People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-01
GOV. STONE
TO THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY
CENTRAL COMMITTEEMAN
Gov Stone Has Issued q Circular Let
ter to the Committeeman OF the
State OF Missouri from Which We
Take the Following:

with his property by means OF false
pretences, he commits a crime-un-
less the one acting be the democratic
party. When by deliberate, premedi-
tated and systematic trick or fraud,
an advantage is obtained, the guilty
party is despised BY all men-unless
the guilty one should chance to be the
democratic par y.
When by a cheating device or an
open theft a trickster obtains the
property of another, he trickster is
reg arded as a criminal and his pres
ence is not to Grated in decent com
munities-unless the trickster is the
democratic party.
From Maine to Texas. even the dem
ocrats themselves, openly and freely
admit that the declaration of their
last national platform on the suOiec:
of silver was purposely so written that
in New York, NJ massachusetts, and the
east, it could be thought and would be
thought as declaring against free
coinage, while in Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, Colorado, Texas and the south,
it could be thought aud would be
thought as declaring in favor of free
coinage.
The trick worked. The fraud sue
ceeded The false pretense, the de-
ceit, the dishonest scheme, the vilainy
against the people, did all that its
originators hoped for The Presidency
was won; the offices were obtained;
the salaries were secured; the glutton-
GUS were fed to splitting-and all by
deceiving the American people,
In Missouri, horse thieves when
caught are summarily hung In Mis-
souri,, when country merchant OBJ
tains credit from St. Louis jobbers By
false pretenses he is sent TO the peni-
Tertiary. In ST. Louis, even petty
thieves, those who snatch from a
counter pair Of shoes or p,c4et
knife, are sent to the workhouse or
city Jail. Such is the sentiment of tie
people of the state against theft, fraud
and corruption.
Will the democratic party with its
stolen power and It's stolen income,
both gained by means and methods
and from motives peculiar to thieves,
embezzlers, confidence men and pro-
fessional criminals, be treated by the
people of this state as though it were
an individual, confessedly guilty of
the crime the democratic party adj
mits having committed?
We hold crime to be crime: a
trick to be trick; dishonesty ID be
dishonesty; no matter who commits it.
Theft does not cease to be theft be-
cause the theft individual is a great
political party. The question to be
determined is one that turns, and must
always turn, upon the honesty or dis
honesty of things done, its manliness
or its lack of manliness, not upon the
identity of the doer.
| If Cockrell and Carlisle stay togeth-
er to maintain and preserve the demo-
cratic party, if Bland helps Cleveland,
and Vest helps Voorhees, maintain the
power and supremacy OF the demo.
cratic party, a party that in power
everywhere strikes down the sill
yer of the west, the corn of the
north, and the cotton OF the
south, reducing by legislation
the price of all products of the people,
then we want to know how long the
people, the plain, honest patriotic
masses of the people, the demo-
cratic people (the masses of all
parties are honest are going to stay
in the democratic party, and by voice,
vote and influence help to maintain
the industrial slavery in which our
people are held by the money power
of England and the nine northeastern
states.
Cockrelt supporting Cleveland and
Carlisle is no better than he men and
the parties he supports. Bland, yoked
up with Hill, hauling the wealth Gre
ated by Missouri farmers and dug out
of Missouri mines to New York and
D Massachusetts, for the benefit of mill
ionaires, trusts and syndicates, is as
bad, as unworthy OF confidence, as
much to be fought and hated as Hill
himself. 1t is not by W hat they say,
t not by what they write, not by what
they claim, not by their excuses for
q past acts or promises as to future
ones that men and parties are to be
known. "By their fruits shall We know
them"
Democratic politicians, the demo.
e cratic masses are after YOU, they are
watching you, and if you doo't give
them immediate and substantial help
i cash help, Go you hear? they vii
smlte you, hip and thigh. Men who
are forced to sell their wheat at %
n cents bushel, as is now being done
in southwe,t Missouri, are not in q
y humor to be fooled with, and are APT
:, to act impulsively when they catci
o their hired hands Sealing The snap.
off the harne>s.-St Louis Monitor.
ONE of the reasons why the pluto
Gratis hate Coxev is he owns n bors.