Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-04-03
YELLOW-DOG POLITICS.

started last week 1t is a neat, newsy, breezy
paper, too, but we sorry to see it start out
wrong, politically. In its first issue, the
Ledger puts up ticket, as follows
"For president of the U. S., the nominee of
tina Republican convention, to be held at ST.
Louis, June 16; preferences; Mckinley, ALI
son. Reed-anybody in the order named.
'For governor, E. N. Morrill,.
"For U. S. senator, unique J. J. ingalls,.
'For congress, Second district, the nominee
of the convention to be held in Lawrence, May S.
'sFor county Judge for this district, some
Republican with the necessary qualifications,
whose home is in Lone Elm township
In other words "Prof." Wardrip, who is ell
trusted with the education of the youth OF Lone
Elm, is willing to support ANYTHING the Re-
publicans may put up, regardless of the record
of the nominee. For governor, he is willing
to support E. N. Morrill,, whose first act after
his Inauguration was to put his hand into the
peoples treasury and STEAL money to pay his
private ante-election expenses. OF course, he
'coughed up' after his theft had been exposed,
though he made some of his appontees loot
the bill out of their salaries. A very frugal
man is Guvner Morril-a business" governor,
you know-a man who gained much OF his
wealth by robbing farmers OF their homes.
AS the governor of great state he has put on
a sanctimonious air and smiled pious smile
when in the presence of the preachers and
churchmen and winked his off eye at the
iointists, thugs, plugugies and other anarchits
III ~, to
or nullify the laws of the state He has posed
as temperance man, at the same time doing
the bidding of the whisky gang, who contrib
uted SO literally to secure his election. He re-
Gently appointed a prominent member OF the
Mystic Brotherhood as chief of police at Wlch-
tia. More recently, he caused the chief OF
police at Topeka to hunt another job because
said chief tried to close up heightened "club, "
or drunkery, in that city. He appointed
police board at Leavenworth composed OF men
known to be opposed to the prohibllory
law-two of them saloon-keepers About the
same may be said Of Atchison and Kansas City.
We would ask Brother Wardrip to read an ar
ticle from Ed Hoch's Marion Record elsewhere
in these columns. We would ask him to think
this matter over calmly, carefully, prayrfully
(if he knows how to pray, and see if he can
support all old reprobate like Morrill, for the
high office of governor OF Kansas.
Then, for congress, Brother Wardrip again
declares his willingness to support anything the
convention may put up, without any reservation
whatever We will whisper this in his ear:
Bill Buchan will be the nominee-and he has
record that, according to Republican testimo-
nv, would drive a dog into a slaughter-house
for breath of fresh air. His record is labeled
"Boodle! boodle!'' from the beginning to the
present Understanding to Republican evidence.
Why, even Rev. Dougherty opposed him two
years ago--though there's no telling what he
will do this year.
In one respect, Brother Wardrip reminds us
of George T. Anthony Some years ago, while
editing the Ottawa Republican, Anthony made
bitter fight on Foghorn Funston, prior to the
convention, and, to read those editorials, one was
led to believe he was a disgrace to the Second
district-which was true; but, after Foghorn had
secured the nomination. Anthony put up his
name at the head of the ticket, declaring that
he would support the nominee of the conven-
ton, even if he was yellow dog, without
tail. Brother Wardrip also reminds us of an
acquaintance who lives in the little city of
Greeley, who declared that if the Democrats
should nominate his father lor all office, and
the Republicans should nominate yellow dog
for the same office, he would vote for the dog
We do not say these things in anger, nor in
fault-fnding spirit, but in sorrow. We have