The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-12-01
PLurocRAcY AND THE PEOPLE.

PLOTOCHACY ANU The PeOfIe.
It viii BE Fiercely Contested Battle. and
Will He to the Knife, and the Knife to the
Hit
The republican wing of the Wall
street party has been elected in New
York, Massachusetts,, Ohio, New Jersey
and elsewhere. The defeat of the dem
ocratic wing of the party in those states
has no significance except that this
branch of the family was enjoying ma
tional patronage and it was right that
the republicans should be allowed some
slices of state pie to keep them loyal to
Wall street
The joke that there is any essential
difference between these .fAltions is
now laughed at, even by the.unlearned.
wag said they told dim when he
got married that he and his wife were
one and he soon found out that his Wits
was the one. SThe republican nape of
the Wall street party IS the ,S9nsf this
year.
There were two factions IN d church
in Gates county once. Their chief bus.
mess was shouting. But the Epps fac
tion would not shout when the Colyer
faction had the floor, and the Colyers
would not shout when the Epps were
shouting, though both had the same
kind of religion. At last revivalist
struck the community who was able 10
make Epps and Colyer hug. 1t was the
signal for a general embrace of the two
factions and such shouting was never
heard since the crusades. 1t was then
discovered that the only issue
between them grew out of jeal-
ousy as to which could shout the
loudest Ere long the Colyer and Epps
factions will be heard shouting to-
gether from Maryland to Maine and
from Maine to Illinois. Their leaders,
as did Epps and Colyer, have lately
shouted together in Congress. Sher-
man and Cleveland hugged. Even =
southern senator, whose name l blush
to call, pressed his confederate uniform
upon the bosom of Force Bill Lodge!
In loving embrace! In humble ac-
acknowledgement that the only issue be-
| tween them has been to see which
could shout the loudest for their COM
mon master, Wall street
| Gresham, the present republican
democratic secretary of state. is the
natural candidate of the combination
for next president. Like Cleveland,
| he has a partisan affiliation with both
parties when they subservc the pur-
poses of the common master Gresham
has been ca binet officer in both par
ties. AS United States republican
Judge he has sugar-coated his record by
several small anti-railroad decisions.
| These decisions will be soft corn to
feed fools with even on this side of the
Mason's and Dixon's line.
The amalgamation of the republican
and democratic parties in New York,
New England, Ohio, Pennsylvania and
several other states is now practically
their solid vote in congress upon the
financial question, which is now tine
leading issue. They are equally united
against any serious tariff reform, as
believe will be shortly demonstrated.
The purchase and solicitation of negro
votes and the employment of negro and
other republican orators in Virginia
shows which way the wind is blowing
even as far south as that. 1t would
not surprise me if the Wall street
party elect Gresham or some other twir
party type, even if the south and west
effect a combination. For, with the
federal patronage at their command
large local manufacturing and railroad
} interests in their aid they may be able tt
steal the name of the democratic party
even in this state. If the Wall stree
combination shall fly democratic
party" at it's masthead in the soutl
with Gresham as it's candidate and tn,
united support of the negroes and thu
aristocratic influences, it will be curl
Gus to watch the spell of the part.
name over weak and vicious minds ever
though that name is used to overthrow
/ all that jefferson ever taught or prac
: ticed. "The Pharisees sit in Moses
, seat" They had monopoly of keep
ing the tombs of dead prophets though
! they crucified the living.
: 1 venture to make the prediction tha
!: this new bastard com bina tion party, O
z; which Cleveland is the father an
( Gresham is the wet nurse, will carry o
come dangerously near carrying ever.
southern state which has in it city O
near one hundred thousa nd inha bitants
: That is, every state with a city larg
. enough to enable Wall street to corrup
. the voters with a show of local politica
influence, mixed with local busines
connections. 1 believe they will sue
ceed in stealing the name of the demo
S cratic party even in North Carolin
: and every southern state. There ar
. thousands of fools who will follow thi
, name to perdition; follow it if it shal
/: be stolen by its enemies to complet
: the ruin of the south; follow it if
= shall become the mystical Babylon c
= all political corruption; follow it if ii
r grinning skeleton shall be ghastl
J; reminder of the life and truth that ar
/, fled out of it.
J. If the south and west will make tn
Y fight upon the financial issue and th
!, tariff they will carry nearly ever
$ state beyond the Mississippi and ever
!: southern state which has no large cit
!. or very large manufacturing interest:
), If the west insists on putting to
= much in the platform, as it did in tn
/. last populistic platform, and insists i
q foisting on the south candidate wit
l. war record, then the south shoul
: vote for electors upon. home mad
o platform. This will throw the electio
S of president in the house of represents
I tives where each state has one vot'
r and of course we could then elect
Q president to suit us-a democrat
| nature if not in name If in 1850 tt
n south and the west had done this, thel
a could have been no war.
|. l call the special attention of Il
farmers to the fact that they should n
3 put too urdch faith in rose-colored pr
!. diction Of union between them and Il
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