Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-08-20
q cAMPAioN orARoUMENr.

AcAMPAIoN or ARGUMENT.
Extracts Of Arguments Used by the
Demo-Pop Organs IN Kansas.
Tho following are samples Of tho
milder kind of arguments" used in the
peoples party press. Others could Be
given, especially from the Topeka Ad-
vocate and the Topeka Populist. 20 ut
terly nauseating as not to be admiss-
able in Q decert journal:
The Belleville Freeman, the leading
peoples party paper Of northwest Kan
sas, refers to A. w. Smith in its last
issue as "cowardly blatherskite and
blatant demagogue," aud speaks Of q
slot of cowardly skunks like A. W..
Smith, who travel with such cattle as j.
h Burton"
The Peoples Defender, the organ Of
the peoples party of Cheyenne county,
says: 1.-The republican ticket is made
up of dagoee. defaulters and gambler" "
The Clay Center Dispatch, edited by
w. Vincent, who aspired to be the NOM
inee Of the peoples party for governor,
u
chump;" and yet this great big chump
was a member Of the legislature six
years, was unanimously chosen by the
republicans speaker of the house Of rep
resentatives, was president Of the state
board of agriculture Eve years, was
president of the Kansas worlds fair as
ISOLATION, and president Of the national
farmers congress.
The Ottawa Journal, the organ Of
State Printer Snow, of the peoples
party, refers to Bruce Lynch, the repub-
i;GaH nominee for state treasurer, as q
''commcn, everyday dead-beat and
pimp."
The Concordia Blade, 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, ]. B.
Johnson"
The Lawrence Jefersonian, 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 Missodri Pacific
brotherhood engineer in the strike of
1877.
The Minneapolis Index, the peoples
organ Of Ottawa county, states that
"Smith gets big salary from the Santa
Fe company for his services, that he
makes his home at the SWEETEST hotel in
Topeka, and tnat his family spends
part Of each year on farm to catch
votes" every word Of which the writer
of the article knew was false when he
wrote it.
Then comes the Alliance Advocate of
Topeka, which announces It is the off,
cial organ Of the peoples party Of Kan
sas, and refers to the republican ticket
as follows:
"The republican ticket is surely q
nauseating mess to dish up to honest
voters. A soulless demagogue for gov
ernor; defaulter and all-round scoun-
drel for congressman-at-large; . gam
bier and scab tradesman for treasurer,
and in the Fifth, J. r. Burton, whose
reputation smells loud enough to drive
dog 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 contempt
ible. the most despicable, the basest, the
narrowest and shallowest, the meanest
and most offensive fellow who ever sat
in tho presidential chair. There is not
moral disease that he has not in the
very worst form. He infects the air.
He is gangrened 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 Of the
day. And indeed we are very low when
any political party can be bought like
slaves to accept such an Egyptian hog
10 candidate for president. It shows
that the ultimate Of plutocracy il the
filth beneath Swedenborg's hells."