The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-26
OUTRAGE GOES ON
VIM. c, Perry Continues His
Offensive Partisanship.
He Keeps on Making Gold
Standard Speeches,
While Silver Democrats Are
Fired From Office
FOR SIMILAR ACTION.
Cleveland Shown Up In Most
Detestable Light.
HypOcriticaI Pretense of Civil
Service Reform
HypOcriticaI II Pretense of Civil
Service Reform
BY THE FAT PROPHET.
While Perry Gads About the
State of Kansas
Making Himself Offensive to
Nearly Every Democrat Init.

United States District Attorney W. c.
Perry continues to speak for the gold
standard and the government has
not been heard from.
Mr.. Perry spoke at Burlington, last
Saturday evening and tomorrow night
he is billed for a speech at SaHna. No
reply was received to the dispatch sent
to Attorney General Harmon protest
ing against Mr.. Perry's participation in
the campaign, and IT is not likely that
one will be received. Mr. Perrv's
friends say that he would not have
taken this step unless he had con
suited the government and if that is
true there is no danger that Attorney
General Harmon will consult with any
body concerning Mr.. Perry's attitude.
Ex-Secretary PepperiH of the Demo
cratic state central committee has gone
home to attend to his duties as post
master at Concordia. but the office of
United States district attorney does
not need Mr.. Perry's attention.
The Kansas Democrats are not alone
in their feeling that they are being out
ragged by the attitude of the Demo-
cratic administration that pronounces
a free silver federal ofiiceholder a per
niciOus PARTISAN and pats the gold
standard OfficehOlder on the back A
silver Republican who objects to the
use of his name said today.
Mr.. Perry's attitude in the present
instance is the greatest travesty on pO-
liticaI honor 1 have ever seen He is
trying with all his might to pull down
the party which gave him his promi-
nence in politics and which has fur
nished him with a fat office for years.
The worst thing about the whole bust
ness is that he apparently has the
sanction of the Cleveland administra-
ton in what he is doing.
The national administration is doing
al IN nv
wise to destroy the party which placed
it in power Mr.. Perry is working in
harmony with the administration and
I am not surprised that he has not been
called down
One of Mr. Perry's friends said to-
day:
THE speech Mr. Perry is making is
not an extreme speech He is not abus-
ing anybody. He is simply uphOlding
the nations honor and his attitude can
not be called distinctively partisan He
abuses no one and confines himself to
the single issue of silver coinage"
None of Mr.. Perry's speeches have !
been published His meetings have
been given the briefest notices, and it
is not at all unlikely that he is not be- |
ing received quite 50 enthusiastically
as he had hoped.
Mr.. Eugene Hagan of the gold stand |
ard Democracy went to LeaVenWOrth !
today. but no one seems to know what |
his mission is 1t may be that he fears |
that Mr.. PeTry's speeches will have a /
reaCUOnary lnuuence ana ne VIII aQNO- !
cate their discontinuance- The fact |
that one man is being sent home for |
being the secretary of the state central !
committee and another is allowed to /
make partisan speeches may not have |
a good effect upon the voters
1t is not the fact that Mr.. Perry is |
making speeches that calls for censure. |
but the fact that he is allowed to make
partisan speeches while Democrats wh0
differ from the administration in the /
financial views are dismissed from Of I
fee for making speeches. 1t is the most
fragrant case of rank injustice and
gross partiality that has ever been seen
in this country.