The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-23
CHAIRMAN SNYDER REPLYs
To the Attack of David Overmyer on
the Shawnee County Democracy

the Shawnee County Democracy
TO Editor Topeka State Journal
Z hope you viii be kind enough to
permit me a few words in reply to the
three column article written by Dave
Overmyer and published in the Even
ing Journal Of Nay 20. in which 1Ir.
overnyer takes occasion to charge the
I Democratic central committee and the
( late Democratic county convention with
almost every conceivable kind OF an Of
Tense and calls them almost all man
nar Of names
He claims that the comittae did not
provide for any notice Of the primaries
which is absolutely untrue. but he for
gets that notWI outstanding he was not
q committeeman, Yet ne was present at
this committee meeting OF which he
complains and cheerfully acQuiesced in
I ali the committee did
we had the largest primaries and the
{ largest Democratic county convention
ever held in Shawnee county. and there
were more delegates and alrernatas at
leAl@4 TINS convention PIT which Dir
DFHfinger so bitterly complains than ev
er attended q Democratic county con
! VenriOn in Shawnee county There were
in all y delegates and y atternates.
and alternates taking part in said con
Venri0n. and yet AIr- OVernnver calls
the entire Democratic committee con
sistlng Of 81 members and the entire
convention. hoboes- Negroes thugs and
wife ueaters. ard I suppose that Mr.
CTerrnyer. when these same Democrats
meet A-l AGAIN Will
~ surprised when ne finds they are
little bit unwilling to endorse the Lion
Hearted Dave"
The trouble with Mr.. Overmyer's De
mocracy is that one day we md him
Hghting the Democrats and Democratic
party in the interest of the Republicans
ara trying to remove Democrats from
once. and next we find him trying to
get into some Office himself
only rev months ago Mr. Overrnver
entered INTO q Very lofty scheme with
the Republicans 70 beat the Democratic
Eot4 0FeLseer IN MS district out OF his
or1ce and thus gets into hght with
l1e Democrats almost In his own door
yard And this year when Mr. over
rlEer neigh Dor Democrats met al the
primaries they remen bered his little
road 1Nersaer politics and the result
was thar ne did not have a vote at the
pflllallEs except his owns ana then i'll
order that harmony should ~ s77ra ~
prevail the Lion Hearted Dave calls
his neighb0r Democrats hoboes. Ne
groes- thugs. and wife beaters.
W hen the county convention raet.rot-
understanding M OVermyer could not
get MS nelghbors TO make him q dele
safe. yet he tried to get the endorse
large TIP the Chicago convention. and
when tne convention decided not to
! endorse him by a vote of As to IS he
then Iushes into the convention room
after the convention is adjourned and
makes q speech 10 the few remaining
delegates In which ne ISLANDERS and
abuses the entire Democratic commit
Tee ana convention and calls them liars.
scoundreis and heuhOundss hOboes and
wife beaters-
He complains bitterly because he
says the Democrats have turned him
Gown IN TWO occasions before this
This would only go to show that he
IS rather q poor sort Of q Democrat
The 1act IS that only few years ago
he was very rampant and radi-
cal prohibition Republican. making
specehes III which he gave it as his
opinion that the best way 10 enforce
the prohibition law was to give the
Democrats plenty Of whisky and they
would eNterminate themselves
In 1892 he claimed TO be Democrat
and yet he bolted the regularly norni-
mated Democratic state ticket. and ike
Beelzebub attempted to set up q king
dom OF his own He cO-Operated with
Q bogus state central committee. and
he, together with three or four other
pseudo Democratic leaders, went 10
Washington and there set Up head
quarters and tried TO cripple the inf1u-
ance Cf Senator Martin. the only Dem
ocratic senator that Kansas ever had
and even went SO far as to try to have
Senator Martin removed
This is a fair sample of the Democ-
racy of the Lion Hearted Dave" He
organized bogus central committee.
he fights our Democratic United States
senator ne abuses and ISLANDERS the
committee. ne ISLANDERS the Democratic
county convautl9n- he calls the Dem
ocratic committeeman thugs. hoboes
negroes helIh0unds and wife baatars
and calls this harmony and Democracy
But 7 suppose we Democrats ia Shaw
nee county ought not to complain. for
he classes US with the president Of the
United States and his entire admins
trariou, and the Lion Hearted Dave
goes so far as TO write a ueWspap per
article. which appears in the Daily Cap
ital of May Is. in which ne takes occa-
sion to call the president and his entire
T=fW1rTDn G00TTnrrafz
traitors. thieves, frauds bond swim
dlers. boodlers. etc and vet this IS the
great Democrat who wants to rule
Shawnee county and wants to control
Democratic politics from road 0verseer
TO president Of the United States and
wants the Democracy TO honor him by
sending him to the Chicago Democratic
convention
This looks to me like an exhibition Of
unlimited gall He calls us -so-called
democrats" ard yet he as q Democrat
C7) begged almost on his marrow bones
for the endorsement of the convention