The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-11-21
TIIRN THE RASCALS OUT.

Since the election of Mckinley,
through the instrumontalities OF a
treacherous democratic administra-
ton, composed of one Grover Cleve-
land, chief of party ingrates, and John
q. Carlisle, etc., cuckoo, ingrates to
their chief, a policy has been inaugu-
gurated at Washington which seems
to have originated in the abortive
brain of that young wart on the body
polite, Logan Carlisle, to dismiss
from the public service those federal
officials who cast their ballots for
Bryan for president.
The official returns of the election
had not been reported before the list
of explosions had grown lengthy, and
the list is growing daily.
The annals of political history do
not contain a parallel to the policy
now being pursued by the administra-
ton. Calmly and dispassIonately
viewed, it shocks the refined serti-
ments of American citizenship.
Federal officials dismissed-and for
what?
Because they were not qualified for
the positions they held? No.
Because they were not rendering to
the public competent serviceP No.
Because they were morally untittedP
No.
Why, thenP
Because they dared follow the
prompting of American hearts; dared
to exercise their ~inalienable, inherent
and God-given rights-rights that
were secured to them by and written
In the constitution of the United States,
in the blood and tears of their fore
fathers, to lift their voice in the affairs
of government, and to register their
votes as the expression of freemen's
will.
Because these men refused to follow
Cleveland, Carlisle, Palmer, and the
rest of that political circle in their
Ubiquitous warfare upon the party that
had honored them because these men
refuse to be used IS the personal prop
erty and political tools of a band of
political Ingrates, and because they
dared to register at the polls their
honest convictions, and exercise that
duty hat devolves upon every Ameri-
can citizen, to cast an untrammeled,
unpurchasable freeman's ballot, these
men are told that their services are no
longer needed, and are commanded to
step aside, that their places might be
filled by those who, though no more
Bonded the knee to the
calf.
Turn the rascals out! They have
to recognize their owners
Turn the rascals Quit They have
{ become the mortgaged
property of party ingrates,
Turn the rascals out! They have
exercised the duties of American
citizens, when they should have recog- +,
1ized that we are their masters, and
hat our will must be their will, and
our way their way. |
Turn the rascals outi They dared to !
vote free, as freemen vote. !
Talk to us about Grover Cleveland I
md his cuckoo cabinet and their vir- I
ues, and we would believe, il we !,
Gould not read or hear. Talk to us
bout that aggregation of political il
ngrates, and that charity which we O
ave for all stages of civilization a
would prompt US to assist you to :
an excuse it; but whatever may =
e mans humanity to man, it cannot v
or excuse or condone the Il
ictatorial policy now inaugurated. Our !.
ommand of the English language is y
OF sufficient to express the INTELLI- S
-ENCER's contempt for such conduct, p
nd we believe that we voice the SEN l
iments of all of ppr readers, who have y
almly and dispassionately examined 3
he policy now being pursued. o