Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-11-09

fulness of the force bill issue, these
organized hypocrisies" had nothing
left to do but to systematically lie
about each other. Not only does this
system of lying embrace theories and
Ideas. but 1T is applied to statements of
fact and descriptions of events. Soft is
that the only manner in which one can
even approximate the truth concerning
any averment of fact or account of
events is to take the respective party
organs of these twin frauds and take
the middle ground or halfway position
between the lying extremes printed in
their pages. Such is modern American
Journalism, and to such a system of
mendacity has the science of good
government" (politics) been reduced in
the United States, where, of all other
nations, one would expect to find clean,
pure and philosophically educational
political methods
This is a Nretched, startling and dam
gerous condition of affairs, AMI one
that is 9 serious menace to the perpetll-
ity of the American republic and viii n
threatens to bring into disrepute an
ridicule our experiment at self-govern-
ment and our republican institutions.
1t has been well said that one can lock
against thief and guard against fire
or murder, but that it is impossible to
defend oneself from the assaults of a
liar. b of all lying, political lying is
the base~t and most dangerous, because
1t parta IS Of the nature of the crime
of obtai g valuable goods under false
pretenses. The ballot is the most sacred
| right ID his vote the most valuable
possessi n of an American citizen, and
1t is this vote which these lying poll
ticians seek to obtain by false 1ut spe-
cious m representations.
So far as concerns the peoples party,
the old parties never had a ghost of a
chance o win a victory over it with a
campaigl of educational argument
Standing upon platform of truth, as
impregnable as the Rock of Ages, popu-
lists eve ywhere are invincible in de-
bate and securely intrenched behind
the bait ements of truth and jus tice
knowing themselves to be powerless to
meet the issues presented by the peo-
pies party, the weapons used by the
demo-republicrats have been from the
beginning scorn and ridicule, abuse and
denunciation, iutermixed with a goodly
quantity of begging and pleading with
a well developed vein of stalwart living
continually present
Not only do these fraudulent liars
ridicule and lie about populist meet
| ings, misrepresent and falsely report
populist speakers and viciously wave
the bloody shirt and endeavor to revive
race and sectional prejudices and ami
mosities, but they publish bogus inter-
views with prominent populists and
publish as facts malicious lies about
the peoples leaders
Some of these lies are cunningly
artistic and plausibly specious, while
some again are clumsily ridiculous and
absurdly impossible, but they are all
lies, willful, malicious lies, instigated
and propagated by the same plutocratic
combination which has secured control
of the telegraphic avenues of communi-
cation and which dictates the daily
news to the various press associations
No matter what may be the politics of
the paper publishing them, these lies
may be invariably traced back to the
fountain head of plutocracy; the lair of
the great red dragon; the seat OF the
money power; while controlling the
actions ct those who have their fingers
upon the keys of the telegraphic instru-
ment will be found representative of
the Rothschilds; a high priest Of Shy
lock; worshipper of the golden calf
Sometimes these unpatriotic, traitor
Gus moneymongers make mistakes. or
give bungling directions, as, for in
stance, when on October Is the demo-
cratic papers all contained statement
that Nh Lease was about to accept an
offer of $4,000 from the republicans To
speak in the state of New York for the
residue OF the campaign, upon '.sonth-
ern outrages," while upon the same
date the republican papers stated that
she was to get %, 900 to howl calam-
ity" in the interest of the democratic
party. No true populist, filed with a
living faith, would have believed either
of these lies even if it had appeared
alone, but as 1t was one lie killed the
other. Then there was the silly lie that
because Of the reception given to Gen.
Weaver u Georgia and the south gem
orally, drs. Lease had advised the pop
ullsts OF kansas to vote for Harrison
rather Weaver, for fear of assist
ing Cleveland by the latter course OF
course every well informed populist
knows hat it Is the Cleveland bosses
and the bourbon democratic machine
that was responsible for those outrages
and that these very outrages are the
strongest possible evidence that the
peoples party in the southern states is
strong numerically and that it is the
nerve c desperation that prompted The
Georgia politicians to disgrace their
state and their party by their shameful.
actions Kansas populists will vote for
James s. Weaver and rest secure in the
faith that very many thousands in the
southern states will do the same. Tbevs
are supreinely Indifferent as to whether
their action in thus voting more severe
ly hurts Cleveland or Harrison. Re-
tween these two plutocratic stool
pigeons they have DO choice, and neither
mas Mrs. Lease, as is evidenced by the
following item:
ToPEKA, Kan Oct IS -n- c Nxo1u.
ttor Of the Advocate received he fo1owins dc.
palch this morning which explains itself:
MOUNT PLEASANT Ia, Oct i7-The specfal
giving tne news to the press in regard to an In.
terView in which am reported to have advised
the popullsts ito vote for Harrison" or that "a
d..
nnqualifedly false. 1 would consider # pub
nc calamity for either Harrison or Cleveland to
- elected MRS. NJ E LEASE
Then there is that bogus, mendacious
interview with Mrs Lease, published
IN the Chicago Inter Ocean, in which
Mrs. Lease is made to call Senator
Peffer tskulking poltroon' and de-
clare that the peoples party had no eS.
istence in the south and that populists
should vote for Harrison, in order to
destroy the democratic party. OF
course this interview, which was con-
cocted by the republican bosses for use
In the northwest generally and Kansas
in particular, proves to be a fake and
has been denounced as such by Mrs.
Lease but yet the republican campaign |
publ stion committee has had it pub +
liShes. IN all reDu blicau uaDers in Kan !