Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-19
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Editor Western Kansas World
Has the country a political disease?
If so, what is it?
PreSuming on your fairness as pub
Usher and dissemination of public
thought on all questions. Democrat
begS space in your valuable paper for
expression of his views on the ques-
tions now dividing our people, and
beg to notice and warn the people
against fraudulent remedies now be-
ing offered as a certain cure for the
ills affecting the body polite, and per-
NIT us in this and, by your permission,
in future communications, to analyZe
the various noStrumS that are offered
as cures.
Some, we know, bear fraudulent
labels. and it is against such we desire
to warn the rational and honest fellow
citizen. For if the political doctors.
from their labratory at Chicago, sue
coed in convincing the people that
their remedies are genuine. and they
take them as the real Democratic
medicine, we know our doctrine will
be unjustly discredited; at least until
the public are convinced of the decep-
ton imposed upon them.
We desire to warn our countrymen,
with all the force of our feeble voice,
against those political quacks. The
Chicago liable is not the prescription
of Thomas Jefferson, nor is it the
remedy of Jackson, Benton, Tilden
or Cleveland. They have tabled their
potion Democratic, but its ingredi-
ents have been declared poison by the
latest political descendento of Jefferson
and Jackson.
These Chicago fellows in substance
say our liable will cure allie to L
mobs, and packed courts to sustain
the mob. will bring relief, health and
happiness to every idle, hungry and
weary being in all this broad land
this nation of 45 sovereign states
spelled with a little IN" Legislation
by and the Interpretation of that leg
isiation in their court will have to be
spelled with big AS. rs and Ms.
Oh, shades of jefferson, Where will
the owner of property find law or
courts to protect him against the fell
low who may take a notion to use it?
No patent medicine fakir ever
claimed more for his potion than these
political vampires declare for their
forgeries.
Why, sir. in the name of Democracy,
they have branded every graduate
from that school as heretics-the best
of our faith for forty years. The only
one who has in all that time been
able to open the public offices for the
practice of our system of political
health, they branded as traitor,
In shame and pity we contemplate
those who occupy the offices opened to
them, by the magic and grandeur. the
honesty and courage of Grover Cleve-
land. Almost of one accord, eSpec-
tally in Kansas. with a few honorable |
exceptions. adopting Chicago fiction !
lists as their criterions and repudiat-
ing the faith of Jefferson now defended |
by Cleveland.
But, then, let us be charitable: these |
poor, puny humans are anything for |
office. They have a master, and when |
he takes political snuff they have got |
to .SneeZe. Like master. like man. /
Oh, this is nature. poorest of poor 1
nature. Their master is their politi- /
cal creator: they strive to prove loyal |
before him.
Yet, be our countrymen warned, and /
this great prince of frauds, and all |
his little frauds, can do them no harm. /