The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-11-10

hear that the republicans are liars
stop at the door of republican meet
ing and listen, and hear that the demo
Gratis are scoundrels- Our public men
microscopized, and the truth Histories. T
Who believes tenth part OF what ne
reads or hears in the autumnal cleo
tions? Men who at other seasons OF
the year are very careful in their
speech become peddlers of scandal
In the far east there is place where, /!
once a year, they let the people do as
they please and say what they please,
and the place is full of uproar, misrule
and wickedness, and they call 1t the
devils day." The nearest approx
nation to that in this country has been
the first Tuesday in November. The
community at such times seems to say:
go to. now; let US have good time
at lying" Prominent candidates for
office are denounced as unprincipled
and renegade. A smart lie will start
in the corner of a country newspaper,
and keep on running until it has capt
ured the printing presses OF the whole
continent What garbling of speeches!
What misintepretation of motives.
What Misrepresentation of individual
antecedents. The trouble is that we
| have in this country two great manu-
factories of lies-the
republican mandatory Of lies and
the democratic mandatory of lies
and they are run day and
night, and they turn out half
dozen day all equipped and ready for
| full sailing. Large lies and small lies
| Lies private and lies public and lies
pru-ient. Lies cut bias and lies cnt
diagonal. Long-limbed lies and lies
with double-back action. Lies COM
| plimentary and lies defamatory. Lies
| that some people believe. and lies that
all the people believe. and lies that no
body believes Lies with humps like
camels and scales like crocodiles and
necks as long as storks, and feet as
swift as an antelope's. and stings like
adders. Lies raw and scalloped and
panned and stewed. Crawling lies and
| Jumping lies and soaring lies Lies
! with attachment screws and rufi1ers
and braiders and ready-wound bobbins
Lies by Christian people who never lie
except during elections. and lies by
people who always lie. but beat them
selves in a political campaign
confess l am ashamed to have for
eigner visit this country in these times.
/ should think he would stand dazed.
and dare not go ont nights What will
the hundreds of thousands of foreign
ers who come here to live think OF US?
What disgust they must have for the
land of their adoption The only good
thing about il is that many OF them
cannot understand the English lam
guage But l suppose the German, and
Italian, and Swedish. and French pa
pers translate it all. and peddle out the
Internal stuff to their subscribers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such a food OF indecency. The
Christion religion will speak after
awhile The billingsgate and low
scandal through which We wade almos:
every autumn must be rebuk1ed by that
religion which speaks from its two
great mountains. from the one mount
ain informing the command: Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbour and from the other mount
making plea for kindness and love
and blessing rather than cursing.
10. Christian men, frown upon
political falsehood Remember that a
political lie is as black as any other
kind of lie. God has recorded all the
falsehoods that have been told at the
) city, state or national elections since
the foundation of this government
} and. though the perpetrators and thei1
5 victims may have gone into the dust
S in the last day judgment will b.
: awarded. The falsehoods that Aaron
Burr breathed into the ear of Blenner
: | hasset, the ISLANDERS that Lieut. Zen
L Gage proclaimed about George Wash
: ington. the misrepresentation in re
e gard to James Monroe, are as fresh il
1 Gods book to-day as the lies that wer'
: printed last week about our local ca n
, didates. "And all liars shall have thei
e part in the lake which burneth will
? fire and birthstone: which is the seconS
D death
e Again, counsel you as Christian
= men to set yourselves against the mis-
!: use of money in political campaigns
= OF the thousands of dollars alread.
: l spent tulS III" uAuSh "a eh'
amount do you suppose has been prop
n erly used? You have right to spen'
: money for the publishing of politica
. tracts. for the esta blishment of organi
e cations for the carrying out of wha
a you consider to be the best: you have
a right to appeal to the reason of mer
= by argument and statistics and facts
5 Printing and renting of public hall
e and political meetings cost money: bu
5 he who puts bride into the hands of
t voter, or plies weak men with msr
i cenary and corrupt motives. commits
q sin against God and the nation. Bride
4 ~ is one of the most appalling sins o
It this country. God says: Fire shall
> consume the tabernacles of bribery.
t Have nothing to do with such a sin,
+ Christian man! Fling it from the bal
+ lot-box. Hand over to the police tn
l. man who attempts to tamper witt
t your vote, and remember that election
e that cannot be carried without bride
# ought never to be carried at all
> AGAIN ask ron as Christian men