People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-16

preVenses, ne commits crlme-unlesS
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 party.
When BY cheating device or an
open theft, a trickster obtains the
property Of another, the trickster is
regarded as criminal and his pres
ence is not tolerated in decent COM
munities-unless the trickster is the
democratic party.
From Maine to Texas, even the demo-
Gratis themselves, openly and freely
admit that the declaration OF their
last national platform on the subject
of silver was purposely 50 written that
in New York, Massachusetts, and the
east, it could be thought and would
be thought as declaring against free
coinage, while in Minnesota, Missouri,
Colorado, Texas and the south, II
could be thought and 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 villainy
against the people, did all that its
originators hoped for. The presidency
was won: the offices were obtained;
the salaries were secured; the glut-
tonous were fed to splitting-and all
by deceiving the American people.
In Missouri, horse thieves when
caught are often summarily hung.
In Missouri, when a country merchant
obtains credit from st. Louis jobbers
by false pretenses he is sent to the
penitentiary. In st Louis, even petty
thieves, those who snatch from q
counter pair Of shoes or a pocket
knife, are sent to the work house or
city jail. Such is the sentiment Of the
people of the state against theft,
fraud and corruption.
viii the democratic party with its
stolen power and its 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 ss though it were
an individual, confessedly guilty Of
the crime the democratic party admits
having committed?
We hold a crime 10 be crime; q
trick to be trick; dishonesty to be
dishonesty, no matter who commits IL
Theft does not cease TO be theft be-
cause the thief instead Of being an in
dividual is a great political party.
The question to be determined is enc
that turns, and must always turn,
upon the honesty or dishonesty Of
things done, its manliness or its lack
Of manliness, not upon the identity OF
the doer.
If Cockrell and Carlis' stay together
to maintain and preserve the demo-
cratic party; il Bland helps Cleveland,
and Vest helps Voorhees, maintain the
power and supremacy of the demo-
cratic party, party that in power
everywhere strikes down the silver Of
the west, the corn Of the north. aud
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, hon.
est, patriotic masses Of the people, the
democratic people the masses Of all
parties are honest are going to stay
in the democratic party, and by voice,
vote and influence help it maintain
the industrial slavery in which our
people are held by the money power
Of England and the nine northeastern
states.
Cockrell supporting Cleveland and
Carlisle is no better than the men and
the parties he supports. Bland, yoked
up with Hill, hauling the wealth ere
ated by Missouri farmers and dug out
of Missouri mines, TO New York and
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 what they say,
not by what they write, not by what
they claim, not by their excuses for
past acts or promises as 10 future ones
that men and parties are TO be known.
"By their fruits shall We know them.
Democratic politicians, the demo
cratic masses are after you; they are
watching you; and il you don't give
them immediate and substantial help,
cash help, do you hear? they will
smite you, hip and thigh. Men who
are forced 10 sci their wheat at 3s
cents bushel as is now being done
in southwest Missouri, are not in a
humor to Re fooled with, and are apt
to act impulsively when they catch
their hired hands stealing the snaps of
OF the harness.-St. Louis Monitor.
A MAN who would have entered the
Urion army thirty years ago TO fight
for the continuation of slavery would