The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-12
THE DEMoCRATIC CoNyENTION

1t was really pitiable. Here was
the county convention of once great
party, and only five of the fourteen
voting precincts of the county repre-
scented. The few men who did were
good men; but they were Oh, so lone
some! And they were so rickety about
their political knees, and sO' limp
along their political back bone.
Among them all there was one only
who dared or who was able any long
er to stand up straight. And that
was Brother GOshOrn. His knees
still bear him stiffiy up, and his spin
al column is all right. And so when
the committee came in with propO-
sitiOn to nominate a probate judge and
county attorney and leave the balance
of the ticket vacant, Bro. GOshOrn
! kicked ave have candidates here
for all the other offices, J" he said, linen
who will make the campaign. What
will we do with them? This prOpO-
sition is only cheap trick to disrupt
our party. We had all the endorsing
business we can stand. We are either
Democrats or we amt. Why should
we get down and lick the heels of a
party which has not principle in COM
abuses us at every turn? There is
no principle in 1t, and no possibility
of success either now or hereafter.
How can we make campaign with
this sort of ticket? In the name of
God what reason can we give for our
existence? If anything is to be
crowded down my throat l wish it TO
be half cooked" That much he said,
and great deal more brave talk to
the same effect. Nobody made reply,
but when the vote was taken on the
recommendation of the committee,
Bro. GOshOrn's voice was the only one
in the negative. All the others had
voted valiantly to endorse the prin-
ciples and traditions in the party,
but when it came to the test the"prin-
ciples" were laid aside and the "tra-
ditions" Thy which is meant "Any-
thing to beat the Republican party"O
were all that was thought of.
And so the deed was done. The
Democratic coach of State was put in
the road-a twOwheeled gig. go, what
falling off was there, my country
menu
Rev. J. f. Myler and Lawyer Camp
bell, both of lola (Which is hardly
fair considering that lola never gave
any Democrat on earth majority
make up the two wheels. Mr.. Myler
is an excellent old gentleman, and a
Democrat Of the strictest sort. Alt
Campbell is good lawyer, and as
"whiten a man as ever lived. Why
he should be Democrat is, and has
ever been to us, one of the inscrutable
mysteries. 1t is great pity that two
men who deserve a better fate should
compose a ticket which, like the
Duke of Gloucester, is "deformed, I'M
finished, sent into this breathing
world scarce half made up, and that
so lamely and unfashionable,n that it
can be greeted only with jeers by its
enemies and tears by it's friends.
Speaking seriously, the action of the
convention was no doubt the result of
q deal with the leaders of the PeO-
pies party, whereby it is expected to
get Peoples votes for Democratic can
didates for Probate judge and County
Attorney, in return for Democratic
votes for the remainder of the Peoples
ticket. The People tried first to put
off the Democracy with only one office,
that of attorney. But even the Demo-
cracy won't stand everything, and so
the Peoples managers hauled Mr..
Cash off the track to leave room for a
Democratic candidate for Probate
Judge. The result of the two con-
ventiOns therefore is practically a
fusion ticket, with two Democratic
candidates and three Peoples candi-
dates. In other words it is a both |
sides-Of-the-road et,-which will
be everlastingly smashed in NOvem-
Der by the middle-of-the-road Repub- !
lican ticket.