The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-08-19
FRANK McGRATH.
4 WozD ABOUT his R0LLEEoAL
EEAToEE.

i IL Aal-AAAAGaa--A Ee5ET-Aa 49, 1N@- s--g
state kagEs been making q great
| hue and cry over Frank AcGrath's
/ Gscksliding cspers- / though they had
I subsidized for q while and would give Us
3 rest, but as the Campaign is opening,
/ and their wits are put to the test for
/ material 10 work upon, they have taken
up the old chestnut again and have
broke out in u new plaza I have
/ watched this mansuveEing and had
resolved 70 hold my peace, but il makes
me- 20 tITsd-the way Frank talks
tiIIst I plead ShIs IS an excuse fog
rushing into print
| When the alliance, aud later on the
peoples party, sprung into existence.
| various classes with different views
and various motives rallied around
| thsIr banners. The great majority
i were prompted by the purest motives.
But as might have been, and in fact
| was expected, a few became reformeFs
| from sinister motives, for the lOaves
| and fishes with which they hoped to
| be rewarded. The tEUs test OF their
sincerity developed their true motives,
which were not long in coming to the
surface.
beginning with tbs first campaign
L in 80, failing in their coveted plum,
they began one by one to fall by The
Waysids.
But I started out to diagnose Frank
AcGrath's political anatomy. It will
| be remembered that in the winter of
| 1s9O-91 Mr.. McGrath and Congress-
man Turner, according to the republi-
can papers, entered into little scheme
| by which Nc was to reap political
honOrs and emOluments, at the expense
/ of his friends and party. A subse-
qUent investigation placed him in All
| unenYisDle position. His schems did
not only fail to materialize but, since
/ the alliance could only put true
/ men on guard, MI. McGTath was role
/ gated to private life at the next state
| meeting, and W II. Biddle elected in
| his stead as president Of the state ALI
| anc6. Now bear in mind, gentle
| reader, that it was not till after this,
/ and when Mr.. McGrath WAS ChafInR
under defeat, that he made this start
| ling discovery that the alliance had
/ been talking politics, contrary to its
| constitution, ''behind closed DOORS"
/ Now it seems so strange to las,
| Frank, that you newer thought of this
/ before. But you may have forgotten
/ that when, about year ago, you were
| swinging around the circle, trying to
make yourself solid with the people,
and atone for your VaYWaEdness the
previous winter, that ysu visited the
alliance in Edwards county, and then
| and there, behind closed doors, did
/ actually talk a Httla politics in the
1 alliance. II - true you made some
thing OF All apology for it. Now if it
was so wicked why did You do it,
Frank2 II you, who we're its head,
dared to commit such a transgressiOn
how can you sscrets sufficient gall to
now condemn the alliance if perchance
it has walked in the light by yeu
diffused? 1 know whereof speak,
Mr., AcGrath, was one of your audi
tors.
Now don't you think, Frank, that it
is little unkind in you, and real sort
a-snsaky-iilSe, just because you couldn't
get everything, that you went into the
/ alliance for, all to yourself, to now
kick over the traces and hold. street
corner matinees to the delight OF ettTt-
osiCy seekers and scandal mOngers?
After the talks you made, and your
charges againRt the republican party,
how can you sneak back and ELliljute
with them again and retain your self
respect. Is the republican party any
better now than it was " hen you left
it, or IS the alliance any worse tSan
when it made you its president, just
because it afterwards turned you down
, for cause2 Isn't It you and not the
, alliance that has proved false to- It's
principles2 WOE unto you Scribes
! and Pharisees hypOcrites, for ye are
Z likened unto Wshited sspulchreS, which
l indeed appear beautiful outward, but
: are within full OF dead mems bones and
all uncieanness."
Thus one. by one the Judases and
3 Benedict Arnolds again become anal
ganatsd with their affinity, and theiI
, vacant seats become occupied by the
, pure and upright In heart. The drOSl
3 is becoming separated from the gold
s the chaff from the wheat; We are only
= casting of the baEnaofes which will
5 accelerate our progress May the good
3 work go on until the last shyster hR'
n found his proper sphere, and our noble
a institution will shed its Tefulgent rays
i over the length and breadth OF tRii
, land, and stand unsullisd by the an
}, holy influences Of the modern dema
I gOguO. r.
s Kinzley, lGjIs-. Aug. 10th.