down. if pOssi-
bic. Perhaps our readers would like
glance at the wry faces and the
tears that accompany the operation:
OHdWu Herdld: We haven't read
the Democratic platform adopted at
Topeka, we have been too mad. The
ticket is what hurts. Oh, Lord! have
we got to swallow the dose?
Junction CITY S'cRtBel Had the
fight been between Democratic candi-
dates, obedience to the choice of the
convention would have been duty.
AS it is. every Democrat under all the
circumstances should be governed by
his own judgment and the dictates of
his own conscience.
lVeStpAdiia Times: The State con-
yentiOn at Topeka last week put the
knife to the throat of the Democratic
party in Kansas. In other words the
leaders have sold out TO "prostituted
band of fodder hunters, but can the
goods be delivered?
1t was a desperate struggle between
life and death of the party in Kansas.
The Times will wait till the smoke
of battle has cleared away before it
shall give utterance as to the course it
shall follow. or by lending his support
to such a scheme. The fIsionists NAV
be right, but as yet we are unable to
see it.
We were willing, and thought it
good politics, to endorse the Peoples
electors, and perhaps w. A. Harris |
for Congressman-at-lar but the
whole ticket is too much and is a bit |
ter dose.
Yates Center Democrat: 1t does |
not suit US little bit, but a majority |
of the Democrats of Kansas have |
spoken. They have told us to support 4
the bastard ticket. True Democracy /
teaches us that a majority should rule. /
1t is a great mess of crow, but along 1
in the course of week or two when it .
becomes thoroughly digested, the Peo- I
pies party State and electoral ticket /
will grace our masthead. We grace
fully tumble when a brick house falls
on US, but not until We draw the at
tentiOn of fusion Democrats to the fol-
lowing little nursery rhyme:
There was young woman in Niger,
Who went for a ride on tiger
They finished the ride with the woman inside
And a smile on the face of the tiger
Eureka Messenger: Realizing that
in three cOrnered fight they would
have no possible chance to win, ma
jOrity of the delegates TO the State con-
vention decided that it was good pol
icy to renOminate the Peoples party
ticket, thus insuring the defeat of the
Republican party, the only permanent
and dangerous enemy with which
Democracy has to contend. Especial
ly was it considered desira BILE to wrest
the ten electoral votes of Kansas from
the Republican column for the reason
that should the presidential contest
proves close one, those ten votes taken
away from Harrison might prevent
him from receiving the necessary Do.
throw the election into the house of (
representatives and thus insure the I
election of Cleveland.
LEROY Reporter: When the Demo-
cratic State convention met in Topeka |
it found two presidential tickets in /
the field, the Republican and the Pom
ulisi The Republican ticket repre- ,
sents ideas dramatically opposed to |
Democratic principles. The POpuIist |
ticket represents Ideas not 80 diamet- :
ricalIy opposed 10 them as the Repub- I
lican though it embodies in its plat t
form various political heresies and /
vagaIies to which they cannot sub S
scribe But nterbalance the last a
objection, the POpulist has no chance q
Of ever being elected, and therefore by
ii successfully, every Dem
Ocrat is casting half vote for the f
Democratic Notwithstanding that [
4 Kansas Democrat has never done !
before. Hence he is voting strictly in
with his principles. o
Usage City Public Opinion: The k
Democratic State convention, which