The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-09-07
REPUBLICAN, HYPOCRISY.
the Rditor OF THR ApYoCATR.

IuyPOCElDyS A0puOAICoA BJpOOESyS wv 4
will choose for my text, Matthew xiii, 80:
o, ye generation Of vlpers, how shall ye escape
the damnatiOn Of he'll!
Now, that is rather tough I'll admit,
but have searched the Bible through
and through and I can't find anything
that handles hypocrisy any easier. The
Lord never deals with hypocrisy on any
''straddle the fence" basis. The repub-
lican party has had q weakness for hy-
pocrisy for over twenty years, but 1t was
during the last four years that this jimp-
son weed extract has been adopted as
their official elixir Of life.
During the winter Of 1S88-S9 q number
Of rather annoying questions from the
farmers alliance set the g. o. p's. white
washed soul to throbbing like Water
bury watch, and 1t became necessary for
them to take something for 1t. AS the
damnsble methods Of the republican
state central committee began to be ex-
posed to the startled citizens of Kansas,
thousands began to inquire with lncreas-
ing apprehension, "What shall the har-
vest be?" Events now began to trans
pire with startling rapidity. Men who
but few weeks before would have cut
their grandfather's throat rather than
vote for the "other fellow" rose from
Slloam's troubled waters resolved to sin
no more. In communities where once
the &. o. p. could gather in the dear peo-
pie like leaves Of the forest, by q well d.
rected bray on the tariff question, they
might now whoop it up till the 'cows
come home" without getting quorum.
The republicans could not meet this
landslide by any fair argument. Too
much argument was just what had caused
the revolution. Then they tried 10 stem
the resistlesS food by saying funny ~
things about the alliance, but somehow
this style Of resistance seemed 10 bag at
the knees, too. So they dragged their
msnglsd carcass together, got inoculated
with hypocrisy elixir and turned them
selves loose on the country to blight and
to blast, for the &. o. p. had to be saved
some way, you know.
Honest farmers who had never eVaded
paying debt In their lives, came to town
to be informed that they we're repudlR-
tors. They were sneered at as "lazy de-
fsulters" by lot of street corner loaferB
who have not paid store bill since they
came to Kansas. A "God and morality"
editor who had been getting the county
printing at his own price for twenty
years, would come sneaking out Of the
back door of the "Great Spirit" saloon,
and ask the farmers II they wanted the
earthP Some contemplate local black
mailer, whom nobody would trust out of
sight with broken monkey-wrench,
would be placed on dry goods box to
inform the farmers that they had In
jured "our" credit 30 badly that he could
not borrow a dollar anywhere. And all
these vile lies were heralded to the coun-
try as campaign Of education" All
this great outburst of "fscts and figures"
was hurled at the alliance irrespective
Of politics.
How is 1t with you, Mr.. Allianceman,
who wants the alliance kept out of poll
ticsS How do you enjoy the insults
which were hesped upon us in the early
days Of the allisnceH But the alliance Is
not political organization, you say. You
must remember that when the alliance