The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-01-01
! THE DEMO-REP. COMBINE.

THE DEMO-REP. COMBINE.
The Alliance Has No Rights They Are
Bound to Respect.
Some of the Republican blather-
sixties, who imagine they have a mo-
nopoiy OF all the loyalty and patriot
ism Of this country, and who mako
membership in that party of corrup-
ton, scoundrelism and rascality a test
of loyalty to the government, have
said and are still repeating it that If
the calamity bowler or Peoples party
man did not like this country he could
get out of it. On two occasions re-
Gently, says the Alliance Tribune, q
man who disgraces the judicial bench
OF Shawnee county, who prides him
self in having been a soldier of the
late war, gave utterance publicly to
the above declaration. Funston. an
old ass, that represents the Second
district in congress, would deny to the
soldier who adheres to the Peoples
party pension. Lew Hanback, who
distinguished himself in Ohio by
going on roaring drunk and getting
in jail while there to whoop it up for
Mckinley. would discipline the old
soldiers who are pensioners, and who
belong to the Peoples party. by TAX
ing their pensions away from them
until they are willing to go back to
the Republican party again. The
mere suggestion of such ideas show
the desperate straits OF that party, its
internal rottenhess the cool calculat-
ing villainy Of its leaders who not
only rob and steal but would commit
murder to accomplish their ends and
purposes TO the true man in the
ranks of the Peoples party who an :
swered his country's call and went
where duty called, who to day draws a
pension, or does not draw a pension,
such sneers and threats from such
dastardly whelps and conte1np-
tible scoundrels have no effect what
ever, except to act as a stimulous in
the determination to accomplish the
downfall Of the two old parties and
their rotten leaders. The men who
have left the old parties and Joined
the new, know what they are doing,
and of all men they will be the last to
be intimidated by slurs. sneers and
threats from anybody-much less the
Funstons. Hanbacks and j. B. John
sons. Quite large per cent. of the
Peoples party vote Of to-day are men
who earned the right to think and
vote as they please, In those troublous
days. and the mouthings of the
Funssons Handbacks and j. B. John
sons only serve to awaken in their
breasts supreme contempt for such
pimps of prediction and plutocracy.
We are using strong language-and
we only wish we were capable of
making it stronger, to express the
measure of contempt and loathing for
any man-and especially for a man who
wore the blue who would deny to any
soldier the privilege of thinking and
voting as he may choose We do not
think any the less of a comrade for
being Republican or Democrat
God bless 'em, they earned the right,
but when pothouse politician of the
Funston Hanback, johnson stripe,
enunc;ates the doctrine that because
an old soldier chooses to unite his po-
litical fortunes with the Peoples
party, he no longer has any rights as
an old soldier or a citizen that his
government or his state are bound to
respect, they forfeit all claims to re-
spect and comradeship. and we boldly
proclaim such men towards and pol
troons-cowards, because they would
underhandedly and sneakingly use the
government to coerce the men who
aided In perpetuating its existence to
give and unwilling .adherance to a
party they loath and despise. Pol
troons-because such is the quintes-
cence Of puslllanimity and meanness.