The Globe-republican., 1892-08-19
a CAMPAlCN OF ARGUMENT.

ACAMPAICN OF ARGUMENT.
Extracts OF Arguments Used by the
Demc-Pcp Organs IN Kansas.
The following are samples of the
milder kind OF arguments" used in the
peoples party press. Others could be
given, especially from the Topeka Ad-
vocate and the Topeka Populist, SO ut
terly nauseating as not to be admiss-
able in q decent Journal:
The Belleville Freeman. the leading
peoples party paper Of northwest Kan
sas, refers to A. ". Smith in its last
issue as ''cowardly blatherskite and
blatant demagogue," aud speaks Of q
''lot of cowardiy skunks like A. w.
Smith, who travel with such cattle as ].
h Burton"
The Peoples Defender. the organ of
the peoples party OF Cheyenne county,
says: Tho republican ticket is made
up of dagoes, defaulters and gamblers. :"
Tie Cay Center Dispatch, edited by
W. Vincent, who aspired to be the nom
inee of the peoples party for governor,
says: "a. w. Smith is a great big
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 five 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-
lican 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, j. B.
Johnson"
The Lawrence Jetfersonian, the peo-
pies organ of Douglas county, calls
Bruce Lynch "scab," and concocts a
lie out OF whole cloth to the effect that
he took the place of Missouri 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 a 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 t 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 a
nauseating mess to dish up to honest
voters. A soulless demagogue for gov
ernor; defaulter and all-round scoun-
drel for congressman-at-large; q gam
bier and scab tradesman for treasurer,
and in the Fifth, J. r. Burton, whose
reputation smells loud enough to drive
q 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 the presidential chair. There is not
q 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
large or great or generous or
decent. Ben Harrison is the chief night
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
as candidate for president. It shows
that the ultimate of plutocracy is the
filth beneath Swedenborg's bells"