The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-09-14

who has placed himself In the market, branded
''fOr Sale;" every political wsrt whose very ex-
iStence iS curse; every survivor Of the knights
Of the Golden Circle in Indiana; every cOwardly
home guard who murdered defenssless union
prisoners and rummaged their pockets for spoils;
every blatant ''plece at any price" demagOgue
who fled TO Canada during the war; every sneak.
ing bushWhacker who, hidden In ambush, muir
dered defenseless union men and women In
Missouri; every mOgs-backed and rOck.rlb.
bed border ruftlan who shot down and murdered
in cold blood, on Kansas soil, the brave men and
good women who came here to Wrest Kansas
from the curse Of human slavery and dedicate It
to human freedom; every cOwardly rufflan who
butchered defenSeleSS negro soldiers at Fort
Pillow; every man who sympathized with Spies,
Parsons and their brother anarchists at Chicago;
every Kansas man who petitiOned the governor
Of Illinois to set aside the decree of court and
turn the Haymarket murdererS loose upon the
public; every man who sought TO lnclte Kansas
employees to murder and the destruction Of prop
erty belonging to railway companies; every gam
bier, thug and thief who regards the law as his
enemy, and riot and anarchy as his friend; every
woman loose In morals and void of chastity; eV-
cry advocate Of free love and defender Of lewd-
ness; every political mendlcant whose impecunl-
OSlty is the result Of his own personal dlshOnOr;
every believer In the hateful creed that truth Is
areprOach and mendacity prize; every mis-
guided malcOntent whose mlSfOrtunes are
charged to politics; every SOre-pated and sOured
Office seeker and place hunter; every man that
believes that dishOnOr pays better than prOblty;
every fool who ''salth In his heart there Is no
GOd;" every fellow who makes misfortune his
platform and grief his creed; every man who Is
political bankrupt and pauper In morals; all
these look upon the ADVOCATE as the natural
sewer through which to empty their rOttenneSS
and spleen against Gov. Anthony. Had such
vile sheet been published when treason sought
to aunt It's flag In the face Of Kansas people, 1t
would have been compelled to 60 with Vallan-
dlgham through the rebel lines. To-day it is the
chosen organ Of those whose marrow has become
diseased, whose patriotic sinews are rOttenlng
with decay and whose moral Susceptibilities are
clOuded by endless doubts and never ceasing
fears. It's dastardly assaults upon Gov. Anthony
win not iDjure him, but Its vllenesS ought to
place It's circulation In the quarantine Of the
usual OuthOuse, to modify the nOxiouS gases per-
vadingi It's columns
Now after having read the thing
all through, what do you think Of il?
Suppose everything our lieutenant
governor says about the ADVOCATE is
true, what has that to do with George
T. AnthonyG The ADVOCATE is not a
candidate for Office and George 7. is.
And what has the ADVOCATE said
about him? 1t published what the
of Leavenwerth county
said about him, and it published the
official record of his acts as governor
Of Kansas during the Santa Fe strike.
Does the Champion pretend to deny
any of these things? Certainly not.
They are of character that cannot
be denied. All the Champion could
do, therefore, was to rave and cave,
or keep still, as the wiser republican
papers have done. We rather enjoy
this little exhibition of rage and we
trust our readers will. "Whom the
gods would destroy they first make
mad"