People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-12-15

the startling headline used by demo.
cratic paper IN announcing that q
crank had been prowling around the
white house mutteriDg wildly about
the golden calf or the brazen bull who
resides there.
Assassination as means of purify
ing politics must be condemned and
no sane patriot, however bitter, would
condone any attempts on the life Of
the Presidential ex-hangman. But he
should be tried and impeached for the
high treason of selling out the interests
OF this country TO British capitalists.
Some democratic papers in the south
are calling him the worst Benedict
Arnold this country ever produced.
He may escape impeachment, but not
the branding-iron of history or the
pillory of osterity.
Yet, would it be surprising if some
poor southerner, or western farmer.
crazed by that single stroke of Cleve-
lands pen which means the loss of
homes to so many, should seek re-
venge?
The Wall Street News is authority
for the statement that shortly before
his last election, Cleveland made a
million dollars by specializing in the
street. The people are beginning to
understand why he was permitted by
the shrewd scoundrels who run this
gambling hell to win this Doodle.
When we consider how many happy
homes have been blighted and ruined
by the influence of this Wall street
operator and see SO many, day by day,
nearing the sharp edge of starvation,
can there be much wonderif some man
or some woman, like Charlotte Corday
should suddenly be impelled to exc
cute on the corrupt executive the veA-
geance of a people long oppressed.
If the pressure of Clevelaudism and
Wall street is not enough to drive
some starving men crazy, to what ex-
tent is it necessary to apply the
pressure of the money power in order
10 produce reaction? While depre-
cate and abhor violence, it is not sur
prising if policy of oppression should
produce such results. Whatsoever a
man soweth, that shall he also reap
The dispatches to the tapitalistic
press told a very significant truth
when they stated that on the passage
of the repeal bill, after three months
contention, there was no applause"
in the senate, and that the action in
the house was tame and without in
ierest." In silent shame it passed to
the shameless sham o. the white house
to receive his pai~-for signature. 1t
is safe TO say thu every man who
voted for repeal felt himself defled BY
Presidential pitch. The silence was
sepulchral. No JOY marked the event,
but in the homes Of tie bankers and
capitalists there was rejoicing, while
the farmer by his humble freslde was
planning still harder and with pain.
full perplexity how to get through the
winter and overcome the loss thus su.-
tanned.
Yet Cleveland had apparently a
brief spell ofrepentance for the crime
he was to consummate. There was a
time when it seemed likely that some
compromise might be made. Carlisle
reported Cleveland as willing to agree
to it, wher Vt dismaY seized the bank.
ers. Was 1t possible that at the
eleventh hour their Cleveland would
not stay bought? In their despera-
tion they summoned that servant of
Satan, Senator Iscariot OF Ohio. lie
FASTENED TO the white house and in
terviewed Cleveland. What did this
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tempter whisper in his ear that
caused him within an hour to change
his mind and again demand repeal at
any est? Sherman wanted compro-
mise, with bonds, but repeIl without.
No wonder the Atlanta constitution
walls that John Sherman is steering
the administration and the ship is
nearing the rocks"
The republican press and spea kers
unite in their gush and praise otCleve.
land, and have Wed with the demo.
Gratis in sickening sycophancy. One
democratic paper went 20 far as 10
call him arother Alexander Hamilton.
1t forgot that the whole history of
democracy has been Jeffersonian op-
position TO Hamilton. Van Alen-ism
in politics. How significant TO south
erners must be the sight Of these
northern democrats and republicans
embracing each other on the rotten
platform Of Cleveland. At the sams
time they are both denouncing the
great democratic leaders Of the west
and south.
George Fred Williams, who slipped
from the republican fold into the
democratic, and led the fight for gold
In the congress before the last, said in
a speech at Pittsfeld the other night,
Fear not that vour great leadar will